MLB Trade Deadline 2026: Every Trade, Updated Live Through 6 P.M. ET

Last updated: Monday, August 3, 2026 — 10:25 AMET

The 2026 MLB Trade Deadline closes today, Monday, August 3, at 6 p.m. ET. This tracker logs every confirmed trade as it happens, newest at the top, plus the players and teams still in play as the deadline closes. Check back throughout the afternoon for updates.

MLB Trade Deadline 2026: Key Facts

• Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2026, at 6 p.m. ET. Any player on a 40-man roster must be traded before that moment to change teams this season.
• Biggest trade so far: The Dodgers acquired two-time reigning AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal from the Tigers for outfielder Zyhir Hope and right-handers River Ryan and Brady Smith.
• Trades confirmed so far: 12 (updated as new deals are added below)
• Still unresolved: The Angels (Reid Detmers, Zach Neto) and Orioles (Adley Rutschman, Taylor Ward) remain the most-watched names as the deadline nears.

Live MLB Trade Updates

Every confirmed trade of the past two weeks, logged as it happened. New trades are added to the top of this section as they're announced.

[NEW] Phillies Acquire Brooks Raley From the Mets

Monday, August 3

Philadelphia's second bullpen addition of the morning, coming right on the heels of the Arraez deal. Raley, 38, has been outstanding for the Mets this season, posting a 1.96 ERA with 40 strikeouts against 15 walks over 41.1 innings, and gives the Phillies a lefty setup option in front of closer Jhoan Duran. He's an impending free agent, so this is a straight rental for a division rival looking to put a stamp on the deadline. The Mets continue their teardown, having already dealt A.J. Minter to the Twins earlier in the day; Raley is at least the fourth veteran to be moved off New York's roster over the past two weeks. In return, Philadelphia sends back two lower-level prospects: Gabrysh, a 15th-round pick in 2024 who saw a velocity jump this spring and profiles as a mid-90s reliever with a slider-cutter mix, and Spikerman, a toolsy but oft-injured outfielder who flashes speed and contact skills in the stretches he's stayed on the field.

Phillies Acquire Luis Arraez From the Giants

Monday, August 3

Philadelphia beat out the Rays, Rangers, and a handful of other suitors (the Yankees, Red Sox, Guardians, and Padres had all checked in as well) for the market's top rental bat. Arraez, a three-time batting champion, is hitting .328 with a .364 on-base percentage, four home runs, 43 RBI, and 10 stolen bases this season, tops in the majors in average. He signed a one-year, $12 million deal with San Francisco over the winter and becomes a free agent after the season, with roughly $4 million of that salary still owed. His arrival creates a roster question in Philadelphia, since Bryson Stott has manned second base for the Phillies all year; expect some combination of Stott sliding elsewhere or Arraez seeing time at a corner infield spot. Kilian, a former Cubs pitching prospect who reinvented himself as a hard-throwing reliever after signing with San Francisco over the winter, adds bullpen depth. The cost is steep on the pitching side: Marquez, a 20-year-old right-hander with a 1.83 ERA at High-A this season and a plus changeup, is regarded as at or near the top of Philadelphia's farm system and was considered close to peak trade value entering the deadline. Gair, a power-armed reliever prospect who has touched 101 mph but still fights his command, rounds out the return.

Blue Jays Acquire Jose Soriano From the Angels

Monday, August 3 

Toronto lands the arm it's been circling for months. Soriano is in the midst of a breakout season, sitting at a 3.29 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, and 127 strikeouts over 22 starts (123 innings), and comes with multiple years of club control remaining, which is exactly the kind of controllable, front-of-rotation piece the rebuilding Blue Jays were targeting rather than another rental. The Angels scratched Soriano from his weekend start against the Brewers as the deal came together, with the club citing the trade deadline uncertainty directly. Los Angeles gets three long-term pieces in return: Nimmala, a former first-round shortstop who has ranked among Toronto's top prospects and reached the back half of national top-100 lists; Micheletti, an eighth-round pick out of Virginia Tech who broke out in his first full pro season; and Rivero, a live-armed teenager working up to 95 mph out of the lower minors. It's a bat-and-arm package built around years of control rather than immediate MLB help, typical of a full rebuild return.

