Other entries in the Trade Series:

Mike: I’ll Take Manhattan: Baseball’s Most Lopsided Trades

Studes: The Best and Worst Teams of the Trade

The Best and Worst Teams of the Trade: Revisted

Here is a quickie aperitif while we finalize the transaction data for future multi-course meals. We have been adding in-season and interstitial Win Share metrics to add more depth, hopefully, to the analysis (and because I love trying to make update queries work in Access).

Anyway, here's a taste, and don't worry: it's wafer thin. First, here are the players who traded midseason after accumulating the greatest Win Shares totals for their original teams. And the Cliff Floyd double entry is not a typo. It is the aftereffect of his being laundered in MLB's washing machine, the then-Expos, and then presented as a gift to John Henry's Red Sox:

Here are the midseason pickups that contributed the most to their new clubs:

If you say April isn't really mid-season, here are the biggest contributors based on July to September transactions:

As for players acquired in the offseason who had the biggest impact on their new teams in the first season, guess who's number one?:

Finally, here are the players who had the most left in the tank when they left one team for another. That is, they would accumulate the highest Win Share totals after the transaction (and the leader is another big surprise):