MLB announces 2025 Trade Deadline date (July 31, 6 p.m. ET)

Major League Baseball has announced that the 2025 Trade Deadline is Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m. ET.

This will be the first year since 2019 that the Deadline falls on the final day of July. For many years, the Deadline was always on July 31 at 4 p.m. ET. However, the Commissioner's Office can now set the Deadline for any date between July 28 and Aug. 3, in an effort to avoid conflicting with games.

The Trade Deadline is the last point during the season at which players on 40-man rosters can be traded from one club to another. Those players may still be placed and claimed on outright waivers, but trades will no longer be permitted after the Deadline. Prior to 2019, July 31 was referred to as the non-waiver Trade Deadline, and players could be traded after that date if they first cleared revocable trade waivers. The August waiver trade period was eliminated in ¡®19, with MLB moving to a single Trade Deadline.

Minor Leaguers not on 40-man rosters can still be traded after the Deadline. However, any player must be in an organization by the end of August (whether on the 40-man roster or not) in order to be eligible to appear in the postseason for that club.

Starting pitcher Jack Flaherty, infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr., outfielder Randy Arozarena and reliever Tanner Scott are a few of the headline names who were dealt leading up to the 2024 Trade Deadline, which fell on July 30.