Scoping out a Kris Bryant trade
Should the Cubs trade their former MVP? If so, where would he go and what can they expect in return?
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Some systems are stacked with talent; others not so much. And you might be surprised to see who’s creeping up.
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Scoping the return for a Kris Bryant trade
by guest | 11/09/19 | 0 Comments
This is a guest article by BTV user and Cubs fan rw64 After a second straight year of playoff disappointment, major changes loom large on the North Side of Chicago. While the Cubs still have intentions of being competitive in 2020, President of...
Ranking each farm system by trade value
by johnbitzer | 10/28/19 | 2 Comments
If you’re a serious baseball fan, you’ve probably seen a few farm system rankings from major outlets like Baseball America and Fangraphs. Here at BTV, we use our valuation estimates to do similar lists – to rank each system by trade value. It’s a way...
Is Francisco Lindor tradeable?
by johnbitzer | 10/21/19 | 6 Comments
Recently, Joel Sherman of the NY Post advocated strongly for the Yankees to trade for , in the wake of the Yanks’ defeat to the Astros. Granted, Sherman is a NY beat writer, so there’s some classic...
Non-tender candidates for each team
by johnbitzer | 10/17/19 | 11 Comments
Now that we’ve updated our values for the year, we noticed that many established major leaguers who are in their control years (and a few whose teams have contract options on them) are projected to have negative values – in other words, their field...
Trade deadline post-mortem: what worked, what didn’t?
by johnbitzer | 08/01/19 | 7 Comments
Now that the summer trade deadline has passed, we’re starting to reflect on how our model matched up to reality. We’re still catching up with all the trades, so the data is not yet complete. But in the meantime, we can share a few observations. So...
One year later: which 2018 sellers fared the best?
by johnbitzer | 07/29/19 | 0 Comments
We took a look at the trades made last summer (some of which were made before July 31, others during the previous waiver period) to see how they stack up today. We compared the current values of the players they sold to the values of the players...