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Everybody has gone home from the fictional city of National Harbor, Maryland, after a week of making high-stakes trades and signings of a decidedly nonfictional nature. With the free-agent market being one of the weakest markets?-- if not the?weakest market -- ever, a lot of the focus of baseballs largest conclave was on a few giant trades. And one Giant trade.Because trades are all about the future, given that nobodys actually playing games at this moment and trading/signing the past exists only in science fiction and in the minds of executives who acquire Matt Kemp, weve run the ZiPS projection for each player who shuffled around this week.The teams are ranked by surplus value (expressed in wins), the projected difference between the total number of projected wins they picked up and the projected salary they expect to pay for the wins. However, dont assume this is a list of best-to-worst because its not. Surplus value is a tool, a basic number to look at, but teams rightly dont value all wins the same. Time is a very big deal in baseball, and if you have good reasons to believe that wins right now can get you to the playoffs or even to a champagne drenching in late October, giving up more wins much later to get wins now is not only justifiable but downright smart. After all, a Ferrari is a lot more valuable than a bucket of water, but if youre dying of thirst in a desert, youd much rather use $50,000 and overpay for the water than underpay for the Ferrari. OK, thats an extreme situation -- you wont typically find merchants in the Sahara Desert offering great deals on sports cars -- but you get the idea. Chicago White Sox: plus-31.8 wins. Yup, the Sox did darn well trading two of their core players in Chris Sale and Adam Eaton. No single player is a guarantee for stardom, although ZiPS does see Yoan Moncada peaking at four wins a season as the average result. But the amount of talent for the future they picked up was tremendous. This was the winter for the White Sox to start a rebuild. Although there were possible scenarios the past two years in which the team was playoff-relevant, the fact remains that they didnt work out, and the teams window of opportunity was nearly shut. In a market in which money cant buy great players because theyre simply not out there, what better time to shop players who would each be the most sought-after free agent if he had in fact been a free agent?Max Scharping Jersey . Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions. DeAndre Hopkins Womens Jersey . They hope to persuade the other team owners and commissioner Roger Goodell to put pressure on Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to drop the nickname they find offensive. 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Michigan manhandled Central Florida. Iowa overwhelmed Iowa State.With Big Ten play looming in a couple weeks, the conferences top teams took advantage of what on paper at least looked like weaker Week 2 opponents.These wins are by no means automatic for power conference schools. Just ask Oklahoma State .Clemson and Georgia had some nervous moments, too.These are limited opportunities you get, and I think youve got to learn to appreciate each opportunity, Wisconsin coach Paul Chyrst said Saturday. All weve got to focus on is ourselves and maximize each opportunity.Chryst had his team focused and ready. The Badgers led 30-10 at halftime on the way to a 44-point rout of the Zips.Ohio State got off to what would be considered a sluggish start for the Buckeyes in a 48-3 win over Tulsa. Ohio State didnt score an offensive touchdown until quarterback J.T. Barrett rushed in for a score with 9:42 left in the third quarter.But good teams pick up each other, coach Urban Meyer said.The Buckeyes defense is in midseason form after intercepting four passes, including pick-sixes.Week 3 promises to be a bit more challenging for the Buckeyes, who will face Oklahoma and quarterback Baker Mayfield on the road.Obviously, the challenge will come next week against a very good team, and were going to jump on that one early and get ready to go Meyer said.Wisconsin has already passed its big nonconference test after defeating then-No. 5 LSU at Lambeau Field in the season opener. So for the Badgers, the two weeks between the Tigers and their Big Ten opener on Sept. 24 against Michhigan State are about building momentum and keeping a chip on their collective shoulders.dddddddddddd.Chrysts club has gone from unranked in the polls to a Top 10 team thanks to the win over LSU.We didnt want to show that we were too excited and thinking about (LSU) ... We wanted to go and move on to Akron, and were going to do the same thing next week here, Wisconsin outside linebacker T.J. Watt said.Ohio State moved up one spot to No. 3 in AP Top 25 poll released Sunday. Wisconsin moved up a spot to ninth. The Badgers play winless Georgia State in Week 3.Also among the Big Tens ranked and unbeaten teams:MICHIGAN: Moved up one spot to fourth after trouncing Central Florida . Colorado, also 2-0, might provide a little bit more of a challenge in the Big House on Sept. 17.MICHIGAN STATE: Stayed at No. 12 after an early bye week. They probably appreciated the break with a trip to No. 18 Notre Dame coming up on Sept. 17.IOWA: Moved up three spots to 13th after beating the in-state rival Cyclones . FCS school North Dakota State visits Kinnick Stadium next week.At the beginning of the week our focus was just on having a relentless week of preparation, starting with our concentration and execution on both sides of the ball and special teams, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. The goal there is to improve, and thats something were trying to do on a weekly basis.---Online: AP College Football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org/---Follow Genaro Armas at: https://twitter.com/GArmasAP ' ' '