BAL⇄WSN

BALBAL Pat Gillick net +$8.8M net +1.0

received +$1.6M+$1.6M ± $26M expected surplus · +$0.0M realized received 1.2 ± 3 expected · 0.0 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved BAL's 1997 odds 60% → 61% (+0.6 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Everett StullP·25y·R/R

+$1.8M+$1.8M± $26M exp surplusrealized +$0.0M 1.2± 3 exp WARrealized 0.0

Prior

Composite #58.0 prospect (Baseball America #58 (1995)) — fell off 2 lists since, regressed — at the league baseline → 0.21/yr

Evidence

no MLB track record — leans on pedigree

Talent

0.21/yr blended

Horizon

5.5 control yrs

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WSNWSN Jim Beattie net −$8.8M net -1.0

received +$1.6M+$1.6M ± $26M expected surplus · −$8.8M realized received 1.2 ± 3 expected · -1.0 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved WSN's 1997 odds 11% → 11% (-0.3 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Mike JohnsonP·21y·L/R

+$1.8M+$1.8M± $26M exp surplusrealized −$8.8M 1.2± 3 exp WARrealized -1.0

Prior

#490 overall draft pick — at the league baseline → 0.21/yr

Evidence

no MLB track record — leans on pedigree

Talent

0.21/yr blended

Horizon

5.5 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.