There's always going to be a reaction whenever star players change hands on the MLB trade market. Heck, it would be weird if people didn't say, "Wow!" or some other exclamation.
But these days, we're often saying, "Wow!" not at the reality that such players are being traded but at what they're being traded for.
We know this because we can round up a bullet-pointed list of prominent examples from this winter, this summer and last winter. Like so...
This Winter
- The Boston Red Sox sent four prospects—including MLB.