Welcome to the 2022 Trade Deadline Roundup. All trades will be added to this article as they are reported. Alex Havers and Dan Bannon contributed to this article. – – – August 2 Milwaukee Brewers acquire RHP Trevor Rosenthal ($0.0M) from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for OF Tristan Peters ($0.1M) This one was odd, as the Giants had just signed Rosenthal. It seems they wanted to get out from his remaining salary. The Brewers add yet another piece to their post-Hader...

Welcome to the 2021-22 Offseason Roundup. Any additional trades will be added to this article as they are reported. - - - April 7: Cleveland Guardians acquire RHP Anthony Castro ($0.2M) from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for OF Bradley Zimmer ($0.2M) Toronto spent its spring adding left-handed hitting outfield depth, earlier acquiring Raimel Tapia from Colorado. Zimmer disappointed for Cleveland and is out of options, while Castro didn’t make the Blue Jays bullpen and has one...

Welcome to the 2021 Trade Deadline Roundup. All trades will be added to this article as they are reported. - - - Atlanta Braves acquire RHP Richard Rodriguez ($11.3M) from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for RHPs Bryse Wilson ($5.4M) and Ricky DeVito ($1.1M) The Braves ended the deadline with a bang, acquiring one of the better controllable relievers we expected to be available. But Rodriguez’s stock has fallen drastically in recent weeks, a run of poor performance coinciding with...

In the interest of transparency, it’s time for an update on how the BTV model is doing this offseason relative to real-life trades -- with one caveat: A.J. Preller. Our model assumes most GMs will act rationally, and seek to get the best overall value possible in a deal, just as in most other walks of life, which means most deals are pretty close to fair. But we also know that’s not always the case. GMs have different motivations depending on where they are in the win cycle, and...

Even though the 2019 summer trade season has ended, we’ll continue to keep track of each real-life trade and compare it to our values and see how they match up. We’ll plug them into our simulator and see if they’re “accepted,” “maybe accepted” or “rejected” based on how close the values are, and update this frequently. Our scorecard so far: Total trades: 48 Accepted: 37 Maybe accepted: 5 Rejected: 6 Percentage of real trades qualified as...