There's a decent chance some Major League Baseball team will make a transaction July 31 that alters the trajectory of the 2025 season. Will it be the Milwaukee Brewers? The MLB trade deadline arrives at 5 p.m. CT, and teams will surely be busy working the phones up until the final moments.

Obviously, the Brewers weren't going to sell. That would have been an all-time bad look, 10 times worse than trading away Josh Hader in 2022. But there was an argument to be made that they should have bought aggressively,