Top Pitchers Left on MLB Trade Market for Cubs, Phillies, More After Tarik Skubal, Peralta Deals

Tarik Skubal and Freddy Peralta may be off the trade market after high-profile deals this weekend, but plenty of starting pitchers remain available for teams looking to bolster the rotation.

According to Jon Morosi of MLB Network, the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers are among the teams seeking a starter and Washington Nationals' pitcher Foster Griffin, the New York Mets' Clay Holmes, Dustin May of the St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers' starter Casey Mize, the San Francisco Giants' Robbie Ray and Tyler Mahle and Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber of the Toronto Blue Jays are among the available options.

Mize in particular has been linked to a number of teams, including the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees, and is the top starter still available on the market:

The trade deadline now feels a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on The Titanic after the Skubal trade, of course.

The Dodgers will have him and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to headline their rotation, but the fun doesn't stop there. While there are some injury concerns regarding two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, if he's healthy he's been among the best pitchers in baseball when he's been on the mound this season.

But wait, there's more.

Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, also injury concerns, would be locks on most postseason rotations but one of them might be the odd man out given that team's usually go with a four-man rotation come October. Justin Wrobleski was literally an All-Star this season and almost assuredly will be coming out of the bullpen in the playoffs. Roki Sasaki is a starter by trade but operated as L.A.'s closer during last year's playoffs and may be more of a seventh-inning option this go around, with Edwin Díaz added in the offseason and Tanner Scott having a bounce-back year.

Good luck scoring runs on the Dodgers, in other words.

But for teams with aging, veteran cores, going for broke this season may still be the best bet, with uncertainty looming around the sport. A major labor battle is on the horizon, with MLB owners pushing for a salary cap, and the consequence could be a lost 2027 season.

In other words, a lot of star veterans could lose an entire year of their prime. The Dodgers weren't going to rest on their laurels with that possibility on the horizon—it remains to be seen which other contenders will follow suit.