Trade Deadline: Best Hitters Available

We'll stick to players clearly available to some degree rather than speculating on stars. But keep the stars in mind, anyway. Ya never know.

Just about any player could be traded, but rather than fuel what almost certainly turns out to be blind speculation on players such as Ronald Acuña Jr., Byron Buxton, and José Ramírez, we’ll stay in the lane of probability.

The following is a ranking of the hitter, not the overall value of the player, or the player’s projected trade cost this month. An asterisk denotes the player is a free agent at season’s end, with no options attached for either side.