The key points to remember are
- Trade players who automatically return to the 2007 draft pool.
- Acquire cheap keeper(s) for those players
- If you do not have out-of-time players, deal fully-priced ones but "charge" for the possibility of them being protected by the acquiring team or
- Being dealt by the acquiring team for something of value i.e. a minor league draft pick/player
Points three and four are often ignored by poorly run teams.
A $33 Juan Pierre may not be a great keeper but 50 SB will attract some value. So Jeremy Hermida for Pierre is actually Hermida for Pierre/minor league pick or whatever else is acquired for Pierre after you deal him.
The goal of bailing is to win the trade on the last day of the season. This is another way of stating (1). No matter what, an out-of-time player for a keeper is a winner for the bailing team on the last day of the season because the bailing team then has a keeper and the other team has nothing.
This rationale will also mitigate whatever bad feelings are engendered by the bail trade - and all bail trades engender bad feelings.
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How about the semi-bail? I made a deal in my dynasty keeper league 2 1/2 weeks ago that brought Phil Hughes/RHP/NYY & Matt Kemp/OF/LAD for Andruw Jones/OF/ATL who carried a $28 Salary. My team was currently in 7th place of 20 teams, where 6 teams make the playoffs. Jones was going to have no impact on getting to first place so i acquire to future studs who can be activated and Kemp has been to my Active Roster from my Minor League Roster of 10 for $4. Meanwhile Matt Kemp has exploded onto the scene and helped out much earlier than I expected. To think at the time of the deal, he wasn't even the main piece.. Phil Hughes was.
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