David Schoenfield of ESPN.com wrote an insightful article on where the potential trades of Francisco Lindor, Mookie Betts, and Nolan Arenado would rank all-time among offseason deals.
The article focuses on the best players to ever be traded during the winter, with an emphasis on cumulative WAR in the two most recent seasons leading up to the trade. The criteria skews the results somewhat; Chuck Knoblauch ranks third overall since 1950 behind Alex Rodriguez and Roger Clemens on account of having racked up 15.5 WAR in the two years prior to being traded from the Twins to the Yankees in 1998.