Rhett shares an open letter to his league regarding a one for one trade that was objected to, and rails against the useless raising of objections. Enough is enough!Recently in the Gateway Fantasy League we had a one for one trade that received an objection. The GFL is a 5 X 5 keeper league that has been in existence since 1989 and most owners are charter members. Here is an open letter I wrote to the other owners:
From The Commish,
I just was reviewing the trades on the board and noticed that Bruce and Joe made a one for one deal involving Brandon Phillips and Carlos Beltran. I reviewed the stats and saw for the most part they were almost identical. I went to another site to see if anyone was injured, arrested, or a new amputee and found no evidence as such.
As a result I would like to know why we have an objection to this trade. CBS Sportsline is considering eliminating the anonymous objection, and I hope that they adopt this for next season. The trade will go through, as it should, but I find it a tad aggravating when a trade is made that is [obviously] beneficial to both teams…
For this year, Joe is getting a huge upgrade up the middle while Bruce has an extra middle infileder on his bench and gets a boost at his utility slot. Both are keepers for next year. As far as next year, great job Joe, who now is bringing back both Reyes and Phillips up the middle and Bruce’s OF is sick next year, Beltran, Manny, and Ryan Braun!
I just don’t get these petty objections. I have been trying to trade for Phillips for two weeks but we couldn’t work out the terms and Bruce went in a different direction…hey that is trading but I didn’t object to a fair deal because I was disappointed in the end result. Enough already, use the objections for its intended purpose, no collusion.
There has been so much discussion of trade objections and every year this becomes an issue. The ability to raise anonymous objections allows people to second guess trades with impunity, and allows people to be unreasonable without consequence. The time has come for this to stop. When we reach a point where someone objects to a trade of Beltran for Brandon Phillips. Come on guys man up!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Tim Thompson // Jul 30, 2008 at 7:17 am
Hey guys…
We went through this for years too until I became Commissioner about 5 years ago. We are a 4X4 Keeper league with contracts that expire and many of the objectors are those who are going to be affected by the trade. They dont have future keepers or other commodities in our league like Minor Leaguers so they use their only asset, which is the trade VETO.
So I eliminated this when I became commissioner. Here is our rule…
1. We only have “objection” power over owners in their first 2 seasons. Sometimes they just dont understand “value” or how the league might be played….what would be a “freeze” or what might not. Where the extra value lies, that people love cheap closers, middle IF and catchers.
2. Any owner past 2 years in the league can have a trade objected to for 1 reason only, that is the suspicion of collusion. If this happens, it takes 100% to overturn and if that takes place, those two owners cannot trade with each other for the remainder of the season, so you need to think about your deals.
2 Mike Podhorzer // Jul 30, 2008 at 7:30 am
Wow, that is a pretty ridiculous trade to veto. That is one of the fairest trades I’ve seen and I can’t imagine what logical reason the vetoer had, other than jealousy or annoyance that it hurts his team.
3 Patrick DiCaprio // Jul 30, 2008 at 8:41 am
Tim that is an interesting rule, and there are so many different ones out there but your comment is the first I have heard of a two year plan.
4 Tim Thompson // Jul 30, 2008 at 9:49 am
I like it a lot…its a complicated league so it takes a year or two to really understand “value” and you cant really make trades unless you understand what a players value is.
We have a $130 Salary Cap for draft/auction only, you can go over immediately after the draft. Contracts are A Season, B Season and C or X…C is 1.5 times the original value and allows a 3rd/4th season. Plus it gives the player a little additional value, an X player is automtatically going back into the draft, so if you are at the bottom, there is ZERO reason you should end the season with an X.
5 Phil // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I like the idea of eliminating the anonymous trade veto. I think it would also help if there was like a “are you sure you want to vote to veto this trade?” that popped up once you hit the objection button…maybe it would make more people think, or have it ask again in 24 hours if you would veto the trade. As of now it is way too easy to veto a trade with no justification.
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