2025 MLB trade deadline: One deal ESPN experts would make - ESPN

We're closing in on the 2025 MLB trade deadline day, and we're still waiting for July's first true blockbuster deal.

The action picked up late last week with the Seattle Mariners acquiring slugging first baseman Josh Naylor from the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the New York Yankees adding infielder Ryan McMahon in a deal with the Colorado Rockies. But we're hungry for more deadline action.

With that in mind, we asked our MLB experts to give us fun, outside-the-box trades they'd like to see for some of the biggest names on our top 50 trade deadline rankings.

Where do we send No. 1-ranked Eugenio Suarez? Which teams land the best available aces? And what should the teams most in need of a deal do this week? Let's find out.

The third baseman heads to Miami in exchange for starting pitching prospect Noble Meyer. Yeah, it's a stupid trade… but you know what? The Marlins owe their fans a little stupid because they've had plenty of the cheap. It doesn't seem as if anybody has noticed, but Miami has been playing good baseball for more than two months. The Marlins are still seven games back from the last National League wild-card spot, so their playoff odds barely register. But I still say go for it.

If anything, it would be a good response to Ichiro Suzuki saying at the Hall of Fame induction this past weekend that before he had signed with the Marlins, he had never heard of them. This would keep Suarez away from Ichiro's Mariners, so, at the very least, the deal would be sweet revenge. — Bradford Doolittle

Suarez goes back to the Reds for Single-A starter Ty Floyd and Triple-A reliever Zach Maxwell. Suarez spent seven seasons with Cincinnati, highlighted by a 49-homer year in 2019. Great American Ballpark plays smaller and