| Cards get: | Rick Wise |
| Cards lost: | Steve Carlton |
| Other Team: | Philadelphia (N) |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Net WS: | -278.7 (approx 93 wins) |
| #Cards’ players: | 16 |
| #Other team’s players | 1 (just Carlton |
| Comments: | The Cards got a little out of Wise, and some more out of Reggie Smith, but that was offset by the losses of Bernie Carbo and Mike Vail as throw-ins for subsequent trades. In the end, the Cards got no WS and the Phils got 278. |
Cards get: | Dutch Henry, Ogden |
| Cards lost: | Derringer, Sparky Adams, Stout |
| Other Team: | Cincinnati |
| Net WS: | -205.8 (approx 69 wins) |
| Year: | 1933 |
| #Cards’ players: | 7 |
| #Other team’s players | 7 |
| Comments: | Durocher wasn't too bad, but nobody else contributed. Derringer and Sparky Adams were strong for Cincinnati, and Stout was traded for Billy Myers, who contributed more for Cincy than Durocher did for the Cards. |
| Cards get: | Allen, Ownbey |
| Cards lost: | Keith Hernandez |
| Other Team: | New York (N) |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Net WS: | -125.2 (approx. 42 wins) |
| #Cards’ players: | 2 |
| #Other team’s players | 1 |
| Comments: | Allen contributed little and then was sold outright to the Yanks. Ownbey added nothing. You already know about Hernandez. |
| Cards get: | Granger |
| Cards lost: | Hisle, Cumberland |
| Other Team: | Minnesota |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Net WS: | -87.6 (approx. 29 wins) |
| #Cards’ players: | 3 |
| #Other team’s players | 2 |
Comments: | Granger did nothing, and was traded for other players who did nothing. Hisle was good, and this trade would have been worse for the Cards if Hisle had stayed with Minnesota. Instead, he bolted for Milwaukee via free agency. |
Cards get: | Lohrman, O’Dea, McCarthy |
Cards lost: | Mize |
Other Team: | New York (N) |
Year: | 1941 |
Net WS: | -72.9 (approx. 24 wins) |
#Cards’ players: | 4 |
#Other team’s players | 1 (just Mize) |
Comments: | Mize was very good for the Giants, but the Yanks purchased him 4 years later. The Cards got a little bit out of O’Dea. This trade is hard to evaluate, because the Cards got $50,000, which bought a couple of decent players back then. But, the Giants probably got a tidy sum when the Yanks bought Mize. |
Cards get: | Sizemore, Stinson |
Cards lost: | Dick Allen |
Other Team: | Los Angeles |
Year: | 1970 |
Net WS: | -64.6 (approx. 22 wins) |
#Cards’ players: | 46 |
#Other team’s players | 3 |
Comments: | Allen had one good year for LA, but he was traded for Tommy John, who gave the Dodgers a number of solid years. The family tree on the Cards side is a mess: forty-six players in the lineage of this trade. Sizemore was good, but the Cards kept trading. Ultimately, Jack Clark and Lonnie Smith were in the picture and contributed WS. Even Ozzie Smith (with 275 WS) is connected to this trade. So how do the Cards lose? They kept trading, and kept throwing in new players. Unfortunately, the Cards’ throw-in players included Ted Simmons, Terry Kennedy, Garry Templeton, Aurelio Lopez and Jose Uribe (all of whom earned at least 77 WS before ending their careers). |
Cards get: | McLean, Jack Taylor |
Cards lost: | Three Finger Brown, O’Neill |
Other Team: | Chicago (N) |
Year: | 1903 |
Net WS: | -6.2 (approx. 2 wins) |
#Cards’ players: | 7 |
#Other team’s players | 3 |
Comments: | I thought the Cards would do worse in this trade, but Taylor contributed, then was traded for Beebe who contributed, and Beebe was traded for Rebel Oakes who contributed and Miller Huggins, who really contributed. |
