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I don't know how the game does trade values.
And this wouldn't work for this year, but future years maybe.
I always though trade values should be based on expected surplus values of the players and roster needs.
It appears that every roster/team is aware of needs. A team would be aware that they are weak at 3B and relievers. A team with surplus 3B should know that is a good team to trade one of those 3B to, and would trade that type of player based on each teams needs/place in rebuild/competitive window.
Here is an example:
The White Sox are rebuilding.
The Red Sox are competitive now.
Teams that are rebuilding look to trade every player that isn't under control longer than 12 months out. So Todd Frazier is a player they look to trade away.
The Red Sox are weak at third base because Pablo Sandoval isn't expected to produce.
The game would figure out that Todd Frazier is owed $12M, and he would be projected to be worth $20M in 2017 based on projected WAR and the cost of WAR/$. So that would receive them a prospect in the top 50-75 range that the Red Sox would have, and would find a suitable trade in that range.
But that might be hard to create.
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