Worst trade your team made during your lifetime????

Question

what is the worst trade you have witnessed your team make (i say this because i want some diverse answers)

im a yanks fan, and i think the worst was trading away Jay Buhner for crap. he was a career .300 hitter and averaged almsot 40 HR a season

Answer 1

The year was 1972...Over a dispute of $5,000 of which the Cardinals refused to pay they traded left handed pitcher Steve Carlton to the Phillies for Rick Wise.

The outcome??
Wise pitched only 2 seasons with the redbirds posting a respectable 32-28 record with 286 strikeouts.

Carlton? All he did was spend the next 14 years with the Phills winning 237 ballgames(of his 329), 4 Cy Youngs, finished in the top 5 in strikeouts 9 times and the top 5 in wins 6 times including 27 in '72, the year they traded him.

Oh, and in case you didn't know he was elected to the hall of fame in 1994 his first year of eligibility.

As for Rick Wise? Last I heard he hadn't gotten the call yet...

Answer 2

lol Jay Buhner was not a career .300 hitter. He was a career .254 hitter and never hit over .280. And he only had 3 seasons in which he hit more than 30 home runs.

Anyway the worst trade for the Tigers was probably when they traded John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander

EDIT:
One of the worst trades ever by any team was when the San Francisco Giants traded Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser for .... AJ Pierzynski.

Pierzynski played exactly one year for the Giants and gave up Nathan, who became one of the games best closers, and two future aces in Liriano and Bonser. Just an absolutely terrible trade.

Also the Dodgers traded Pedro Martinez to the Expos for Delino Deshields.

And the Tigers got Carlos Guillen for Ramon Santiago, who rejoined the Tigers a couple years later. Guillen became the first player in modern baseball history to raise his batting average in 6 consecutive seasons and is on pace to do so again this year.

Answer 3

The Tigers

Worst trade: John Smoltz (a Michigan native and now a sure future Hall of Famer) to The Braves for Doyle Alexander (was with the Tigers for at most 2 years).

Best trade: Tigers get Norman Cash (4 time all-star, batting champ, World Series) from the Indians for Steve Demeter (played for a week then out of baseball).

All-time worst: Babe Ruth to the Yanks for $125,000, no players.

Answer 4

In the Spring of 1987, the Royals traded away a young David Cone to the Mets for catcher Ed Hearn and 2 other yahoos that nobody had ever heard of (or would ever hear of). Hearn played 13 games for the Royals in 2 seasons. Cone on the other hand, went 20-3 the next season and was second in the league in ERA and Ks.

Answer 5

It looked good at the time, but seeing the Cardinals trade away up-and-comer Danny Haren, reliable setup man Kiko Calero, and a young catching prospect in D. Barton for an injured Mark Mulder...fans here still cringe at the mention of it. Billy Beane is the cheapest GM in the game. He knew Mulder was hurt and he traded him anyway. Come on! An All Star calliber pitcher having a career year suddenly goes 0-8? You'd have to be a moron to not see he was injured.

Answer 6

Texas Strangers Im glad they traded Michael Young!!! 1. Juan Gonzalez for John Thompson (thats the big piece in that trade) 2. Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez for Akinori Otsuka and Adam Eaton 3. Alfonso Soriano for Brad Wilkerson and Tremel Sledge 4. Francisco Cordero, Kevin Mench and Laynce Nix for Nelson Cruz and Carlos Lee 5. John Danks and Nick Massett for Brandon McWalky (this will turn out to be bad!)

Answer 7

I think one of the worst trades - perhaps the worst - was made by the Cleveland Indians.

The Indians gave up Norman Cash for Steve Demeter in a one-for-one trade with the Detroit Tigers in 1960. Here's how both players fared after the trade.

Cash played for 15 seasons with the Tigers. He hit 373 home runs, won the batting title in 1961 with a .361 average, and made the all-star team four times.

Demeter played in four games for the Indians, and had five at-bats without a hit. He then retired from baseball.

Answer 8

The Mariners sent Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe to Boston for Heathcliff Slocumb.

What the hell were the Mariners’ thinking? Okay, let me breath deeply and check the stats.

Okay, Slocumb was a fairly good closer in his career. Seattle, who was at the time dog fighting with the Anaheim Angels for control of the American League West., needed to shore up their bullpen if they were to make a run. While the trade paid off in the short term, after 1997, Slocumb was terrible. As for the other two, Lowe would switch from a good closer to a good starting pitcher and Varitek would evolve into the best catcher in baseball. More importantly, Seattle gave Boston the seeds that bloomed into their 2004 World Series title. Boston, send Seattle your thanks.

Answer 9

The legendary Phillies trade- Jan.27, 1982 - The Phillies trade Ryne Sandberg and Larry Bowa to the Cubs for Ivan DeJesus.

Answer 10

Swingman, which Jay Buhner you talkin' about? The only one I know about played 15 seasons and had a total of 310 homers and a .254 career BA. He hit 40 homers only in 3 seasons.