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qbass187
What is is about the AL west and trades?? These teams trade within division all the time! I don’t get it. They are in direct competition with one another and they all seem perfectly fine with trading with one another to make the other better…
alex navarrette
If you can improve your own team, so what? Obviously the teams involved feel the players they’re receiving are better than the ones they are trading away.
qbass187
Obviously that’s what they think.
My point is that the AL West appears to be the only division in baseball that freely trades amongst itself like this.
If it was a simple as you made it all divisions would do it. Which they do not…even when the players involved and the incentives to do so are pretty compelling.
alex navarrette
That last point has a lot to do with the GM’s running each respective team, and the lack of hatred between each team’s history. All of the GM’s. Are fairly forward thinking and none of the rivalries have anywhere near the vitriol of the Yanks-Sox, etc.