Baseball players are human beings, not cyborgs sent from the future to destroy Sarah Connor.
As a result, they get injured—some more seriously than others—and it's that unfortunate reality that is the driving force behind some of the trade ideas we're about to take a look at.
In case you missed it, a trio of current and former All-Star players on contending clubs—the Cleveland Indians' Michael Brantley, the New York Mets' David Wright and the San Francisco Giants' Hunter Pence—are all currently out of action due to a variety of maladies, with nothing but speculation as to when they might return to action.
But as we all know, injuries aren't the only reason teams dip their toes into the trade market. A lack of production from a particular position, along with the desire (and in some cases, need) to strengthen an area of a team's roster are other contributing factors, both of which we'll hit on the pages that follow.
Keep in mind that these proposed deals are only ideas and pure speculation. Unless otherwise noted, there's no indication that any of them have actually been discussed.
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