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Just finished May, still on average frequency and evaluations at 25/25/25/25.

9 trades in May, v24. For comparison: in my last season in v23 for May there were 11 trades using the same settings.

At first I was adding comments to each trade in my notes within OOTP. These are bolded in the quote, not because of importance, but only to make them easy to see. Stopped adding comments as the trades were pretty much all of a similar type, ie minor leaguers for AAA/MLB borderline depth help, or minor leaguer for minor leaguer.

There's not an every day MLB player in any of these trades, nor highly rated prospects. At best AI teams are trying to improve trading age for youth, adding positions of weakness for positions of strength. Or maybe trading just to trade? The trades are of such little value, in the big picture, I haven't dug deep enough to see. If I untick the "include minor league deals" I doubt many of these even show up in the report.

So far there has been no reason, I can see, that any of this is detrimental to my on-going game.

On to June.

May 15, Trade #2: the Phillies announced today the acquisition of 26-year old minor league 3B Eddie Dominguez (45/45) from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for
20-year old minor league LF Manny Sotilo (20/35) and 23-year old minor league CF Alvaro Morales (35/40).
2 guys with bench potential, the other maybe a cup of coffee.

May 16, Trade #3: the Blue Jays announced today the acquisition of 29-year old minor league LF Danny Campana (40/40) from the New York Yankees
in exchange for 24-year old minor league 3B Ryan Blumenstein (35/45) and 22-year old minor league RHP Joe D'Angelo (25/35).

Campana has played in 120 games and posted a lifetime .293 average. He has 115 hits, 26 doubles, 4 triples and 16 homers. In addition he has driven in 80 runs and scored 51 times.

More minor leaguers for borderline MLB/AAA player.

May 23, Trade #4: the Mariners announced today the acquisition of 28-year old minor league RF Jeremy Manning(40/40) and 23-year old minor league RHP Bobby Duran(25/40) from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for 24-year old minor league LHP Mike de Jesus(20/25) and 23-year old minor league RF Angel Sandoval (40/45).

More of the same type of trades. Sandoval could end up sticking as a bench player. Manning will stick if his control improves.

May 23, Trade #5: the White Sox swapped 23-year old minor league SS Travis Love to the Angels getting 33-year old minor league RHP Pasqual Estolas in return.
In his lifetime, the 33-year-old Estolas has won 18 and lost 38, piling up 301 strikeouts and 291 walks in 408 innings with a 5.91 ERA. Opponents have hit .267 against him.

SS could make it as a backup someday. RP, has control issues. Almost a meaningless trade.

May 27, Trade #6: Tampa Bay Rays and the San Diego Padres have agreed to a deal that will have 24-year old RHP Mike Green (45/50/) and 24-year old minor league RHP Nate Reich (20/20) heading to San Diego in exchange for 26-year old minor league 2B Matt Calkins (35/40)

To this point in the season he has had no saves. Green has made 16 relief appearances, tossed 20.1 innings and struck out 16 with a record of 1 win and no losses.

May 27, Trade #7: the Rangers announced today the acquisition of 28-year old minor league 3B Ralph Tracey (20/25) from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for 23-year old minor league 3B Hugo Salazar (30/45) and 20-year old minor league 1B Tony Pagan (20/35)

May 27, Trade #8: The Minnesota Twins and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to a trade that will send 20-year old minor league RHP Jesus Sanchez (20/25) and 19-year old minor league 1B Jeremy Patterson (20/40)to Seattle, while 27-year old minor league CF Jonathan Weilnau (45/45) will be shipped to Minnesota.

May 28, Trade #9: Cardinals announced today the acquisition of 30-year old minor league 3B Chris Christensen (45/45)from the Colorado Rockies
in exchange for 24-year old minor league C Ryan Bullard (40/40) and 23-year old minor league 2B Tim Winters (35/45)

For the season Christensen has hit .182 with no home runs and 1 RBIs. He has played in 14 games and scored 2 times.