MLB trade deadline 2024: Players likely to be dealt Tuesday - ESPN

It's MLB trade deadline day! While there was a flurry of trade activity on Monday, there is still plenty of potential intrigue heading into Tuesday's 6 p.m. ET deadline.

Are the Los Angeles Dodgers or Philadelphia Phillies going to make any more major additions? Could the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles add and subtract? Will the Chicago White Sox deal Garrett Crochet or Luis Robert Jr.? Will teams battling for a wild-card spot continue to add to make a playoff push? And will there be any members of the Tampa Bay Rays left after Tuesday?

What follows is a ranking of the names to watch as we near the deadline, broken into tiers based on their likelihood of being dealt.

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Jack Flaherty, RHP, Detroit Tigers

Contract status: Free agent

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The Tigers gave Flaherty a one-year, $14 million contract, and he has rebounded nicely from several years of injuries and inconsistent performances to have a superb season. He's 7-5 with a 2.95 ERA, 133 strikeouts and just 19 walks in 106⅓ innings. Among pitchers with at least 100 innings, he ranks fifth in lowest OBP allowed (.255), fifth in strikeout rate (32.0%) and 13th in wOBA allowed. Those are elite numbers, plus he has been remarkably consistent, going at least five innings in every start this season (although he hasn't recorded an out in the seventh inning).

The Tigers are in fourth place in the AL Central and would have to leapfrog four teams in the wild-card race. Getting a wild-card spot isn't impossible, but with playoff odds hovering around 5%, look for the Tigers to flip Flaherty — especially given the