December 13, 1927: The Detroit Tigers traded Lu Blue and Heinie Manush to the St. Louis Browns for Harry Rice and Elam Vangilder. What were the Tigers thinking?
Lu Blue 36.7 career WAR, Manush 47.2
Rice 15.3, Vangilder 2.0
On the plus side, in 1960 the Tigers traded Steve Demeter to Cleveland for Stormin' Norman Cash.
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