Major League Baseball's 2024 trade deadline is long gone. The waiver deadline has also passed and 40-man rosters around the league won't be changing much at all during the three weeks remaining before the finish line. What if they could change, though? What if there was another trade deadline looming, where contenders could try to address their possibly fatal flaw(s) while the other half of the league got another chance to add to its farm system? In that entirely hypothetical scenario, we've put together a guess at what each team would try to do.
We're not going to bother with putting together actual trade packages. Rather, it's what each team would be looking to trade for/away, presented in alphabetical order by division. Baltimore Orioles : A Trade for a starting pitcher Bringing in a healthy infielder or two would be nice, too, with all of Ryan Mountcastle, Ramón Urías, Jordan Westburg and Jorge Mateo currently on the IL.
However, with Corbin Burnes struggling in recent weeks, the short supply of reliable O's starters feels even more pronounced than usual. It's a darn good thing they did trade for Zach Eflin, but it'd be swell if they could add at least one more arm to a rotation that needs Grayson Rodriguez back from his lat injury ASAP. Even if Burnes, Eflin and Rodriguez are all healthy for October, the starter for Baltimore's fourth postseason game will be a colossal question mark.
Boston Red Sox : A Trade for a starting pitcher Boston did bring back James Paxton a.