2025 MLB trade deadline: Passan's top moves for contenders

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It's posturing season. Major League Baseball's trade deadline goes through the same mechanics every year. Following June calls to indicate interest in players, early-to-mid-July brings out the first offers, which are inevitably imbalanced toward the teams willing to move players and, accordingly, holding all the leverage.

It's the reason trades before the All-Star break are rare -- and also a reminder that just because a match isn't there now, it doesn't preclude one going forward. So many elements play into a deadline (the keenness of teams to send away quality players, the willingness of contenders to make a move over the objection of their analytical model, the…