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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Fantasy baseball may be based on major league baseball, but it isn’t close to MLB in many ways – but next week there is an important area your league should share with the major league clubs.

Sunday will be July 31 and the non-waiver trade deadline for MLB. And sometime in the first week of August should be your league’s trade deadline too. My AL keeper league and many leagues use the first weekend in August, which this year will be Aug 6 & 7. August 1 and 2 are the earliest it could be with those rules. You want to have it after the July 31 date so everyone can see how those first and likely most impactful trade will affect your teams and players.

But the main reason for an early August trade deadline in fantasy baseball leagues is so that a late deadline trade can’t impact your league’s standings. With an early August trade deadline, fantasy players have two months to battle it out with the rosters they have and common access to the free agent pool.

All of the above is primarily for keeper and dynasty leagues. Frankly I think redraft leagues should follow the lead of the national high stakes contests and not have any trades. If there is no future value for acquired players and no cost to ending up with a terrible roster, what is the incentive for teams to always have equitable trades? And how would you legislate trade regulations?

Maybe if your redraft league feels it has to allow trading they should have an All Star break trade deadline. That would liven up the days off and create some great All Star parties. And it would be less likely to have poor trades made. Most teams could benefit from a trade then as they would still have a chance to catch up in most categories.

Let’s see what happens in keeper league trades over the next two weeks – that should provide some very entertaining stories for a future column.{jcomments on}