I imagine this would have made 1994 MLBTR writers cry in a fetal position under their desk for 30 minutes before the daunting task of writing the article.
$1519287
Hahaha that’s true.
Ian_Smell
Wasn’t there something like an 18 player deal with the Orioles and Yankees that sent Don Larsen to the Yankees? Cool post, too.
bayday5
Nice user name, change to a Mariners picture because he’s even worse on the Mariners than he was on the Pirates
pascualperezfan
whats bizarre,,,three guys going to SD are now dead,,,heads up finlay
s8n666
Caminitti Cedeno and who else? I believe the rest are alive, although Brocail had a heart thing a couple years ago…
Patrick Newman
Petagine had a great career in Japan and is playing there again this season. I believe he is the last player active from that deal.
slap1328
Ausmus just activated off of the 60-Day DL to keep the trade alive!!!!
TommyBrookensIsMyTiger
I saw Petagine in Indianapolis (Reds’ AAA at the time) for two seasons in 98-99 and he was an absolute monster! He definitely never got his chance.
I remember this trade well, and, as a Tigers fan, I especially remember all of the Houston-San Diego/ Houston-Detroit swaps. Hilarious, really, all the back-and-forth.
Awesome post, just awesome.
Yankees420
Excellent post.
Mario Saavedra
I think the player the padres got for Andujar Cedeno and Brad Ausmus was John Flathery, Flarety… can’t quite remember… my source? 2000 baseball cards for Kids in Qualcoom :P.
WrongVerb
IIRC weren’t the GMs of San Diego and Houston a father and son tandem? I want to say Hal and Tal Smith, but I might be wrong on that.
WrongVerb
IIRC weren’t the GMs of San Diego and Houston a father and son tandem? I want to say Hal and Tal Smith, but I might be wrong on that.
Tal Smith was the SD GM for sure…but I want to say Bob Watson was still the GM in Houston at the time. Soon after Bob Watson left for a role in the Bud Selig adminstration. Wouldn’t be surprised if Watson’s assistant was Smith’s son.
GasLampGuru
I’m pretty sure the San Diego GM was Randy Smith, not Tal Smith. Smith went from the Padres to the Tigers (as GM), and back to the Padres (director of international scouting).
I recall, at the time, mention of two people in the respective FOs being related. The joke was that the deal had been worked out over Thanksgiving dinner… I was under the impression that it was a set of brothers, though my memory could be failing.
dak11
AS was already mentioned, Petagine went on to play in Japan and accumulated 2 HR titles, a MVP, and became the highest paid player when Hideki Matsui left for the Yanks.
He returned to the US in 2005 and hit well at AAA for the Redsox but only got a cup of coffee (18 games/34 AB’s) at the ML level when Olerud went down to an injury.
TheReturnOfMrBlanks
Plantier was a Beast On Ken Griffey Jr presents Major League Baseball on Super Nintendo.
Too bad he only had a couple Beastly seasons….was probably on the juice along with a couple other guys on this list…but oh well they were all awesome and this was a amazing article!
albertmj1
Yes, Flaherty and Chris Gomez came in that deal.
albertmj1
That was in reply to Mario’s post.
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Jonathunder
This was an amazing post
GeronimoJansen
I imagine this would have made 1994 MLBTR writers cry in a fetal position under their desk for 30 minutes before the daunting task of writing the article.
$1519287
Hahaha that’s true.
Ian_Smell
Wasn’t there something like an 18 player deal with the Orioles and Yankees that sent Don Larsen to the Yankees? Cool post, too.
bayday5
Nice user name, change to a Mariners picture because he’s even worse on the Mariners than he was on the Pirates
pascualperezfan
whats bizarre,,,three guys going to SD are now dead,,,heads up finlay
s8n666
Caminitti Cedeno and who else? I believe the rest are alive, although Brocail had a heart thing a couple years ago…
Patrick Newman
Petagine had a great career in Japan and is playing there again this season. I believe he is the last player active from that deal.
slap1328
Ausmus just activated off of the 60-Day DL to keep the trade alive!!!!
TommyBrookensIsMyTiger
I saw Petagine in Indianapolis (Reds’ AAA at the time) for two seasons in 98-99 and he was an absolute monster! He definitely never got his chance.
I remember this trade well, and, as a Tigers fan, I especially remember all of the Houston-San Diego/ Houston-Detroit swaps. Hilarious, really, all the back-and-forth.
Awesome post, just awesome.
Yankees420
Excellent post.
Mario Saavedra
I think the player the padres got for Andujar Cedeno and Brad Ausmus was John Flathery, Flarety… can’t quite remember… my source? 2000 baseball cards for Kids in Qualcoom :P.
WrongVerb
IIRC weren’t the GMs of San Diego and Houston a father and son tandem? I want to say Hal and Tal Smith, but I might be wrong on that.
WrongVerb
IIRC weren’t the GMs of San Diego and Houston a father and son tandem? I want to say Hal and Tal Smith, but I might be wrong on that.
Onewildman
Tal Smith was the SD GM for sure…but I want to say Bob Watson was still the GM in Houston at the time. Soon after Bob Watson left for a role in the Bud Selig adminstration. Wouldn’t be surprised if Watson’s assistant was Smith’s son.
GasLampGuru
I’m pretty sure the San Diego GM was Randy Smith, not Tal Smith. Smith went from the Padres to the Tigers (as GM), and back to the Padres (director of international scouting).
PujolsHollidayWestbrook
Kind of like Ausmus 🙂
Anthony Boyer
I recall, at the time, mention of two people in the respective FOs being related. The joke was that the deal had been worked out over Thanksgiving dinner… I was under the impression that it was a set of brothers, though my memory could be failing.
dak11
AS was already mentioned, Petagine went on to play in Japan and accumulated 2 HR titles, a MVP, and became the highest paid player when Hideki Matsui left for the Yanks.
He returned to the US in 2005 and hit well at AAA for the Redsox but only got a cup of coffee (18 games/34 AB’s) at the ML level when Olerud went down to an injury.
TheReturnOfMrBlanks
Plantier was a Beast On Ken Griffey Jr presents Major League Baseball on Super Nintendo.
Too bad he only had a couple Beastly seasons….was probably on the juice along with a couple other guys on this list…but oh well they were all awesome and this was a amazing article!
albertmj1
Yes, Flaherty and Chris Gomez came in that deal.
albertmj1
That was in reply to Mario’s post.