Amidst all the noise about big-ticket free agent signings, a few trades happened at the recent Winter Meetings as well. Let’s break them down: Rangers trade [baseball-trade-values-player-link player="8839"] to the White Sox for [baseball-trade-values-player-link player="9693"] Despite the obvious overpay, we’re going to take partial credit for calling the light return on this one. Our model had Mazara’s value at zero -- which means we see no surplus value --...

If you’re a GM, this is the list you don’t want to have your players on. According to our calculations, the following 50 players have the least amount of trade value right now – or, put another way, the most amount of negative value. These are not necessarily bad players; they’re players whose contracts are bigger than their projected field value. Not surprisingly, the common thread here is that most of them are older and past their prime. Only eight of these 50...

The Giants are in a tough spot. They made a classic mistake of holding onto their championship core too long -- much like the Phillies did in the late 2000s -- and now most of those players are expensive and past their prime. They did make a smart move to hire President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi from the Dodgers, and because he was brought in to be a change agent, well, you can expect some change. That means they will likely be trading off many veterans and starting their rebuild in...