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Which was Mariners worst?
1) David Ortiz for Dave Hollins
2) Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
3) Adam Jones and George Sherrill for Erik Bedard
You left off Chris Tillman in the Bedard trade. He was a more notable acquisition than Sherril
That is absolutely a valid point. Makes the trade look even worse.
Shin Soo choo for Ben broussard
I think trading Ketel Marte is going to go down as a very stupid move. Perhaps the stupidest? Perhaps.
Not even close. Segura and Haniger (when healthy) are solid players. Plus Walker barely pitched and is back with the M’s.
Well Tillman and Jones for good for awhile for the orioles. And bedard did nothing for Seattle
Another bad M’s trade was Dave Burba, Billy Swift, and Mike Jackson for Kevin Mitchell. Mitchell was severely on the downside and the three pitchers were really productive.
Re Doyle Alexander for John Smoltz; the Tigers went 11-0 in his 11 starts and won the AL East in a tight race with the Blue Jays. Sadly, they lost to the Kirby Puckett led Twins in the playoffs. The original trade was Steve Searcy for Alexander. Searcy was a stud left handed prospect, much more developed than Smoltz, and he was also the Tigers #1 prospect. The Braves astutely asked for Smoltz instead, who was a very raw just drafted newbie – with a tremendous upside. At the time no one could have seen what his career would become. Calling this trade “horrible” completely ignores the Tigers circumstances in the summer of 1987. Just for one mitigating factor, Kirk Gibson was going to be a free agent at the end of the season. If memory serves, he signed with the Dodgers and had a pretty good postseason in 1988…
Calling the trade “horrible” is based on the body of work. Thanks for context, but I’m sure even the GM making the trade would tell you winning the division and losing in the first round to Kirby wasn’t worth giving up a future HoF. Embrace that pennant like Greg Olson embraced Smoltzie.
In 1992 the Blue Jays traded future Hall of Famer Jeff Kent to the Mets for one month of David Cone. The Blue Jays won the World Series and went on to enjoy their own Hall of Fame second baseman, Roberto Alamar.
Jeff Kent isn’t going in the HOF dude. at least not by vote – all the writers hated him and his numbers are inflated by the steroid era.
are you suggesting he was using, because if not, how does playing against juiced pitchers help his numbers. remove run production and he was still hall worthy.
you win a world series doing a trade, doesn’t matter how good the traded kid ends up being, you won the trade.
now, both teams can end up winning the trade, but world series winner is always a winner in these deals (cubs 100 percent won the chapman/torres trade, but yanks are looking like winners in it as well).
We went from Bagwell-Anderson and Smoltz-Alexander to Alvarez-Fields and Tatis-Shields
Same first letter vs. a rhyme…time is a flat circle…
Lazy ass, short, boring Q&A. Not even during a quarantine can Steve Adams do more than a half-asked job.
Please leave MLBTR Steve. Ya garbage.