Imagine you’re the GM of your favorite team. Who are you trading this summer? Use our popular trade simulator to figure out a fair deal.

The 2016 deadline deal that sent an elite closer to a club seeking its first championship in 108 years was a landmark outlier. Was it worth the price the Cubs paid?

Now that we’re past the one-third mark of the season, in this episode we run down the list of hitters and pitchers whose values rose or fell significantly.

The former GM is the only prominent national writer we know of who often proposes his own trades, or evaluates proposals from fans or local beat writers. How well have those trade ideas correlated to the market? We audited each proposal in articles published since August 2019, and tested them against both our model and the actual market returns.

Boston is off to a terrible start this season, prompting speculation that they should plan to be sellers at the deadline, or even sooner. Does that strategy make sense? If so, which players will be on the block, and what might they return?