In sports, a prospect is any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team. Prospects can sometimes be assigned to farm teams. In sports a farm team, feeder team or nursery club, generally refers to a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players with an
Major-league professional sports teams also trade prospects, by themselves or with current major-leaguers, in order to acquire another prospect or an established major league player. Teams that trade away several of their star players for other teams' prospects are sometimes said to be having a fire sale. In Professional sports, a fire sale occurs when a team trades many of its veteran players especially expensive star players to other teams for less expensive and