Monday, February 21, 2005
Worst....trade....EVER
Over, at Mike's Baseball Rants, best known for his picking apart Joe Morgan's ridiculous analysis and his work on the hall of fame (two subjects I really enjoy), he has put together a look at the 10 worst trades of all times, to follow up on the posts that I linked to last week.
The worst trade of our lifetime, according to his metrics, was the Astros sending Glenn Davis to the Orioles for Steve Finley, Curt Schilling, and Pete Harnisch. Three unproven players with enormous potential, for one boring slugger. While Finley and Schilling didn't really make their names with the Astros, they were able to turn them around for other pieces. But as much of a steal as this was for the Astros, it was ten times worse a blunder for the Orioles. They lost two above average starting pitchers in one deal, and we know how easy those are to come by.
Amazingly, this trade happened less than six months after the Astros made another move where they sent away a veteran for a youngster with potential. Thanks Lou Gorman. Your idiotic move did nothing to prevent the Sox from being swept by the A's, and it now ranks #4 on the worst trades of all time.
The Astros might be the smartest team ever based off of those two moves, but they fell on the bad side of trade #6, giving away Joe Morgan.
Amazingly, Schilling has been a pawn in two of the worst trades of all time. The Sox getting Mike Boddicker for Schilling and Brady "I'm sure he didn't take steroids that year" Anderson checks in at #9 on the countdown.
The moral of the story: don't trade Curt Schilling. Too bad Mike's research wasn't around when Arizona decided they wanted Casey Fossum. Too bad for the Yankees, that is.
The worst trade of our lifetime, according to his metrics, was the Astros sending Glenn Davis to the Orioles for Steve Finley, Curt Schilling, and Pete Harnisch. Three unproven players with enormous potential, for one boring slugger. While Finley and Schilling didn't really make their names with the Astros, they were able to turn them around for other pieces. But as much of a steal as this was for the Astros, it was ten times worse a blunder for the Orioles. They lost two above average starting pitchers in one deal, and we know how easy those are to come by.
Amazingly, this trade happened less than six months after the Astros made another move where they sent away a veteran for a youngster with potential. Thanks Lou Gorman. Your idiotic move did nothing to prevent the Sox from being swept by the A's, and it now ranks #4 on the worst trades of all time.
The Astros might be the smartest team ever based off of those two moves, but they fell on the bad side of trade #6, giving away Joe Morgan.
Amazingly, Schilling has been a pawn in two of the worst trades of all time. The Sox getting Mike Boddicker for Schilling and Brady "I'm sure he didn't take steroids that year" Anderson checks in at #9 on the countdown.
The moral of the story: don't trade Curt Schilling. Too bad Mike's research wasn't around when Arizona decided they wanted Casey Fossum. Too bad for the Yankees, that is.
# posted by Darlucky @ 5:06 PM 
