Open Thread: Best/Worst Trades For Every Current GM

Jays trading Michael Young!

Jon Daniels trading Chris Young, Adrian Gonzalez, and Terrmel Sledge to San Diego for Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka

Re: "Jays trading Michael Young"

He said current General Managers. Young was traded before Ricciardi came aboard. The Young trade was under the management of Gord Ash, I think.

Maybe this is Ricciardi's best trade - Picking up Jeremy Accardo for Shea Hillenbrand. Accardo is Jays' closer and Hillenbrand is currently waiting for some team to phone and offer a contract.

Best trade: Mark Teixeira and Ron Mahay to the Braves for Elvis Andrus, Matt Harrison,Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Neftali Feliz, Beau Jones, and 4 other prospects

For Jim Hendry, its a tie for me between trading 3 pitchers for 1 year of Juan Pierre, or Trading Greg Maddex for Cesar IsTerrible

I think Hendry could have gotten more for Maddux had he went elsewhere, but he was trying to accommodate Maddux in that deal too, shipping him somewhere where he actually wanted to go.

The Beginning of the END

Sabean trading Joe Nathan, Fransico Lirano, and Boof Bonser for A.J.Pierzynski

I've got three Billy Beane's for you. Two bad, one good.

Bad:
2003, Michael Barrett to the Cubs for Damian Miller...

2004, Tim Hudson to Atl for Juan Cruz, Dan Meyer and Charles Thomas. A's saw/have seen ZERO production out of any of those players

Good:
2004, Mark Mulder to Stl, for Dan Haren, Kiko Calero, and Daric Barton.

Jon Daniels.

Best trade: Eric Gagne to the Red Sox for Kason Gabbard, David Murphy, and Engel Beltre.

Worst trade: Chris Young, Adrian Gonzalez, Termell Sledge to the Padres for Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka.

David Dombrowski's worst trade has to be for Neifi Perez (although he saved Verlander's no-hitter, so it might've been worth it?).

It's easy to say that his best trade is Maybin-Miller for Cabrera-Willis, but until it pans out, it's a tie between Urbina for Polanco and Santiago for Guillen.

Damn scribbletone, you beat me to it this time! But I will add trading Freddy Bynum for Kevin Hart to your list.

And Reynel Pinto would be the answer to the Cubs current lefty reliever question. Nolasco and Mitre probably don't make the staff, but I agree that trade stunk on principle alone. Three serviceable pitchers for one year of Juan Pierre!

Signing Scott Linebrink in Chicago to 4 years 19 Mil. to pitch in the smallest of the small parks is going to be hard for any GM to top.

Omar Minaya:

Best: Probably Kris Benson to the Orioles for John Maine and Jorge Julio (who was then traded to the D-Backs for El Duque). The trades for Oliver Perez and Duaner Sanchez were nice too though.

Worst: As far as worst with the Mets, there are four here that I'd consider, and I think I'd rank them in the following order (1 as the worst):
1) Heath Bell and Royce Ring to the Padres for Ben Johnson and Jon Adkins
2) Brian Bannister to the Royals for Ambiorix Burgos
3) Lastings Milledge to the Nationals for Ryan Church and Brian Schneider
4) Henry Owens and Matt Lindstrom to the Marlins for Jason Vargas and Adam Bostick.
Remember, the Kazmir trade was Duquette, not Minaya.
However, Minaya's worst trade ever was definitely that trade he made when he was with the Expos. We all know which one that was:
Expos trade Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee and Lee Stevens to the Indians for Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew.
Does that count Tim?

Some were already mentioned:

Best:
Tie 1) Acquired INF Placido Polanco from the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for RHP Ugueth Urbina and INF Ramon Martinez.
Tie 1) Acquired shortstop Carlos Guillen from Seattle in exchange for shortstop Ramon Santiago and minor league shortstop Juan Gonzalez.
3) Acquired Carlos Pena, minor league reliever Franklyn German and a player to be named later (Jeremy Bonderman) from the Oakland Athletics for Jeff Weaver.
4) Acquired pitchers Gary Knotts, Nate Robertson and Rob Henkel from the Florida Marlins in exchange for pitcher Mark Redman and minor league pitcher Jerrod Fuell.
5) Acquired 1B Sean Casey from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for RHP Brian Rogers

