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The Origin Of MLB Trade Rumors

By Tim Dierkes | April 24, 2020 at 1:56am CDT

As MLB Trade Rumors approaches its 15th birthday, founder and owner Tim Dierkes chats with Jeff Todd about how he started the popular website.  Check out today’s video below.

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  1. chip chipperson

    9 months ago

    Thanks for making me feel old

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    • Tim Dierkes

      9 months ago

      There are people reading this site who weren’t born when it launched. Does that help?

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      • chip chipperson

        9 months ago

        Lol I guess keep up the good work hope the season starts soon and safely

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      • grant77

        9 months ago

        I remember reading and commenting on your rotoauthority articles and following you over to this site when it started. There was a lot of love for Rich Hill in the early days.

        Thanks for all of the great baseball coverage over the years.

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    • LouisianaAstros

      9 months ago

      The 2005 trade deadline brought me here.

      At this time this site was pretty much a collection of links from other articles that you could find in one place.

      Funny thing is that deadline absolutely sucked. Nobody wanted to trade any of their prospects.

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  2. rememberthecoop

    9 months ago

    As one of the original consumers of this site, I feel like this question may not be entirely out of bounds, so here goes: Tim, has this site made you a millionaire? Don’t laugh – earning a million (or more) per year is not the crazy rich guy thing it used to be. Hell, several of your readers probably have close to that in their 401Ks once they reach a certain age. What is the annual revenue of the venture and how badly is the pandemic hurting your ad revenue?

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    • Superstar Car Wash

      9 months ago

      It would be more polite to start small and let him exceed your expectations.

      Ask if he’s a thousandaire first.

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    • vtadave

      9 months ago

      Why don’t you just come out and ask for his tax returns?

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      • Uncle Sam

        9 months ago

        Yes! This guy gets it! Let’s see those tax returns!

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    • Tim Dierkes

      9 months ago

      I’m gonna keep the financials of the site private, sorry. To answer your other question…quite badly. I touched on that here:

      mlbtraderumors.com/2020/04/the-state-of-mlbtr.html

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      • kodion

        9 months ago

        A topic within the link reminded me to ask:
        Have you considered providing transcripts of the video content …for those who prefer that? Not as simple as a file dump for the chat transcripts, I realize but …
        I, for example, don’t watch all …but I also don’t watch none. I would read all, looking, as I do now, for something that inspires thought/comment.

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      • Uncle Sam

        9 months ago

        No, please, I would love to know the financials…*prepares audit team*

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    • SalaryCapMyth

      9 months ago

      I don’t think being a long time member makes it so you can ask that. Still lacks manners.

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    • cecildawg

      9 months ago

      remembertobe polite? What a dweeb you are. Asking anyone what they make makes you a jake. A kook. A little leaguer. Talk to your dad about real life stuff.
      Just becuse you say you are an original consumer? Learn in life. Don’t just look at the pictures.

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      • Ejemp2006

        9 months ago

        Oh America! The land of capitalism, where your income is your wiener size. Would you ask a man his wiener size?
        In Korea, we don’t ask. We see at the public bath house or sauna. Income same, look at car, house neighborhood, and wife. Then you know. Americans have free lessons? A lot!

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  3. jekporkinsjekporkins

    9 months ago

    Best site on the internet. Been here for over a decade. I hope to be here for a few decades more. Thanks for helping me keep my sanity! You guys do fantastic work.

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  4. zack22304

    9 months ago

    mlbtr is a freshman

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  5. Ully

    9 months ago

    Wow, Youtube started almost within the 1st week of MLBtraderumors

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    • johnsilver

      9 months ago

      I prefer reading over MLBTR anyday than many of the sick videos at youtube. Nice point though.

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  6. abgb123

    9 months ago

    Somewhere in the deep recesses of one of my oldest email address I have an email from Tim when he was recruiting writers back when he went from a Blog to this format. I didn’t submit anything because I suck/sucked at writing but I remember thinking how cool the site idea was.

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  7. brucenewton

    9 months ago

    I enjoy the site. Frequent lurker, infrequent poster, for at least a decade. Hockey side needs sprucing, I’d be happy to oblige.

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  8. driftcat28

    9 months ago

    I’ve loved this site since I can remember. Thank you for always providing great content and happy 15th!

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  9. RunDMCRunDMC

    9 months ago

    I stumbled upon a 2009 video online from a Chicago-based station that profiled Tim & MLBTR not too long ago that was quite interesting. Still interested if MLBTR will eventually become a family business. It’s quite respectable that it has stayed true to its roots.

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  10. Bone19Bone19

    9 months ago

    As someone who doesn’t do twitter or Facebook and rarely watches television it’s hard to stay connected to baseball. Your site allows me to get the information I’m after without having to deal with social media so big thanks for that!

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  11. SalaryCapMyth

    9 months ago

    Here we go. There’s probably 10 thousand regular posters and 20 thousand of them are charter members.

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  12. johnrealtime

    9 months ago

    I remember when my older brother introduced me to this site. There weren’t nearly as many options back then for this kind of content. I’ve been a daily reader since! I don’t know when I started exactly but probably 06 at the latest. I remember Tim being the only writer for a long time

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  13. rememberthecoop

    9 months ago

    I should have said “Please”. Anyway, I believe you answered my question by not answering my question.

    I hope things get better for you because I love this site and I’d hate to see anything happen to it.

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    • Banesays

      9 months ago

      Dude you are a tool.

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  14. Wildcat98

    9 months ago

    Bring back the old black background for a few days for old time’s sake. Congrats on the success.

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  15. phillyballers

    9 months ago

    A tale as old as time…

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  16. dynamite drop in monty

    9 months ago

    For thousands of generations, the creators of MLBTR were guardians of peace and justice I’m the old republic.

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    • Lanidrac

      9 months ago

      …Before the dark times, before the Coronavirus.

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  17. jrwhite21

    9 months ago

    congrats on all the success guys. mlbtr has been my go-to for baseball news since i was 12 and don’t envision that changing any time soon. wishing all in the mlbtr community health and happiness during these times. stay safe, friends

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  18. Lanidrac

    9 months ago

    That Chris Carpenter #1 pitcher ranking really didn’t work out, seeing as he missed almost all of 2007 to injury.

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  19. padam

    9 months ago

    I remember when Tim announced he was leaving his IT job and taking the chance – going all in. Worked out well I’d say.

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  20. Ejemp2006

    9 months ago

    Hey, while baseball is down, how about bringing back the thumbs down feature? Also how about creating a user stats feature? Number of comments. Number of replies. Likes. Dislikes. Number of flags.
    We all want to be top commenter! But we need objective stats. Then we could also create a “comments unnecessarily trollish” (CUT) stat that will once and for all show whose comments really bring value, or bring us down.

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