Trade policy report

[Daniel]

I don't want to sound upset or anything, but I would like to point out that I sent many inquiries and an offer to Corey regarding all the players he recently traded away and never even got a response.

[bravesfan4]

Sorry Daniel, you are not the only one who can say that. I fielded 16 offers for Beltran and 4 for Krod and another 12 for Carp. I simply did not have the time to pm all people who offered telling them I was not interested in there offer.

[Daniel]

If there is so much interest in all these players then why the hurry in trading them all away? Wouldn't it make more sense to counter-offer every team so you can get the most value? It is not like you are competing this year or near the trade deadline. I am sure there was more than enough time to consider everyone's offers before accepting trades.

[Colby]

In Corey's defense, there is a risk to holding out for the best value.  Your player of many people's interest could easily get hurt.  I generally don't wait to hear from everyone and make quicker moves.  I imagine other GMs are like this as well.

[MillerTime]

If there is so much interest in all these players then why the hurry in trading them all away? Wouldn't it make more sense to counter-offer every team so you can get the most value? It is not like you are competing this year or near the trade deadline. I am sure there was more than enough time to consider everyone's offers before accepting trades.

I think it is fairly obvious to everyone that receives a trade block notification, that the new Yankees owner is going to go find another deal, if you do not strike the deal with him quickly. 

[bravesfan4]

Every offer was considered. I am very happy with all 3 deals I made. And I get considerable young talent back in Goldschmidt and Perez. Arod will keep the Mets with a reasonable scoring option to help try and make my team reasonable competitive. The huge thing for me is Beltran and Blake are always hurt, so trading them now and not in late july when Beltran will be on the DL is a good idea. Plus i shed the contract of Vernon Wells in this deal.

I am very high on both Goldschmidt and Perez, and no team offered a player with the potential of Goldschmidt in a deal. The deal was not rushed and in fact I fielded offers 5 days before making the move.

[Mr.TradeKing]

I think it is fairly obvious to everyone that receives a trade block notification, that the new Yankees owner is going to go find another deal, if you do not strike the deal with him quickly.

~MTK

[Daniel]

I just find it kind of unfair that he goes directly and trades all players of value to the Yankees, without even discussing properly with other teams to see what they have to offer. The Yankees obviously have all his favorite prospects since he was building that team himself and it is unfair to the league to not give proper consideration to the rest of the teams. In football/soccer for example when a manager is bought out from his contract to join another team he usually has to sign an agreement under which he cannot buy players from his previous teamuntil a certain period of time has passed to prevent situations as this.

[Daniel]

I think it is fairly obvious to everyone that receives a trade block notification, that the new Yankees owner is going to go find another deal, if you do not strike the deal with him quickly.

Yeah... there is so much interest on A-Rod in the trade block discussion that I'm sure he had hundreds of offers as good as that one lined up.

[bravesfan4]

Carpenter went to Minnesota. Lackey, Wells, Beltran and Blake went to NYY. Krod to Pit. 

Lackey/Wells have no value with the contracts they have. So in theory trading Beltran and Blake two injury guys for Arod, Goldschmidt, Perez and Jokisch is a bad move then I guess we agree to disagree.