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Originally Posted by spitfire
It would be interesting, but dare I say, small sample size? How would you know that the number of transactions in 2009 was typical? Wouldn't you have to look at several seasons at least to get a more rounded picture of the number of transactions in the minors?
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Considering that it involves 16 leagues and 187 clubs in the minors as part of 30 major league organizations, I would expect any potential anomalies would even out over the course of an entire season and off-season.
However, feel free to grab the transaction data yourself from the minor league web site if you wish to add more seasons to the sample.
Be advised it's something of a time-consuming process as you have to copy the info from each league individually, and can only do one month at a time. You also then have to clean up the results since the usage of transaction terms is not consistent. The transaction data for the 2010-11 seasons is available, as well as for the 2006-08 seasons.
The good thing about the data there is that it is complete. It includes promotions, demotions, disabled list moves, signings, releases, stints on the temporarily inactive list, and trades.