BOS⇄MIL

BOSBOS Ben Cherington net +$0.8M net +0.7

received +$0.8M+$0.8M ± $6M expected surplus · +$0.8M realized received 0.3 ± 1 expected · 0.7 realized WAR

Playoff odds: this deal moved BOS's 2014 odds 4% → 4% (+0.6 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Burke BadenhopP·31y·R/R

+$0.9M+$0.9M± $6M exp surplusrealized +$0.8M 0.3± 1 exp WARrealized 0.7

Prior

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

Evidence

recent form 0.3/yr over 2.6 seasons

Talent

0.30/yr blended

Horizon

1.0 control yr

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MILMIL Douglas Melvin net −$0.8M net -0.7

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 MIL's 2014 odds 9% → 8% (-1.2 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗

receives — most valuable first

Luis Ortega

+$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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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.