Top 30 Prospects For Every MLB Team Ahead Of The Trade Deadline

With the trade deadline just days away, we have updated our Top 30s to account for 2024 MLB Draft picks and recent new acquisitions across baseball.

We feel it’s imperative to paint the most updated picture possible entering the deadline for our subscribers. Here’s J.J. Cooper’s annual reminder:

Today’s update includes draft picks from the first 10 rounds of the 2024 MLB Draft, including scouting reports for every new addition and five new No. 1s in various systems. It’s very rare for a top pick not to sign. Throughout the bonus pool era of the draft (2012-2023) 98.7% of top-10 round selections have signed.

The update also takes the A.J. Puk, Randy Arozarena and Hunter Harvey trades into consideration. Our July Top 100 MLB prospects update also now includes 2024 draft picks.

Baseball America subscribers can see the new lists below!

Baseball America’s MLB Trade Deadline Tracker

The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline is set for 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 30. With less than a week to go before the big day, we’re tracking moves as teams look to package prospects and bolster their rosters for the final two months of the season.

Here’s the latest…

Orioles, Phillies swap majors leaguers

The Orioles and Phillies synced for a rare deadline swap of majors leaguers between two World Series hopefuls. The Phillies acquired OF Austin Hays in exchange for RHP Seranthony Dominguez and OF Cristian Pache. The 28-year-old Hays is slashing .255/.316/.395 through 63 games with just three homers, while Dominguez owns a somewhat unlucky 4.75 ERA through 36 innings of relief along with a 25.5% strikeout rate. Hays provides the Phillies with a righthanded bat with a track record of success against lefties to fortify their lineup, and it now opens up more playing time in Baltimore for Heston Kjerstad and Colton Cowser if both remain on the roster through the deadline.

Dodgers send DFA’d James Paxton to Red Sox in exchange for DSL prospect

The Red Sox acquired old friend LHP James Paxton from the Dodgers on Friday. Los Angeles had designated Paxton for assignment earlier this week. The 35-year-old lefthander, who spent all of 2023 with Boston, went 8-2, 4.43 in 89.1 innings (18 starts) with the Dodgers this season, although his 6.4 K/9 is the lowest of his career. In exchange, the Dodgers acquired 3B/1B Moises Bolivar, who signed with the Red Sox as an international free agent this past winter. Boliver hit .270/.364/.423 with three homers through 31 games in the Dominican Summer League while primarily playing third base and showing solid approach/strike-zone management.

Randy Arozarena Traded To Mariners For Aidan Smith, Brody Hopkins & Player To Be Named

While most of the country was asleep in the early hours of a Friday morning, the Mariners were busying adding some much-needed offensive support for their pitching staff. In exchange for a pair of minor leaguers in outfielder Aidan Smith and righthander Brody Hopkins, as well as a player to be named later, Seattle pried Randy Arozarena—one of October’s most potent sluggers—away from the Rays.

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