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<i>Bottomline...you can't always get what you want!! But you can try, try...and you just might find....</i>
I think that's a good point: you have to be willing to try a couple of different combinations for players.
My approach is perhaps a little different than some who have trouble making trades: I decide what guy I want to trade and then seek out the best package for him. For instance, in my current season I'm trying to unload 1B Ben Strouble (great hitter, in his final $100k season). He's a great hitter (7/8/7), but I have a solid guy at AAA (Bryant Blaine, 24 yrs-old), so he's fungible. To make this trade I didn't go to the Top 100 Prospects report and totally sell myself on only a couple of prospects.
Instead, I went through the trade window to the 31 other teams and found all the ones that needed a 1B (there were 7). Then I went through their Top 10 Prospects report and narrowed down the field to who had young talent that interested me (4 teams). I then went through and made offers to all 4 teams (2 were unwilling to deal their best prospects), and then settled on a package of 3 of their top 4 prospects (all of whom made my Top 10 list upon being acquired) plus a decent 4th starter whose $3m contract expires at the end of the season. In total, the process probably took me about 10-15 minutes and I scribbled notes on about two pages of scrap paper.
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