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- pjack91, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50Thank God you wrote baseball twice. For a second there I thought it would be the worst baseball trades in Football history.
- braingilbreath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16"January 3, 1920 – The Boston Red Sox trade Pitcher/Outfielder George Herman Ruth to the New York Yankees for Cash."
Nailed it with that one. - treleung, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"Why this wasn't the first in the list, I have no idea..."
Because the list isn't ordered by importance. - scr33ch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm a Mets fan. We're all over the list!
And we aren't living down the Kazmir trade. Ever. - pipdip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, I can't believe we got Liriano and Nathan for AJ. That was steal.
- UndercoverCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4damn, only if the jays held onto michael young. Then maybe we have a chance of getting Vernon Wells to resign.
- feylanks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4that money isn't everything? oh wait you were trying to prove that they buy wins and then claim other teams can win too
good contradictory argument you have there - djironx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If this was a ranked list, everyone knows Babe Ruth being traded to the Yankees would be Numero Uno. Unless of course your a Yankee fan, then it might as well be the best trade ever.
- edverb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They mentioned the dumb Schilling/Finley trade the Orioles made...but the trade that brought Schilling was even more lopsided. In 1988 the O's got Curt Schilling and Brady Anderson from Boston for Mike Boddicker.
Schilling aside for a moment, Boddicker was effective in 89 and 90...but Brady Anderson drove in 100 runs three times, stole 30 or more bases three times (including 53 swipes in 1992), hit 50 HRs in 1996, led his team to the postseason twice and made the all-star team three times.
With Boddicker, the Red Sox went to the playoffs in 1990 (and got swept by Oakland -- Boddicker was the Game 3 loser despite pitching effectively.) He went free agent after the 1990 season and retired in 1993 after stints with KC and Milwaukee. - treleung, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Your mariners? They're my mariners..
- boblabla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And with AJ gone, it paved the way for Mauer, who happens to be a great catcher for Minnesota.
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My Mariners come out ahead in 3 of the 4 times they're on the list, but that Slocumb deal still hurts every time it's brought up. I never watch college baseball, but I still remember being excited the day the M's drafted Jason Varitek to be the catcher of the future. Too bad it wasn't in Seattle's future.
- Outdoor83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was waiting for someone to mention it... though Rincon wasn't too bad at that point in his career. Of course, we all knew Giles would be great
- joehobbes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A LOT of these are pure hindsight. A lot of the big names were traded when they were basically young prospects. You would have never known that they would be that successful.
Most of the cases are typical trades: trade some young, unproven prospects who MIGHT be good later for some solid veteran that will help the team NOW. It's all on what is important to the team. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When I saw that trade almost reached through the internet and choked Jim Duquette...
- xlocust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2About the only good move the Cubs have made in the last two years was getting rid of Sosa. Now if they would only get rid of Hendry and Dusty.....
- orangeRam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Somebody shoudl tell Rick Peterson his 10 minutes are up with Zambrano...
- srahn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Article has incorrect information regarding the Doyle Alexander/John Smoltz trade..."Alexander was brought in to help the Tigers make a run at the American League Pennant (which they would fall just short of by one game to the Red Sox.) " Actually, the Tigers won the AL East that year and lost in the playoffs to the Minnesota Twins.
- jimbocook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And don't forget the Cards traded Steve Carlton for Rich Wise. Carlton wanted $60 grand and the Cards were only willing to go to 55. Augie Busch is a legend in St. Louis but he was a bit of a tightwad (anyone remember Curt Flood?)
- johnhutch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The history is one of the reasons why baseball is so appealing to the bookish sports fan. There's just so much.
- mshaslam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3No, they are the A's Mariners. 14 consecutive losses? The A's definitely own the M's this year.
- redington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would add Milt Pappas, Jack Baldschun, and outfielder Dick Simpson traded to the Reds for Frank Robinson (age 30). Frank tore it up after the trade and Pappas et al didn't do a whole lot for the Reds by comparison.
- seventen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hind sight is always great for these sports writers who come out of the woodwork and blast teams for bad decisions. Then they sit on their high horse and proclaim they were the ones who called it a bad deal from the get go.
Its called baseball...and Steve Phillips is a retard. - Camman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this list doesn't make any sense.
While Schilling wouldn't be all that great with the Astros, this trade is important because it was in Houston that Schilling recieved the right mental push to harness his talents (courtesy of Roger Clemens).
Clemens never played with Schilling, and at the time of this trade Roger Clemens was still playing for Boston, how is this related? - goob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised the Jamie Moyer for Darren Bragg trade didn't make the list either. What a freaking steal for the Mariners over the past 10 years. Although it's gonna take a few more trades like that to erase the memory of that damn Varitek trade from my mind.
