Mets Trades through the years: Who won?
Another rather yawner year of trades during the strike year of baseball. This was the first 'full' year of the Joe McIlvaine and Dallas Green regime, one that couldn't end soon enough.
November 1993 through October 1994
(1) New York Mets traded Dave Gallagher to the Atlanta Braves for Pete Smith (Nov 24, 1993)
(2) New York Mets traded Marc Kroon and Randy Curtis to the San Diego Padres for Frank Seminara, Tracy Sanders and Pablo Martinez (Dec 10, 1993)
(3) New York Mets traded Vince Coleman to the Kansas City Royals for Kevin McReynolds (Jan 05, 1994)
(4) New York Mets traded Joe Dellicarri to the Detroit Tigers for Kevin Morgan (Feb 18, 1994)
(5) New York Mets traded Kevin Baez and Tom Wegmann to the Baltimore Orioles for David Segui (Mar 27, 1994)
(6) New York Mets traded Steve Long to the Florda Marlins for Robert Person (Mar 30, 1994)
(7) New York Mets traded Anthony Young and Ottis Smith to the Chicago Cubs for Jose Vizcaino (Mar 30, 1994)
(8) New York Mets traded Alan Zinter to the Detroit Tigers for Rico Brogna (Mar 31, 1994)
Notes: What to say about this year? There were certainly no star players traded in 1994.
Kevin McReynolds was a fine player for the powerhouse mid-to-late 1980s for the the Mets, but bringing him back for 1994 wasn’t the best move to get to a winning team. But trading Vince Coleman, who was also past his prime, wasn’t a huge cost.
David Segui was a good get, but they didn’t keep him long.
As seen on an earlier post, Robert Person was a good trade for the Mets as they were able to flip him to Toronto later for John Olerud.
Anthony Young, probably the most hard luck pitcher ever to pitch for the Mets, was finally traded to turn that luck around. You would be hard pressed to find another player to have a career 5-35 record with one team with an ERA of 3.82 and a WHIP of 1.367. He was a better 7 and 10 with the Cubs over a couple years and then an even 3 and 3 with Houston in his final year.
Robert Person, on the other hand had a lifetime record of 51-42 with an ERA of 4.64 and a career WHIP of 1.394. How is that possible?
I cannot be sure, but I suspect Alan Zinter may be the answer to a good trivia question. “What first round draft pick that later played in the major leagues took the longest time between being selected and getting into his first game?” (answer: about 13 years to the day - drafted as the #24 pick in June 1989, debuted on June 18, 2002.)
And like Segui, acquiring Brogna was a good idea, but they traded him before he had his best years.
Kevin Morgan had about as short of an MLB career as a player can have - one at bat, no hits, 2 innings in the field, one assist, but went on to a long career in the front office of the Mets in various player development and field coordinator roles before moving to Minnesota where he is currently the major league field coordinator.
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