In MLB, that would depend on the player's contract, how long the player has been in the league and how long the player has played with the team that is trying to trade him. A player can negotiate a no trade clause in his contract which would not allow the team to trade him. Of course, the player could choose to waive the no trade clause, usually for compensation from his team, which would allow him to be traded. Any player who has been in MLB for ten full seasons and played with his current team for five full seasons may not be traded without his consent. You might hear these players being referred to as 'ten five' players. If a player does not have a no trade clause in his contract or is not a 'ten five' player, he made be traded without his permission.
Back in 2003/04, Rasheed Wallace was traded by Portland to Atlanta, played one game for Atlanta, and then was traded to the Pistons where he would win a championship that same year.
Yes if they played at least one regular season game
The average salary of a major league player was $5000, a considerable sum but not equal to today's millionaires. The highest salaries were around $20,000, which made the $80,000 paid to Babe Ruth in 1931 an extraordinary expenditure.
I don't think this is the record for straight up trades, (he was only actually traded 5 times) but between trades, and being released repeatedly, Bobo Newsom has quite a rap sheet, with 23 transactions over the course of his 20-season career. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/newsobo01.shtml#trans
Sammy Sosa was traded three times during his career: 1) Traded by the Texas Rangers to the Chicago White Sox in 1989. 2) Traded by the White Sox to the Chicago Cubs in 1992. 3) Traded by the Cubs to the Baltimore Orioles in 2005.
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Many major league players played their entire careers with only one team and were never traded.
If a baseball contract is sold to someone else, it usually means that they wanted to be traded. Not always though.
MLB, Major League Baseball, rumors abound and there are about as many websites to discuss them as there are rumors. Rumors as to what a team is going to do, or who is going to be traded are prolific and ongoing.
Adam Laroche was traded twice in 2009 from Pittsburgh to Boston and then to Atlanta.
Yes. To win a league batting title, a player must have a minimum of 502 plate appearances. If a player has 502 or more plate appearances when he is traded to the other league and winds up in 1st place in batting average for the league he was traded from, he is awarded the league title. To win an MLB (both leagues) batting title, a player must have a minimum of 502 plate appearances combined in both leagues.
The trades that were made in the Major League Baseball Offseason in 2003 were the Boston Red Sox trading Curt Schilling to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Brandon Lyon, Casey Fossum, Jorge da La Rosa and a player to be named later, the Chicago Cubs traded Hee Seop Choi to the Florida Marlins for Derrek Lee and a player to be named later, the Oakland Athletics traded Ramon Hernandez and Terrence Long to the San Diego Padres for Mark Kotsay.
Draft picks cannot be traded. In addition, a player once drafted cannot be traded until 1 year to the day after signing. This explains a lot of times when a player is traded for a player to be named later, (Jeremy Bonderman was a player to be named later in the Jeff Weaver trade in 2003 because Bonderman signed on August 2, 2002 but Weaver was traded on July 6, 2003 so Oakland had to wait until August 2, 2003 to trade him so he was called a player to be named later)
In MLB, that would depend on the player's contract, how long the player has been in the league and how long the player has played with the team that is trying to trade him. A player can negotiate a no trade clause in his contract which would not allow the team to trade him. Of course, the player could choose to waive the no trade clause, usually for compensation from his team, which would allow him to be traded. Any player who has been in MLB for ten full seasons and played with his current team for five full seasons may not be traded without his consent. You might hear these players being referred to as 'ten five' players. If a player does not have a no trade clause in his contract or is not a 'ten five' player, he made be traded without his permission.
A 'no trade clause' is a section in a player's contract that specifies the player cannot be traded to another team or specifies the teams that a player can be traded to. Some players have in their contracts that they cannot be traded. This means the player will play the entire length of the contract for that team. Some players have in their contracts that they may be traded only to certain teams. For example, a player may say he can only be traded to the Yankees, Dodgers, or Red Sox but to no other team.
Back in 2003/04, Rasheed Wallace was traded by Portland to Atlanta, played one game for Atlanta, and then was traded to the Pistons where he would win a championship that same year.