A good one can right your sinking ship in a matter of weeks, a bad one can doom you to a bottom-feeding finish. But if you re not making at least two or three deals per season, you re just not playing the game right.
Every team has room for improvement.
You re Dealing With One of the easiest and most effective ways to gain the upper hand when trading is to know your competition. Communicate with your league members as often as possible about park-effects, players off to hot starts, Tony La Russa s managerial style, anything and everything baseball related. Make sure you read your league s message board , if it has one. The idea is that the more you know about your fellow owners, the better chance you ll have of discovering a weakness and exploiting it in a trade. A weakness can be anything that causes an owner to have a false perception of a player s value.