Cubs Acquire Kevin Gausman From the Blue Jays

Sunday, August 2 

Toronto is in clear sell mode at 52-60, eight games under .500 and last in the AL East. Gausman, 35, is in the final year of the five-year, $110 million deal he signed with the Blue Jays and is 5-10 with a 4.38 ERA and 127 strikeouts across 23 starts this season, though his 3.51 FIP suggests some bad luck (a .313 BABIP and 15 home runs allowed in 127.1 innings). He brings a 3.83 ERA over 14 career playoff games and slots in alongside Shota Imanaga, Matthew Boyd, and recently acquired lefty David Peterson atop a Cubs rotation that has struggled to miss bats and keep the ball in the park. Chicago sends back two prospects: shortstop Ty Southisene, who is hitting .311 with a .431 on-base percentage and 31 steals between Single-A and High-A this season, and outfielder Brett Bateman, a speed-and-contact profile who fits the org's need for more athleticism. The Cubs entered the deadline 6.5 games behind Milwaukee and were expected to add more pitching beyond Gausman before 6 p.m. ET.

Yankees Acquire Luis Garcia Jr. From the Nationals

Sunday, August 2 

New York gave up four pitchers to land a bat, and it is a significant one. Garcia, 26, has a career-high 23 home runs this season, 18 of them in his last 47 games, and comes with an extra year of club control through 2027, which made him one of the more coveted hitters on the board for contenders starved for offense.

Blue Jays Acquire Jameson Taillon From the Cubs

Sunday, August 2

Chicago designated Taillon for assignment last week after a difficult run that included a 5.92 ERA and 25 home runs allowed in 76 innings. Toronto adds him back as rotation depth in a much lower-cost move than its other deadline additions.

Rays Acquire Freddy Peralta From the Mets

Sunday, August 2

Tampa Bay is absorbing the roughly $2.4 million left on Peralta's expiring deal and using him to backfill a rotation that just lost Shane McClanahan to the 15-day injured list with mid-back tightness. Peralta joins Drew Rasmussen and Nick Martinez at the top of the group, with Griffin Jax and Ian Seymour having filled in during McClanahan's absence; the Rays hope to have McClanahan back within a couple of starts. Peralta struggled badly after New York acquired him from Milwaukee last winter, going 5-9 with a 4.99 ERA and a 1.48 WHIP across 22 starts. The return is led by Pitre, a second-round pick who is hitting .308 with 9 home runs and 32 steals between High-A and Double-A this year.

Twins Acquire Dean Kremer From the Orioles

Sunday, August 2

Minnesota (56-55 at the time of the deal) has won seven of nine and sits tied with Cleveland for the third AL wild-card spot, three games back of the White Sox in the AL Central. Kremer has struggled in 2026, carrying a 6.50 ERA and 1.36 WHIP over seven starts, so this is depth insurance more than a difference-maker. Reyes, an 18-year-old outfielder, ranks as Baltimore's No. 20 prospect per MLB Pipeline. The deal came just hours after Minnesota added A.J. Minter.

Twins Acquire A.J. Minter From the Mets

Sunday, August 2

Minnesota kept its bullpen retooling going by adding Minter before also landing Dean Kremer the same day. The Mets continue trimming veteran pieces off last year's roster as their season slips away.

Braves Acquire Lane Thomas and Bailey Falter From the Royals

Sunday, August 2

Atlanta adds outfield depth after activating Ronald Acuna from the injured list in late July, giving the Braves coverage as they manage his workload following his second hamstring strain of the season. Thomas is hitting .230 with a .717 OPS this season, more of a depth and defense addition than an impact bat, with Falter providing rotation or bullpen flexibility.

