In Chris' case yes. I imagine most people see that getting him now is much more valuable since his salary is way less than what he's worth and it will be one less postseason run to go for. To get his kind of production now as opposed to next deadline means another year AND a postseason run at what his salary is (which is low). Getting him next year (at the deadline) means one less year at such a cheap price and one less postseason run has less value. I think most teams would highly value having Sale for a postseason run, along with just another year of him at about 12M (half of this year's salary and the first half salary of next year) And, BTW, he's talking about trade deadline cost versus offseason cost, not this deadline versus next deadline.