Notes: None of these three trades were particularly notewothy except that trading Swoboda was painful for us that learned the Mets in 1969. Swoboda and Hahn each stuck around the majors for 4 or 5 years after the trade, but both were about replacement level players at that time.
(1) New York Mets traded Ron Herbel to the Atlanta Braves for Bob Aspromonte (Dec 01, 1970)
Ron Herbal is actually the answer to a hitting trivia question. He has the lowest batting average of any player in history with at least 100 at bats. Over the first 109 at bats of his career, he had 1 hit, an average of .009. He then went 5 for 97 to finish his career with a robust .029 average. Nobody else did it any worse.
The Bill Denehy trade of March 1971 was the second time in about 3 and a half years that the Mets traded him. The other one was the better trade . .keep reading.
November 1969
through October 1970
Notes: Trade 1 of the '69 - '70 offseason is generally regarded as the second worse trade the Mets have ever made.
Trade 2 certainly did not make up for Trade 1, but it turned out pretty well for the Mets as Sadecki was a southpaw workhorse for the next five years, starting in 161 games over that time with an ERA of just over 3.3.
(1) New York Mets traded Amos Otis and Bob Johnson to the Kansas City Royals for Joe Foy (Dec 03, 1969)
(2) New York Mets traded Jim Gosger and Bob Heise to the San Francisco Giants for Ray Sadecki and Dave Marshall (Dec 12, 1969)
(3) New York Mets traded J. C. Martin to the Chicago Cubs for Randy Bobb (Mar 29, 1970)
(4) New York Mets traded Rod Gaspar to the San Diego Padres for Ron Herbel (Sep 1, 1970)
Nov 1968 through
October 1969
(1) New York Mets
traded Jack DiLauro to the Detroit Tigers for Hector Valle (Dec 03, 1968)
(2) New York Mets traded Greg Goossen to the Seattle Pilots for Jim Gosger (Feb 05, 1969)
(3) New York Mets traded Kevin Collins, Steve Renko, Jay Carden and Dave Colon to the Montreal Expos for Donn Clendenon (Jun 15, 1969)
November 1967
through October 1968
(1) New York Mets
traded Bob Johnson to the Cincinnati Reds for Art Shamsky (Nov 08, 1967)
(2) New York Mets traded Bill Denehy to the Washington Senators for Gil Hodges (Nov 27, 1967)
(3) New York Mets traded Tommy Davis, Jack Fisher, Billy Wynne and Buddy Booker to the Chicago White Sox for Tommie Agee and Al Weis (Dec 15, 1967)
Trivia: The back of the 1968 Tommy Davis baseball card says "A real coup for the White Sox was their acquisition of All-Star Tommy Davis last winter". Hmm. He played for the Sox for just one year with a .633 OPS and then went on to bounce around the league with 7 additional teams over the next 8 years. Agee was a vital piece of the 1969 Mets and Weis was a steady defender who hit just enough to keep playing time as a platoon partner with Ken Boswell.
2 comments:
That Amos Otis trade was the first of many infamous Mets poor trades. There is an all-star team of players that have been traded away by the Mets with little in return. Amos was the first of those.
Looks like they are much better now.
Some good trades, but Amos Otis? OUCH!
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