Good trades

[Valen]

There are plenty of threads where a person can be made fun of for making an offer. Personally I do not think they accomplish much.

But going positive instead of negative thought I would start a thread where everyone could post good trades. These can be trades that you were offered and accepted or your trade offers that got accepted. Or trades that you see in the transactions list.

Bottom line it is a trade that helped both teams. Please take the time to explain why it was a good trade and how it helped both teams.

[Valen]

To provide an example here is one.

You give up:
Frisch, Frankie (1921) ($7,630,000)
Fryman, Woodie (1980) ($4,250,000)


Other team gives up:
Alomar, Roberto (2001) ($9,350,000)
Knowles, Darold (1967) ($2,300,000)

Alomar was was wasted money backing up Hornsby. Only value was as an expensive defensive replacement. Frisch provided that role cheaper and Fryman figured to improve the bullpen over Knowles.

With Franco, #1 LH specialist in set I Fryman was expendable and Alomar provided me an upgrade at second.

Money was only .23 mil difference.

[Valen]

Rocket05 sent me this offer.

You give up:
Wetteland, John (1997) ($4,940,000)
Keefe, Tim (1889) ($8,710,000)


Other team gives up:
Marshall, Mike (1972) ($4,570,000)
Young, Cy (1901) ($9,150,000)

A rotation upgrade for one team and a bullpen upgrade for the other.

[Salty]

V-
I can appreciate your positive approach here-
I still think it should remain anonymous as different folks are gonna have different takes on trades that are 'good'.

Just my 1.5 pennies...

[Valen]

You give up:
Yastrzemski, Carl (1974) ($5,850,000)
Manning, Max (NeL) ($7,940,000)


Other team gives up:
Alexander, Pete (1916) ($8,480,000)

I wanted an ace level pitcher. I do not remember what I initially offered for Alexander. Probably something that he might have posted on a negative thread if he were inclined in that direction. But he looked at my roster and what I had to spare. Possibly seeing Maris on my roster for my LFer he asked for Yaz. Money was not even close but how it helped both teams was. So I accepted.

[Valen]

You give up:
Mauer, Joe (2009) ($9,530,000)
Marquard, Rube (1913) ($8,210,000)


Other team gives up:
Howard, Elston (1967) ($500,000)
Walsh, Ed (1911) ($8,130,000)

Howard complimented Josh Gibson better than Mauer on this team and Walsh gave me what I hoped would be a dominant 1-2 punch at top of rotaton with Alexander.

This is one reason I always check tioramon's roster first in every league. He will give you something that will help your team to get something that will help his team.

[macnole]

all i get here is that you trade a lot!
Which is cool because most people dont and that's a real drag. Forget 10pm loopholes--this is something that should be fixed to allow trades to bust the cap.

[Valen]

You give up:
Giles, Brian (2002) ($7,820,000)
Higuera, Teddy (1988) ($8,830,000)


Other team gives up:
Coveleski, Stan (1917) ($9,490,000)
Hafey, Chick (1929) ($7,420,000)

He was in Sportsman's Park '20 which is strongly slanted toward the left.
So he got a LH pitcher and a LH hitter.

Thought adding Coveleski to my rotation already including Alexander and Walsh would put me in a position to trade one of the 3 (didn't happen) and Hafey stepped in a platoon partner for Maris.

[nevdully's]

3 of the 5 trades were bad for one of the parties, one was just awful (imo) but what do I know. lol

btw Valen would you "ever" give up Pete for Yaz and Manning?

[doug_tucker10]

One of the last big trades i made i think i traded Chipper Jones for George Brett (his 10.93 season)...i wasn't the one looking to deal but trade seemed ok by me. Since that deal I will say it has seemed to me that Jones has outperformed the 10.93 Brett in ATG 6 (this is without checking the numbers on DD, just from personal observations with my own teams) I also recently traded Matt Williams and Albert Pujols for Tris Speaker in a keeper league. This was before the actual live draft to complete our rosters.Changing team philosophy from slugging to small ball (80m cap league)