Ranking the top 50 MLB trade deadline candidates -- and finding their best landing spots

Major League Baseball's commercialized marketplace is ever evolving, and to support you updated, ESPN's Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan person enactment unneurotic a database of imaginable commercialized candidates that volition beryllium updated regularly depending connected their show -- and that of the teams which could beryllium progressive successful imaginable deals starring up to the July 31 commercialized deadline.

Some of the players connected the database are improbable to beryllium dealt but astatine slightest are being discussed successful imaginable deals. Others mightiness not beryllium connected the database present but volition beryllium added successful the aboriginal should their team's fortunes change. Either way, this volition beryllium the astir up-to-date accounting of wherever MLB's commercialized marketplace stands.

Note: Players are ranked by worth for their caller squad if traded, not likelihood of being dealt

1. Alex Bregman, 3B, Boston Red Sox

Chance of trade: 10%

Bregman has been an elite large league hitter since helium entered the league successful 2016 but has leaned much into powerfulness this year, with his highest isolated powerfulness since 2019. Most of his underlying powerfulness indicators (barrel rate, maximum exit velo, mean motorboat space and hard deed rate) are astatine vocation highs. His $40 cardinal wage -- and the accidental to opt into 2 much years astatine $40 cardinal annually -- importantly shortens the database of teams that would instrumentality connected his deal.

Best fits: Chicago Cubs, Detroit, New York Yankees, New York Mets

2. Jarren Duran, OF, Boston Red Sox

Chance of trade: 25%

Duran had a immense breakout play successful 2024, posting the seventh-best WAR successful the majors astatine 6.7. He overperformed his underlying metrics, though -- i.e. had immoderate fortunate outcomes -- and those metrics person regressed a spot this year. Now he's underperforming them -- helium has been unlucky -- truthful his existent endowment is determination southbound of that star-level 6.7 fig but amended than the astir 2 WAR (commensurate with a coagulated regular) he's connected gait for this season.

Best fits: San Diego, Atlanta, Cleveland, Kansas City, San Francisco, Philadelphia

3. Sandy Alcantara, SP, Miami Marlins

Chance of trade: 60%

Alcantara was arguably the champion pitcher successful shot successful 2022, winning the NL Cy Young unanimously. He was much coagulated than spectacular successful 2023 and missed 2024 with Tommy John surgery. He has been tinkering this play to effort to get his transportation premix and locations close successful hopes of regaining his erstwhile glory. It is starting to look arsenic though helium is turning the country to go a midrotation starter (or better?) erstwhile again arsenic helium has posted a 2.74 ERA successful 4 June outings. The Marlins could clasp connected to him until the winter, erstwhile teams similar Baltimore would beryllium much inclined to get him and the last 2 years of his contract.

Best fits: Chicago Cubs, Houston, Boston, Toronto, Arizona, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego, Baltimore

4. Freddy Peralta, Milwaukee Brewers

Chance of trade: 20%

Peralta has been a dependable beingness for years, averaging 140 innings pitched with a 3.49 ERA implicit the past 4 seasons. He's connected way to bash that again, with his heavy utilized fastball coming successful astatine a career-high mean velo of 94.9 mph this season. He has an ultra-cheap $8 cardinal enactment for 2026.

Best fits: Boston, Houston, Toronto, St. Louis, Arizona, San Diego, Baltimore

5. Eugenio Suarez, 3B, Arizona Diamondbacks

Chance of trade: 50%

Suarez is successful a declaration twelvemonth and, contempt turning 34 years aged earlier the commercialized deadline, is sitting adjacent vocation highs successful isolated powerfulness and wRC+ (which measures wide performance). His fielding metrics person declined successful caller years, but he's inactive an acceptable defender astatine 3rd base. Even if the Diamondbacks don't offload their escaped agents-to-be, Suarez could determination due to the fact that they person Jordan Lawlar raking successful Triple-A and primed to instrumentality implicit astatine third.

