There are many different reasons for why teams trade their popular players.
Sometimes it’s as simple as having too many good options for too few spots on the team, as was the case when the Phillies traded Jim Thome to make way for Ryan Howard in 2005.
Sometimes a small-market team can’t afford to keep its star player, or a mediocre club swaps its biggest name for a package of prospects who could help them contend in the future—like when the Indians traded Cliff Lee and Victor Martinez at the Trade Deadline in 2009.
Most of these fire sales aren’t taken lightly. Even ...
There are many different reasons for why teams trade their popular players.
Sometimes it’s as simple as having too many good options for too few spots on the team, as was the case when the Phillies traded Jim Thome to make way for Ryan Howard in 2005.
Sometimes a small-market team can’t afford to keep its star player, or a mediocre club swaps its biggest name for a package of prospects who could help them contend in the future—like when the Indians traded Cliff Lee and Victor Martinez at the Trade Deadline in 2009.
Most of these fire sales aren’t taken lightly. Even ...
Ernest Lawrence Thayer's classic poem "Casey at the Bat" is perhaps the greatest baseball story of all time. Period.
The only possible criticism one could make of the story is the lack of personality exhibited by the titular titan, Casey. Casey is shown to take the game seriously, but beneath his muscular exterior he is simply a nice guy. And that is really, really, boring.
With that in mind, I humbly submit an alternate version of the story, featuring the most tragically misunderstood player in the history of baseball--Milton Bradley.Begin Slideshow
