TOR⇄CHC

TORTOR Gord Ash net +$1.6M net +0.1

received +$0.0M+$0.0M ± $5M expected surplus · +$0.0M realized received 0.2 ± 1 expected · 0.0 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved TOR's 1998 odds 48% → 45% (-2.3 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Trevor Schaffer

+$0.3M+$0.3M± $5M exp surplusrealized +$0.0M 0.2± 1 exp WARrealized 0.0

Unidentified minor-league throw-in — valued at the ~0.2 WAR base rate (most produce nothing)

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CHCCHC Ed Lynch net −$1.6M net -0.1

received −$3.2M−$3.2M ± $26M expected surplus · −$1.6M realized received 0.0 ± 3 expected · -0.1 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved CHC's 1998 odds 22% → 24% (+1.6 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Sandy MartínezC·27y·L/R

−$3.0M−$3.0M± $26M exp surplusrealized −$1.6M 0.0± 3 exp WARrealized -0.1

Prior

no pedigree — league baseline → 0.21/yr

Evidence

recent form -0.9/yr over 0.6 season

Talent

-0.17/yr blended

Horizon

4.0 control yrs

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Each player is valued on what he was expected to produce at the time of the trade, versus what he actually produced for his new team.

Expected WAR blends a player's pedigree (composite top-100 rank / draft slot, or a baseline) with his recent track record, projected over the years of team control acquired. The ± figure is a historically calibrated predictive standard deviation, measuring how widely comparable forecasts have missed around their expected value. Surplus values that production at the FA market price of a win (~$8M/WAR) minus salary — so cost-controlled players carry large surplus and expensive ones little, even at the same WAR. Who won is descriptive, not a skill claim: ~99% of a trade's outcome is unforeseeable at the time.