10 WORST Trades in MLB History

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Did we miss any terrible trades?

[@Publiclighthouse]

The 1987 Smoltz-Alexander Trade was not horrible at the time. Smoltz was a 22nd round draft pick who wasn’t all that promising after two years in the minors. After the in-season trade, Alexander went 9-0, helping Detroit reach the post-season. So he did EXACTLY what he was supposed to do for the Tigers. Smoltz made his debut in 1988 and pitched poorly. When you’re in a pennant race, you have to balance playing for now vs later and Detroit needed help right away. Smoltz wouldn’t look like a HOFer until years later. You can’t fault Detroit for going for it.

[@sams5780]

Josh Fields for Yordan Alverez

[@Publiclighthouse]

Your analysis of the Pedro Martinez-Delino Deshields trade tells me that you didn’t do your research and simply went with what you heard happened or thought happened. Following the 1992 season, his first with the Dodgers, they wanted to sign Reed to a 3 year extension but he declined,thinking he could get more money as a free agent. The Dodgers moved on and ended up trading Pedro Martinez to Montreal to fill the leadoff hitting role and 2nd base position in one go.

[@gumpware]

I believe the offer was for 3 years at 2 million per season. Reed rejected it, didn't get any other offers, and ended up signing with the Padres for 500K for 1 year.

[@jdscottphd]

Also I am 100% sure Johnson did not win 4 Cy Youngs with the Cardinals.

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Haha must’ve had NFL in my brain and misspoke. I meant the Arizona diamondbacks. Good catch

[@Sonoranhotdog520]

Ai video glitch

[@charliegone1652]

As a Dodger fan some of the worst trades: trading away Pedro, Alvarez for a rental bp arm, trading Paul Konerko for who?

[@justsomecontent5528]

Great video fam! I agree though that the ai you can be left out. But you do you fam!

[@kenw2225]

Mookie betts trade was awful. Made no sense then, looks even worse now. It would be like the royals trading away Witt Jr. Or the pirates trading skenes( lol they probably will eventually). But I can't think of a worse trade than that. Pedro trade was wild but he wasn't quite Pedro yet. Still was really good. Cabrera trade was ok. Marlins couldn't afford him anyways. I still can't believe the red Sox traded Betts. He was clearly gonna produce mvp level numbers for the next decade , when they made that trade.

[@aidenyaun6052]

Based on what the pirates are doing with that Skenes card and stuff, I think they plan to keep him. But who knows

[@therealjaystone2344]

50 year drought for the Sox

[@malkinmalone]

It’s bad because Betts wanted to play in Boston, also. They could have worked something out. They cannot say they couldn’t afford him when they reportedly offered the Soto 700 million. Betts’ 162 game average WAR is higher than Soto’s but they weren’t willing to explore going over 300 million?? He already had won an MVP and a World Series at that point. Of course the Dodgers did a very similar thing with Corey Seager when they stopped at 250 million. I get that was probably more about them disliking dealing with Boras than Seager. After Seager won another WS mvp i was so disappointed in them letting him get away.

[@CraigRoccanova]

Great video! I would just do away with the AI animation of you, it doesn't add anything to it. "Baseball Doesn't Exist" level of video though!

[@kenw2225]

Yea bro cut out those ai cartoon clips. And why does the cartoon wear a mask? Otherwise , solid video, decent topic for making a video on. I'll sub and comment to help you out.

[@kevinguzman5587]

Just subbed. Great video. Love to see more baseball channels

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Thanks for the sub!

[@jeffdollaz]

Red Sox did the same thing twice once with babe once with Mookie

[@darrensaks165]

Wow! Best video yet. Didn’t know that Cabrera wasn’t a lifetime tiger. Great info

[@MIKELIN8]

The story I read when the Dodgers traded Pedro was that Tommy LaSorda thought Pedro had 'no guts'. But he loved Pedro's older brother Ramon.

[@camionerosfurgoneros5915]

In Dodgers defense PedrOIDS Martinez started to decline when steroids testin was a rumor

[@atlrts]

Although the Mets could’ve received better in return Nolan Ryan a country boy from Texas hated being in New York.

