Silly rabbit.  Of course his offer is better.  It's bigger, so it's better , right?

This is just how some guys are.  I have a friend who I have played with for 5 years.  He will trade, and he will trade ANYBODY.  But unless he is buying low and selling high, he won't deal.  The first few years of the football leagues he did this all the time.  Finally, guys caught up to it.  Even though he would give up great players (which is what sold them), they finally realized what he got in return was why he kept winning the leagues.  

Now, few deal with him.  Just by coincidence, I finally won one of the leagues last year!

I imagine this fellow you are dealing with has had a lot of success with this strategy.

Another part of the strategy is to keep pounding away.  Again, my friend from the example above, rarely gives up.  He will send offer and after offer until someone finally gives in.  I would hear THAT all the time at our meetings on Monday night.  "Oh, I just finally decided to do it since you were so persistent about it" are words I would actually hear.

I found the only way to stop a guy like this is to play their game.  Keep sending him counter offers that make you the buy low/sell high guy.  He'll eventually stop bothering you, or better yet, start whining about how unfair your offers are.  It's fun to point out the hypocrisy at that point!

So go back and ask for his best guys!

Sure.  Give him 2 Top 30 studs.  Just ask for 4 of his Top 30 guys.  Make him pay for what he wants.  But don't take the above offer.  Zobrist got half of his stats in one game if I recall.  Sanchez has never had a run like the past month; it may not continue.

I am a huge CarGo fan, but I think you are right, he's coming around.  And Beltre ought to hit more HR's in that hot, summer Texas air.

Unless it's like Pujols, Longoria, Heath Bell, and Kershaw or some other sort of outrageous offer that you benefit from, DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who cares about first seed?  Just make the playoffs man…anything can happen!!  Had a dynasty team last year that was off the rails…just not getting it done for whatever reason and I made a couple of trades, got hot, went from not being in the playoffs up to the 5 or 6 seed and then steamrolled everyone in postseason……just keep an eye on your team and make sure you have the best team you can possibly have. 

I think he better take that offer.  I think he makes out a little better than you do in that 4 for 4 trade.

Will be interesting to see if he realizes this, or HAS to take advantage of you with something outrageous again.