Comments on: The Prohibitive Cost of Trading for Mike Trout http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/13/the-prohibitive-cost-of-trading-for-mike-trout/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Kevin http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/13/the-prohibitive-cost-of-trading-for-mike-trout/#comment-6667 Fri, 13 May 2016 18:17:24 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4500#comment-6667 Trades are all about swapping present value for future value, which is why the ones who are traded are also the ones nearing free agency. Those players don’t have any future value, so you swap them for someone who does.

Mike Trout has both present value and future value, which is why he isn’t going anywhere. As I said above, if trades are all about swapping PV and FV, what do you have to send away to get a guy who has both? You would also have to send away both, which (as you said) reduces the impact Trout has on your team. So no, he isn’t going anywhere. And neither is any star-caliber player that has several years of control left.

]]> By: Luis http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/13/the-prohibitive-cost-of-trading-for-mike-trout/#comment-6666 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:14:36 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4500#comment-6666 Dombrowski better not even think about it.

]]> By: Walt in Maryland http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/13/the-prohibitive-cost-of-trading-for-mike-trout/#comment-6664 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:39 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4500#comment-6664 I’ll keep Mookie and Xander, thank you.

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