The 2026 Major League Baseball trade deadline passed at 6:00 p.m. ET on August 3. MLB's official transaction feed records 62 trades between July 25 and August 3, and 43 of them landed on deadline day itself. Buyers landed 7 above-average starters and everyday bats plus 5 proven late-inning relievers; the biggest sellers moved multiple regulars apiece.
Every figure below is produced by a committed script over our own archive, and carries the window it was measured over.
How the deadline actually ran
Trade activity in the ten days to August 3 was not spread evenly. MLB's transaction feed records a single deal on most days of the run-up, then 7 on August 2 and 43 on August 3 before the 6:00 p.m. ET cutoff. One deal can move several players, so those 62 deals carry 171 moves of a named player, involving 169 different people. A further 19 legs name nobody at all: the consideration going the other way was cash, a Player To Be Named Later or “other considerations”. Those are counted here as what they are and never as players.
| Date | Deals announced |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-25 | 1 |
| 2026-07-26 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 |
| 2026-07-28 | 0 |
| 2026-07-29 | 1 |
| 2026-07-30 | 1 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1 |
| 2026-08-01 | 4 |
| 2026-08-02 | 7 |
| 2026-08-03 | 43 |
Source: MLB Stats API transactions endpoint, type TR, 2026-07-25 to 2026-08-03. Deadline day is highlighted. Announcement date equals effective date on every trade in this window.
Buyers and sellers
A deadline sorts the league into buyers and sellers. Contenders buy: they send prospects out for established major leaguers who can help a playoff push now. Clubs out of the race sell: they move their best veterans for young players and future value. The 26 substantial moves in this window follow that shape almost perfectly. Counting players with a real 2026 role, the busiest sellers were SF (6), WSH (3), LAA (3), with San Francisco's ten-day teardown the clearest fire sale on the board, and Detroit's the deepest cut in quality: both of its frontline starters went out the door. The busiest buyers were TB (3), MIL (3), ATL (3), PHI (3), and every buyer in the tables below sat at or above .500 when the player arrived.
The headline moves
“Big” is doing real work in most deadline coverage and usually means whichever names the writer found interesting. The rule used here is arithmetic instead. A move appears in this section when the player carried a full 2026 workload (a starter with at least 85 innings and 14 starts, or a hitter with at least 300 at-bats), beat the 2026 league average at his own job (league ERA 4.19, league batting average .244), and joined a club that was at or above .500 when he arrived. 7 moves clear all three tests; the relievers who cleared their own version of the bar have the next section. Everything else that changed hands sits in the full table below.
Foster Griffin: WSH to CLE
Foster Griffin moved from Washington Nationals to Cleveland Guardians on August 3 with a 3.06 ERA over 129.3 innings and 22 starts in 2026, 116 strikeouts and a 1.07 WHIP. CLE were 57–56 through 2026-08-02; WSH were 55–58.
Across 22 appearances he allowed 44 earned runs and 19 home runs, striking out 8.07 batters per nine innings and walking 2.09. His new club has allowed 4.09 runs a game in 2026 and scored 3.95.
The least famous name in this section and the largest traded workload in the window. Griffin's innings for a below-.500 Washington club made him one of the quietly valuable arms on the market, and Cleveland got him without touching its own major-league roster.
Robbie Ray: SF to SD
Robbie Ray moved from San Francisco Giants to San Diego Padres on August 3 with a 3.08 ERA over 122.7 innings and 21 starts in 2026, 107 strikeouts and a 1.29 WHIP. SD were 58–54 through 2026-08-02; SF were 47–65.
Across 22 appearances he allowed 42 earned runs and 15 home runs, striking out 7.85 batters per nine innings and walking 4.18. His new club has allowed 4.32 runs a game in 2026 and scored 4.21.
A former Cy Young winner moved in the middle of one of his best stretches of the season. San Diego shopped twice from the same seller, and San Francisco's side of the ledger tells its own story: six players out the door in ten days, the clearest fire sale of this deadline.
Tarik Skubal: DET to LAD
Tarik Skubal moved from Detroit Tigers to Los Angeles Dodgers on August 2 with a 2.79 ERA over 96.7 innings and 16 starts in 2026, 116 strikeouts and a 0.91 WHIP. LAD were 69–43 through 2026-08-02; DET were 54–58.
Across 16 appearances he allowed 30 earned runs and 10 home runs, striking out 10.8 batters per nine innings and walking 1.3. His new club has allowed 3.77 runs a game in 2026 and scored 5.11.
