The 2017 Giancarlo Stanton trade is a bit of a paradox – one side looks like a big winner on field value, the other on surplus value. How, then, should we view it? In this, the fourth installment of our series on historic trades (in the first three, we looked at the Christian Yelich, Josh Donaldson and Chris Sale deals), we explore what they might have looked like using the model we have today. Note: Since this site (and our model) didn’t exist when these trades occurred, we may...

Editor’s note: We’ve had some people ask us if we could look back at major trades in history and see how they matched up with our model. We thought that was a good idea, so this is the first in what will likely be a series. Also note: Since this site (and our model) didn’t exist when these trades occurred, we may not have access to all the data we currently use, so some of the inputs are not as accurate as they would be today. But let’s try it anyway, just for...

If you’re a GM, this is the list you don’t want to have your players on. According to our calculations, the following 50 players have the least amount of trade value right now – or, put another way, the most amount of negative value. These are not necessarily bad players; they’re players whose contracts are bigger than their projected field value. Not surprisingly, the common thread here is that most of them are older and past their prime. Only eight of these 50...