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Originally Posted by RchW
Since trades are an opportunity occurrence there can never be a right answer. No catchers were traded in 2011 and 7 in 2010. Each season, each contract, each injury occurrence is a separate event. Trying to quantify a "right" number from uncalculable opportunities is pure guesswork. Tying that into a mythical team cohesion is silly.
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Wasn't Tim Federowicz part of that three-way Dodgers-Red Sox-Mariners trade last year?
Anyway, I agree 100%. There are so many factors that go into whether or not a player gets traded that it's basically impossible to determine what a "normal rate" would be. The whole premise of this thread is, well, I won't say it. But my point was to at least throw some hard data out there so that the thread wasn't built around a perception someone came up with off the top of their head.