Any discussion surrounding trade deadline season tends to group teams into one of two camps: buyers and sellers. The Aug. 3 deadline is still a ways off, but we’re beginning to see which bucket teams are trending toward.
The three wild-card spots—and the jumbled mess of the American League in particular—makes it a bit more difficult to definitively label many teams as sellers quite yet, but the standings don’t lie. Some teams seem all but assured to be punting on 2026 in a couple months’ time.
