Worst trade ever made in a sim league?

[Kingdom]

Let's just keep it to the four on S3F. Since we have one for real MLB, let's have one for OOTP MLB!

[Dry1313]

Traded from Minnesota to Atlanta on 7/17/2023 (Going to Atl: 1B Milo Kotter. Going to Min: P David Nutt, P Benito Mateo, CF Dale Ries)

Two bad pitchers and a serviceable OF for a first ballot HOF and a damned good hitter.

(Going to Atl: P Billy York, 1B Joseph Purser, 1B Clemente Garcia, P Bill Carolina, P Victor Trumbauer. Going to Fla: P Valerio Mendez, CF Emmanuel Bra
mmer)

A former Cy Young winner who never amounted to anything for me, a backup 1B, and three salary dumps for a damned good OF and a pitcher who won a WS and 71 games since I dealt him 5 years ago.

Traded from Boston to Atlanta on 5/2/2016 (Going to Atl: P Rory Shortell, 2B Jaime Bang, LF Stephen Dickerson. Going to Bos: P Joe Torres)

Bang has won some GGs and added to my offense, but Torres is worth a lot more than that.

Traded from Boston to Toronto on 7/31/2012 (Going to Bos: 1B Rene Reyes. Going to Tor: P Wayne Hage, 3B Alfonso Agosto)

Doesn't need explanation.




All S3SL. (the ones with me aren't THAT bad, but they're ones I know best. Everyone knows the Hage trade)

[Dry1313]

Traded from San Francisco to Minnesota on 2/28/2013 (Going to SF: SS Tyree Burns, RF Michael Parker. Going to Min: 2B Rickie Weeks)

Ouch.

[Kingdom]

Florida deal, nice.

[Kingdom]

SBSL: Traded from Anaheim to Vancouver on 3/4/2010 (Going to VAN: 3B Luis Kerr, SS Don Byrd, C Vic Holm, P Omar Rodriguez. Going to ANA: CF Rocco Baldelli, 1B Ryan Howard, P Justin Duchscherer, P Jarrett Santos)

Thing was, I needed a good outfielder (Baldelli) and at the time was looking for another power bat (Howard). I didn't end up using Howard cause Law took off and I ended up winning Jack Daniels. So his monster power is wasting on my bench. I knew Kerr was a good player but I just wasn't crazy that he had no defense or speed and then Holm was a good prospect who essentially filled in a just a few sims. Kerr hit .375 and Holm will out hit my catcher this season. Doesn't even matter I won a WS with Baldelli. I need a paper bag now, I'm hyperventilating.

[General]

Hage was the worst. But he was nothing when I had him...second I got rid of him, boom.

[Kingdom]

No one could have predicted he'd become a borderline hall of famer.

[mntwinsfan]

How about the deal I made to get Pujols in San Fran. That deal killed my club for or or 4 seasons, Once I moved him and within a season or two I have been in the playoffs the last four or five seasons. With a world series loss.

[bjd2933]

(Going to STL: P Rich Harden. Going to OAK: P Adam Loewen, P Garrett Olson, LF Cody Haerther)...

In TSSL. Neither Loewen, Olson, or Haerther became anything, and harden went on to win 348 games... go figure. All three were 5.0 star spects if I remember correctly... despite that, Harden is like the greatest pitcher ever in TSSL.

[Halladay_is_God]

Hage was super sweet

[Porter]

(Going to COL: LF Isaac Galloway, P Michael Bowden, 1B Lars Anderson, P Cesar Jimenez, P Tony Butler. Going to SEA: LF Matt Holliday, P Jeff Francis, P
Peter Moylan, P Manny Corpas, P J. Brent Cox).

Just for Galloway alone.

[Hammer]

jose davila for jason bay lol

[Providence A's]

any of Slyder's famous 1.0 star player for 1.0 star player deals. seriously, those are pointless as all hell. oh wait, my mistake...those types of deals add up and result in Championchips!...yes, Championchips my friends.

[nick]

i made some AWFUL ones in s3sl.... mainly, trading away bruce rybicki and another decent spect for ronald belizario. Belizario gave me 2-3 good, borderline great years.... but still. Rybicki is a top-5 hitter in that league still I'm sure.


in tssl, I traded Bonney away I guess... but I got Torre, so it's ok. Nonetheless.. I'd prefer Bonney at this point.


In TPSL, I've traded away the following closers for pennies on the dollar:
#51 Jonathan Broxton, Closer, 30 yrs, New York (N) Mets - Out of the Park Baseball Report
#55 Johnathan Meloan, Closer, 29 yrs, Atlanta Braves - Out of the Park Baseball Report
#1 Darrel Ammons, Closer, 29 yrs, Cleveland Indians - Out of the Park Baseball Report


Truth be told, I like Cody Johnson (got in the Meloan deal) and I like Cubillo (got in the Broxton deal), but other than them... and Tartamella, who is awesome (but for Detroit)... which leads me to the next one:

Travis Tartamella for Omar Infante. ****
#85 Travis Tartamella, Catcher, 26 yrs, Detroit Tigers - Out of the Park Baseball Report
There's Tartamella, Infante's probably on San Diego or SFN's bench smelling pine tar.

[Kingdom]

Infante's not old enough for BJD.