ANA⇄CHC

ANAANA Billy Eppler net +$8.0M net +0.2

received +$0.0M+$0.0M ± $6M expected surplus · +$0.0M realized received 0.2 ± 1 expected · 0.0 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved ANA's 2016 odds 2% → 2% (+0.1 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Jesus Castillo

+$0.3M+$0.3M± $6M 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 Theo Epstein net −$8.0M net -0.2

received −$2.4M−$6.4M ± $8M expected surplus · −$8.0M realized received 0.9 ± 1 expected · -0.2 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved CHC's 2016 odds 95% → 95% (-0.3 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Joe SmithP·32y·R/R

−$2.2M−$6.2M± $8M exp surplusrealized −$8.0M 0.9± 1 exp WARrealized -0.2

Prior

league baseline (track record outweighs draft pedigree) → 0.21/yr

Evidence

recent form 0.8/yr over 2.8 seasons

Talent

0.63/yr blended

Horizon

1.5 control yr × 0.91 age decline

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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.