**Note** This trade has not occurred, nor has it been rumoured to happen. It is simply a hypothetical trade to create discussion on the value of Travis Snider and Domonic Brown.
The challenge trade is one of the most exciting swaps in all of baseball. Two players, each with their own strengths and flaws, are traded because the other team thinks it can maximize their potential. In recent years we’ve seen a few that have been quite one sided, such as when the Texas Rangers traded John Danks to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Brandon McCarthy. Once Danks added a cutter to his repertoire he became an outstanding starter for the White Sox, going 54-56 with a 4.03 ERA and earned 16.3 fWAR between 2007 and 2011. He was the best White Sox pitcher right behind Mark Buehrle. Texas wasn’t as lucky with McCarthy, as he struggled during his three seasons there going 13-15 with a 4.68 ERA. It wasn’t until 2011 after studying sabermetric principles and applying them to his pitc...
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