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Fantasy Baseball Trade Chart (Week 17)

Fantasy Baseball Trade Chart (Week 17)

This is the toughest week to properly evaluate any potential deal. And not as in “the last week of July is always tough.” As in the last week of July of 2019 is particularly difficult.

Because of the elimination of the August 31 waiver trade deadline, any trade must be consummated on or before July 31.  That means that teams have just a few days to decide if they are going to make trades to try to improve their rosters, build for the future, or neither.

And other than a handful of teams, practically no one is more than seven games out of a Wild Card spot. So, are the Padres or Diamondbacks going to have new closers? Are Zack Wheeler or Noah Syndergaard going to move to the AL East and have a much tougher schedule?

With no precedent as to how teams on the periphery of contention will handle the new trade deadline, fantasy owners are mostly flying blind with some critical changes that could impact fantasy values. Because of that, it probably makes the best sense to hold off on any potential deal until next week.

But, to the extent you’re impatient, that’s exactly why we provide the trade chart below. Simply compare the values on both sides of the deal and see which side of the trade comes out on top.

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Player Current Value Previous Value +/-
Mike Trout 72 68 +4
Christian Yelich 72 72
Cody Bellinger 63 63
Francisco Lindor 61 59 +2
Ronald Acuna Jr. 61 59 +2
Mookie Betts 58 60 -2
Nolan Arenado 57 57
Trevor Story 57 57
Max Scherzer 55 55
J.D. Martinez 55 53 +2
Javier Baez 55 55
Alex Bregman 55 55
Trea Turner 55 55
Justin Verlander 54 54
Gerrit Cole 54 54
Jacob deGrom 53 53
Walker Buehler 53 49 +4
Charlie Blackmon 53 53
Freddie Freeman 53 53
Whit Merrifield 50 50
Aaron Judge 48 47 +1
Chris Sale 48 45 +3
Blake Snell 48 47 +1
Anthony Rendon 47 47
Jose Altuve 45 43 +2
Hyun-Jin Ryu 45 47 -2
Xander Bogaerts 43 42 +1
Anthony Rizzo 42 45 -3
Starling Marte 42 42
Kris Bryant 42 40 +2
Manny Machado 41 40 +1
Pete Alonso 38 40 -2
Juan Soto 38 37 +1
Jose Ramirez 37 29 +8
Zack Greinke 37 37
Clayton Kershaw 37 37
Stephen Strasburg 37 35 +2
Josh Bell 36 38 -2
George Springer 36 33 +3
Aaron Nola 36 37 -1
Bryce Harper 35 31 +4
Patrick Corbin 29 29
Charlie Morton 29 29
Mike Clevinger 29 29
Paul Goldschmidt 29 29
Luis Castillo 28 28
Shane Bieber 28 28
Max Muncy 28 27 +1
Nelson Cruz 28 26 +2
Gary Sanchez 27 34 -7
Tommy Pham 27 27
Yordan Alvarez 27 27
Khris Davis 26 23 +3
David Price 26 28 -2
Trevor Bauer 26 24 +2
J.T. Realmuto 26 26
Rhys Hoskins 25 26 -1
Rafael Devers 25 21 +4
Noah Syndergaard 24 18 +6
Jose Berrios 24 23 +1
Ketel Marte 23 24 -1
Mike Moustakas 23 25 -2
Yasiel Puig 22 23 -1
Andrew Benintendi 22 22
Eddie Rosario 22 24 -2
Lucas Giolito 21 21
Matt Chapman 20 20
Yasmani Grandal 20 20
Fernando Tatis Jr. 20 20
Kenley Jansen 19 18 +1
Aroldis Chapman 19 19
Kirby Yates 19 19
Jose Abreu 19 19
Elvis Andrus 19 19
Eugenio Suarez 19 19
Brad Hand 19 18 +1
James Paxton 18 18
Victor Robles 17 16 +1
Josh Donaldson 17 15 +2
Ozzie Albies 17 17
Willson Contreras 16 14 +2
Josh Hader 16 16
Michael Conforto 16 15 +1
Jonathan Villar 16 16
Mike Soroka 15 16 -1
Roberto Osuna 15 15
Matthew Boyd 15 15
Edwin Diaz 15 14 +1
Austin Meadows 15 15
Madison Bumgarner 15 12 +3
Gleyber Torres 15 16 -1
Yoan Moncada 15 13 +2
Matt Olson 15 14 +1
David Dahl 14 14
Chris Paddack 13 14 -1
Kyle Hendricks 13 12 +1
DJ LeMahieu 13 12 +1
Eduardo Escobar 13 11 +2
Carlos Correa 13 13
Michael Brantley 13 13
Marcell Ozuna 13 12 +1
Masahiro Tanaka 13 14 -1
Joey Gallo 12 42 -30
Sonny Gray 12 9 +3
Craig Kimbrel 12 12
Lance Lynn 12 11 +1
Jack Flaherty 12 12
A.J. Pollock 11 10 +1
Max Kepler 11 11
Edwin Encarnacion 11 13 -2
Ramon Laureano 11 8 +3
Caleb Smith 11 11
Felipe Vazquez 11 11
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 10 6 +4
Jorge Polanco 10 10
Sean Doolittle 10 10
Zack Wheeler 10 11 -1
Jeff McNeil 9 7 +2
Yu Darvish 9 9
Cole Hamels 9 8 +1
Domingo German 9 9
Carlos Santana 9 9
Yuli Gurriel 9 3 +6
Corey Seager 9 9
Mallex Smith 9 9
Lorenzo Cain 9 9
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 9 9
Paul DeJong 9 9
Justin Upton 9 9
Shohei Ohtani 9 9
Nick Senzel 9 9
Daniel Murphy 8 10 -2
Mike Minor 8 10 -2
Will Smith 8 7 +1
Eduardo Rodriguez 8 6 +2
Didi Gregorius 7 N/A +7
Keston Hiura 7 6 +1
Trey Mancini 7 6 +1
Justin Turner 7 7
Byron Buxton 7 7
Eloy Jimenez 7 7
Liam Hendriks 7 7
Adalberto Mondesi 7 30 -23
Domingo Santana 6 7 -1
Jake Odorizzi 6 6
Luke Voit 6 7 -1
Hunter Dozier 6 6
Dansby Swanson 6 6
Miguel Sano 6 4 +2
Franmil Reyes 6 7 -1
Hector Neris 6 6
Nicholas Castellanos 6 5 +1
Ken Giles 6 5 +1
Austin Riley 5 9 -4
Chris Archer 5 5
Ross Stripling 5 4 +1
Marcus Stroman 5 3 +2
Robbie Ray 5 4 +1
Wade Miley 5 N/A +5
Dallas Keuchel 5 5
Jon Lester 5 5
Scooter Gennett 4 6 -2
Cavan Biggio 4 5 -1
Kyle Gibson 4 4
Joe Musgrove 4 4
Wade Davis 4 4
Corey Kluber 4 6 -2
Aaron Hicks 4 4
Marcus Semien 4 2 +2
German Marquez 4 4
Greg Holland 4 3 +1
Carlos Martinez 4 4
Max Fried 4 4
Shin-Soo Choo 4 4
Mitch Haniger 4 4
Daniel Vogelbach 4 N/A +4
Zac Gallen 3 2 +1
Miles Mikolas 3 3
Jon Gray 3 2 +1
Eric Hosmer 3 6 -3
Griffin Canning 3 2 +1
Joey Votto 3 6 -3
Alex Verdugo 3 3
Mitch Garver 3 N/A +3
Hansel Robles 3 2 +1
Ian Kennedy 3 N/A +3
Carlos Carrasco 2 2
Kenta Maeda 2 3 -1
Jean Segura 2 6 -4
Jorge Soler 2 2
Scott Kingery 2 3 -1
Brett Gardner 2 2 +2
Jonathan Schoop 2 2
David Peralta 2 2
Kolten Wong 2 2
Alex Colome 2 4 -2
Raisel Iglesias 2 3 -1
Shane Greene 2 N/A +2
Giancarlo Stanton 2 N/A +2
Justin Smoak 2 N/A +2