Jury out:
Acquired LHP Dontrelle Willis and 3B Miguel Cabrera from the Florida Marlins in exchange for RHP Burke Badenhop, RHP Eulogio De La Cruz, RHP Dallas Trahern, LHP Andrew Miller, C Mike Rabelo and OF Cameron Maybin
Acquired OF Jacque Jones from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for INF Omar Infante.
Acquired SS Edgar Renteria from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for RHP Jair Jurrjens and OF Gorkys Hernandez.
Acquired RHP Yorman Bazardo from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for OF Jeff Frazier
Acquired OF Gary Sheffield from the New York Yankees in exchange for RHPs Humberto Sanchez, Kevin Whelan and Anthony Claggett.
Acquired RHP Kyle Farnsworth and a player to be named from the Cubs for RHP Roberto Novoa, 3B Scott Moore and OF Bo Flowers.

Worst:
1) Acquired INF Neifi Perez from Chicago Cubs in exchange for C Chris Robinson.
2) Acquired RHP Roman Colon and nonroster RHP Zach Miner from the Braves for RHP Kyle Farnsworth.

overall krivsky done a good job on the trade front....although if the category was bad FA signings, i could think of a couple aging Relievers to add to the list haha

A trade that could really have an impact is the stupid trade of Hamilton to the Reds for cash . Why give a division rival another piece to work with ? The Reds flipped him a year later for a starting pitcher , Cuetto (?).If the Reds didn't have Hamilton the Reds would have had one less piece to trade with .Also , the money they spent on Fukudome could have been spent on a starter this year .

Theo Epstein
Best trade: Schilling for Fossum, Lyons and De la Rosa. Boston gets 2 rings in Schilling's tenure.
Worst trade: Suppan for Sanchez. On paper it was an ok move, but Suppan explodes and Sanchez goes on to win a batting title. You can't really count Mike Gonzalez as part of this deal because of the circumstances surrounding the deal.

Runner up for best trade: Hillenbrand for Kim. It's not what he got but what he did, This move solves a logjam at 3rd and DH. Billy Ballgame Mueller becomes regular 3rd baseman and wins a batting title. Ortiz drops his demand to be released and becomes the regular DH.

Runner up for worst trade: Gagne for Gabbard, Murphy, and Beltre. Good move on paper, then Gagne's arm falls off. Though honestly the only real loss is Beltre who may or may not pan out.

Brian Cashman (Yankees)

Worst:
-Trading Juan Rivera and Nick Johnson for Javier Vasquez
-The Johnson deal
-...and a whole bunch of free agent signings

Best Trades:
-Homer Bush, Graeme Lloyd, and David Wells to the Toronto Blue Jays for Roger Clemens.
-Randy Johnson to Arizona for Luis Vizcaino, Alberto Gonzalez, Ross Ohlendorf and Steven Jackson
-Alfonso Soriano and Joaquin Arias for Alex Rdoriguez
- Trading Jaret Wright for Chris Britton
-Gary Sheffield for Humberto Sanchez and two pitching prospects

Pat Gillick:
Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle for Matt Smith, CJ Henry, Jesus Sanchez, and Carlos Monasterios....ugh

or how about this great one?
Gio Gonzalez and Gavin Floyd for Freddy Garcia

Pat Gillick has been horrible.

Dayton Moore:

Best - Bannister for Burgos

Worst - Affeldt and Bautista for Shealy (although Shealy could still turn into something useful)

Someone mentioned the Jorge De La Rosa trade as Moore's worst. The Royals got DLR in exchange for a 2 1/2 month rental of Tony Graffanino. Moore was fortunate to get any kind of talented young pitcher for a mediocre utility infielder rental.

Giving up very little and getting very little in return isn't a bad trade.

Bill Smith:

Best: Jason Bartlett/Matt Garza/Eduardo Morlan for Delmon Young/Brendan Harris/Jason Pridie.

Worst: Can't really say a worst cause he's made like three trades, but I suppose I could say the Johan trade was worst by default...

For the Red Sox, I have to agree with what Daniel B wrote.

For KT...

WORST: Woody Williams to STL for Reggie Sanders. Reggie was good here for 1 year, then went to Arizona; Woody was a perennial 15-game winner for a few years in STL.

BEST: Andy Sheets for Phil Nevin. Nev provided a ton of value in his early years when he was cheaper, and even in his Petco years he was still pretty decent. Sheets went to Anaheim and was never heard from again...

