Morey might have been the favorite to rank first in this exercise before running the actual calculations, and he certainly wins the prize for most total players and picks involved in trades. The reason he ranks only fourth, however, is that most of the players involved in Morey’s deals are filler rather than integral members of a rotation. Only 16 of the 85 players, or 19 percent, involved in Morey’s trades were rotation players for his teams. Across the whole sample of active executives, that figure was 34 percent.