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BP Daily: The Smart Traders

By Kevin Goldstein
Baseball Prospectus

Friday, May 8, 2009

Trading away young talent is always a risky business, and most prospect-for-big leaguer deals have the same dynamic: here's some certainty now, maybe something to help you with that playoff push, but if these young players work out for us -- man, are you going to be sorry. Looking over the deals of the past two years, unsurprisingly the two best minor league systems in baseball have been produced by the teams doing these swaps the best. 1. Oakland Athletics Notable trade-aways: C John Ba ...

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