Jaylen Waddle and Sam LaPorta have been on opposite sides of 21 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.
None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.
In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 0 between the Jaylen Waddle side and the Sam LaPorta 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 Jaylen Waddle prices at 4,624 and Sam LaPorta at 3,804, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 1.2x 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 Jaylen Waddle | Went with Sam LaPorta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-04 | +21% | Jacob Cowing, Sam Darnold, Isaiah Davis, 15 more, 1 3rd | Kimani Vidal, Brian Robinson, Jalen Tolbert, 16 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2026-04-20 | +5% | Emanuel Wilson, Ray Davis, Malik Nabers, 7 more, 1 later pick | Devaughn Vele, Jameis Winston, James Conner, 5 more |
| 2026-02-09 | +14% | Nico Collins | 1 1st |
| 2025-12-07 | -25% | Jaylen Warren | 1 1st |
| 2025-11-27 | -12% | Kenny Gainwell, George Pickens | Rome Odunze, Zach Charbonnet |
| 2025-11-05 | -4% | Quinshon Judkins, Jake Ferguson, 1 3rd | Alec Pierce, De'Von Achane |
| 2025-10-14 | +7% | Dalton Kincaid, CeeDee Lamb, Quentin Johnston | Xavier Worthy, Michael Pittman, Jaxon Smith-Njigba |
| 2025-10-11 | +23% | Jalen Hurts, Jake Ferguson | Caleb Williams, 1 1st, 1 3rd |
| 2025-10-01 | +5% | Joe Burrow, 1 1st, 1 3rd | Luther Burden, Justin Herbert |
| 2025-07-07 | -23% | Joe Milton, Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Nailor, 16 more | Rachaad White, Brandin Cooks, D'Andre Swift, 12 more, 1 3rd |
Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Sam LaPorta 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 Jaylen Waddle; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs +5.4% from the side that received Jaylen Waddle, so the side ending up with Jaylen Waddle 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 Jaylen Waddle for Sam LaPorta 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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