Category: Sports

I’d rather have one star player than multiple players in a trade

It’s almost the baseball trade deadline. A four-for-one trade was made last night between the Reds and Mariners.

In my opinion, the team that gets a star player for multiple players and prospects usually wins the trade.

Let’s look at examples:

NFL

Sour Rankings: From John Elway to Ricky Williams, the 15 worst trades in NFL history

This includes eight draft picks for Ricky Williams. The big trade Dallas made where Herschel Walker was sent to Minnesota did work out for Dallas.

TNBA

Do you remember who the Bucks got for Kareem Abdul Jabbar or who the 76ers got for Wilt Chamberlain? These were one-sided trades.

MLB

The 40 Worst Trades In MLB History

Do you remember any player traded for Rickey Henderson? He was traded to the Yankees for five players and traded by them for three players. The best was pitcher Jose Rijo.

I will keep adding to this as I think of more trades.

This backs my view:

Trey Mancini’s inside-the-park home run

Trey Mancini of the Orioles will probably be traded before the deadline. If not, I doubt he is back next year. He is the Orioles player with the longest tenure here and has done a great job for the team. Mancini is a cancer survivor and was close to the late Mo Gaba (a teen who died of cancer) who was honored today.

In what may have been his last at-bat at Camden Yards, he hit an inside-the-park home run, his first ever. It was great.

Minor league baseball salaries are still low but there was a suit settlement

More photos of Satchel Paige (7/15/22)

Paterson’s Hinchcliffe Stadium – a Negro Leagues ballpark

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day – July 1

Bobby Bonilla was a very good major league baseball player from 1986-2001. His contract with the Mets was unique. From Wikipedia:

After his subpar 1999 season, the Mets released Bonilla, but still owed him $5.9 million. Bonilla and his agent offered the Mets a deal: Bonilla would defer payment for a decade, and the Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of $1.19 million starting in 2011 and ending in 2035, adding up to a total payout of $29.8 million.[13][22] Mets owner Fred Wilpon accepted the deal mostly because he was heavily invested with Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff, and the 10 percent returns he thought he was getting on his investments with Madoff outweighed the eight percent interest the Mets would be paying on Bonilla’s initial $5.9 million. As a result, the payout was a subject of inquiry during the Madoff investment scandal investigation when it came to light in 2008.[23]

The player and the life insurance agent behind Bobby Bonilla Day