 
I’ve written about Jose Ramirez in this article several times this year, mostly about how I was forced to lower his trade value each week because his performance simply was not rebounding. But finally, there are signs.

  • Mar/Apr: .557 OPS, 39.3% hard-hit rate
  • May: .725 OPS, 35.8% hard-hit rate
  • Jun: .620 OPS, 31.8% hard-hit rate
  • Jul: .953 OPS, 49.2% hard-hit rate

He already has five homers in the month, as many as he had in each of the three previous months combined. Given the lengthy slump, we can’t call him “back” to his 2018 level. But he’s certainly moving up.

In March and April of this year, Rafael Devers had a .757 OPS with no home runs. Since then, Devers is batting .332 with 20 home runs and a 1.002 OPS. He’s in the top three percent of the league in average exit velocity and expected batting average with nearly a 50% hard-hit rate. Batting second in a strong Red Sox lineup, he should continue to take full advantage

Here are Sonny Gray’s last five starts:

  • 6 1/3 innings, two runs, six strikeouts at home against the Cubs
  • 8 innings, no runs, 12 strikeouts at home against the Brewers
  • 7 innings, one runs, nine strikeouts in Colorado against the Rockies
  • 6 innings, two runs, eight strikeouts in Chicago against the Cubs
  • 6 innings, one run, seven strikeouts in Milwaukee against the Brewers.

There are so many wonderful things about this stretch. He’s faced three good offenses (considering the Rockies were in Colorado), and faced two very good teams twice in a short time span. He started integrating a curveball, giving him another strong weapon to complement his devastating slider. And most importantly, he’s finally going six innings or more.

With strong strikeout numbers and the ability to avoid disastrous outings (he’s allowed no more than four earned runs in any start, and only allowed four runs twice), he’s flying up in value and should only continue to rise.

The Gurriel brothers are utterly insane. Seriously. Since being recalled on May 24, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is slashing .312/.353/.654 with 18 homers and four steals.  But that pales in comparison to Yuli Gurriel‘s numbers since June 23, during which he has slashed .398/.433/929 with 15 homers.

The statcast data isn’t overly in love with what either player is doing, but there’s no denying the numbers, particularly with Yuli, as they come after a change in stance. Both will continue to rise but, as always, a hot month or two cannot entirely negate everything we’ve seen from both players in their careers.

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