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Donnie at .429 with 2 homers already – a great start in the Pacific Northwest. I have always liked the Mariners and hope he helps them get to their first World Series this year.
As for the trade, you really cannot assess a deal for a few years at least, sometimes many years. The Arozarena-Liberatore trade has looked bad, but might end up favoring our club. Carlton-Wise was pretty much bad from the get-go. Same with Hernandez-Neil Allen/Rick Ownbey.
Vinegar Bend Mizell for Julian Javier was one of those “good for both teams” deals. Bucs got a championship and had the best second baseman in the league already – we got a second baseman for a decade and ended up with two rings and another NL pennant.
He’s always been solid baseball player. I’ll never forget when the resident whiz kid swapped him with Pujols in the 2 and 5 slots of the batting order during the ’22 NLWC. It was the first indication of an ongoing case of genuine dumb.
One thing about being passionate about a team – your favorites most likely will be wearing other uniforms at some point. Many deals we made sort of broke my heart as a kid and young dude – Ken Boyer to the Mets, Bill White to the Phils, Orlando Cepeda to the Braves, getting Dick Allen then trading him after only one year and 34 homers, Carlton, Bake McBride, Reggie Smith (never understood that deal), and the list goes on.
My first glimpse of genuine trade heartbreak was Cepeda for Torre. “Cha Cha” as Harry Caray called him, was my favorite positon player on those ’67 and ’68 edition Redbird teams. As an 11 year old kid during the time that I was really beginning to fall into a lifelong and incurable case of baseball fever, I vividly recall learning about that trade after returning home from school in the early spring of ’69. I was utterly heartbroken. Not too later on in life I experienced another kind of heartbreak when Molly McFarland left me for that swarthy kid nicknamed “Frenchy” in the 8th grade…I was able to get over Molly pretty quickly, but I’m still a little bummed out about saying so long to Cepeda…Haha!
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