This is the trade of the deadline. The Dodgers landed the reigning two-time AL Cy Young winner, arguably the best pitcher in the game, and dropped him into a rotation that already runs Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani out every week. Detroit, fading after a strong first half, sold at the very top of the market for a prospect-heavy return.
Casey Mize: DET to SD
Casey Mize moved from Detroit Tigers to San Diego Padres on August 3 with a 2.7 ERA over 86.7 innings and 16 starts in 2026, 85 strikeouts and a 0.99 WHIP. SD were 58–54 through 2026-08-02; DET were 54–58.
Across 16 appearances he allowed 26 earned runs and 5 home runs, striking out 8.83 batters per nine innings and walking 1.97. His new club has allowed 4.32 runs a game in 2026 and scored 4.21.
The other half of Detroit's teardown. Mize, an All-Star in 2025, gives San Diego a second frontline arm in the same window as Robbie Ray; a club whose rotation had been its weak spot rebuilt it in one weekend. A franchise trading both of its best starters in the same window is as clear a signal as it can send.
Luis Arraez: SF to PHI
Luis Arraez moved from San Francisco Giants to Philadelphia Phillies on August 3 hitting .324 with 4 home runs and 43 RBI over 420 at-bats in 2026. PHI were 59–53 through 2026-08-02; SF were 47–65.
He scored 52 runs and stole 10 bases across 105 games. His new club has scored 4.38 runs a game in 2026 and allowed 4.41.
The bat Philadelphia needed. Arraez is a three-time batting champion who leads the National League in average and almost never strikes out, and the Phillies added him without touching their rotation. The same afternoon they took Brooks Raley and Caleb Kilian out of the relief market: a lineup upgrade and bullpen help in a single day of work.
Luis García Jr.: WSH to NYY
Luis García Jr. moved from Washington Nationals to New York Yankees on August 3 hitting .283 with 23 home runs and 76 RBI over 357 at-bats in 2026. NYY were 63–49 through 2026-08-02; WSH were 55–58.
He scored 48 runs and stole 4 bases across 104 games. His new club has scored 4.57 runs a game in 2026 and allowed 3.79.
A breakout power season changing clubs mid-year. The Yankees, thinned by injuries, bought twice from this market on deadline day itself, adding Heliot Ramos alongside García; both arrive with club control beyond this season.
Liam Hicks: MIA to TB
Liam Hicks moved from Miami Marlins to Tampa Bay Rays on August 3 hitting .282 with 14 home runs and 62 RBI over 354 at-bats in 2026. TB were 65–46 through 2026-08-02; MIA were 58–55.
He scored 54 runs and stole 3 bases across 101 games. His new club has scored 4.36 runs a game in 2026 and allowed 4.08.
A young everyday bat off a rebuilding Miami roster, hitting well above the league average in his first full season. Tampa Bay worked the whole market in this window, adding Freddy Peralta for the rotation and Tyler Wells for the late innings alongside him.
The bullpen market
Contenders shopped for late-inning help as hard as for rotation arms, and a reliever's workload lives in appearances, not innings, so he gets his own version of the same rule: at least 40 appearances, an ERA better than the league's 4.19, and a receiving club at or above .500. 5 arms clear it. The Phillies took Brooks Raley the same afternoon they landed Luis Arraez, and Tampa Bay added Tyler Wells alongside its rotation and lineup moves.
| Reliever | From | To | G | ERA | WHIP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Raley | NYM | PHI | 45 | 1.96 | 1.09 | 40 |
| Ryan Zeferjahn | LAA | CHC | 45 | 3.66 | 1.2 | 75 |
| JoJo Romero | STL | MIL | 44 | 3.35 | 1.3 | 43 |
| Tyler Wells | BAL | TB | 43 | 2.67 | 0.96 | 53 |
| Brent Suter | LAA | ATL | 41 | 4.12 | 1.26 | 55 |
2026 regular season through 2026-08-02, sorted by appearances. G is games pitched.
The rule also says who it leaves out. Jeff Hoffman (51 appearances, 3.94 ERA), Chase Silseth (48 appearances, 2.66 ERA), Huascar Brazobán (46 appearances, 2.56 ERA) cleared the workload and quality bars but landed with clubs under .500, and a proven reliever sent to a non-contender is a different kind of deadline story. Those moves sit in the accounting below.
Every qualifying move in the window
The wider list uses a looser bar: a 2026 major-league line of at least 250 at-bats for a hitter, 60 innings for a starter or 30 appearances for a reliever, and a receiving club at or above .500. 26 of the 171 named-player moves clear it. Here is where the other 145 went, rather than a hand-wave at prospects and depth arms:
| Why a move is not in the table | Moves |
|---|---|
| Player has no 2026 major-league line (mostly minor leaguers) | 82 |
| Starter under 60 innings in 2026 | 4 |
| Reliever under 30 appearances in 2026 | 24 |
| Hitter under 250 at-bats in 2026 | 22 |
| Receiving club below .500 | 13 |
Counts are named-player moves. The rule is a threshold, so it cuts through real players as well as prospects.
