What are some of the weirdest trades in professional baseball, and which do you rate the strangest?
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1. In 1989 pitcher Tom Fortugno of the Reno Silver Sox was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers organization for $2,500 and a bag of baseballs.
2. During the 1994 baseball strike, Dave Winfield was traded from the Minnesota Twins to the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later. The only problem was that the season did not resume, so the Indians took the Twins executives out to dinner in compenstation.
3. In 1998, minor league team Pacific Suns traded pitcher Ken Krahenbuhl to the Greensville Bluesmen for ten pounds of catfish, cash and a player to be named later. In Krahenbuhl's first game with Greensville, he pitched a perfect game.
4. In 2008, minor league catcher John Odom was traded from the Calgary Vipers to the Laredo Broncos for a bag of maple baseball bats.
5. For me this is the strangest trade of them all. In 2005, John McDonald was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Detroit Tigers for future considerations. At the end of the season the Tigers traded McDonald back to the Blue Jays. So essentially the trade was John McDonald for John McDonald.
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I cannot imagine the Boston Red Sox will trade prolific Jeff Bagwell to the Houston Astros for an aging 37 year-old Larry Andersen in 1990. The Red Sox have a great season at that stretch as they went on to top their division in the AL East but fell prey to the Oakland Athletics 0-4 in ALCS, tough luck indeed. The Red Sox is pinning its hope on Andersen that the team will give them a shot at the World Series.
The trade was a waste and made the Red Sox regrets its trading blunder later and until now. Andersen with just few seasons left was a big disappointment and later was dealt to San Diego Padres. While Andersen languish in despair, Bagwell’s star shines further, and was later named as NL 1994 MVP and has a strong chance that he’ll get elected in the Hall of Fame.
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The Chattanooga Lookouts once traded a player by the name of Johnny Jones for a 25 pound turkey. The general manager who traded Jones then cooked the turkey and ate it in front of the media. He claimed that the other team had won the trade because the Turkey was too tough.
Finally, though it wasn’t between two teams, the most interesting trade was between two pitchers on the same team. Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson were friends and teammates in the 1970’s and they eventually actually trade wives.
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