With the deadline approaching, thought it would be fun to talk about those we traded away or lost via free agency over the years that did not turn out so well. The big one of course was the Frank Robinson/Milt Pappas deal. I'll toss losing Claude Osteen and Hal McCrae in to the mix.
In more recent times, Paul Oneil comes to mind
Jeff Montgomery for Van Snider, 1988
John Franco for Randy Myers & Kip Gross. Myers was here for only 2 seasons. And Gross was, well, gross.
Mike Cuellar (released after pitching 2 games in 1959)
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.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
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.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Edwin Encarnacion?
Tony Gonzalez (not the NFL player) 1960. Had a very good career with the Phillies.
A pretty big one: Paul Konerko
Trevor Hoffman. That one hurt.
Nice bat but no where to put him.Originally Posted by 40YrRedsFan
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
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
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.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
David Wells.
Charlie Liebrandt.
Joaquin Andujar.
John Wetteland.
Whatever you do, do your best to not allow the struggles of life to interfere with the pleasures of living.
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