Worst Trade Ever

[Azale]

Except it didn't actually happen that way

 

[Whomp]

Babe Ruth, for sure.
Locally it has to be the Cubs trading Lou Brock to the Cardinals for Ernie Broglio.

 

[King of Town]

How about the sox trading us Sammy for mr bell

 

[Whomp]

How about the sox trading us Sammy for mr bell

Larry Himes got Sosa, Wilson Alvarez and Scott Fletcher from the Rangers for a aging Harold Baines. Himes obviously had an affinity for the guy so he made what I would consider to be the second best trade in schlubs history and worst in White Sox history.

The best is against El J's Phillies when the Phils wanted Ivan DeJesus real bad. The schlubs got aging Larry Bowa and a little known throw in third baseman Ryne Sandberg.

 

[Inter4]

Minnesota Vikings Received:

* RB Herschel Walker
* Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1990 (54) (Mike Jones)
* San Diego's 5th round pick - 1990 (116) (Reggie Thornton)
* Dallas's 10th round pick - 1990 (249) (Pat Newman)
* Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1991 (68) (Jake Reed)

Dallas Cowboys Received:

* LB Jesse Solomon
* LB David Howard
* CB Issiac Holt
* RB Darrin Nelson (traded to San Diego after he refused to report to Dallas)
* DE Alex Stewart
* Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1990 (21) They traded this pick along with pick (81) for pick (17) from Pittsburgh to draft (Emmitt Smith)
* Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1990 (47) (Alexander Wright)
* Minnesota's 6th round pick in 1990 (158) (traded to New Orleans, who drafted James Williams)
* Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1991 (conditional) - (11) (Pat Harlow)
* Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1991 (conditional) - (38) (Darryll Lewis)
* Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1992 (conditional) - (37) (Darren Woodson)
* Minnesota's 3rd round pick in 1992 (conditional) - (71) (traded to New England, who drafted Kevin Turner)
* Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1993 (conditional) - (13) (traded to Philadelphia Eagles, and then to the Houston Oilers, who drafted Brad Hopkins)

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[Fugitive Sisyphus]

The worst trade I have ever seen was Seattle trading Derek Lowe and Jason Veritek to the Redsox for Heathcliff Slocumb.

 

[joycem10]

From Hockey, how about the Ronny Francis Trade from 1991. The Whalers gave the Pens Ronny Franchise, Ulf Samuelsson and Grant Jennings, in exchange for Jeff Parker, Zarley Zalapski, and John Cullen.

 

[El Justo]

wow - a zarley zalapsky shout-out

i remember that trade, actually...

 

[mrt144]

The worst trade I have ever seen was Seattle trading Derek Lowe and Jason Veritek to the Redsox for Heathcliff Slocumb.

This was just par for the course in Mariner land.

 

[King of Town]

The cubs traded Josh Hamilton to the reds for cash. I think that would be a bat that would have solved a lot of our needs.

 

[cubsfan6506]

The cubs only ever had josh hamilton so they could trade him though. That was essentialy a free 250,000$.

THe cubs getting sammy for nothin is pretty good.

BTW wouldn'tn all this discussion for the best trade ever just be the worst trade reversed.

 

[jeps]

BTW wouldn'tn all this discussion for the best trade ever just be the worst trade reversed.

no. Heatley for Hossa and de Vries was a good trade for both teams. mutually beneficial trades DO exist.