Bryce Young and J.J. McCarthy have been on opposite sides of 25 real dynasty trades.
Not simulations and not a calculator lining up two numbers. Every one of them is a completed trade from a public Sleeper league, graded at the player values that were current on the day it happened.
Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 3 of them were straight up: Bryce Young for J.J. McCarthy, nothing else changing hands.
In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 1 between the Bryce Young side and the J.J. McCarthy side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
Everything above is priced on the day each deal happened, which is the only honest way to grade a completed trade. It is not what they cost now. Today Bryce Young prices at 348 and J.J. McCarthy at 95, so the market currently rates Bryce Young about 3.7x the other. A pair can lean one way across its history and price the opposite way now; that gap is the whole reason to check the deal in front of you rather than the deal someone made in 2023.
Values as of 2026-07-24.
| Date | Margin | Went with Bryce Young | Went with J.J. McCarthy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-19 | +14% | Malachi Fields, Jeremiyah Love | Harold Fannin, Jordyn Tyson |
| 2026-05-18 | +48% | Evan Engram, Chuba Hubbard | Jacoby Brissett, 1 2nd |
| 2025-11-28 | -16% | Mark Andrews, Courtland Sutton | Luther Burden, J.K. Dobbins |
| 2025-11-04 | -1% | Jayden Daniels | Bo Nix, 1 2nd |
| 2025-10-11 | -59% | 1 2nd | 1 later pick |
| 2025-09-12 | -68% | Jacory Croskey-Merritt, 1 3rd | Cedric Tillman |
| 2025-08-27 | +33% | DeVonta Smith, Garrett Wilson, 1 2nd | Keon Coleman, Woody Marks, Jerry Jeudy, 1 1st, 1 later pick |
| 2025-08-02 | -12% | Ja'Tavion Sanders, Arian Smith, Jaylin Lane, 1 more, 1 2nd, 1 later pick | Tai Felton, Ashton Jeanty, Geno Smith, 1 more |
| 2025-07-10 | +10% | Chris Olave, 1 3rd | Khalil Shakir |
| 2025-07-08 | +110% | Quan Martin, Edgerrin Cooper, Cody Barton, 1 more, 1 1st | Rasheen Ali, Jonathan Jones, Jahlani Tavai, 2 more, 1 later pick |
Read each row as: Bryce Young, plus anything in the third column, was traded for J.J. McCarthy plus anything in the fourth. An em dash means that side sent nobody else. Margin is the value gap at that day’s prices from the side that received Bryce Young; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs -8.6% from the side that received Bryce Young, so the side ending up with J.J. McCarthy has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Bryce Young for J.J. McCarthy fair” by subtracting one number from another, and it gives every manager in your league the same answer. That tells you nothing about whether the trade closes. What closes it is whether one side has to attach a piece, and which side that usually is. The 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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