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Which teams helped themselves most at the trade deadline?

Trade rumors bandied about for weeks finally clashed with reality Monday afternoon, with baseball's non-waiver trade deadline crushing some dreams and potentially fulfilling others. While there will still be trades made in August, some of which will involve real contributors, the technical vagaries of baseball's trade rules makes a blockbuster much more difficult to pull off.

It's not a deadline without us crowning winners and losers, so let's do some anointing. I've projected each team's ZiPS rest-of-season probabilities for making the playoffs both with and without the trades made over the past month. I'm not strictly naming winners and losers by the changes in 2017 playoff probability as each team entered into this contest with their own organizational needs and wants, but data is always useful.