21.   In recent trades of high-salaried players, the teams trading the players have included money in the deals.

22.   It is even more unlikely that other key Mariner players will be traded.

23.   It may take at least that long before noncontending teams decide to start trading players.

24.   Key players were traded.

25.   Look at all the times they could have traded those players and look what keeping them has done for that franchise.

26.   Many attractive major league players cannot be traded, because they have been blocked in waiver claims.

27.   Most in Portland expected him to become the main man with the Blazers after general manager Bob Whitsitt traded six players to Houston for the all-star forward.

28.   Now that they have spent more than they expected on Williams, why would they now trade players for Clemens and pay him as much as they paid Johnson?

29.   Normally, the Jets would not comment about the difficulty or ease of trading a player.

30.   Not only would Calipari be unable to trade a player under a scalpel, but if he chose to keep him, Williams would be lost for the season.