Now that the dust has settled on what was a breakneck pace of wheeling and dealing ahead of MLB's 2025 trade deadline, what is the playoff picture looking like in the aftermath of all those swaps?

To set the stage for the sprint to the deadline, here's a primer based on what I'm hearing from front office executives across the league.

Here's what we learned from this year's deals -- and titles for the teams with the most interesting elements of trade season.

What had been a pretty quiet late July on the MLB trade deadline front exploded into some serious wheeling and dealing on Wednesday.

The Astros were winners of the 2025 MLB trade deadline, but what moves should they make next ahead of a World Series push?

The Houston Astros had a notable trade deadline last week as the last chance to make upgrades before the stretch of the season and eventually the playoffs. Bringing back Carlos Correa to play third base for the injured Isaac Paredes may have been the most significant move across all of baseball on deadline day and sent shock waves throughout MLB.

With Major League Baseball's trade deadline now behind us, the next big transactional window is the free agency period that will begin five days after the 2025 World Series ends.

MLB may be in the dog day stretch of the season, but fans are invigorated by the flurry of moves that went down at the trade deadline. In our latest edition of power rankings, we'll check in on every team after the boatload of activity.