Best fits: Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Kansas City, Seattle, San Francisco, Seattle

6. Seth Lugo, SP, Kansas City Royals

Chance of trade: 40%

Lugo has posted mid-3.00s oregon little ERAs for 5 seasons contempt having below-average fastball velocity and good-not-great strikeout rates. His quality to strand runners and bounds hard interaction comes successful portion owed to his 9 antithetic pitches. With a Nathan Eovaldi-type declaration awaiting Lugo successful escaped agency, Kansas City could opt to determination him, particularly if Cole Ragans' injured enarthrosis doesn't improve.

Best fits: Chicago Cubs, Houston, Toronto, San Diego, Los Angeles Dodgers

7. Zac Gallen, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks

Chance of trade: 30%

Gallen was fantabulous for the past 3 seasons but now, successful a declaration year, is posting career-worst numbers successful astir each category. His worldly looks beauteous similar, but he's allowing overmuch much harm erstwhile hitters marque contact. Diamondbacks wide manager Mike Hazen said the squad does not program to woody distant players astatine the deadline, but if Arizona doesn't marque a run, it could reap a immense instrumentality with each of its impending escaped agents.

Best fits: Toronto, San Diego, Houston, Chicago Cubs

8. Merrill Kelly, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks

Chance of trade: 30%

Kelly doesn't person large earthy stuff, posting the second-lowest mean fastball velocity among pitchers with 90 innings pitched this season. His changeup is his champion transportation by a wide margin, and helium gets by with determination and off-speed stuff. He was a stalwart successful the Diamondbacks' tally to the 2023 World Series, striking retired 28 successful 24 innings with a 2.25 ERA.

Best fits: Toronto, Boston, St. Louis, Houston, Chicago Cubs

9. Josh Naylor, 1B, Arizona Diamondbacks

Chance of trade: 30%

Naylor is batting implicit .300 this twelvemonth arsenic a lefty-hitting archetypal baseman successful a declaration twelvemonth connected gait for astir 20 homers. Naylor faces left-handed pitchers much often than the adjacent subordinate connected the database but hasn't been peculiarly bully astatine it. His on-base skills and deficiency of strikeouts marque him an particularly charismatic acquisition campaigner for postseason contenders.

Best fits: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Texas

10. Ryan O'Hearn, 1B, Baltimore Orioles

Chance of trade: 85%

O'Hearn is having an out-of-nowhere vocation year, hitting implicit .300 (and with the underlying metrics to enactment that) on with being connected gait for a vocation precocious successful homers. He doesn't look lefty pitchers overmuch astatine all, and his splits suggest that helium shouldn't.

Best fits: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Texas

11. Marcell Ozuna, DH, Atlanta Braves

Chance of trade: 25%

Ozuna is simply a stone-cold DH, playing 2 games successful the tract successful 2023 arsenic his past regular-season acquisition defensively. Ozuna is besides successful a declaration year, but his powerfulness numbers are down a notch from his standout .302 mean and 39-homer show past season. His on-base percent remains among the highest of imaginable commercialized candidates. If anyone is moving from Atlanta, he's the likeliest candidate, with escaped bureau beckoning.

Best fits: San Diego, Seattle, Detroit, Kansas City, San Francisco, Cleveland, Boston

12. Jhoan Duran, RP, Minnesota Twins

Chance of trade: 40%

Duran is 1 of the champion relievers successful the sport, acknowledgment to his nasty worldly headlined by a fastball that averages 100.2 mph and a splinker that sits 97.5 mph. He has 2 much years of squad power aft this season, truthful he'd request a large commercialized package.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Arizona, Texas

13. Emmanuel Clase, RP, Cleveland Guardians

Chance of trade: 20%

Clase was astir unhittable past season, but his numbers person regressed this season. He has issued much walks and gotten less crushed balls portion allowing much harm connected his cutter that averages 99.0 mph -- successful portion owed to much center-cut locations. Under declaration for little than $30 cardinal done 2028, helium would bring a large instrumentality to Cleveland.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Arizona, Texas

14. Felix Bautista, RP, Baltimore Orioles

Chance of trade: 15%

The Mountain is backmost from Tommy John country and looking similar his erstwhile self. A ascendant June -- 8 innings, 1 hit, 3 walks, 12 strikeouts, 0.00 ERA -- has seen him induce much popups than enactment drives allowed. He has different 2 years earlier escaped agency, and with the Orioles readying connected contending betwixt present and then, landing him volition instrumentality much than astir teams are consenting to give.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Arizona, Texas

15. Cedric Mullins, OF, Baltimore Orioles

Chance of trade: 70%

Mullins is simply a 30-year-old halfway fielder successful a declaration twelvemonth who contributes successful a fig of ways, but his powerfulness numbers are trending up this play and are astatine their champion since 2021.

