This Trade in History: Christian Yelich to the Brewers

Curious about how trades from the past would look using our model? In this first article of a new series, we tackle the Marlins/Brewers trade from the perspective of the 2017/2018 offseason to how it looks now. Needless to say, it’s a doozy.

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Non-tender Candidates for Every Team

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The BTV Podcast #40: 40-Man Madness

A former top prospect was traded. Some well-known Yankees were DFA’d. Did any of the moves made at the 40-man roster deadline surprise us?

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Mailbag: We Get Questions. A Lot.

Why does a player’s value seem too high? Or too low? How can we reduce everything to one number? We get asked these types of questions a lot, so here’s our attempt to tackle them.

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The Yankees Are in a Bind

After losing the Wild Card game, the Yankees need to go bold. But how? Should they spend on free agents or trade prospects? Either way, it’s going to hurt.

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Marlins Get

Jose Castillo

Castillo

2.7

Austin Nola

Nola

19.6

Total Value: 22.30

Padres Get

Anthony Bender

Bender

15.8

Braxton Garrett

Garrett

4.5

Total Value: 20.30

Total Value: 22.30

Total Value: 20.30

cruisinSD

November 29, 2021

0

Dodgers Get

Matthew Boyd

Boyd

0

Total Value: 0.00

Tigers Get

Luke Raley

Raley

0

Total Value: 0.00

Total Value: 0.00

Total Value: 0.00

jeffmlb

November 29, 2021

2

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Pirates Get

Marcos Cabrera

Cabrera

1.6

Everson Pereira

Pereira

7.6

Total Value: 9.20

Yankees Get

Jacob Stallings

Stallings

8.8

Total Value: 8.80

Total Value: 9.20

Total Value: 8.80

kjmiller7

November 28, 2021

0

Padres Get

Ray Kerr

Kerr

0.6

Corey Rosier

Rosier

1.4

Total Value: 2.00

Mariners Get

Adam Frazier

Frazier

0.8

Total Value: 0.80

Total Value: 2.00

Total Value: 0.80

carsonmk

November 27, 2021

3
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This Trade in History: Christian Yelich to the Brewers

by | 11/24/21 | 6 Comments

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by | 11/21/21 | 0 Comments

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by | 11/13/21 | 11 Comments

TradesPlayersIt’s been more than two years since we launched this site, and we’re happy to see that it’s growing and that people enjoy it.  We explain how we arrive at our trade value estimates in our About section, detailing the process for both...

Non-tender Candidates for Every Team

by | 10/29/21 | 13 Comments

TradesPlayers  Now that the offseason is upon us, one of the first orders of business for each team is to determine who to keep -- or more importantly, who not to keep. This is because each team needs to make room on their 40-man rosters, either for...

The BTV Podcast, Episode 38: Yanking Our Chains

by | 10/24/21 | 2 Comments

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