Deadline Desk
An MLB trade-deadline companion that lets fans follow which pending free agents and rentals are being shopped — complete with no-trade clause details, contract status, and a 'which teams match?' fit score for each player.
MLB fans who follow every rumor during the July trade-deadline window
- Sortable board of pending UFAs and rentals with contract, no-trade list, and current stats
- 'Best fit' team suggestions using contender status, payroll, and prospect depth
- Push alerts when a name on your watch list moves or clears an obstacle
- Big-board view that pairs traded prospects to a team's top-30 to show what was given up
Gausman's eight-team no-trade list just dropped four days before the Aug. 3 deadline — exactly the kind of clause detail that drives every fan's 'can my team get him?' question.
MLBTradeRumors is the dominant free hub for trade rumors and trade-deadline chatter, and the official MLB App explicitly bundles 'trade rumors' as a top feature, confirming real and concentrated fan demand around the Aug. 3 window.MLB Trade Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com ↗MLB App | MLB.com ↗
No dedicated trade-deadline companion app exists; incumbents are either article-based sites (MLBTR, FanSided) or broad official apps. Adjacent fantasy trade analyzers (FantasySP, RotoBaller) solve a different problem (fantasy roster trades, not real MLB trades), leaving room for an NTC/fit-score-focused product.MLB Trade Rumors and 2026 Trade Deadline News ↗Fantasy Baseball Trade Analyzer and Trade Calculator ↗
The leading incumbent only charges $29.89/year for an ad-free premium tier and openly cites ad-revenue challenges; MLB fans have deep free alternatives (MLBTR, MLB.com, FanSided), so willingness-to-pay for a narrow seasonal tool is low.Trade Rumors Front Office: Changes To Article Delivery ↗
The product is only meaningful for roughly a 4–6 week window each year around the July 31/August deadline; outside that window the value proposition collapses, so annual engagement and retention will be weak without extending into free agency or hot stove coverage.
Buildable as a weekend project: no-trade clause lists and contract data are publicly available (Cot's Contracts, Spotrac, MLBTR's own NTC tracker), and 'team fit' scores are opinion-rule heuristics; main risk is sourcing/scraping rumor feeds in real time.