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The 2025 MLB trade deadline is today at 6 p.m. ET.
The Athletic’s trade deadline live blog will be your go-to source for breaking news and instant analysis. We’ll be with you to the deadline and beyond, presenting some of the reporting you might have missed and providing quick feedback when deals come together.
This market took a while to get moving, but since it did, it’s been bonkers. Mason Miller and Carlos Correa were not on our trade deadline bingo cards a week ago! The Twins have been surprisingly aggressive. The Reds have made some moves. The Angels have been, somehow, buyers. What’s the final twist?

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Infielder Brandon Butterworth and reliever Tyson Neighbors are two of the prospects heading from the Padres to the Orioles in the Ryan O'Hearn deal.
Maybe the Red Sox will still surprise us with a Jarren Duran trade, or the Guardians with a Steven Kwan move, but we’re not holding our breath. But could the Rays move either Brandon Lowe or Pete Fairbanks? Will the Braves finally move Marcell Ozuna? Will the Twins deal Willi Castro?

Of the 13 teams with at least a 40 percent chance of making the playoffs — according to FanGraphs — the Red Sox, Rangers, Tigers, Dodgers and Brewers have been the quietest. They’ve added a few relievers and depth pieces, but no big splashes. Is that going to change? The Dodgers made a move in the final minutes before last year’s deadline.

This trade market was always light on reliable, top-of-the-rotation pitcher, but it seemed relatively deep on back-end starters (some whom would come with the potential to have a couple of standout months). But the rotation market really hasn’t moved much, especially at the top.
Will the Marlins trade Sandy Alcantara or Edward Cabrera? Will the Diamondbacks trade Zac Gallen or Merrill Kelly? Will the Orioles trade Charlie Morton or Zach Eflin or Tomoyuki Sugano or Trevor Rogers. Will the Padres end up trading Dylan Cease?
The Blue Jays have acquired 24-year-old catcher Brandon Valenzuela from the San Diego Padres in exchange for infielder Will Wagner, the team announced.
Valenzuela, currently hitting .229 in Double-A for the Padres, adds needed upper-minors catching depth to Toronto’s system. He is regarded as an athletic, defence-first catcher and did not rank inside San Diego’s top 20 prospects entering the season, per The Athletic’s Keith Law’s rankings.
The Blue Jays expressed a willingness to move MLB position players ahead of the deadline, a league source said. Though Toronto moved top pitching prospects in earlier deadline deals for Seranthony Domínguez and Shane Bieber, Wagner appeared in 40 big league games this season. He hit .237 with seven RBI. With Andrés Giménez soon to return from the injured list, Wagner was likely to be moved back to Triple-A in August.
Moving Wagner for Valenzuela also clears a spot on Toronto’s 40-man roster, as the former-Padres catching prospect was not on San Diego’s 40-man. It’s a spot that could be filled by Bieber, when the starter returns from rehab in the next few weeks. Or, it could be filled by another addition as the deadline still looms.
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The Dodgers have gotten their outfielder, landing Alex Call from the Washington Nationals and setting up a potential platoon situation with Michael Conforto (who has quietly produced an .827 OPS in July). Call, 30, has produced an .802 OPS against left-handed pitching this season and has experience at all three outfield spots.
The team has obviously shot high in trying to pursue Cleveland's Steven Kwan, but Call represents a different tier of controllable outfielder (under control through the 2029 season) who could help reinforce a lineup that has sagged over the last couple months.
A major-league source confirms to The Athletic that the Dodgers are acquiring OF Alex Call from the Nationals. First reported by ESPN.