[@acthemagician]

Algorithm blessed up with some interesting content 😇

[@rmcrae62]

Norm Cash traded for Steve Demeter. In terms of WAR this was one of the most lopsided ever. Cash 52, Demeter - 0.5

[@brandonrosales4217]

2:30 Honestly, Trading Our Best Players and future Hall of Famers for basically a piece of Poop and bag of Cheetos, is so frequent, that it is basically an ongoing gag.

[@jacobsaks8159]

Hawkeye bit cracked me up haha

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

To be fair with the Mookie trade at the time Jeter Downs and Verdugo were two of he highest rated minor leaguers. Jeter Downs was being looked at as the next big super star and people were talking non stop about Verdugo for years.

[@malkinmalone]

Chaim is pronounced hime like time. Great video, my friend. 😊

[@Catdaddyacab]

“John Smolz” lmao 😂

[@seancrockett896]

Also, miguel carbrera wasnt traded bc of mismanaged funds during construction of marlins new park. It wasnt even started yet and it was primarily the public that paid for it

[@__blessings__]

Chaim bloom lol

[@Rattlor]

Miguel Cabrera was actually headed to the Angels, but the Marlins backed out multiple times. Cabrera and Trout would have been better than Pujols and Trout!

[@Rattlor]

Steroids was why the Red Sox broke the curse in 2004! Never forget that kids!

[@timothyeast4423]

It’s okay, I knew he meant Dbacks instead of Cardinals for Randy Johnson winning 4 straight Cy Youngs

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Your my favorite of the commentors

[@timothyeast4423]

@ Thanks for all you do though! I just said what I said because I’m a Dbacks fan haha. There is one terrible trade I do recall as a Dbacks fan though! Shelby Miller for Dansby Swanson and Ender Enciarte

[@MikeHart72]

I was checking to see if this was mentioned. I didn’t want to be the 10th person posting about the same mistake

[@therealjaystone2344]

The Betts trade will never surpass the Ruth trade.

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Agreed

[@cheeseburger12]

Trading a prospect that turns into a HOF is worse then trading a star about to hit free agency that wants more money than you can sign him for.

[@ghosttownbound]

Can or will?

[@DublinSeafoodInc]

nice video

[@chrisfollett9866]

Randy Johnson did not play for the Cardinals... It was the Diamondbacks.

[@EugeneMao-op3ot]

You could also title this video as the 10 BEST trades in MLB history

[@BattersBoxChannel]

Maybe a future video coming on that 👀

[@dalekinney8726]

Randy Johnson won 4 Cy Young’s with the Cardinals? lol. I missed that somehow. I remember him winning 4 with the Diamondbacks….

[@jdscottphd]

Bloom was essentially ordered to trade Betts by ownership. And his first name is pronounced "KY-em". But yes bad trade.

[@kenw2225]

He should give up his job for someone who knows ball.

[@Publiclighthouse]

Yeah, the fact that he can’t pronounce the name, likely means he’s never heard of him which probable means this guy only knows superficial info about the sport. A cursory look shows he’s only been an active channel for 3 months with just 10 videos. A newly clicks for cash guy.

[@jdscottphd]

@@Publiclighthouse people have to start somewhere...there's okay work here overall just a bit sloppy.

[@kingpotasium2814]

8:19 i didnt know he played for the catdinals 😭

[@seancrockett896]

AI generated babe ruth apparently swings right handed lol

[@Ghxst12]

A lot of these was when they was unproven and or in the minors like dodgers trading yordan and tatis nobody knew what they would be the only ones that I understand are terrible is mookie,mark and Ruth

[@maxtradezzz]

why tf is bro wearing a mask ?

[@K-Ruler94]

Is this A.I.?

[@illuminatorrs]

hire an artist to draw your mascot. that ai art is atrocious

[@bradenborman4396]

How about you stop stealing other peoples lists and come up with your own. Andrew miller was a good player, too, casual

[@Publiclighthouse]

Miller had a career re-birth as a reliever yet this guy fails to mention that.

[@Rattlor]

Miguel Cabrera was actually headed to the Angels, but the Marlins backed out multiple times. Cabrera and Trout would have been better than Pujols and Trout!