Nick Canepa: Padres will shop, sure, but it’s hard to imagine them as big buyers at the trade deadline

SAN DIEGO — Heads up, Padres. A rather wicked sticky wicket this way comes. It’s the MLB’s Aug. 1 trade deadline, the fateful day you look in the full-length mirror to see if you’re properly dressed — or if your slip is showing, and there isn’t enough time for a wardrobe change before the dance. The aptly-named deadline can ruin seasons, blur the screen, turn off the volume, damage teams for years. When the players you go to see for a week’s pay become flatulence in a Category 5. Gone. Replaced by nameless farmhands who’ve never been kissed. Or, the deadline can be a savior. Handled correctly,…

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