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.