A close 2nd place: the aforementioned Gonzo/Young for Eaton/Aki deal.

Billy Beane's worst trade was not Hudson or Michael Barrett. It was trading Aaron Harang for a rental of Jose Guillen. Harang has been a better pitcher than Hudson the past three years, making a fraction of the money.

Scribble,

Good pointing out of the positive and negative trades in regards to Hendry. The Hundley for Karros and Grudz trade is legendary... as well as the Bobby Hill for ARam and Choi for DLee trades. I think we're going to be raving about the Walker for Ceda and Bynum for Hart trades as masterpieces as well in the near future.

Another great trade you overlooked: Neifi Perez for a possible solid backup catcher in Chris Robinson. Hell, Neifi for a set of "throwing towels" for the injury ward that is/was Rothschild's legacy on our fine young arms would be a great trade.

John Schuerholz
Best Trade: Melvin Nieves, Donnie Elliott, and Vince Moore for Fred McGriff.
Runner up: Horacio Ramirez for Rafael Soriano

Worst trade: None really come to mind but how about sacrificing the entire young pitching corps for one season of JD Drew? JD Drew & Eli Marrero for Ray King, Jason Marquis, and Adam Wainwright.

Just to reinforce the great impact of Dave Dombrowski.

Trading Urbina for Polanco, trading 3 prospects for Sheffield, Guillen for Santiago and then getting Santiago back for nothing, and most importantly getting rid of Jeff Weaver for Bonderman.
The worst would definitely be Neifi Perez... enough said. And don't call the Farnsworth for Colon and Miner bad. Miner has been a solid pitcher who has helped out when we needed it.

Does anyone remember who the Devil Rays got for BOBBY ABREU?

The best trade was Aramis Ramirez AND Kenny Lofton to the Cubs for Bobby Hill.

Brian Sabean

Best
1) Jason Schmidt and John Vander Wal from the Pirates for Armando Rios and Ryan Vogelsong

2) Jeff Kent, Jose Vizcaino, Joe Roa and Julian Tavarez from the Indians for Matt Williams

3) JT Snow from the Angels for Allen Watson

4) David Bell from the Mariners for Desi Relaford

5) Kenny Lofton from the White Sox for Felix Diaz and Ryan Meaux

Worst
1) AJ Pierzynski from the Twins for Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano and Boof Bonser

2) Damian Moss and Manuel Mateo from the Braves for Russ Ortiz

3) Shea Hillenbrand and Vinnie Chulk from the Blue Jays for Jeremy Accardo

Conclusion: he made some really good trades to set the Giants up for a World Series run, but the trades since have been either poor or inconsequential.

Theo Epstein:

Worse: trading josh bard and clay marideth for doug mirabelli

trading renteria for andy marte

best: the becket and lowell deal

Nomar Garciaparra, and matt murton 4 orlando cabrera,doug meintkeiwicz, and dave roberts
...and when orlando and meintkeiwicz signed we got draft picks that got clay bucholz

I know Dombrowski has been mentioned several times, but it's worth mentioning again. Having lived through the Randy Smith era, it's amazing to see acquisitions actually pan out for the Tigers. Dombrowski joined the Tigers in 2002 as President and CEO. After a 106-loss season, he assumed GM duties as well. While trying to blow up those 100-loss a season teams, I remember him telling a private audience "Bobby Higginson makes 12 million a year...try and trade him...Dean Palmer makes 8 million a year...try and trade him... etc etc etc"

The best:
Carlos Guillen acquired for Ramon Santiago and a minor leaguer.

Placido Polanco acquired for Ugi Urbina and Ramon Martinez.

Jeremy Bonderman, Franklyn German, and Carlos Pena for Jeff Weaver

Nate Robertson for Mark Redman

The worst:
Chris Robinson traded for Neifi Perez

Jack Hannahan traded for Jason Perry

Cody Ross traded for Steve Colyer.

In review, Dombrowski has acquired All Star talent several times over without giving up major league talent. His "worst" trades have involved bench players and clearing spots on the 40 man. Pretty incredible considering the landscape of baseball in Detroit before DD showed up-

John Mozeliak

Has not made a bad trade yet. Edmonds (end of career) for David Freese is good. Just unloading that bad contract leftover by Jocketty is a success.
Rolen (disgruntled with TLR) for Glaus, and getting the Jays to pick up some salary, will be really good if Glaus stays healthy, could be horrible if Rolen gets healthy, but the dispute with TLR was the main issue.

