The Milwaukee Brewers are positioned as clear buyers at the 2025 Trade Deadline and they have a shopping list. The Brewers have had a heavily taxed bullpen this year with their starting pitchers throwing the 5th-fewest innings by a rotation in MLB.

MLB reporter Héctor Gómez wrote on Twitter that the Brewers had emerged "now as a top suitor" for Suarez, but the names he mentioned as a possible return lined up perfectly with our Journal Sentinel story proposing mock trades (with reaction and analysis from Curt Hogg), which seems fishy.

The Chicago Cubs face the Milwaukee Brewers in the opener of a 3-game set at American Family Field in Milwaukee Monday.

The Brewers lost two of three against the Marlins this past weekend but are tied atop the division thanks to an overall record of 15-6 in July. After wandering through the past month with just 11 win in their 22 games,