If any player is worth $71 under the Roger Dorn Baseball League rules, it's Mike Trout. But when you have little to surround him with entering a season, what's the right play?
That's the dilemma staring Meinert Hops GM Garrett Shelley in the face entering the 2021 Season and clearly apparent following the club's Deep Dive earlier this off-season. Injuries and underperformance have slimmed the club's Keeper List while the Farm System seems poised to help, but more in a support role than leading the way in production.
The natural strategy to pursue when you are lacking depth is to flip Trout and leverage that return to strengthen your Keeper List. But what is a $71 Mike Trout, the top producing player in RDBL point history, worth on the trade market this off-season?
We surveyed Front Office Executives across the RDBL and the results were not pretty if trading Trout is the direction the Hops are leaning.
It started with one Masters Division GM saying "You aren't going to like my answer" before throwing out a straight up deal for a draft pick.
Two others Executives suggested Trout would be a drop if rostered on their club, noting the ability to secure him again for at or below his current price in Auction.
Plenty of time remains for Shelley and the Hops to make the call on Trout and his potential 2021 record-breaking Keeper contract, but given the limited feedback, don't expect a blockbuster deal for the star any time soon.
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