It's been hard to keep up with these! But I've been tracking who has made the most trades.
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The Toronto Blue Jays continue to talk to the Minnesota Twins about reliever Griffin Jax and the Cleveland Guardians about outfielder Steven Kwan, according to sources briefed on the discussions.
Neither player is seen as particularly likely to be traded. The Los Angeles Dodgers also are talking to the Guardians about Kwan, but consider a trade for him a longshot.
Earlier in the day, a Twins official acknowledged increased activity on Jax, but expressed skepticism a team would meet the threshold necessary to acquire him.
Want to follow along with some of The Athletic's MLB expert as all the trade deadline drama ramps up?
Then you're in luck as Eno Sarris, Derek VanRiper, and Britt Ghiroli are hosting a Rates & Barrels livestream starting in just a few minutes at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel, breaking down all of the moves and news coming out of his year’s Trade Deadline.
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On July 7, the Texas Rangers were 44-47, trailing the Astros by 11 games in the AL West, and had just lost in a walk-off to the Los Angeles Angels. With less than a month to go before the deadline, it seemed pretty obvious what direction they were headed: sell, sell, sell.
Since then, they're 13-5, and despite two more losses to the Angels this week, they're tied with the Mariners for the third and final AL Wild Card spot. The sale is off, and the acquisition of LHP Danny Coulombe (1-0, 1.16 ERA) from the Twins was a buy. We're still waiting to learn two things:
The first: what was the prospect price for Coulombe? But more importantly, with just over an hour left to the deadline, is this … it?
Sure, they needed a reliever, particularly with Chris Martin (calf, 4-6 weeks) and Jacob Webb (back spasms, 10-day IL) out of commission. But it sure seems like they could use one more bat to boost an offense that flailed for the first 3.5 months of the year, even if they have been hitting much better of late.
Ke’Bryan Hayes will wear No. 3 for the Reds. He’d worn 13 with the Pirates and said he’d worn 13 or 8 most of his life, because those are the two numbers his dad wore the most in his career.
Neither of those numbers were available in Cincinnati because both have been retired in honor Dave Concepción (13) and Joe Morgan (8), both of whom won five Gold Gloves.
Boston Bateman is among the prospects going to Baltimore in the Padres’ deal for Ryan O’Hearn and Ramón Laureano, MLB sources tell The Athletic.
The Padres are collectively slugging .380 this season. That’s basically the same as Tommy Pham but with a much lower on-base percentage. The Royals, who notoriously need offensive help, are slugging .382.
So, yeah, the Padres needed offense.
Getting Mason Miller was a blockbuster, but trading for both Ramon Laureano and Ryan O’Hearn might have done more to help the Padres in the short-term. Laureano’s 144 wRC+ is higher than every Padres player except Manny Machado (146), and O’Hearn’s 134 is just slightly better than Fernando Tatis Jr.'s 133.
Laureano will presumably step in as the Padres’ regular left fielder. O’Hearn isn’t a perfect fit as another left-handed hitter — first baseman Luis Arraez and regular DH Gavin Sheets also hit lefty — but O’Hearn could also get some time in left field, and Sheets hasn’t done much since the end of May (.646 OPS).
There is one prospect going back to the Minnesota Twins in the Carlos Correa deal, a team source tells The Athletic. The Twins are eating some of the money. The deal is pending medical review.
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The Padres are going all in at the trade deadline, now acquiring All-Star Ryan O'Hearn from the Orioles.
Just how good has he been this season? Here are the numbers:
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Padres double dip, adding Ryan O’Hearn, Ramón Laureano in trade with Orioles
One thing that made San Diego's blockbuster move for Mason Miller and JP Sears earlier today so surprising is that the Padres' offense, not their pitching staff, was in dire need of upgrading.
But never doubt A.J. Preller at the deadline. He's come through with a deal highlighted by 2025 AL All-Star Ryan O'Hearn headed from San Diego to Baltimore.
More from O'Hearn from Michael Charles in a moment…
The Houston Astros are in the bottom half of the league in OPS against right-handed pitching (.716). Take a guess which NL non-factor ranks ahead of them.
It’s the Marlins.
So, the Astros just traded for the Marlins’ second-best hitter against righties. Jesús Sánchez doesn’t really hit lefties at all (.393 OPS, which is comically low) but he has an .814 OPS against righties. That’s not quite as good as superstars Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (.829) or Bobby Witt Jr. (.827) but it’s not far away. He’s not a bad right fielder either (3 Outs Above Average with a good arm).
Astros rookie Cam Smith has destroyed lefties but struggled against righties, Yordan Alvarez was supposed to be the Astros’ big left-handed hitter, but he’s been hurt most of the year. Sánchez should help fill that void and bring some balance to the lineup.

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