Two of those cuts land on names most deadline coverage led with. Nathaniel Lowe (248 at-bats) and Adley Rutschman (247 at-bats) both fall short of the 250-at-bat bar by single figures. A threshold that bends for famous players is not a threshold, so they are not in the table. Pretending they were bench pieces would be worse.
| Player | From | To | 2026 line | New club through 2026-08-02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Griffin | WSH | CLE | 129.3 IP · 3.06 ERA · 116 K | 57–56 (.504) |
| Kevin Gausman | TOR | CHC | 127.3 IP · 4.38 ERA · 127 K | 63–49 (.562) |
| Robbie Ray | SF | SD | 122.7 IP · 3.08 ERA · 107 K | 58–54 (.518) |
| Freddy Peralta | NYM | TB | 113.7 IP · 4.99 ERA · 113 K | 65–46 (.586) |
| Dustin May | STL | MIL | 109.0 IP · 4.38 ERA · 106 K | 69–42 (.622) |
| Luis Castillo | SEA | CWS | 99.7 IP · 5.06 ERA · 86 K | 59–52 (.532) |
| Tarik Skubal | DET | LAD | 96.7 IP · 2.79 ERA · 116 K | 69–43 (.616) |
| Tyler Mahle | SF | ATL | 94.7 IP · 5.13 ERA · 89 K | 67–45 (.598) |
| Casey Mize | DET | SD | 86.7 IP · 2.7 ERA · 85 K | 58–54 (.518) |
| Brooks Raley | NYM | PHI | 45 G · 1.96 ERA · 1.09 WHIP | 59–53 (.527) |
| Ryan Zeferjahn | LAA | CHC | 45 G · 3.66 ERA · 1.2 WHIP | 63–49 (.562) |
| Caleb Kilian | SF | PHI | 45 G · 4.26 ERA · 1.33 WHIP | 59–53 (.527) |
| JoJo Romero | STL | MIL | 44 G · 3.35 ERA · 1.3 WHIP | 69–42 (.622) |
| Tyler Wells | BAL | TB | 43 G · 2.67 ERA · 0.96 WHIP | 65–46 (.586) |
| Brent Suter | LAA | ATL | 41 G · 4.12 ERA · 1.26 WHIP | 67–45 (.598) |
| Erik Miller | SF | BOS | 38 G · 2.76 ERA · 1.38 WHIP | 60–51 (.541) |
| Antonio Senzatela | COL | MIL | 34 G · 3.61 ERA · 1.3 WHIP | 69–42 (.622) |
| Victor Vodnik | COL | MIA | 33 G · 5.25 ERA · 1.69 WHIP | 58–55 (.513) |
| Jo Adell | LAA | CLE | 423 AB · .239 · 16 HR | 57–56 (.504) |
| Luis Arraez | SF | PHI | 420 AB · .324 · 4 HR | 59–53 (.527) |
| Luis García Jr. | WSH | NYY | 357 AB · .283 · 23 HR | 63–49 (.562) |
| Liam Hicks | MIA | TB | 354 AB · .282 · 14 HR | 65–46 (.586) |
| Daulton Varsho | TOR | HOU | 333 AB · .243 · 7 HR | 58–55 (.513) |
| Heliot Ramos | SF | NYY | 288 AB · .264 · 9 HR | 63–49 (.562) |
| Curtis Mead | WSH | BOS | 285 AB · .253 · 17 HR | 60–51 (.541) |
| Lane Thomas | KC | ATL | 285 AB · .232 · 10 HR | 67–45 (.598) |
Batting and pitching lines are 2026 regular season through 2026-08-02, the last completed game in our archive (1,682 games). Highlighted rows cleared the stricter test above and have their own section.
