Looking Back – The 2006 MLB Trade Deadline (Part 2)
Last time, we took a look at the first moves in July that teams were taking to make their push to the 2006 playoffs. Sometimes, striking early can pay off, because the market hasn't really been set and the whole range of potential trade targets is available. Additionally, you get those extra few weeks with your new player, giving him time to adjust to his new team and reaping the benefits of your upgrade.
And we hit the ground running again...
Looking Back – The 2006 MLB Trading Deadline (Part 1)
It's been a while since I've done a baseball post, and I want to try to get at least three of these out a week, so here's my opportunity to get the ball rolling. I haven't really prepared for this - ideally I'll keep article ideas in a queue so I have a topic when I need one - but for today I'll stick by an old reliable: dissecting old trades. I tend to write a lot about these things and there was a lot of activity in 2006, so I'm going to have to break this up into a few parts. Today - the early deals.
Birds grabbing a slice of Pie
The Baltimore Orioles have picked up former hyped center field prospect Felix Pie from the Chicago Cubs for starter Garrett Olson and minor league pitcher Hank Williamson. Pie needed to be dealt because after six seasons, you stop being a "prospect" and start being the guy who couldn't make the major league roster. His days were numbered after this past season - when your team chooses to stick a corner outfielder who couldn't make the Blue Jays 25-man roster (Reed Johnson) in center, then after realizing that was a bad idea chooses to reanimate the corpse of Jim Edmonds rather than give you another shot in center, you're never going to make it. Baltimore is a fresh start for him, and he'll get as much shot as anyone to get the center field job.
Deadline Deals: Brewers Get Linebrink, hosed
Milwaukee receives:
Padres receives:
RHP Will Inman
LHP Steve Garrison
LHP Joe Thatcher
Thoughts: Linebrink was a nobody until the Padres got him off waivers from the Astros
The trading game
Trading is one of the most fun but also one of the most challenging aspects of fantasy baseball. I've been meaning to write a post addressing the finer points of trading (along with a few hints) but I haven't gotten around to it (something I can say for a lot of my writing). This season I've done a handful of trades - most minor, but a few blockbusters - and I've had many more fall through despite gaining steam at one time. The fanalytic (Ron Shandler uses this word - I like it a lot more than "fantasy") trader is going to run into that all the time, and sometimes you have to recognize when something just isn't going to happen. It's like every other episode of ER when someone's on the table and they've got the defib and they're doing chest compressions despite the fact that they know that the moment they stop, the guy's getting pronounced. As long as your doing compressions, there's still a "chance" that it could come back to life, but everyone in the room knows it's a lost cause.
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