Every year during the All Star break Dave Cameron from Fangraphs releases his annual trade value list. The basic concept is which players would bring the most return if they were made available by their current club. # 1 is pretty obvious as he has been there pretty much since he debuted.
It is hard to argue most of the choices since you can pretty much interchange the honorable mentions with numbers 35-50.
Here are the
honorable mentions.
The Pirates are represented nicely by having Cutch, Cole and Marte all crack the top 25. I recommend reading the write ups on each player as it really helps hit home why the guy deserves to be on the list. This is especially true for some of the more questionable guys like Jose Quintana and Yan Gomes.
Here is a link to the
overview which will guide you to each write up. One thing that you will take away is that Mike Trout is good at baseball.
Fangraphs is an awesome site, and I love this yearly segment they do. Thanks for sharing it as a full list - I just read it as the 10 at a time and it's cool to see them all together.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably my second favorite thing behind the organizational write ups during the offseason. Also, the worst trade chips should be coming up soon as well.
DeleteNot a single phillies player.. yikes
ReplyDeleteIf Franco and Nola do well they would have a chance next year.
DeleteDang... the A's don't have a lot of trade value. Looks like they traded that value in the offseason. Can't complain too much though... at least they kept Sonny.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. This is pretty cool information.
When the A's make trades they usually don't go after top prospects. They would rather get 4 guys that might project as major leaguers instead of 1 top prospects. This has been pretty successful for them over the years. The only bad thing is they may been burned on the Donaldson deal.
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