40-Man Ladder: To Trade or Not to Trade

Every once in a while a baseball team finds itself at a crossroads.  I like to think of these crossroads as occurring on a hilltop clearing overlooking a dark and misty forest.  While each team is on a different path, they all stand on their own lonely hilltop intersections and stare off longingly at the same point over the distant horizon.  Unfortunately, points over distant horizons – being the ethereal things that they are – are loathe to betray the precise distance between themselves and those who gaze.  Complicating matters further, the current path forward, while generally appearing to lead in the right direction, descends back down into that aforementioned dark and  misty forest, and it’s known that teams who wander ill-equipped through the dark misty forest often go missing for years. The crossroads offers two additional choices.  Splitting off the path to the left is one end of a bridge hung high over the forest.  It too appears to be headed in the right direction, but it too disappears into the horizon.  The other side of the bridge cannot be seen, and nobody knows if it ends in the Promised Land – let’s call that place Worldseriesville – or [...]

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