Kevin Towers -

BEST:
- Adrian Gonzalez, Terrmel Sledge, and Chris Young for Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka: I haven't seen a highway robbery of this level in a while for this franchise. I don't know if we would be in playoff contention this year if not for this deal.
- Josh Bard and Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli: Theo panicked when Bard couldn't catch the knuckler, and I don't think he would've made the deal if he wasn't under so much pressure. But he did, and we reaped the plentiful benefits.
- Kevin Kouzmanoff for Josh Barfield: While we haven't seen the full impact of this deal, Barfield has already been benched and Kouzmanoff is about to hit third and hopefully become an important part of the Padres' offense.
- Phil Nevin for Andy Sheets: Sheets disappeared, and Nevin became a big home run threat until he moved to Petco.
- Heath Bell and Royce Ring for Jon Adkins and Ben Johnson: Bell is obviously the main positive in this deal, but Ring was decent for us before being traded for Wil Ledezma (who'll be in the bullpen this year after a good spring) and Will Startup who's a decent pitching prospect in our system. Adkins and Johnson did nothing for the Mets, and I think they're both either in AAA or been released.
- Scott Linebrink for Joe Thatcher, Will Inman, and Steve Garrison: The jury may still be out on this one, but the Brewers only got a half year out of Linebrink while the Padres got a great pitching prospect (Inman) and a good lefty reliever (Thatcher) in the deal, so the advantage goes to Towers at this point.

WORST:
- Brian Giles for Jason Bay and Oliver Perez: Giles never really hit for power, and is now the lead-off hitter because he can get on base a lot. He's also likely to be let go after his contract runs out. Jason Bay meanwhile is a top 25 OF and Oliver Perez is a decent starter on the Mets. This deal hurts.
- Ray Lankford for Woody Williams: Lankford didn't do anything, and Williams went on to be a 15-game winner for the Cardinals.
- PTBNL for Jack Cust: Cust would've never played in our OF since he's a terrible defender, and was blocked at first, but getting only a PTBNL is pretty sad.

Other than those three, I don't see too many trades that really hurt the Padres a bunch. All the times Towers traded for players that ended up being crappy, he was giving up equally crappy players.

JP Ricciardi:

Looking at all of his trades, it's pretty obvious that there are no glaring bad trades.

Paul Quantrill for Luke Prokopec and Chad Ricketts is probably the worst, but he was basically dumping salary at the time.

Adam Peterson for Hillenbrand, Vinnie Chulk and Hillenbrand for Accardo were a couple extremely nice deals.

Corey Koskie and his salary for top reliever Brian Wolfe was another nice deal as well. Everyone assumed he would release Koskie but instead got the best reliever in the league against righties in 2007.

Getting Justin Speier for Mark Hendrickson and Ted Lilly for Bobby Kielty were also good moves.

All in all, I think the Accardo trade was the best, but the Wolfe one is up there because of the circumstances. The Quantrill trade was about the only bad one.

Kenny Williams:

Worst: Kip Wells, Josh Fogg and Sean Lowe for Todd Ritchie.

Best: Esteban Loaiza for Jose Contreras. There have been a few good ones (Jim Thome, Freddy Garcia) but Contreras was the #1 starter in the playoffs in 2005.

Dan O`Dowd

Worst Chone Figgins for Kimera Bartee. wouldn't mind having him at 2B this year

Best Bryan Fuentes, Jose Paniagua and Dennis Stark from Seattle for Jeff Cirillo

JollyWaffle, you can't really count the Cust "Trade". It was probably more a favor to Cust from Towers if anything.

Think about it; The Padres, as you said, wern't going to use Cust. Cust was about to go to Japan. He almost signed with the A's that off season (Minor League Free Agent, and had been with the Rivercats before, ironically where he had his worst year or he'd probably have made the team) and here comes along a chance to give the guy a chance to finally play in the Majors, at really the only position you expect him to play (AL, DH). So why not just throw him to the A's for Cash. Its good for the player, and builds your friendship with the other club if the guy does well (which he did) which could lead to another deal down the line.

For the A's, best and Worst trades... hmm... everything is in contxt of course...

