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MLB trade deadline: here are some of the most eye-catching moves

MLB trade deadline: here are some of the most eye-catching moves

The 2025 MLB trade deadline has come and gone, and contenders across the league made aggressive moves to bolster their rosters for the stretch run and postseason. Among the most active teams were the San Diego Padres and New York Yankees - two...

Padres unafraid to deal top prospect as they make waves at trade deadline

Padres unafraid to deal top prospect as they make waves at trade deadline

For the second time in four years, A.J. Preller turned the San Diego Padres into the biggest stars of baseball's trade deadline. In 2022, the San Diego general manager snagged slugger Juan Soto, sending James Wood, MacKenzie Gore, CJ Abrams and...

Padres See Most Dramatic Odds Shift Post MLB Trade Deadline

Padres See Most Dramatic Odds Shift Post MLB Trade Deadline

Posted on: August 1, 2025, 12:58h. Last updated on: August 1, 2025, 12:58h. Padres, Yankees, Mets and Phillies big winners in MLB trade deadline Dodgers still the front runner in World Series odds Biggest odds movement goes to the Padres The San...

How a Seattle-area cabinet maker is turning Ikea hacking into a business

How a Seattle-area cabinet maker is turning Ikea hacking into a business

How Seattle is Fighting Trump’s Orders on Gender and DEI Policies

How Seattle is Fighting Trump’s Orders on Gender and DEI Policies

(The Center Square) – Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging two executive orders regarding gender ideology and DEI policies. The two Trump-issued executive orders are EO No. 14168,...

Five Winners, Three Losers From Aggressive MLB Trade Deadline

Five Winners, Three Losers From Aggressive MLB Trade Deadline

The MLB trade deadline did not disappoint and ensured an entertaining finish over the final two months of the season. Several contenders around the league made noticeable improvements while other teams in the race failed to keep pace with the...

How Red Sox Completely Butchered Trade Deadline In Four Straight Seasons

How Red Sox Completely Butchered Trade Deadline In Four Straight Seasons

The Boston Red Sox should still make the playoffs this season. With that said, they did not make it easy on themselves after a remarkably underwhelming performance at the MLB trade deadline. BOSTON, MA - MAY 19: Craig Breslow chief baseball...

Five Biggest Upgrades of the MLB Trade Deadline

Five Biggest Upgrades of the MLB Trade Deadline

A few contenders have to be thrilled after what they were able to accomplish this week. The 2025 MLB trade deadline is behind us, and after 24 of the wildest hours Major League Baseball has ever seen, several teams emerged far better than they...

MLB Trade Deadline: The Moves That Will Matter and the Moves That Won’t

MLB Trade Deadline: The Moves That Will Matter and the Moves That Won’t

Contrary to what most predicted, there was plenty of action and plenty of intrigue. This is a look at what MLB teams made moves that will most help – and least help – their chances to make waves into and through October. As ESPN’s Jeff Passan...

MLB trade deadline/Phillies-Mets recap

MLB trade deadline/Phillies-Mets recap

This was a busy year in terms of last-minute trades in Major League Baseball. A bunch of teams made a lot of moves ,and the Phillies are among them. They made two significant trades both with the Minnesota Twins. First is closer, Jhoan Duran, who...

Circles Around The Sun Announce ‘Interludes For The Dead, Vol. 2’ to Coincide with Dead & Company’s Golden Gate Celebration

Circles Around The Sun Announce ‘Interludes For The Dead, Vol. 2’ to Coincide with Dead & Company’s Golden Gate Celebration

Photo: Roberto Johnson Instrumentalist psych-experimentalist, Circles Around The Sun, have announced the second chapter of their pivotal legacy soundtrack, Interludes for the Dead: Volume II, due in full on November 7, and debuting this weekend...

MLB trade deadline grades for all 30 teams: 5 A's, 15 B's, 7 C's and 3 D's

MLB trade deadline grades for all 30 teams: 5 A's, 15 B's, 7 C's and 3 D's

This year’s MLB trade deadline was another seller’s market, which yielded some of the best prospect returns we’ve seen in years. Teams like the Diamondbacks, Twins, Athletics and Orioles fared extremely well, stocking up on young talent in...

MLB trade deadline Weird & Wild: Eugenio Suárez, A.J. Preller and a crazy save stat

MLB trade deadline Weird & Wild: Eugenio Suárez, A.J. Preller and a crazy save stat

What a day. What a week. What a deadline. Eugenio Suárez! Carlos Correa! Mason Miller! The Rogers twins! Seranthony Domínguez! They all got mixed up in the Weirdest and Wildest trades of the week. Which means … It took this very special Weird and...

2025 World Series winner odds: Dodgers remain favored, but did trade deadline shuffle the chasing pack?

2025 World Series winner odds: Dodgers remain favored, but did trade deadline shuffle the chasing pack?

The MLB trade deadline passed with a flurry of trades, but not a lot of big moves. If your team was in the market for a reliever, there were plenty to be had. Impact bats and frontline starting arms were harder to come by. The deals resulted in a...

Fantasy baseball waiver wire options following MLB's trade deadline

Fantasy baseball waiver wire options following MLB's trade deadline

This year, the countdown to MLB’s trade deadline was electric, and I’m still wrapping my head around how it impacts this week’s waiver wire. The big implications will be for closers (see below), with some lesser but still meaningful implications...

MLB Trade Deadline: 5 teams that improved, and 3 teams that left us confused

MLB Trade Deadline: 5 teams that improved, and 3 teams that left us confused

The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline is in the books. Of course, now you want to know who the winners and losers were. It is often tough to grade baseball trades, given that some of the players moved at the Deadline might not contribute for a few more...

Seattle Mariners fully chasing World Series after Eugenio Suárez trade

Seattle Mariners fully chasing World Series after Eugenio Suárez trade

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 31: Eugenio Suárez #28 of the Seattle Mariners tips his cap during his first at bat back with the Mariners during the first inning against the Texas Rangers at T-Mobile Park on July 31, 2025 in Seattle, Washington....

Seattle police investigate homicide along UW's Greek Row

Seattle police investigate homicide along UW's Greek Row

SEATTLE - Seattle police are investigating after a person was shot and killed in the University District Thursday night. What we know: It happened along the University of Washington's Greek Row, at 17th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 47th Street....

Red Sox swing two deals before trade deadline, but miss out in Joe Ryan pursuit

Red Sox swing two deals before trade deadline, but miss out in Joe Ryan pursuit

The Red Sox swung two deals in advance of Thursday’s trade deadline, acquiring two veteran pitchers on expiring contracts to bolster their staff. Efforts for a bigger move fell short. Boston acquired left-hander Steven Matz from the Cardinals for...

Padres at center of 36-trade deadline day, plus inside Correa's exit

Padres at center of 36-trade deadline day, plus inside Correa's exit

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. A.J. Preller reminded us who he is, Twins fans will not want to be reminded of anything about this day and we learned that...

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