Strange

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One-Season Stand, dept.

As you know, when you go buy a new car for $20,000 the dealer "shows" you $9,000 on your tradein.  Your car + $11,000 for his car.  How's that for square.

If he shows you $9,000 on the first offer, he would probably buy your car outright (without you buying his) for $6,000 or $6,500.  This is the Actual Cash Value (ACV) of your car.  He's "showing" you $9,000 on your tradein because he would actually sell you his car for $17,000.  And that's what he'll put in the books:  That he sold his car for $17k and he has $6k into your used car for resale.  

It's a little slimy, but that's what we as the buying public want him to do.  We feel a lot better doing it his way.  Truth hurts, buddy.

(If you want to outsmart him, make your best deal on his car, and then ask about whether he'll take a tradein.  Make sure your car is as cherry as it can be, and you'll need to keep it off his lot until this point in the negotiation.  There y'go amig-O.  Would Ken Rosenthal do that for you?  I think NOT)

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"Second sticker," the price for public consumption, is one thing.  Any resemblance to cash value, hard on the barrelhead, is strictly coincidental.  By another strange coincidence, any resemblance between Crowdsourced Contract Estimates, or Crowdsourced Prospect Value, is little more than a happy accident.

One school of Shout Box thought has it, that Justin Upton for 1 year isn't worth much.  Totally understandable that people would feel this way, about a specific team or player.  Not countering my homies here, who have been consistent about this, and probably right.  

But they're a coupla buttons shy of a London Fog on this one :- )

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My own view is:  one season of a real impact player, that does and should cost a lot in prospects.  Billy Beane, whose colossal brain pan is a given, just coughed up a top-5-in-baseball 'spect for the Jeff Samardzija rental.  He figured the 2014 pennant run was worth something, too.