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Originally Posted by TheNewT50
In all seriousness, I would research whether you can vote against your own trade, and make sure to publicize the trade to maximize the chances of others vetoing it.
I'm not sure how basic I should get in explaining why it's so bad, but in fantasy baseball you have to think of players in terms of replacement value. Healy and McCarthy offer little value better than whatever the best player you can find on the waiver wire is; Kyle Seager offers huge value. Like five times more than the other two combined. And even if Healy becomes a stud or whatever you should have to give up a lot less to get him.
Also, in FBB, two nickels don't equal a dime (let alone two pennies in this case). You are going to have to drop a player now that you have these two. How much of an upgrade will Healy or McCarthy be over the guy you're going to have to drop? The guy you're dropping will now be the best guy on the waiver wire in theory. And on top of that, if there's a call up or whatever, you won't have the roster space for that anymore and you'll have to drop someone even better.
FBB is an exercise in acquiring the highest concentration of premium assets on your roster as you can. You very VERY rarely want to be giving up your premium assets (Seager) for more expendable ones. You normally want to be getting the one good player out of a 2-1 trade, and then freeing up roster space to speculate on guys with very high upside; that's how you win leagues.
I'm sorry if I'm being too condescending, but there have been some bad trade proposals mentioned here lately and some people who say they're new to FBB. This is a primer to anyone new to FBB thinking about doing a 2-1 trade.
This is literally my first league haha. I didn't accept it yet. I kind of posted it here to get a reaction to see if it was a good trade or not.
Thank you though.