Dodgers Acquire Tarik Skubal From the Tigers

Saturday, August 1 

The biggest deal of the deadline. It is the first time a reigning Cy Young winner has been traded in-season since Justin Verlander in 2023, handing the two-time defending World Series champions a rotation of Skubal, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Justin Wrobleski. Skubal is a rental headed for free agency this winter, and the industry reaction centered on how light the return looked given his talent. Hope was ranked as the Dodgers' No. 5 farm asset by MLB Pipeline, Ryan their No. 7 (Baseball America, which runs a separate list, has Hope at No. 55 overall). Skubal, speaking with reporters after the trade, called joining the Dodgers a chance to chase three championships in a row.

White Sox Acquire Luis Castillo From the Mariners

Saturday, August 1

Chicago is taking on the remainder of Castillo's contract, which runs through 2027 at $22.75 million annually with a 2028 vesting option, to add rotation depth behind Davis Martin, Sean Burke, and Erick Fedde. Castillo is a three-time All-Star having a down year, sporting a 5.06 ERA in 20 appearances. Seattle gets salary relief plus Dominguez, who had 12 saves for Chicago before losing the closer's job.

Red Sox Acquire Curtis Mead From the Nationals

Saturday, July 25 

The deadline season's opening move was an old-school, one-for-one challenge trade, and it comes with an important asterisk: Early was already on the 15-day injured list with left elbow inflammation at the time of the deal, having last pitched June 30. Boston still sent a well-regarded young starter to Washington for a bat, betting that a 25-year-old breakout in Mead is real, but the Nationals knew they were getting a pitcher who needed a rehab assignment before he could help them. Prior to the injury, Early was 7-5 with a 3.44 ERA and a 9.1 percent walk rate over 17 starts; Washington targeted an Aug. 3 rehab start for him with a return projected for the final week of August. Mead was slashing at a 1.115 OPS clip with 13 runs, 10 extra-base hits, and nine RBI over his previous 16 games at the time of the deal, and ranked 10th among qualified right-handed hitters in slugging percentage. He slots into a Red Sox lineup that ranked 25th in MLB in runs scored, playing mostly third base with Caleb Durbin sliding to second. The Red Sox lead the American League in ERA behind only the Yankees, which chief baseball officer Craig Breslow cited as the reasoning to deal from pitching depth to address the lineup. Mead has since been sidelined himself by a wrist injury, with an expected return in the six-to-eight-week range, meaning both players are now on the shelf for their new teams.

Players Still on the Move as the Deadline Closes

A handful of teams are still fielding calls in the hours before the 6 p.m. deadline. Move any of these up into the Live Trade Log above once a deal is official.

• Angels: Rival executives believe Los Angeles will deal at least two of pitchers Reid Detmers and Jose Soriano and shortstop Zach Neto before the deadline, according to MLB Network's Jon Heyman.
• Red Sox: Boston has been talking to the Angels about Neto as it continues to look for a shortstop upgrade.
• Orioles: Catcher Adley Rutschman, who is controllable through 2027, and pending free agent outfielder Taylor Ward are both drawing interest from multiple teams. One executive described Baltimore as motivated to move Rutschman, with two others pegging the odds of a deal at roughly 60 percent.
• Mets: Clay Holmes remains a trade candidate as New York's sell-off continues.
• Brewers: Milwaukee, along with the Cubs, Braves, Yankees, Rays, and Phillies, is among the contenders that could still make a late addition before the window closes.

Trade Deadline FAQ

When is the MLB trade deadline in 2026?

The 2026 MLB Trade Deadline is Monday, August 3, at 6 p.m. ET. After that point, teams cannot trade players on the 40-man roster for the remainder of the season.

What was the biggest trade of the 2026 deadline?

The Dodgers acquiring two-time AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal from the Tigers for outfielder Zyhir Hope and right-handers River Ryan and Brady Smith is the largest trade of the period, and one of the biggest deadline deals in recent memory.

Which teams have been the most active sellers?

The Tigers, Mets, Blue Jays, Nationals, Royals, and Orioles have been the most prominent sellers, with the Mets in particular unwinding multiple win-now additions from last winter, including Freddy Peralta and A.J. Minter.

Which teams have been the most active buyers?

The Dodgers, Rays, White Sox, Yankees, Braves, and Twins have made the most notable additions so far, with the Angels and Orioles still deciding whether to buy, sell, or stand pat as the deadline closes.