Entering the 2025 season, Atlanta Braves fans expected yet another busy trade deadline from Alex Anthopoulos as he reinforced the roster for another playoff round. This season, the Braves should probably still be busy...just on the opposite side of the market that fans anticipated.
This year's trade deadline offers a bunch of players that we would have loved to see in a Braves uniform in a world where they were in contention for a spot in the postseason. There's been plenty of reporting around which players Atlanta could be shipping out this July, but for the sake of dreaming of a much happier alternate universe let's pretend the Braves were buyers for a second and look at a few names we wish the team were good enough to trade for this season.