Fantasy- Traded Greinke for prospects

by The_Beard on Dec 15, 2025 9:16 PM EST

I just traded Zack Greinke for Zach Britton, Miguel Sano, and Randall Delgado in my 6x6 (OPS/Holds) 16 team roto dynasty.

I've had quite a bit of recent success and wanted to re-build, did I get enough for Greinke?

We keep 8 minor leaguers, here's my list after the trade, do I have the correct 8 at the top?

1. Brandon Belt

2. Zach Britton

3. Miguel Sano

4. Gary Sanchez

5. Randall Delgado

6. Devin Mesoraco

7. Trey McNutt

8. Chris Archer

Others: Ryan Westmoreland, Casey Crosby, Matthew Davidson, Hak-Ju Lee, Jio Mier, Thomas Neal, Carlos Perez (ATL).

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Not near enough, if you ask me. I’d want a legitimate stud, like Harper or Trout, etc - but that isn’t here. Britton is a nice looking arm, Sano is too far off for my liking, and Delgado is no sure thing. It’s rarely a good idea to move a good, young MLB stud for specs imo, but I don’t blame you for wanting to rebuild. I find it more fun than actually competing.

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by koolkerns101 on Dec 15, 2025 9:54 PM EST reply actions

+1

It’s especially important to get a top blue chipper since you can only keep a certain number of prospects

by highheat on Dec 15, 2025 10:22 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Unless you love you MI

I would consider keeping Lee over one of the arms at the end, say one of the other Cubs. I would swap him out for Archer

by gpellet41 on Dec 15, 2025 10:05 PM EST reply actions

You got burned

I would have wanted at least one stud hitting prospect close the the majors, a top 10 young arm, and another top prospect. This is a pretty bad haul.

by King Billy Royal on Dec 15, 2025 10:22 PM EST reply actions

I traded him a yr and a half ago

in a salary league w full minor leaguers for Alexei Ramirez, Trevor Cahill, and Chris Carter.

Pretty happy although I also caught flack since I traded him at his peak, He was just about to get expensive and I got everyone else at league minimum. If Carter can produce as I expect by next year I am extremely happy.

The other owner won the league that year so I know he has no complaints either.

A rare trade that has worked out for both sides.

by Bud Light on Dec 15, 2025 10:28 PM EST reply actions

i have said it many times on this site but it bears repeating....

People on this site are waaaaaay too infatuated with prospects. I know, I know its a prospect website but still, if you’re doing fantasy you should know all of the players, not just the kids. And Greinke is a superstar, a stud pitcher who is young and has plenty of good years ahead of him. If he gets traded to a better team, he can be a complete monster. If I’m trading Greinke, I’m landing a stud back, and then you can trickle in some minor leaguers if you want. But dynasty league or not, why trade Greinke for this? It’s not like he’s 38, he’s 27.
I’m of the firm belief that you only make trades that improve your team and I don’t see how this would do that, rosters unseen of course. If you have Felix, CC, Lester, Wainwright and Gallardo or something, then yeah, it’s less of a head scratcher.

by loop on Dec 15, 2025 10:36 PM EST reply actions

I agree with this 100%

Every time a MLB player is rumoured in a trade, many in the community refuse to believe that a top prospect is a fair return.

by King Billy Royal on Dec 15, 2025 11:49 PM EST up reply actions

one of the things to consider

Whenever you make a 1 for 2 or 3 trade you are giving up not only your player, but those two spots. The way most leagues go you are often not improving those slots by enough to dump the elite player. In a league where maybe 100ish MiLBer are kept from year to year there will always be a trout or belt who is available during the season. The only reason it makes sense to deal an elite player is 1) keeper rules make him expensive or short term or 2) hes old.

Additionally, its probably time to give up on Westmoreland.

by ADLC on Dec 15, 2025 11:09 PM EST reply actions

This trade...

…would get you kicked out my league. No discussion, no email, no IM chat, no phone call. You would log in one day, and the league wouldn’t be there.

by MetsFanX on Dec 16, 2025 10:24 AM EST reply actions

This trade

Won’t get me kicked out of anything. I won the last 2 titles and the rest of the league is quite happy (as you can imagine) to see me lessen my team. It’s a salary based league, and MLB players in their first or second year, and top 10 prospects simply do not get dealt. MetsFanX I’m sorry your league is so harsh, we have 16 great owners who have been doing this for a long time, and don’t view every trade at a quick glance, and that’s a good thing.

I thought I did much better than the response I got…ouch. I definitely admit to over-valuing prospects, and the ironic thing was I traded away Mike Stanton, Martin Perez, Teheran, and others in the past 3 years to get my titles….taking advantage of owners who over-value prospects. Like the first poster said, rebuilding can be as much fun (sometimes more-so) than competing, but it looks like I sold low here. I thought that Greinke is great but

Thanks for the responses.

Brian Sabean would return more calls if he wasn't so busy being the greatest baseball mind in the history of the game.

by The_Beard on Dec 16, 2025 2:00 PM EST reply actions

If there's salary involved, then it's a completely different deal.

The way you phrased the question it doesn’t sound like a salary league.

by PissedMick on Dec 16, 2025 2:18 PM EST up reply actions

Yes it's a salary league

And my team is WAY over budget, and I see Greinke getting really expensive, really fast.

Before the trade I had $25 million to fill 18 spots, so I still have some trading to do. I got Ryan Howard, Adam Dunn, Alex Rios, and Roy Oswalt I need to move. As you can imagine those names carry very little value in a deep salary cap dynasty. They are the players everyone wants to be rid of.

I have some nice younger pieces…but they are still getting expensive quick- Hanley, Kinsler, Lincecum, and Cain. Posey and Bumgarner are the only 2 young cheap guys I have on the whole team, I’m trying to change that.

Brian Sabean would return more calls if he wasn't so busy being the greatest baseball mind in the history of the game.

by The_Beard on Dec 16, 2025 2:26 PM EST up reply actions

whoops

I was about to say- Greinke is great but I thought I was getting a potential stud hitter in Sano and a top SP in Britton, with Delgado being the icing on the cake.

Live and learn I suppose!

Brian Sabean would return more calls if he wasn't so busy being the greatest baseball mind in the history of the game.

by The_Beard on Dec 16, 2025 2:03 PM EST reply actions

It's not that bad

I think that the main reason it isn’t good, is that you’ll have to drop 3 minor leaguers you would have had. So basically the trade becomes something like:

Greinke
Crosby
HJ Lee
Westmoreland/Neal

Britton
Delgado
Sano

You got 3 good prospects, but not a real blue chip guy. While the prospects you got are better than the ones you lose, is Greinke worth that upgrade? If you factor in that he’s likely to be traded to a contender, he’ll surely benefit in the wins category. If for no other reason than that he gets to pitch against a poor KC offense instead of that solid contender’s offense. So I wouldn’t do it personally.

by killa on Dec 17, 2025 9:39 PM EST up reply actions