Best fits: Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York Mets

16. Ryan McMahon, 3B, Colorado Rockies

Chance of trade: 60%

McMahon is connected gait to support his four-year 20-homer streak alive, with above-average power, patience and third-base defense, but a much middling interaction complaint and baserunning value. He has 2 years and $32 cardinal remaining connected his declaration aft this season.

Best fits: New York Yankees, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Seattle

17. Pete Fairbanks, RP, Tampa Bay Rays

Chance of trade: 60%

Fairbanks raised his slot a spot this year, and present his 97.1 mph fastball has much cutting enactment and his slurvy slider has much depth, with some pitches playing a notch amended than they did past season. He has a nine enactment for 2026 that, with escalators, should upwind up successful the $10 cardinal range.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Arizona, Texas

18. Aroldis Chapman, RP, Boston Red Sox

Chance of trade: 35%

You person astir apt heard this communicative before, but Chapman is left-handed and his superpower is that helium throws truly hard (averages conscionable nether 100 mph) and throws that heater a batch (over 75% of the time). He's 37 years old, and he's inactive dominant.

Best fits: New York Mets, Philadelphia, Detroit

19. Luis Robert Jr., OF, Chicago White Sox

Chance of trade: 90%

Robert has been highly unlucky with ball-in-play results this season, truthful that could crook astir astatine immoderate point. He remains a beardown defender and baserunner. But the .185/.267/.305 enactment is unsightly, and his commercialized worth has cratered implicit the past 2 seasons. He has a brace of $20 million-a-year nine options that the acquiring squad volition beryllium hesitant to workout absent a turnaround.

Best fits: San Diego, Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York Mets, San Francisco

20. Taylor Ward, OF, Los Angeles Angels

Chance of trade: 45%

Ward comes with an further twelvemonth of squad power aft this season, and his underlying numbers suggest helium is inactive mostly the aforesaid hitter arsenic past year, erstwhile helium posted a .246 mean and 25 homers.

Best fits: San Diego, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Seattle, San Francisco, Kansas City

21. Nolan Arenado, 3B, St. Louis Cardinals

Chance of trade: 30%

Arenado is astir a vocation champion successful strikeout rate, and he's inactive an above-average defender, but his powerfulness and patience are some trending down to astir the worst of his career. He's inactive a coagulated starter but nary longer a star, and the squad taking him connected a woody would inactive person to wage him similar one. Potentially complicating immoderate deal: a afloat no-trade clause.

Best fits: New York Yankees, Detroit, Milwaukee, Seattle

22. Luis Severino, SP, Athletics

Chance of trade: 40%

Severino tunnels his fastball/sinker/sweeper combo good to bounds damage, but due to the fact that helium has a middling strikeout rate, his upside is constricted to a No. 3/No. 4 starter. Teams are intrigued by his roadworthy numbers, which are exceptional: 0.93 ERA successful 38.2 innings implicit six starts without a location tally allowed. They are not truthful intrigued by his contract, which goes 2 much years astatine $47 million.

Best fits: Toronto, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore, New York Mets

23. Ryan Helsley, RP, St. Louis Cardinals

Chance of trade: 30%

Scouting report: Helsley had the fourth-best WAR among relievers past play and is successful a declaration twelvemonth present but has been notably worse this season. His worldly and locations are beauteous similar, but the main quality is his fastball is getting deed hard -- with 1 byproduct being his spiking location tally rate.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia, Arizona, New York Yankees, Detroit

24. Tyler Mahle, SP, Texas Rangers

Chance of trade: 30%

Mahle was thriving aft returning from his 2023 Tommy John surgery, looking similar a 3rd oregon 4th starter contempt a 2.34 ERA fueled by a precise favorable stranded runner complaint and BABIP. But he's presently connected the injured database with close enarthrosis fatigue. Should helium instrumentality healthy, he'll leap up this list.

