In anticipation of the impending three team trade sending Curtis Granderson to the Yankees, check out Fangraph’s Trade Value Series:
“Essentially, the idea is to take all the information that goes into encapsulating a player’s value to an organization – his present skills, his future potential, how long he’s under club control, the expected cost of paying him over that time, and the risks involved with projecting his future performances – and figure out which players currently have the most trade value in baseball. The #1 guy wouldn’t get traded, straight up, for any other player in baseball. The #10 guy is someone who his organization would call untouchable, but if one of the nine guys above him was made available, they’d rethink that stance. You get the idea.”
Introduction, #50-46, #45-#41, #40-#36, #35-#31, #30-26, #25-#21, #20-#16, #15-#11, #10-#6, #5-#1, Recap
