Brick gloved thirdbaseman, All-Star slugger, still being paid by the Mets. I present Bobby Bonilla.
Semi-unique occurrence of a player being reacquired after being lost in the rule 5 draft. Nothing wrong with trading a useful DeLeon for him except that they already had him to start with. I have another player with a similar history that I may use next week.
I spent Father’s Day with my Dad and he gave me a great suggestion for a trade to chart. I use ‘great’ in the sense of ‘being very large.’ This thing has filled two pages already and still has several branches I haven’t explored. I’ll post it whenever I can get it all fleshed out and stitched back together. But man, is it a doozy.
Filed under: baseball, Pirates, Trade Tree Tagged: | baseball, Bobby Bonilla, Danny Clyburn, DJ Boston, Jacob Brumfield, Jose DeLeon, Pirates, Trade Tree, Vashon Walker
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