At the beginning of August, the present author utilized what a reader might have recognized as “the least possible amount of effort” to the end of compiling a pair of leaderboards — one for hitters, one for pitchers — of all the players who’d been traded both (a) during the month of July and (b) to a contending club, where contending was defined as a club that possessed better than 10% odds of qualifying for the divisional series as of July 31st.

What follows is a list of all those same players, sorted by their WAR totals from August and September combined — which is to say, the two-month period since the trade deadline:

• One, with some ease, could make the argument that left-hander David Price was the best player traded at/around the July 31st deadline. Perhaps with even more ease, one could make the argument that left-hander David Price produced the most wins for his club of all players traded at the aforementioned deadline — notable, that, considering how the Tigers won their division by merely a single game.
• Notable for a club that missed a postseason berth only on the last day of the season is how Seattle acquired three of the five players to have produced the worst post-trade WAR figures — namely, Chris Denorfia, Austin Jackson, and Kendrys Morales, whose contributions amounted to something along the lines of a negative win.
• Atop all batters on the traded-player leaderboard is Chase Headley, who produced a 121 wRC+ and 2.7 WAR in 224 plate appearances following his mid-July trade to the Yankees. That will likely have positive consequences for his near future as a major-league free agent. Less positive are the consequences for teammate Stephen Drew.