With Major League Baseball's trade deadline now behind us, the next big transactional window is the free agency period that will begin five days after the 2025 World Series ends.

To set the stage for the sprint to the deadline, here's a primer based on what I'm hearing from front office executives across the league.

Let’s dive into our final MLB trade deadline, projecting landing spots for the top 15 MLB trade candidates in 2025. The New York Yankees took themselves out of the mix for Eugenio Suarez with the Ryan McMahon trade and the Seattle Mariners already made a deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks for first baseman Josh Naylor.