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.
