Roster Revamp: Tampa Bay Rays

Once the lockout ends, the ever-creative Rays will neede to balance 40-man roster concerns with optimizing their roster for another post-season run. In this initial article of a new series, Associate Editor Joshua Iversen selects three user-submitted trades that would achieve both goals.

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This Trade in History: Chris Sale to the Red Sox

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The BTV Podcast #43: Trade Market Dominoes, Part Two

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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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Cubs Get

Luis Campusano

Campusano

22.2

Robert Hassell

Hassell

38.7

Eric Hosmer

Hosmer

-50.7

Wil Myers

Myers

-12.8

Cash

Cash

30

Total Value: 27.40

Padres Get

Ian Happ

Happ

18.2

Patrick Wisdom

Wisdom

10.1

Total Value: 28.30

Total Value: 27.40

Total Value: 28.30

LeninCat

January 21, 2022

0

Athletics Get

Brayan Bello

Bello

9.7

Bobby Dalbec

Dalbec

13.5

Jeter Downs

Downs

11.8

Connor Seabold

Seabold

3.5

Total Value: 38.50

Red Sox Get

Matt Olson

Olson

45.3

Chad Pinder

Pinder

1

Stephen Piscotty

Piscotty

-8.6

Total Value: 37.70

Total Value: 38.50

Total Value: 37.70

Inferno007

January 21, 2022

0

Featured Trades

Athletics Get

Jordan Balazovic

Balazovic

14.5

Trevor Larnach

Larnach

22.6

Chase Petty

Petty

4.8

Total Value: 41.90

Twins Get

Frankie Montas

Montas

39.6

Lou Trivino

Trivino

1.1

Total Value: 40.70

Total Value: 41.90

Total Value: 40.70

RodyaRaskol

January 17, 2022

6

Diamondbacks Get

Andrew Dalquist

Dalquist

2.3

Jared Kelley

Kelley

2.2

Andrew Vaughn

Vaughn

35.3

Total Value: 39.80

White Sox Get

Ketel Marte

Marte

37.3

Total Value: 37.30

Total Value: 39.80

Total Value: 37.30

SneksOnDeck

January 17, 2022

3
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Roster Revamp: Tampa Bay Rays

by | 01/16/22 | 14 Comments

TradesPlayersEditor’s note: This is the first part of a new series. In each article, BTV Associate Editor Joshua Iversen will be completing a team’s offseason by compiling different user-submitted proposals from the site’s trade boards into a single...

This Trade in History: Chris Sale to the Red Sox

by | 12/30/21 | 8 Comments

TradesPlayersIn the first installment of this series, we looked at the Christian Yelich trade, which seemed fair on paper at the time, but turned out disastrously for the Marlins. In the second, we looked at the Josh Donaldson trade, which looked...

This Trade in History: Josh Donaldson to the Blue Jays

by | 12/09/21 | 11 Comments

TradesPlayersEditor’s note: We’ve had people ask us if we could look back at major trades in history and see how they matched up with our model. This is the second installment of this series. (See the first one.) Also note: Since this site (and our...