Worst Trade first:
I'm going to say the trade of Ted Lilly for Jeff Weaver and later on for Kevin Brown was the worst. That cost the Yankees millions of dollars and possibly a couple of rings. The thinking was that Lilly had a strange motion to the plate and was going to have a short career. Weaver was supposed to be this great durable albeit expensive power pitcher. Instead Lilly had a 10+ year career. If we had Lilly instead of Weaver in the WS against the Marlins and Lilly instead of Brown in the ALCS against the Red Sox, those series may have turned out very different.
Best Trade:
May very well be the one he just made. In exchange for a questionable prospect, a terrible pitcher and two stiffs, we get one of the best and most durable closers in baseball and another very good relief pitcher. If Todd Frazier does anything at all, thats a cherry on top. Cashman seems to understand that you need a great bullpen to win a championship, a truth that seems to elude many other GM's. The only way this trade could have been better is if it were the Red Sox getting fucked over rather than the White Sox. I haven't felt this good about a Yankee trade since they shipped Danny Cater's corpse to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle.
The best thing about that trade was getting Tyler Clobbered off the roster. To me, trading a top prospect like Rutherford to get another .210 hitter made no sense. The Fowler injury makes it that much riskier. I'd rather see them play Andujar at 3B.
Best trade from a pure value standpoint? Hmmm...probably either Cone for Marty Janzen, Jason Jarvis, and Mike Gordon or Nick Swisher for Wilson Betemit.
The Swisher trade was very good too. Gave up very little, and got a very good player at exactly the right time in his career. He was a consistent disappointment in the post-season (except for that one series against Minn), but he was really big for us for a number of years.
Best: either trading Chapman last year (especially since he signed him back) or Soriano and ? for Arod (this should get extra credit because it kept Arod off the Red Sox)
Worst trade might be his weakness for Javy Vazquez. Getting him twice was not great, to say the least. Giving up Nick Johnson and Melky.
Randy Johnson trade was pretty bad too, but he didn't lose anything too significant and that was probably more of a Steinbrenner trade anyway
Best trade from a pure value standpoint? Hmmm...probably either Cone for Marty Janzen, Jason Jarvis, and Mike Gordon or Nick Swisher for Wilson Betemit.
that Cone trade was in 95...pre-Cash.
Pineda didn't do much, but he was a cheap arm who provided some innings atleast
For example the Red Sox traded Curt Schilling and Brady Anderson for Mike Boddicker in 1988 at the deadline.
And it was viewed at the time (probably) as a steal for the Red Sox.
Boddicker was 30 and wound up with 2 and a half seasons for the Red Sox. One decent.
Schilling is a borderline HOF-er and Brady Anderson was a multiple all-star (tainted but so what).
me too. I liked Lilly. He was steady and ate innings.
But Loaiza always sucked In 2005, Contreras was 15-7 w/3.61 ERA & 3-1 in the post-season.
And the next year was 9-5 until he was traded to the Yanks at the trade deadline,going 1-2 w/an 8.50 ERA for the Yankees into free agency. So,yeah the trade for Contreras sucked big time!
Gleyber Torres, Billy McKinney, Adam Warren, and Rashad Crawford..........then picked Chapman back up in free agency
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best - Swisher with Chapman trade having the potential to surpass it.
Was there. Furthest homer I ever saw at the old stadium.
But that was the thing about Lilly. He was never scared to pitch to guys and always challenged hitters. Weaver was a joke.