Rotoman!
Is this trade something that should go through?
Four-keeper-league. Player that is in contention trades B. Snell ($4) next year for J. Votto and Y. Tomas. The team getting Snell has at least six better keeper options for next year and can only keep four.
Am I right to be pissed about this? I don’t like vetoing trades but this is kind of out there right?
“Snelly Deal”
Dear Snelly,
One of the prime reality distortion fields (RDF) covers a league leader who sees an opponent get key pieces for something he sees as marginal. So here’s my question:
Is Snell really his seventh best keeper on the team that traded away Votto and Tomas?
The follow up question:
Does the team that traded away Votto and Tomas think Snell is his seventh best keeper?
I have no way of knowing the answer to either of these questions, but the only way for you to pull back the RDF is to honestly evaluate them.
If your answers are Yes to the first question and No to the second, you then have to ask:
Is there some sort of collusion going on?
If not, then you have to ask:
Is this guy an idiot?
If the answer to either of those questions is Yes, it might make sense to challenge the trade. In the case of collusion, it is imperative. But in my experience almost all trades that are looked at as fatally imbalanced look that way because the evaluator isn’t looking at the goals of the involved teams accurately.
I would talk to the team that dealt away Votto and Tomas, and find out what he’s thinking. You shouldn’t have to agree with him to decide whether his side of the story is at all valid. Chances are it is, even if you don’t like it.
Sincerely,
PS. I would surely like to have Snell next year at $4 in an AL league, and would be happy to have him at that price in a Mixed league.