The 2025 MLB trade deadline resulted in 63 trades and the exchange of 179 players. All teams made at least one move, with significant player activity demonstrating baseball's unique trade dynamic. The Oakland Athletics emerged as the biggest winners, acquiring Leo De Vries, a highly regarded prospect from the San Diego Padres, in a surprising trade. De Vries, ranked as the No. 3 prospect in baseball, is expected to reach the majors by age 21, joining a promising young lineup. The deadline highlighted the depth of trades rather than standout marquee deals.
Plenty of impact players moved to contenders at this year's deadline, so for the A's to be the big winners took the sort of trade that almost never gets made anymore. Heading into deadline season, Leo De Vries, the 18-year-old, switch-hitting shortstop who was the prize of the San Diego Padres' farm system, was considered off-limits in any trade conversation. Three days before the deadline, though, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller showed a willingness to discuss him in potential deals for A's closer Mason Miller and Guardians left fielder Steven Kwan.
De Vries is the No. 3 prospect in baseball on Kiley McDaniel's updated top 50 ranking. He has more than held his own in High-A as a teenager and figures to be in the big leagues -- perhaps as a shortstop, perhaps at third base -- by the time he's 21. And there, he would join what's quickly becoming one of the best lineups in baseball, loaded with Nick Kurtz, Brent Rooker, Jacob Wilson, Lawrence Butler, Shea Langeliers, Tyler Soderstrom and Denzel Clarke.
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