As I mentioned in yesterday’s article, an all too common trait in baseball is teams trading a promising rookie for over-the-hill veterans. More often than not, a team will sacrifice its potential future in order to win immediately.
Sometimes these trades will ultimately turn out to be worthwhile transactions that make the team trading the prospect better. In some cases, these trades turn out to be horrible mistakes that are discussed decades later. This is the story of such a trade.
Prior to the start of the 1982 season, the Philadelphia Phillies were just one season removed from their first World Series ...
