Re: MLB 17 Trade Discussion Thread
I specifically went with Acuña because of his meteoric rise this season. But you could certainly use Albies if the White Sox decided their preference is to add a middle infielder. I however don't see that as likely because they already have Moncada and Tim Anderson. Now you could drop down to even Kevin Maitan, since the Braves have such a depth of prospects, but using a lower valued position player requires a higher valued pitcher. That would mean substituting the pitcher for Allard or Soroka.
As far as realism goes, I believe the teams talking to CWS were Cubs, Braves, Yankees, Astros & Brewers. So any of those teams could be used. But you would need to give a package similar. You can use your game and say I'd really like a (insert position here) and build the package around that. By the White Sox getting one of the premier position prospects I believe that means most every prospect would be in consideration. The difficult part we run into here is often the lack of information. I can't sit in front of anyone else's PS4. What I can do though is research various prospects and try to use real life rumors to piece things together. So if I am not given every piece of information needed in someone's franchise I will tend to substitute with real life information. I also try to use up to date prospect information since we are commonly using up to date MLB player valuations. The Braves are one team that could genuinely offer 3 or 4 different packages for Quintana because of their immense depth in young assets. My using Acuña and Gohara was simply looking at rankings and finding the two closest Braves to Jimenez and Cease.
So I think its a miscommunication. My preferred prospect list is the one found on Fangraphs. That list shows the FV for every prospect listed. I have recently been using the Baseball America list because they have updated theres and Eric Longenhagen (Fangraphs) has not to this point.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/valui...100-prospects/ this post gives an explanation on prospects values that I believe will go towards the point you are trying to make. Moncada is #1 but he's also a 70 FV. While being #1 makes him valuable, the 70 FV puts him in rare company and makes his value astronomical (above $100 million).
I specifically went with Acuña because of his meteoric rise this season. But you could certainly use Albies if the White Sox decided their preference is to add a middle infielder. I however don't see that as likely because they already have Moncada and Tim Anderson. Now you could drop down to even Kevin Maitan, since the Braves have such a depth of prospects, but using a lower valued position player requires a higher valued pitcher. That would mean substituting the pitcher for Allard or Soroka.
As far as realism goes, I believe the teams talking to CWS were Cubs, Braves, Yankees, Astros & Brewers. So any of those teams could be used. But you would need to give a package similar. You can use your game and say I'd really like a (insert position here) and build the package around that. By the White Sox getting one of the premier position prospects I believe that means most every prospect would be in consideration. The difficult part we run into here is often the lack of information. I can't sit in front of anyone else's PS4. What I can do though is research various prospects and try to use real life rumors to piece things together. So if I am not given every piece of information needed in someone's franchise I will tend to substitute with real life information. I also try to use up to date prospect information since we are commonly using up to date MLB player valuations. The Braves are one team that could genuinely offer 3 or 4 different packages for Quintana because of their immense depth in young assets. My using Acuña and Gohara was simply looking at rankings and finding the two closest Braves to Jimenez and Cease.
So I think its a miscommunication. My preferred prospect list is the one found on Fangraphs. That list shows the FV for every prospect listed. I have recently been using the Baseball America list because they have updated theres and Eric Longenhagen (Fangraphs) has not to this point.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/valui...100-prospects/ this post gives an explanation on prospects values that I believe will go towards the point you are trying to make. Moncada is #1 but he's also a 70 FV. While being #1 makes him valuable, the 70 FV puts him in rare company and makes his value astronomical (above $100 million).
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