Trades Ten Years Later
Trades Ten Years Later is the world’s most self-explanatory sports blog, covering MLB, NBA, and NFL trades ten years after they happen.
About
Trades Ten Years Later seeks to solve two problems in sportswriting.
Transaction coverage dominates sports media, but has a short shelf life. Trades are primarily written about and analyzed at the time the move takes place. Sports blogs rush to report the particulars of a deal and assign a grade of C+ to one team and A- to the other team. Traditionally, this follows several days, weeks, or months of trade rumors speculating on the future for one of the pieces involved. The media frenzy hits its apex at the moment the players are finally swapped, with little attention paid to the people whose lives are suddenly upended. By the time the dust settles and accurate analysis of the transaction can finally take place, everybody has moved on to speculate on the next potential trade. We wait ten years to conduct our analysis to ensure that the most complete version of the story gets told at a time where it’s less redundant.
Each year, a few players in professional sports publicly announce their retirements and participate in big public ceremonies where their careers are celebrated. But several hundred more slip out the back door; they fall off a roster and never find their way back. Most of the players who were traded ten years ago are not playing in the MLB, NBA, or NFL anymore, but you might not have noticed their departures. Any trade will be a significant moment in a player’s career, so the tenth anniversary is an appropriate time to look back and appreciate that player’s career in totality — or at least their career so far.
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