It was a seller’s market for relief pitching at the 2025 trade deadline. Teams around Major League Baseball that moved off their best bullpen arms got surprising hauls of prospects in return.
The Athletics landed Leo De Vries, the No. 3 prospect in all of baseball, and three other pitchers for Mason Miller and JP Sears.
The Twins got Mick Abel and and a Top 100 catching prospect Eduardo Tait (No. 53) from Philadelphia for Jhoan Duran.
The Giants got a solid MLB reliever (José Buttó) and two promising young prospects (Drew Gilbert, Blade Tidwell) from the Mets for Tyler Rogers.