Leaked: 10 Months Of The Houston Astros' Internal Trade Talks

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http://deadspin.com/leaked-10-months-of-the-houston-astros-internal-trade-1597951970

By Barry Petchesky
Deadspin.com
6/30/2014

Two years ago, the Houston Astros constructed "Ground Control"—a 
built-from-scratch online database for the private use of the Astros front 
office. It is by all accounts a marvel, an easy-to-use interface giving 
executives instant access to player statistics, video, and communications 
with other front offices around baseball. All it needs, apparently, is a 
little better password protection.

Documents purportedly taken from Ground Control and showing 10 months' 
worth of the Astros' internal trade chatter have been posted online at 
Anonbin, a site where users can anonymously share hacked or leaked 
information. Found below, they contain the Astros front office's 
communications regarding trade overtures to and from other teams, as well 
as negotiations—a few of which actually led to trades. You will find heavy 
efforts to get a big haul for Bud Norris at last year's trade deadline 
(before settling for very little), pushes to acquire touted young talents 
like Dylan Bundy and Gregory Polanco, and even evidence the Astros 
rejected out of hand a blockbuster deal that could have brought them 
Giancarlo Stanton.

> From a strict baseball perspective, all of this is really interesting 
> just
for the insight it offers into how baseball trades work on an operational 
level. As it turns out, it really isn't too different from your fantasy 
league, with front office types kicking around ideas, making preposterous 
demands, gossiping, and discussing various contingencies. If this happens, 
we'll be looking to do this, but then if this other thing happens, we'll 
be looking to do this. All of it is worth running through, but a few of 
the highlights are as follows:

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