Best fits: Toronto, San Diego, Boston, Chicago Cubs

25. Zach Eflin, SP, Baltimore Orioles

Chance of trade: 75%

Eflin is successful a declaration year, and his ERA has spiked from 3.59 past twelvemonth to 5.46 this season, though his underlying numbers are inactive beauteous solid. He's much of an innings-eating No. 4 starter benignant present than helium was during his breakout 2023 season, but there's inactive immoderate worth to a contender.

Best fits: Houston, San Diego, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta

26. Adolis Garcia, OF, Texas Rangers

Chance of trade: 80%

Garcia averaged 30 homers successful 2021 done 2024, but helium has fallen disconnected since his 2023 vocation year. It's worthy noting that per xwOBA, helium has been the 17th-most unlucky hitter successful the large leagues this year, and helium has different twelvemonth of squad control, truthful immoderate teams could spot a commercialized arsenic a bully worth opportunity.

Best fits: Philadelphia, Seattle, Cleveland, San Diego, San Francisco

27. Reid Detmers, RP, Los Angeles Angels

Chance of trade: 15%

The No. 10 prime successful 2020 transitioned to alleviation this play and has recovered immoderate success, akin to different highly drafted assemblage lefties including A.J. Puk, Andrew Miller and Drew Pomeranz. He comes with 3 much years of power aft this play and his velo is up 1.5 mph successful the caller role, truthful this mightiness beryllium wherever helium fits agelong term, and trading him distant could fetch a hefty return. Some teams inactive spot Detmers arsenic a starter.

Best fits: New York Mets, Arizona, Baltimore, St. Louis, Minnesota, New York Yankees

28. Walker Buehler, SP, Boston Red Sox

Chance of trade: 35%

If the Red Sox bash punt connected this year, Buehler volition person plentifulness of suitors successful spite of his mediocre numbers this season. His postseason bona fides are obvious, and his sinker and slider person some played this play contempt his fastball and curveball getting tagged. Starter, reliever, whatever: October is Buehler's time.

Best fits: Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Houston, Toronto, San Diego

29. Nick Martinez, SP, Cincinnati Reds

Chance of trade: 65%

Martinez took the qualifying connection of $21.05 cardinal and mightiness person a bigger marketplace this wintertime aft pitching astir exclusively arsenic a starter, though he'll crook 35 years aged aboriginal this play and looks similar a 4th starter now.

Best fits: Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto

30. Erick Fedde, SP, St. Louis Cardinals

Chance of trade: 50%

Fedde's strikeout and locomotion numbers person regressed from his breakout 2024 play (after coming backmost from a stint successful the KBO), but he's allowing little harm connected batted balls to support him successful the rotation.

Best fits: San Diego, Toronto, Houston

Nos. 31-50

31. Andrew Heaney, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates
32. Edward Cabrera, SP, Miami Marlins
33. Rhys Hoskins, 1B, Milwaukee Brewers
34. Zack Littell, SP, Tampa Bay Rays
35. Tyler Anderson, SP, Los Angeles Angels
36. Ramon Urias, 3B, Baltimore Orioles
37. Jesus Sanchez, RF, Miami Marlins
38. Jake Bird, RP, Colorado Rockies
39. Luis Urias, 2B, Athletics
40. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS, Pittsburgh Pirates
41. Kyle Finnegan, RP, Washington Nationals
42. Chris Martin, RP, Texas Rangers
43. Mike Soroka, SP, Washington Nationals
44. Tomoyuki Sugano, SP, Baltimore Orioles
45. Phil Maton, RP, St. Louis Cardinals
46. Emilio Pagan, RP, Cincinnati Reds
47. Yoan Moncada, 3B, Los Angeles Angels
48. Shelby Miller, RP, Arizona Diamondbacks
49. Dennis Santana, RP, Pittsburgh Pirates
50. Steven Matz, RP, St. Louis Cardinals