Catherine Trammell - contributing reporter
While we are creating tiers, let's do one for how often an owner is to make a trade. Also including how many trades that owner has made in up to the last 10 season. Kept the tiers in alphabetical order.
- Tier 1
- Atlanta (ekoontz41) - 43 trades
- Everybody receives at least 5 offers a year from this year, you knew he'd be on top.
- Houston (rawdk27) - 37
- No wonder Houston has a space station, always shipping people out!
- Tucson (foolsgold79) - 60
- Only dates back to S54 but the most active trade partners out there. Thought about putting him in his own tier.
- Tier 2
- Colorado Springs (topoftheworl) - 25
- Winning or Less, always up for a trade
- Scottsdale (minihouston) - 26
- Includes his days in New Orleans from 51-54. Would likely be up there in Tier 1 if he wasn't gone from S55-59
- Tier 3
- Chicago (slashtc) - 18
- The true gunslinger, that keeps you on your toes - never know what he's going to do.
- Jacksonville (rwings1927) - 17
- Delayed start but has been very active.
- New Orleans (SenorPloppie) - 28
- Remove his trades with foolsgold (30% of his deals) and he's a lot less active on the trade market. Includes the three S51 & 52 deals he made while in charge of the (now) Mexico City franchise.
- Tacoma (mcandrews) - 26
- Loves a good trade with Atlanta.
- Vancouver (daubs2334) - 24
- Canada loves trading for all things American!
- Tier 4
- Augusta (jsapp12) - 13
- As the team comes out of a build, I'd expect some more trades as the team is rounded out for that playoff push.
- Buffalo (bjc30) - 14
- 8 since S59 when he was selling off parts.
- Fargo - (nickzaji) - 4
- Give it time, only his second season but we think he'll be active.
- Hartford (jverrier85) - 14
- Can't speak for how many offers are sent, but doesn't make a ton of deals. Middle of the pack sounds about right.
- Mexico City (dakar) - 11
- Only 3 deals prior to this year. Start of a new trend? For now he'll stay ranked low. Might fall into the only trades at start or end of a build.
- Montreal (FW_Kekionga) - 15
- Don't count them out on any trade.
- Tier 5
- Anaheim (goldenbaer88) - 15
- Not afraid to trade / trade for a big name.
- Columbus (mike22182) - 15
- Bumps this low because majority have been in two seasons, one he was selling and the other became a buyer.
- Dover (drichter) - 7
- More so in recent years, but you gotta catch him at the right time.
- Helena (alanharwell) - 13
- Streaky, majority of the last 10 seasons were in S52 and 59.
- Huntington (cwiddoes) - 13
- Trading seemed a right of passage, didn't really start until a few season into the league minus the initial new owner I have no attachment to these players.
- Oklahoma City (klown61455) - 17
- Feels like 8 of those deals involved Shea Crowe, but kidding aside active but on the low end. Noticed a lot of 3 for 1 deals.
- Philadelphia (TheManUtley) - 10
- I'd put them on the second tier of talent they trade, but could be wrong.
- Salem (staeben) - 11
- Had a quite spell on the trade market but as the team becomes a favorite in the NL West, they've started making moves.
- Washington DC (keltic44) - 8
- Took over in S55, but good for close to a trade a year.
- Tier 6
- Charleston (opie5) - 3
- Not likely to make many moves.
- Boston (CollegeBoy33) - 3
- Seems to like 3s, could he be done trading?
- Austin (norsk44) - 2
- Stick with what you got is the story in Austin.
- Minnesota (cmcrhstians) - 9
- Only 2 deals since S53.
- Santa Fe - buddy996 - 0
- Former owner went from S38-51 without any trades. New Owner by his words is only a temp, so not likely to make any deals
- Unrated - too little history
- New York - arfy
- Cincinnati - WallyRez