Elephant Rumblings: Deadline trades shuffle top prospects list

MLB news roundup

Happy Friday, Athletics Nation!

As you well know, the A’s did not let the trade deadline pass uneventfully yesterday. Luis Severino will remain in green and gold. But closer Mason Miller, who had recently been considered off the table in trade talks, has been shipped to the Padres along with JP Sears in exchange for—wait for it—a bona fide haul of the Friars’ top prospects.

There is no doubt that the A’s endgame will suffer in the short term as a result of this transaction, but the team’s prospect depth has been greatly fortified with a new No. 1 and a trio of pitchers, all of whom are now among the A’s Top 20 per MLB Pipeline.

18-year-old shortstop Leo De Vries is now the A’s top prospect and the highest overall ranked prospect in their system to date that I can recall. De Vries has already landed in Lansing.

The A’s also nabbed No. 4 draft prospect Jamie Arnold in the first round; presumably he will be the A’s No. 2 prospect once MLB Pipeline incorporates recent draftees into their prospect rankings.

One other trade was made by the Athletics, who sent third baseman and outfielder Miguel Andujar to Cincinnati for another right handed pitcher, Kenya Huggins. The Reds’ former No. 22 prospect is now the A’s No. 27. So the A’s will have six new Top 30 prospects in total once Arnold is added to the rankings, with four of them in the Top 10.

The A’s need to shuffle their roster to fill the gaps created by the absence of Miller, Sears, and Andujar. Bill Moriarty at A’s Farm made some plausible suppositions about who will be called up as reinforcements.

This expectation has already been partially borne out with the pending callup of No. 3 prospect Luis Morales.

However you feel about these deadline moves, one thing is indisputable: the A’s went big this time around.

Have a wonderful weekend, AN.

A’s Coverage

• Athletics’ Mason Miller and JP Sears Traded To Padres
• Miguel Andujar Traded To Reds
• A’s To Promote Luis Morales
• Athletics’ new Las Vegas ballpark cost rises again, exceeding $2 billion
• Latest Athletics injuries and transactions

MLB News & Interest:

• Ranking the winners, losers and snoozers of the 2025 MLB trade deadline ($)
• MLB Trade Tracker: July
• Astros Acquire Carlos Correa
• Rays, Twins Swap Griffin Jax For Taj Bradley
• Padres Acquire Ryan O’Hearn, Ramon Laureano
• Blue Jays Acquire Shane Bieber
• Mets Acquire Cedric Mullins
• Tigers Acquire Charlie Morton
• Yankees Acquire Camilo Doval
• Royals Acquire Mike Yastrzemski
• Cubs Designate Ryan Pressly For Assignment
• Red Sox Acquire Dustin May
• Astros Outright Jon Singleton
• Outright Assignments: 7/31/25
• Today in Baseball History

Best of X:

Roster moves.

How big was the Miller - De Vries trade? Real big.

The A’s are apparently wasting no time with Núñez.

And De Vries wasted no time getting his first knock with the Lugnuts.