Valuing the A’s most likely trade targets

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Alex Colome seems within the A’s price range.By now, most of you know that I run a website called Baseball Trade Values, where Joshua Iversen and I have number-crunched the trade values of over 2,400 players (veterans and prospects, roughly 80-deep per team). Our trade simulator seems to be quite popular – in just over a month, as of this writing, we have over 6,000 users who have played around with it and posted over 1,300 trade proposals.

As luck would have it, our model matched the Bailey/Merrell trade very closely (and so far it’s doing well on others too). We had Homer Bailey at 1.5 (and Kevin Merrell at 1.4), but Bailey’s value was probably closer…