2022 Trade Value Ranking

The FanGraphs Newsletter, July 27, 2022 [READ IN BROWSER]( July 27, 2022 Hi there! Baseball’s annual rituals have been around for so long that they feel like an immutable part of the fabric of life. Pitchers and catchers reporting, the All-Star break, September playoff chases and, of course, FanGraphs leaving your favorite player off of our top 50 trade value rankings, which we do to spite you (and them) specifically. We kid, of course, but today does mark the first installment of our annual Trade Value Series. In the following days, we’ll release our list, taking performance, age, and contract into account. [Dave Cameron]( [Kiley McDaniel]( and [Craig Edwards]( all helmed this exercise at various points in the past, and after tag-teaming with Kevin Goldstein [last year]( Ben Clemens has taken over on his own. That doesn’t mean he hasen't gotten help. Mr. Clemens considered a broad range of inputs: estimates of current value, projections of future value, age, contract status, positional scarcity, Statcast data, and anything else he could dream up. From there, he solicited feedback from the rest of the FanGraphs staff (special thanks are due to Dan Szymborski for his ZiPS assistance and Sean Dolinar for his technical wizardry) and consulted with several outside sources, both public- and team-side, to compile the final order. Make no mistake, this is still Ben's list, and it’s an inherently subjective estimation, but he’d like to think it’s an informed one. The central question considered is straightforward: how much value could a team expect to receive in return for each player on the list? It’s not who would solicit the great number of offers, or the highest average value of the trade offers a team would receive if they put this player on the trading block – it’s who would fetch the highest return if the entire league were making trade bids on each player. READ MORE: Trade Value: Intro and Honorable Mention, by Ben Clemens [2022 Trade Value: #41 to #50]( We kickoff this year's Trade Value Series with the bottom 10 spots on the list. | by Ben Clemens [2022 Trade Value: #31 to #40]( The next installment of the series features, among others, a quartet of starters and a player largely without precedent. | by Ben Clemens [2022 Trade Value: #21 to #30]( The latest installment of the series features two sets of players with near-identical resumes. It also features two players who are listed consecutively but who might be the most dissimilar good players in baseball today. | by Ben Clemens [The 2022 Replacement-Level Killers: Third Base & Center Field]( Not all is sunny in Philadelphia, to say the least. | by Jay Jaffe [Toronto's Hunter Mense on Developing Good Swing Decisions]( The Blue Jays hitting coach/coordinator discusses how the organization accentuates and grades plate discipline. | by David Laurila [Confessions of a Baseball Analytics Writer]( Grappling with instances where interpreting the data isn't as straightforward as it seemed. | by Justin Choi 🎧 [EFFECTIVELY WILD EPISODE 1881: Antitrust Us]( [New FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [Introducing the Next Star Relief Pitchers]( by Justin Dunbar, Pitcher List [An Analysis of Jakob Junis, Arsenal Distribution, and Pitcher Individuality]( via Baseball Cloud Blog [The cheaper — but still useful — alternatives to big-name stars at the MLB trade deadline]( by Eno Sarris, The Athletic ($) [Which MLB Contenders Have Roster Holes—and How Can They Fill Them at the Deadline?]( by Zach Kram, The Ringer [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2022 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 1200 N Hartford St. Apt 312Arlington, Va 22201 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](