With less than a week to go before Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline, we’ve yet to see the sort of headline-grabbing deals that could reshape the playoff race (all due respect to new Kansas City Royals reliever Hunter Harvey). But they’re certainly being discussed behind closed doors, and while we don’t have access to those conversations, we can dream up some blockbuster trades of our own while the real deals are sorted out.
All of the key pieces being acquired in the trade proposals below have made an All-Star team in the last three years, with most of those selections coming in 2023 or ‘24. And every trade was approved by Baseball Trade Values’ trade simulator, which analyzes a vast history of past deals to assign a numerical value to every active player down to the depths of the minor leagues.