Best: Mark Mulder to St. Louis for Daric Barton, Kiko Calero and Dan Haren.

Mulder had an awesome first half, then completly tanked the 2nd half of the season. The Hudson trade setup the Mulder trade, actually, as the Cards inquired about Hudson, then after losing out for Hudson, traded for Mulder and gave up more than they would have for Hudson, as Mulder had 2 years left on his contract, and was a lefty with a less extensive (at the time) injury history.

The A's recieved a top catching prospect in Barton (who was immidietly moved to 1st Base and will be the A's starting 1B this year), a solid relief pitcher who pitched well for two years before getting injured, and Dan Haren, who became the staff Ace and was dealt again for a slew of prospects.

Worst trade; No, not the Tim Hudson trade, that one a) everyone saw coming, b) wasn't a bad package at the time of the deal (Meyer, one of the top pitching prospets in baseball at the time, hurt his arm lifting weights in spring training after being acquired, though I will admit that Beane got suckered in with Charles Thomas). Hudson had only 1 year left on his contract, an injury history, and the A's decided to deal him before he left for Free Agency to his home town.

The worst trade, I would say, was the Ted Lilly for Bobby Kielty trade, which made no sense to me at all at the time, nor since. Keilty was, at best, a platoon outfielder, from the easier side to find (Right Handed). Ted Lilly, was a solid 4th starter. This trade made no sense, for monatary or other. The reason for the trade was that Keith Foulke was playing the A's off the RedSox, to get the RedSox to pay him more money. The A's believed they had a deal with Foulke, so they traded Lilly to clear salary, and Foulke signed with Boston. The end result was Oakland losing Lilly, having to sign the wreck that was Arthur Rhodes, and dealing a no-name for (then non-tendering and signing) Mark Redman, who was only slightly better smelling than his years after leaving Oakland, the same price as Lilly was or more, and pitched much worse.

I think Theo Epstein's worst trade was Bronson Arroyo for Wily Mo Pena. The Red Sox' rotation was torn apart by injuries in 2006, and all Wily Mo did was sit on the bench and stagnate for two years. Then he got dumped for essentially nothing, and now he's starting to show his potential in Washington. There have been other trades that didn't work out (Crisp, Gagne, Renteria), but those seemed really good at the time. Arroyo for Pena was curious at the time, and it's bad now.

As for his best trade, I have to agree that it was Nomar and Murton for Cabrera and Mientkiewicz. Dramatically shored up the defense, got rid of a serious chemistry issue in the clubhouse.

Sabean's best:
Armando Rios for Jason Schmidt and John Vander Wal

Sabean's worst:
Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser for (1 year of) A.J. Pierzynski

Bill Bavasi's best:

Erik Bedard for Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, George Sherrill, Tony Butler and Kam Mickolio.

Bill Bavasi's Worst:

Horacio Ramirez for Rafael Soriano.

..and possibly Erik Bedard for Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, George Sherrill, Tony Butler and Kam Mickolio.

How do you define worst? A lot of Red Sox fans are throwing out Gagne, sure it turned out bad.

But go to the deadline, they saw a need for a setup man (Okie went down in Sept so they were right)
They then got the best available, while giving up two AAA players, a 4th outfielder, and a borderline MLB pitcher at best, and then a 17yr old kid who has done exactly nothing - there are thousands of those guys around, it was no loss.

To me, that still sounds like a great trade for Theo, he did everything right, Gagne did everything wrong - which Theo has no control over.

Still love the Sox fans who talk as if 2006 would have been different with Arroyo in the rotation, yea he was the saviour in waiting..

Since Theo didn't do the Beckett trade (he left the organisation at that point) his best is Schilling, his worst is Bard/ Meredith for Mirabelli.

As a couple people have said, Andy MacPhail in Baltimore hasn't had a bad trade yet, although any trade with prospects can go either way. But his best trade to date is -clearly- the Steve Trachsel for Rocky Cherry, Scott Moore and Jake Renshaw deal. Not only did Trachsel utterly fail, to add insult to injury, the O's added him back on a minor league deal immediately. I'm convinced they did it just to twist the knife.

Jays trade David Wells for Mike Sirotka of the White Sox

oh this is such a fun post. heck i dont remember lilly with oakland. and pronk, who was he with? the tigers sure have had som good trades over the last few years. the mets trading kazmir has to be one of the worst all time. everyone in baseball knew kazmir was going to be good. and my cardinals have had some of the best trades. this is fun.

