MLB 2025: Player every team should trade for (or away) this July

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This year's MLB trade deadline is going to be complicated. So many teams are currently in the playoff race -- only eight are more than five games out of a wild card -- that it might make for a slow deadline if all those clubs remain in contention by the end of July.

One thing is clear, however: The Arizona Diamondbacks are the fulcrum of this deadline, with the ability to make it a lot more interesting if they decide to trade away their players heading into free agency -- a group that includes slugging third baseman Eugenio Suarez, starters Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen, .300-hitting first baseman Josh Naylor and rejuvenated closer Shelby Miller.

While there's always a…