SI.com · Jul 31, 2018
Assessing Astros' Trade for Roberto Osuna Must Include Moral Accounting, Too
Almost all trade deadline coverage is accounting, in one form or another. The center of every transaction grade and roundtable discussion is the same—an assessment of a player’s value, measured in dollars or wins or otherwise, stacked against the value of his return. But there’s another dimension to this process, one that can warp all those measurements and disrupt the whole formula, and that’s a certain moral accounting.