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Biggest Blockbuster of all Time

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Blue Jays trade Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez to the Padres for Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar

 

its probably not the best just the first big one i could think of that every player produced in the bigs at one time or another...

we could honestly see both players starting in the All Star game

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Marlins trade: Bobby Bonilla, Gary Sheffield, Jim Eisenreich, Charles Johnson

Dodgers trade: Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile

some of those players were ok

whatcha got?

 

McGriff & Fernandez for Carter & Alomar still, to this day, sticks out in my mind first among blockbuster trades. Although, the all-time champ should still be Babe Ruth for the price of an entire franchise (back in the '20s).

Blue Jays trade Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez to the Padres for Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar

 

its probably not the best just the first big one i could think of that every player produced in the bigs at one time or another...

100% behind you on that one.

If we're talking player traded in his prime, it's Gretzky to LA, if we're talking magnitude of money/name value it's the Piazza Zeile/Sheffield, Bonilla, CJ, Eisenreich deal.

Here's what ESPN has to say about the Gretzky trade and Sheffield Piazza trade:

 

Wayne Gretzky: Oilers to Kings

Aug. 9, 1988: The Edmonton Oilers traded Gretzky, D Marty McSorley and C Mike Krushelnyski to the Los Angeles Kings for C Jimmy Carson, LW Martin Gelinas, first-round picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993 and cash.

 

The other end of the trade was a little light, but no deal was more shocking than this one. The "Great One" was just 27 and in his prime as the most dominant hockey player of all time when Edmonton, which was short on cash, traded him after winning its fourth Stanley Cup of the 1980s.

 

Mike Piazza: Dodgers to Marlins

May 15, 1998: The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Piazza and 3B Todd Zeile to the Florida Marlins for OF Gary Sheffield, 3B Bobby Bonilla, C Charles Johnson, OF Jim Eisenreich and P Manny Barrios.

 

This midnight deal came out of nowhere after Piazza had reportedly turned down a long-term deal from the Dodgers. The trade involved four All-Stars (Piazza, Sheffield, Bonilla and Johnson), and at the time Piazza was one of the three or four most valuable players in the game. Piazza spent just a week in Florida before he was traded to the Mets for three minor leaguers.

 

 

 

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/biggesttrades/031216.html

and i think he had like 5 RBI's while in teal .... he should be up in our all time catchers list.

 

 

All the best catchers to come out of the 90+ have played for the fish ... i think thats a good fact

 

Benito

CJ

Piazza

Pudge

 

all we need is Posada.

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