What the World Series market did around the deadline
We hold a weekly World Series outright series going back to 2021. Most of it is a historical archive we bought, captured at the same fixed hour every week; our own recurring capture is newer, and the series has one gap, the week of July 30. Four boards bracket the deadline: the preseason board from March 5, a board from August 2 after that day's deals, one taken before the deadline on August 3, and one taken after it passed. Prices are the median across the books quoted at each capture.
| Team | Preseason | Aug 2 | Pre-deadline | Post-deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | +225 | +150 | +155 | +155 |
| NYY | +1,000 | +600 | +600 | +600 |
| MIL | +3,000 | +900 | +900 | +850 |
| ATL | +1,800 | +1,000 | +1,000 | +1,000 |
| BOS | +1,600 | +1,700 | +1,600 | +1,400 |
| TB | +10,000 | +1,400 | +1,500 | +1,500 |
| PHI | +1,600 | +2,000 | +1,800 | +1,800 |
| CHC | +1,800 | +1,800 | +2,000 | +2,000 |
| HOU | +2,500 | +3,000 | +3,000 | +2,200 |
| SEA | +1,200 | +2,200 | +2,200 | +2,500 |
| CWS | +25,000 | +3,000 | +3,300 | +3,300 |
| CLE | +6,000 | +4,000 | +4,000 | +3,500 |
| TEX | +3,000 | +2,500 | +3,000 | +3,500 |
| ARI | +8,000 | +6,600 | +6,600 | +8,000 |
| MIN | +10,000 | +8,000 | +8,000 | +8,000 |
| SD | +2,800 | +7,500 | +8,000 | +8,000 |
| DET | +2,000 | +12,500 | +12,500 | +12,500 |
| PIT | +6,600 | +10,000 | +10,000 | +12,500 |
| BAL | +2,200 | +7,500 | +10,000 | +15,000 |
| MIA | +20,000 | +20,000 | +15,000 | +20,000 |
| TOR | +1,500 | +15,000 | +15,000 | +20,000 |
| STL | +25,000 | +25,000 | +40,000 | +40,000 |
| WSH | +50,000 | +40,000 | +50,000 | +50,000 |
| ATH | +10,000 | +50,000 | +75,000 | +75,000 |
| CIN | +4,500 | +50,000 | +50,000 | +75,000 |
| LAA | +25,000 | +50,000 | +75,000 | +75,000 |
| NYM | +1,300 | +50,000 | +75,000 | +75,000 |
| SF | +5,000 | +50,000 | +75,000 | +75,000 |
| COL | +50,000 | +75,000 | +100,000 | +100,000 |
| KC | +3,500 | +50,000 | +100,000 | +100,000 |
American odds, median across quoting books at each capture. Preseason is March 5; the pre-deadline and post-deadline boards were both taken on deadline day, either side of the 6:00 p.m. ET cutoff. Highlighted rows are the clubs whose price differs between those two boards.
Those two boards are the tightest timing evidence available here, and they are still only timing. A futures price absorbs injuries, the previous night's results, the rest of the schedule and how much money the book has already taken, all at once. Nothing on this page attributes a price move to a particular trade, and a same-day move is not proof that one caused the other.
How this was measured
- Transactions. MLB's official transaction feed, 2026-07-25 to 2026-08-03 inclusive: 62 deals carrying 171 named-player moves, plus 19 legs whose consideration is cash or a player to be named.
- Player lines. 2026 regular season through 2026-08-02, from our own game-log archive (1,682 completed games), joined on MLB's person id. Starts are MLB's official games-started figure.
- Team records and league baselines. 2026 W–L, league ERA 4.19 and league batting average .244 are computed from the same archive over the same window, so every comparison is like with like.
- Futures prices. Median across quoting books at four archived captures. These are board snapshots, not closing lines.
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Frequently asked questions
When was the 2026 MLB trade deadline?
The 2026 Major League Baseball non-waiver trade deadline was 6:00 p.m. ET on August 3, 2026. MLB's transaction feed records 43 trades announced that day and 62 across the 2026-07-25 to 2026-08-03 window.
How many trades were made at the 2026 MLB deadline?
62 trades involving 171 moves of a named player between 2026-07-25 and 2026-08-03, according to MLB's official transaction feed. 26 of those player moves involved someone with a substantial 2026 major-league line joining a club at or above .500; 101 involved players with no 2026 major-league line at all.
Did World Series odds change because of the deadline?
Prices did move across the deadline, and we publish the archived boards either side of it so anyone can see by how much. We do not claim the trades caused those moves. A futures price responds to injuries, results, the remaining schedule and the book's own position at the same time, and no snapshot can separate those causes.
Which deadline moves does this page count as big?
A stated arithmetic rule rather than a judgement. A starter needs at least 85 innings and 14 starts in 2026, a reliever 40 appearances, and a hitter 300 at-bats; each must also beat the 2026 league average at his own job and join a club at or above .500. 12 moves clear the bar.
Does Nebula Insights publish betting picks?
No. This page and everything else on the site is information: measurements of what already happened and model projections shown beside the market's own numbers. We publish no picks, no selections and no recommended wagers.
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