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In more recent times, Paul Oneil comes to mind
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Jeff Montgomery for Van Snider, 1988
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John Franco for Randy Myers & Kip Gross. Myers was here for only 2 seasons. And Gross was, well, gross.
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Mike Cuellar (released after pitching 2 games in 1959)
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Trading Christy Mathewson for Amos Rusie didn't turn out very well. Rusie won zero games for the Reds while Matty had 372 wins for the Giants.
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Giving away Hank Sauer in the 40s and Curt Flood in the 50s didn't work out very well.
Giving away Ross Grimsley after the 1973 season and giving away Mike Caldwell in 1977 cost the Reds a couple of division titles.
Trading Tony Perez for Woody Fryman didn't work.
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Tony Gonzalez (not the NFL player) 1960. Had a very good career with the Phillies.
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A pretty big one: Paul Konerko
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Trevor Hoffman. That one hurt.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
40YrRedsFan
Edwin Encarnacion?
Nice bat but no where to put him.
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The Reds made a great move in December of 1934 by acquiring Johnny Mize from the Cardinals, only to return him to St. Louis four months later
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http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/j...hamiltonSI.jpg
kind of shocked this wasn't one of the first replies. I can defend a lot of Reds misfires, but even though I understood the thinking (we needed pitching, Hamilton was potentially a walking time bomb), this was a bad one.
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David Wells.
Charlie Liebrandt.
Joaquin Andujar.
John Wetteland.