Often the best trades are the ones NOT made, so we need to give GMs credit for holding on to guys sometimes. JS in Atlanta was awesome at this, as has been TE in Boston.

Devlsh, Andy McPhail traded Dontrelle Willis in July of 2002...to be fair, he did get Matt Clement who helped the Cubs in 2003.

Edgar Renteria is a minor leaguer, any trade involving him can't be considered bad. He just couldn't deal with the AL. Tigers will see this year that trading for three minor league stars will not do you any good. Willis is a NL fraud so that one might go down as a bad move in a few years.

As far as the Meredith and bard deal for Mirabelli I would like to see those two guys in the majors before consiering it a bad deal. So what if Meredith pitched well in the NL and a pitchers park at that. Josh Bard would have broken the record for passed balls by a mile.

No one has mentioned Jim Bowden yet.

Reds trades:
Best: most of the pre-Griffey ones
The one that stands out the most is Dave Burba, Mark Portugal, and Darren Lewis for Deion Sanders
Worst:most of the post-Griffey trades
Any of the various ones where a young pitching prospect was traded for an outfielder when the Reds were loaded at outfielder and depleted at pitcher.

Nationals trades:
Best:getting Alfonso Soriano
Worst:many, however, not trading Alfonso Soriano and just letting him walk was the biggest mistake.

For Shapiro I would actually go a little different:
I think that the Ryan Drese / Einar Diaz for Travis Hafner / Aaron Myete deal is tops. It was basically a salary dump of Diaz to make room for the Victor Martinez/Josh Bard tandem. But Diaz coupled with a low-ceiling pitcher for Pronk and a low-ceiling pitcher? Give up nothing and get Hafner? How can you not love it?

Honorable mention:
~ Bartolo Colon / Tim Drew for Grady Sizemore / Cliff Lee / Brandon Phillips / Lee Stevens from Montreal ~ of course, but we had to give something up here…

~ Milton Bradley for Franklin Gutierrez / Andrew Brown from the Bums ~ I was shocked that we were able to trade the DFA’ed (and kicking and screaming) Bradley for anything, let alone two of the Dodgers Top-6 prospects…

~ Jacob Cruz for Jody Gerut and Josh Bard from Colorado ~ one of my early favs… Jody might have bought his ticket out of town (and baseball until his recent resurface) with his attitude and ability to find the DL, but he was so fun to watch in 03/04 and Bard of course was a solid backup until being upgraded in the Crisp/Marte deal.

~ 39YO Chuck Finley with that nifty 1.538 WHIP and about 4Mil owed for Luis Garcia and Coco Crisp. Really, WTF were the Cards thinking on this one? Doesn’t matter that he did ok for them down the stretch; it comes more in the fact that just taking his contract probably would have been enough. I have to think Shapiro probably giggled after this one…

Worst:
I guess the Phillips deal. But it really was a deal that had to be made because of a roster crunch and his questionable attitude meant that people were not as eager to take on “the Franchise” as some think.

Robbie Alomar, Danny Peoples and Mike Bacsik to the Mets for Matt Lawton, Alex Escobar, Jerrod Riggan, Earl Snyder and Billy Traber didn’t really work out great for either side, but was definitely one which I would do again because it seemed as if atleast 1 or 2 of Escobar/Traber/Snyder would almost have to live up to expectations.

Note, I actually don’t dislike the Crisp/Bard/Riske for Marte/Shoopach/Mota deal at all, but mainly because of the second part that never gets mentioned. It was really more of a 3 team deal, with the Rhode to Philly for Michaels deal being the subsequent move. Crisp wasn’t a Corner OF, was injury prone, and other options were available. JMike + a platoon partner is just fine in his place, meaning we didn’t lose anything to take the chance on a Top-Prospect in the game. Now, we also never really gave said prospect a true chance, and his continually being buried in the minors didn’t help his career any; but when it doesn’t cost much to take that chance then I don’t think its that bad of a move… Plus, its not like Crisp ever cost anything in the first place (See the Finley deal)

Kenny Williams

Best: Freddy Garcia trade

Worst: Lowe/Kip Wells/Josh Fogg for Todd Ritchie and Evans.

I'd like to give an honorable mention to Ray Durham (a type A free agent) for Jon Adkins. That was dumb.