Prospect Blocked a Trocheck Trade to Minnesota

Sometimes a major trade does not die because of the star player or the money, but because one prospect changes the equation. That is the kind of detail front offices remember long after the public forgets the rumor. The Trocheck-Wild deal apparently got far enough to matter, which makes the missing piece even more interesting. This is the sort of back-end story that shows how close these deals can get before one name sends everything sideways.