We’ve officially entered Trade Deadline Silly Season, that time of year where anyone with a Twitter account can throw out a ridiculous trade proposal. One thing you’ll notice about trade proposals: the team giving the prospects always, always, always overvalues the prospects.
Somewhere in the bowels of Twitter, for example, you’ll find Bruins fans who wouldn’t trade Anders Bjork for Alexander Ovechkin. Based on the oft-repeated and rephrased excuse:
“He’s got so much potential, you can’t move him! Think of his upside!”
Fans always want to get without giving anything that hurts, which is obviously never the way it works.