Pulling Back The Curtain

Have you ever wanted to ask a living, breathing general manager just what it’s like around the July trade deadline? Baseball Prospectus brings you a living, breathing ex-general manager, which is practically just as good.

↵↵Whether you like it or not, [writers] find out which players you like and which you don’t. It’s an amazing process. One year, a writer I truly respect called because he’d heard that I had offered an incredible package for Vladimir Guerrero, and he had it down to the last player in the deal.

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