Major League Pickleball Opens Trade Window #2 March 2 Through July 15

Major League Pickleball opened its second trade window of 2026 on Monday, March 2, and set a firm closing date: Wednesday, July 15, at 10 p.m. ET, a period during which Premier Level teams may exchange players and cash considerations as they finalize season rosters. “The second trade window of 2026 opened Monday, March 2, and will close on Wednesday, July 15, at 10 p.m. ET (the day before the beginning of the event that immediately follows the Mid-Season Tournament),” MLP wrote in its blog post.

The league also told readers it will keep a live ledger of moves: “Major League Pickleball will track all trades that take place during Trade Window #2 in this blog post, be sure to follow along on MLP social channels as well.” The excerpted blog page shows update slots labeled by date, including “Mar. 4 Updates: Trade #1” and “Mar. 3 Updates: Trade #4 Trade #3 Trade #2 Trade #1,” indicating MLP intended a running, dated transaction log even though full trade texts were not present in the provided snippet.

Early public reporting and social posts already signaled activity. A Facebook “TRADE ALERT” fragment read, “TRADE ALERT ⁠ Trade Window #2 opens with a statement move. ⁠ Texas Ranchers receive Dylan Frazier, Matthew Barlow,” the text ending in the provided material and lacking the remainder of the transaction note. Pickleball’s coverage noted trades posted March 3, saying, “A trade was announced between the Los Angeles Mad Drops and Florida Smash:” and separately, “A trade was announced between the Brooklyn Pickleball Team and Texas Ranchers:,” though the Pickleball excerpt did not include the specific assets exchanged in those announcements.

Pickleball also provided roster context for teams tied to early coverage. Its “Analysis for Los Angeles — Roster: Catherine Parenteau, Jade Kawamoto, Genie Bouchard, Ben Johns, Max Freeman, Gabe Joseph” and “Analysis for Brooklyn — Roster: Rachel Rohrabacher, Jackie Kawamoto, Hannah Blatt, Christian Alshon, Riley Newman, Luca Mack” appear alongside the trade notes. Pickleball further reported team-building signals from California, writing, “The Black Bears appear to be going all-in on emerging talent on the female side. Kunimoto has had some excellent singles results recently, Nelson has shown flashes of brilliance at just 15 years of age, and Dennehy has earned six medals (three golds) competing at stops on the PPA Tour Asia and PPA Tour Australia. More moves involving California are expected to be announced this week.”

Contextual calendar items circulated in media timelines. Forbes’ Master Pickleball Schedule lists a Pre-Draft Trade Window from 1/28/26 to 2/15/26, a Keeper Deadline on 2/15/26 (with an internal narrative reference to February 14), and a 2026 Player Draft on 2/27/26, followed by a Post-Draft Trade window it places “right after the Draft on 3/1/26.” Forbes also lists four waiver periods on 5/5/26, 6/2/26, 6/23/26, and 7/14/26 and summarizes the regular season as nine weeks starting the weekend of 5/24/26 and wrapping up 8/2/26. Those dates differ in small ways from Pickleball’s May 22-25 Dallas opener wording and from MLP’s March 2 trade-window opening; MLP’s blog copy provides the explicit trade-window open and July 15 close used here.

MLP’s official materials include a full team list and logos for the 2026 season, naming ATLANTA BOUNCERS, BROOKLYN PICKLEBALL TEAM, LOS ANGELES MAD DROPS, TEXAS RANCHERS, CALIFORNIA BLACK BEARS and 16 other franchises. With the trade window now open through July 15 at 10 p.m. ET, those teams will have weeks of roster maneuvering ahead of the Dallas season opener and the nine-week schedule that Forbes maps to a finish in Orlando on August 2; MLP’s blog and social channels are the league-identified locations where the running trade log and finalized transaction texts will appear.