The BTV Podcast #110: Breaking Down All the Latest Deals

Burnes, Luzardo, Naylor and More...

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A deeper dive on why we update often; the Soto contract; prospect values; and comp picks.

The BTV Podcast #109: Making Sense of All Those Trades

We break down deals for Crochet, Tucker, Gimenez and more.

Featured Trades

Dodgers GET

Round A Comp Balance Pick

4.1

Mike Sirota

1.9

Total Value

6

Reds GET

Gavin Lux

13.6

Total Value

13.6

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Twins GET

David Peterson

9.1

Drew Gilbert

12.2

Jett Williams

23.1

Total Value

44.4

Mets GET

Pablo Lopez

47.8

Total Value

47.8

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Cubs GET

Ranger Suarez

24.1

Total Value

24.1

Phillies GET

Owen Caissie

12.5

Jordan Wicks

13

Total Value

25.5

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Mariners GET

Ryan Mountcastle

8.7

Total Value

8.7

Orioles GET

Luis Castillo

7.7

Total Value

7.7

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We recently updated the values on our site, which is normal for us around this time of year. The purpose is to correlate to the market, using free agent contracts as a kind of going rate for our dollars-per-projected-WAR calculations. If the first batch of free agents is skewing high, it may be an indication that our initial assumptions were low on that basis. Why is that? Most of it is inflation. We assume a 3% inflation rate, which is the long-term average. However, as you probably know,...

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On Dec. 30, 2023, the Red Sox traded Chris Sale to the Braves for Vaughn Grissom, and sent $17M to cover Sale’s salary to boot. Here’s what that trade looked like in our model at the time:     So it was accepted by our model, albeit as a major overpay by Atlanta. --------- Fast-forward one year: Sale has won the Cy Young Award, after producing 6.4 fWAR in a remarkable comeback season. Grissom has struggled badly, producing -0.7 fWAR. So from today’s perspective,...

Epsiode 110

112 Minutes

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Welcome back to the Baseball Trade Values Podcast! In this episode, founder John Bitzer (@johnbitzer2) and Associate Editor Joshua Iversen (@jive_mlb) break down all the action around the holidays, including first basemen like Christian Walker, Josh Naylor and Paul Goldschmidt finding new homes, Cody Bellinger to the Yankees, Jesus Luzardo to the Phillies, Corbin Burnes to the Diamondbacks and much more. Listen to the episode through your favorite podcast provider, or via the media player or...

Epsiode 109

116 Minutes

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Welcome back to the Baseball Trade Values Podcast! In this episode, founder John Bitzer (@johnbitzer2) and Associate Editor Joshua Iversen (@jive_mlb) break down a flurry of trades around the Winter Meetings, including Garrett Crochet to Boston, Kyle Tucker to Chicago, Andres Gimenez to Toronto and more. Then, they run through all the free agent signings, including Juan Soto's record deal with the Mets. Listen to the episode through your favorite podcast provider, or via the media player or...

Epsiode 108

108 Minutes

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Welcome back to the Baseball Trade Values Podcast! In this episode, founder John Bitzer (@johnbitzer2) and Associate Editor Joshua Iversen (@jive_mlb) break down the Jonathan India/Brady Singer trade, Blake Snell to the Dodgers, Yusei Kikuchi to the Angels and more offseason news. Then, they discuss the non-tender deadline and offseason outlooks of the Dodgers and the New York Yankees. Listen to the episode through your favorite podcast provider, or via the media player or download link...