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A league I am in has a team that has dominated for decades and always manages to have young players coming up through his minor league system by making trades for them while they are young prospects as well as trading for draft picks. He's keen on trading for picks in the first few rounds (as anyone would).

In the 11 seasons simmed in the league so far, he has won his division every time. The last nine have been with at least 100 wins AND the last 7 have been with at least 110 wins.

Currently he has a uber 1st baseman that is almost Pujols good. He's not MVP yet, but certainly a .300/35/115 guy and is 29 years old and locked up for 3 more years at $2.5 million.

In triple AAA he has even a better 1B waiting that is only 22 and ready for his call up.

He just traded away the stud 29 year old 1B to another team for the following years ammy picks... picks 1 thru 4. The picks won't be all the early as the team trading them is a good team in his division too and should contend, if not win his division.

I say it's a win/win trade as the 1B is a stud to everyone but the uber team. To them, he is expendable.

BUT I also believe the evidence points to this being a bad trade for the league in that this uber team will continue to dominate with 110 win seasons each and every year. It's my biggest reason for not liking draft pick trading.

I'm interested in the opinions of others. They've broken no rules. BUT should the rules be changed? Or should the rest of the league learn to either live with it or should draft pick start flying as people can't trade them enough?