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The Top 10: Players with the highest trade value
TradesPlayersWho has the highest trade value among all players? One section of our site you may not have noticed is our Highest/Lowest page, which ranks every player according to their trade value. On it, you can see that the Top 10 players with the...
Offseason recap: Reviewing our final scorecard, and trends we saw
TradesPlayersDue to the baseball stoppage amidst the global pandemic, the 2020 baseball season hasn’t yet begun, which means that we’re still, awkwardly, in offseason mode. It’s like the party guest who wouldn’t leave at 2 am. But: It’s given us a...
Noah Syndergaard’s huge drop in value
TradesPlayersWith the news of Noah Syndergaard’s Tommy John surgery, his value has dropped all the way from the low 80s to 11.0. Why so dramatic? There are a couple of reasons. First, he has only two years of control left. One of those is now wiped...
BTV Podcast #4: Valuing the Yelich and Moncada extensions
TradesPlayersIn this episode, we dig into the numbers behind recent extensions for Yelich and Moncada, discuss the impact of injuries on trade value, and highlight the featured trade of the week, which sees a star and two other pieces traded for a...
BTV Podcast #3: Starting Pitching Risk, Preller’s Puzzling Padres’ Deals, and more
Did the Blue Jays overpay for Hyun-Jin Ryu? What about the Yankees and Gerrit Cole, and the Phillies and Zack Wheeler? In the third edition of our podcast series, BTV editors John Bitzer and Joshua Iversen analyze the risks of starting pitchers; try...
BTV Podcast #2: On Myers, Bryant, and offseason trades
In the second edition of our podcast series, BTV editors John Bitzer and Joshua Iversen address the rumors about a potential Wil Myers deal to the Red Sox, and what it might look like; highlight our featured trade of the week, which includes a Kris...