Sunday, February 13, 2005
Red Sox are #1!
Following up on my "wow, the Mets really ARE that bad at trading," I wanted to check up on how much the Bagwell for Larry Andersen trade accounted for in the Red Sox showing up as the 3rd worst traders of the last 40 years.
Well, after his well-worth-it month with the Red Sox, Andersen actually went on to play for 4 more years, in the national league. In all, after the trade put up 24 win shares. Jeff Bagwell has put up 386 and counting.
That deficit of 362 Win Shares is the difference between the Red Sox being the 3rd worst, and being 14th worst. More evidence that the Bagwell travesty should certainly be included on any list of the worst moves ever, across all sports.
Oh well, Jeff Bagwell may be going to the hall of fame some day, but Scott Cooper was the last Red Sox third-baseman to make the All-Star team, so that has to count for something!
Edited Monday morning to add: The Hardball Times made a mistake. They didn't include trades that involved minor leaguers, and as such, didn't even count the Jeff Bagwell trade. In fact, it moves the Red Sox from third to last, to last place, on the worst traders of the expansion era. The Mets are the second worst. Schweet.
Well, after his well-worth-it month with the Red Sox, Andersen actually went on to play for 4 more years, in the national league. In all, after the trade put up 24 win shares. Jeff Bagwell has put up 386 and counting.
That deficit of 362 Win Shares is the difference between the Red Sox being the 3rd worst, and being 14th worst. More evidence that the Bagwell travesty should certainly be included on any list of the worst moves ever, across all sports.
Oh well, Jeff Bagwell may be going to the hall of fame some day, but Scott Cooper was the last Red Sox third-baseman to make the All-Star team, so that has to count for something!
Edited Monday morning to add: The Hardball Times made a mistake. They didn't include trades that involved minor leaguers, and as such, didn't even count the Jeff Bagwell trade. In fact, it moves the Red Sox from third to last, to last place, on the worst traders of the expansion era. The Mets are the second worst. Schweet.
# posted by Darlucky @ 7:39 PM 
