The 2025 MLB trade deadline is Thursday at 6 p.m. ET. If last year is anything to judge by, Wednesday and Thursday are going to be chaotic, with several teams making last-minute decisions on whether to be buyers, sellers or some hybrid combination of the two.

Major League Baseball's trade deadline, slated for July 31 at 6 p.m. ET, is now only a matter of days away. Teams are, in turn, getting down to business. Several deals have been consummated in recent days,

President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller clap after an announcement of a trade deal between the US and EU in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27.

US imports into the EU will not face higher tariffs as part of the agreement, which also requires the bloc to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on US energy products and weapons. This was largely Trump’s dream scenario.

The US and the European Union have arrived at a new trade deal, just days before President Donald Trump’s threatened deadline to impose substantial new tariffs. What’s in the agreement? Only the broad strokes of the deal have been announced so far,

"In the Trump-dominated global economy, the U.S. gets plenty but gives nothing in return," reads a rueful post on X from Axios -- another publication with an upmarket readership -- promoting an article titled "Trump trade deals prove access to the U.