Mets Trades through the years: Who won?
November 1994
through October 1995
Moving back to the lousy years of the early nineties this week. This is probably the era that I remember the least, as their play was poor and my kids were young. I just stopped paying that much attention for a few years.
(1) New York Mets
traded Jeromy Burnitz and Joe Roa to the Cleveland Indians for Dave Mlicki,
Paul Byrd, Jerry Dipoto, and Jesus Azuaje
(Nov 18, 1994)
(3) New York Mets
traded Quilvio Veras to the Florida Marlins for Carl Everett (Nov 29, 1994)
(4) New York Mets
traded Fernando Vina and Javier Gonzalez to the Milwaukee Brewers for Doug Henry (Nov 30, 1994)
(5) New York Mets
traded Mike Remlinger to the Cincinnati Reds for Cobi Cradle (May 11, 1995)
(6) New York Mets
traded David Segui to the Montreal Expos for Reid Cornelius (Jun 08, 1995)
(7) New York Mets
traded Jason Jacome and Allen McDill to the Kansas City Royals for DerekWallace, John Carter and Geno Morones
(Jul 21, 1995)
(8) New York Mets
traded Bobby Bonilla and Jimmy Williams to the Baltimore Orioles for Alex Ochoa
and Damon Buford (Jul 28, 1995)
(9) New York Mets
traded Bret Saberhagen and David Swanson to the Colorado Rockies for Juan Acevedo and Arnold Gooch (Jul 31, 1995)
(10) New York Mets
traded Brett Butler to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Scott Hunter and DwightManess (Aug 18, 1995)
Notes: Wow, they
didn’t have a lot to give up, but what they got back was sure a lot less. Burnitz and Segui
went on to have productive careers elsewhere,
Veras
was a pretty good utility infielder with a lot of speed for a few years with
the Marlins and Padres.
Ochoa was a highly hyped player that never lived up to
expectations.
Perhaps the worst trade of 1995 was trading Fernando Vina who had some very good years with Milwaukee and St. Louis over a nine-year career.
Bobby Bonilla was actually still a pretty productive hitter at the time of the 1995 trade and had a couple good years with Baltimore after the trade.
3 comments:
They trade Burnitz, who hits 300 HRs after leaving the Mets....get Carl Everett, and decide to not keep him long....at least we got the Gooch for Saberhagen. Heckuva minor leaguer, that Gooch..
Brett Butler was exciting as a Met, so he had to go, too. At least we had him for 90 great games.
Oh, brother.
You could hear a pin drop....
I remember those years, unfortunately. Joe McIlvane did not distinguish himself as a GM that could successfully acquire talent for the Mets. Their record speaks for itself. The frustrating part was watching some of the traded players (like Burnitz) do so well outside of NY. Too bad the Orioles wouldn't take Bonilla's deferred payments on.
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