Also, the Bartolo Colon trade to Montreal was an absolute steal for Cleveland, how could that not be on the list? The Indians trade pitcher Bartolo Colon to the Expos and they get back Lee Stevens, Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore and Cliff Lee. In fact, after this trade, the Cleveland GM stated in a few articles that he used the Randy Johnson trade of 98 as a guide, getting massive amounts of prospects in exchange for a stud pitcher. I'd say it was a pretty smart move. - garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good thing the Teahen, Buck and Wood for 3 months of Beltran isn't considered a bad trade anymore.
Just more Fox Sports crap. - duketime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm as mad about the steroids thing as anybody else, but I don't know if these teams are going to be living it down so much as the people involved (well, hopefully not).
The players' reputations are deservedly taken down a notch (even though some of these things weren't "technically" illegal at the time), and some of the managers too (Tony LaRussa should be run out for being such an enabler), but I'd hope that team fandom would survive this (just as it survives things like free agency, price gouging, etc.).
Additionally, it's amazing ... amazing to see Barry Bonds bat (especially close and late, I saw him hit a walk-off HR some years ago), but he needs to leave the sport. - Outdoor83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's a (relatively) recent one that we're all pretty sure was a bad trade for Texas:
December 6, 2002: The Cleveland Indians traded Einar Diaz and Ryan Drese to the Texas Rangers for Travis Hafner and Aaron Myette
Myette never amounted to anything, Einar Diaz was a backup catcher and Drese wasn't going anywhere. Of course, Travis Hafner turned into the Jim Thome-like player he was projected to be. - drunkbeard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not bashing content, but this writer obviously has no idea how to do a grammar check, or a spell check for that matter. Tons of typos and silly mistakes that are just annoying as hell to look at. If you're going to post anything on the web, especially to be read by lots of people, you really can't be missing stuff like this.
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even then he forgot about Chiti, the only player to be traded for himself.
- SenorBudd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 The SF GM should have his head spiked for this one.
- cremate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As if the rest of the league isn't on something too....don't kid yourselves.
- ryogahibiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a giants fan, this trade KILLS me! Anytime I hear ANY of those names, it feels like someone punched me in the gut. I no longer have any respect for Sabean-he is a world class dumb-ass.
- stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Jordon? Are you kidding me? How can you misspell the most prominent basketball name in basketball history?
And I don't mean person, I'm specifically talking about the man's name, which is everywhere. - levilove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about Boston trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson in 1990. That was a real winner for the Sox.
Yikes. - gcampion, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0this new site www.sportsforpresident.com has some good baseball lists. 100 reasons to hate kevin youkilis is good.
- spurtle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think Kazmir's back from the dl. Pelfrey is apparently injured now and he's what? 6'7" 250lbs?
- pointaken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2bassbawl rawks!!!
- jjallday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cleveland trades Brian Giles to the Pirates for Ricardo Rincon in 1998. Giles went on to hit 165 homers for the Pirates over the next 4+ seasons. Rincon won 17 games and had 3 saves over the rest of his career.
- theologyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Absolutely right about hindsight. Particularly Cone for Hearn - Cone was a skinny, unproven local kid with a fastball, Hearn had proven value. How do you know in advance that Hearn gets hurt?
- theologyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, Teahen anyway. Jury's still out on Buck, and Wood's got DL time.
- phengley, on 11/04/2008, -0/+0It is amazing that what some people consider a great trade others think of as a terrible trade. Some of these trades were trades of necessity. They player and the manger or owner did not get along or they just flat out hated each other. baseball is a team sport where one rotten apple will spoil the barrel. http://uptobat.com/
- GotGold, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0You win some you lose some, but some posters are right about situations regarding trades . Hind sight, at the time some of the greats were hopefuls. But they all started in one place, amateur baseball. Here is a listing of all amateur baseball parks in the USA http://youthbaseballparks.com
- kizio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome. Is anyone able to open this link?
- malonie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0kazmirs small frame which they claim is prone to injury prompt Duquette via Petterson et al to trade him. Now Kazmirs injured. Have to wait for another decade to really know if Kazmir deal is one of the worse the Mets ever made.
- starexplorer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1great list
- buchannan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah, Vernon's headed to Texas for sure, with Young still in our lineup...that fills a huge hole at Short.....
- duketime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm surprised the Reds trade from this year didn't make the list:
2 young, everyday players with big potential (Kearns and Lopez) and a reliever that could still break out for something like 3 mediocre relievers and a scrub SS (Royce Clayton).
Bad trades happen all the time, but from the sources I've seen this trade and the Mets Kazmir deal are two of the recent trades that were evidently bad the day they were made. - finger11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i was going to post "Kazmir trade will be there in a couple years"
suprised they got it included already... god what a terrible day... - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The A's haven't won the world series in almost 17 years. Billy Beane has a good system for scouting talent there, but unfortuantely for them, it's never enough to push them over the hump of the playoffs. Moneyball would hold a lot more weight if it actually proved to be a WINNING formula.
As for your A-Rod comment, Texas is paying more of his salary than the Yankees are. -
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