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2016 Dynasty Baseball Trade Thread

I did nothing aside from hit accept. I will take full marks for clever moves when I engineer them, but in this case I did nothing but click my mouse.
 
That's the value of using the trade block.....you'll sometimes get offers that you otherwise wouldn't have thought of yourself.

If I had one critique of some managers, I think more of them need to to be making theses kinds of deals.....where theyre picking a direction and going for it....whether its making a run at the podium like Bull, Matrim, Jonas, etc have.....or having a firesale and building for the future like you, b21 and some others have.


Staying in the middle and just letting your old players get older, and thus lose more and more of their value.....is a death sentence for a franchise in this format.
 
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That's the value of using the trade block.....you'll sometimes get offers that you otherwise wouldn't have thought of yourself.

If I had one critique of some managers, I think more of them need to pick a direction and either go for it like Matrim, Bull, Jonas, etc have this offseason....or work towards a rebuild like you have.

Staying in the middle and just letting your old players get older, and thus lose more and more of their value.....is a death sentence for a franchise in this format.
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Yep, I feel similar about it, and it's a critique I make regularly when discussing our dynasty hockey leagues with other owners. I find that there's a mushy middle group of owners who will hang on to good players in their early 30's without having a clear path at contendership in front of them, and like you said, simply ride the downward trend in that player's value.

Shit, I remember Zeke chirping me in year 2 when I recognized that I wasn't going to be able to keep up with you and Fergy, so dumped my veterans in a series of deals that landed me Bergeron, Pavelski and other assets. If you're not first, or at minimum legitimately challenging for first, you're last.
 
It's frustrating too when you want to trade for those guys and those middle teams just waste good years of productive vets.
 
On the flip side, I think some teams grip their prospects too tight for fear they'll one day be uber-mega super stars (let's be honest, we all view our own prospects as if they'll one day reach their full potential, haha)......while maybe overlooking the fact that even if those prospects hit their full potential, it might be well after the talent on your roster has faded from prominence. Meaning you're just mediocre now, and mediocre later.

GH for instance dealt away Byron Buxton in year one to acquire Ian Kinsler.....Buxton, is an elite prospect but he wouldn't have helped GH any of the last 3 years, meanwhile Kinsler has played a role in GH finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd the last three seasons.....HP similarly traded away Buxton, Sonny Gray, Wacha, etc...but it enabled him leap from 2nd worst, to 2nd overall and take a couple real concerted efforts at a title....


You kind of have to nut up, pick a direction and then be willing to go all in whether it's to win now, or swallowing that hard pill to trade away a Felix Hernandez or a Miguel Cabrera, because you think it's best for your team in the long run.
 
***Trade Announcement***​

Montana Trades:

Aristides Aquino
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2018 4th Round Pick




Tim Horton Trades:

Kevin Jepsen
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I think we've seen the blueprint for improvement done a few times in both the baseball and hockey leagues. If you're in a position where you've divested of your veterans, you should have a handful of young core players to build around, saturate the shit out of your minor league with as much talent as you can draft/find and once you're 4-5 pieces away from being good, trade prospects for quality players that have some impact window left.

There's a fine line between making those moves and misreading the depth of your system and slashing/burning before you're ready to compete and getting caught with a team not good enough, and nothing left to trade to get better.
 
***Trade Announcement***​


Leafman101 Trades:

Curtis Granderson
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MNIJ Trades:

Cameron Maybin
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Robbie Ray
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Trade format stolen from Montana[SUP]TM[/SUP]
 
I don't want to be anal-retentive.....but I think the key to this deal is if any of them ends up playing for Philadelphia.
 
Just wanted to inject something into this conversation, but Charlie Sheen was outstanding in Platoon.
 
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