Remember 1969: Who Won? Deals of History - 1988

 

Mets Trades through the years:  Who won?

November 1987 through October 1988

Notes:   It's a good thing they didn't need to make any great trades to make a great team.   1988 was one of the best Mets teams ever - certainly the best team they ever had that didn't win it.  

None of the trades they made helped them out at all.   The best deal of the year brought a good hit - no field back up catcher in Mackey Sassser.    It's really too bad that he had the throwing issues he did as he may have had a pretty decent career otherwise.  

The list: 

(1)  New York Mets traded Terry Blocker to the Atlanta Braves for Kevin Brown  (Nov 11, 1987)

 

(2)  New York Mets traded Doug Sisk to the Baltimore Orioles for Blaine Beatty and GregTalamantez  (Dec 07, 1987)

 

(3)  New York Mets traded Rafael Santana and Victor Garcia to the New York Yankees for Phil Lombardi, Darren Reed and Steve Frey  (Dec 11, 1987)

 

(4)  New York Mets traded Bill Almon to the Philadelphia Phillies for Shawn Barton and Vladimir Perez  (Mar 21, 1988)

 

(5)  New York Mets traded Randy Milligan and Scott Henion to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Mackey Sasser and Tim Drummond  (Mar 26, 1988)

 

(6)  New York Mets traded John Gibbons to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Craig Shipley  (Apr 01, 1988)

 

(7)  New York Mets traded Gene Walter to the Seattle Mariners for Edwin Nunez  (Jul 11, 1988)

Trivia:   Of all the players involved in Mets trades in the 1988 season, Randy Milligan had the highest career bWAR by far.  (I did not add them all up, but I think Milligan's career bWAR exceeded that of all the other 20 players combined).