All time great baseball trades?

[SAllen2556]

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.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

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.

An even better Tiger trade was when they dumped McLain on October 9, 1970:

Traded by Detroit Tigers: Denny McLain, Don Wert, Norm McRae and Elliott Maddox

to Washington Senators for Ed Brinkman, Aurelio Rodriguez, Joe Coleman and Jim Hannan

Brinkman and Rodriguez were an excellent left side of the infield, and Coleman went 20-9 in 1971. He won 98 games for the Tigers in the 6 years he was with them.


McLain was 10-22 with a 4.28 ERA in 1971, and was dumped prior to the 1972 season, for Don Stanhouse and somebody named Jim Panther.

[GeoPoto]

Continuing the thread of "great" deals i.e. terrible for Washington, in December 1948 the Senators shipped Early Wynn and Mickey Vernon to Cleveland for Joe Haynes, Ed Klieman, and Eddie Robinson.
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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Robinson is underrated (of course so is Vernon, who I think is a worthy hall debate candidate especially when you factor in 2 years of his prime lost to service) but man that's lopsided. On a tangential note is Eddie the oldest living Major Leaguer?

[pclpads]

Colavito for Kuenn has long been one of my head scratchers. A HR leader for a BA leader. GM "Trader Lane" was long reviled in Cleveland for that one in '59.

[55koufax]

This may not be on anyone's radar, but how about prior to 1969 when KC dealt Ed Charles "The Glider" to NYM for Bob Elliot and $50K !?!

Not only a pivotal part of the '69 Amazin's, but a long time coach, scout and ambassador of the game.

Gotta love the Glider, one of the game's "common" greats.

[riggs336]

Not exactly a trade but interesting because of the names involved: In late August, 1956 the Yankees claimed Enos Slaughter on waivers from K.C. To make room for Slaughter they released Phil Rizzuto.

[egri]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Robinson is underrated (of course so is Vernon, who I think is a worthy hall debate candidate especially when you factor in 2 years of his prime lost to service) but man that's lopsided. On a tangential note is Eddie the oldest living Major Leaguer?

Yes, he became the oldest living Major Leaguer last November when Val Heim died. He'll turn 100 this December.

[GeoPoto]

Originally Posted by egri

Yes, he became the oldest living Major Leaguer last November when Val Heim died. He'll turn 100 this December.

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[brian1961]

A favorite trade of mine was the occasion early in the 1966 season when the Cubs traded a pair of major veteran pitchers, Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl, plus John Herrnstein, to the Philadelphia Phillies, for Adolfo Phillips and a young relief pitcher, one Ferguson Jenkins.

I was watching the Cubs game where Fergie made his debut. Relieving the starter, Jenkins did right well, and manager Leo Durocher let the kid bat, and KER-BLAMO!---a home run at Wrigley Field! Some genius on the Cubs converted Fergie to a starting pitcher .....

Adolfo Phillips was erratic, but when he was hot, he was red-hot. In 1967 I recall he hit 5 home runs in a doubleheader against the Mets at Wrigley. We all loved Dolph; it's too bad he didn't keep it up, but Leo was a tough one on sensitive players in a slump.

As for Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl, it was truly the right call. Those twirlers had been terrific in their time, but their time was coming to an end. That's one trade the Chicago Cubs got right.

---Brian Powell