There's an inverse relationship between trade deadline values due to scarcity and free agency values due to glut.
Trade Deadline is a sellers market, free agency (or the lead up) is a buyers market.
In the abstract, if Braun gets a 2nd and a 3rd in value, then Brodie should receive a similar return. However, with the excess of available defenders on the market (i believe 4 have been traded in the last 48 hours), the market for teams looking to acquire defenders has shrunk.
Timing the market is as important a factor as the quality of player you're looking to trade IMO, and the more defenders that get moved, the lower return you should expect for your middling asset.
There are more players than there are seats for this game of musical chairs. You don't want to be left standing when the music stops.
It looks like there's one less team interested in the services of a TJ Brodie today than there was yesterday. With the Rangers picking up Trouba, there might be 2 less teams interested than yesterday.
With Edler reportedly testing free agency, there is potentially another suitor gone as well.
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