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Originally Posted by GirlySports
If a team makes a blockbuster deal 2 players for 2 players and the 2 players that team gets only stays for 2 years? That's a bust.
They could have kept Carter and Alomar at least 5 more years if not forever.
I don't know the detail of the 1993 fire sale.. sounds like inept management.
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I'd argue the exact opposite....they would have ended up trading Carter and Alomar too in that fire sale too. The only thing that could have prevented that was a World Series calibre team and the Padres those years didn't have the pitching to even come close. Most fire sale's aren't inept management...it's usually ownership ordering it to go down.
Really if you look at the deal it was Fred McGriff in his prime and an aging Tony Fernandez for Alomar coming into his prime, and Joe Carter who was also aging. Carter had just come off a year hitting only 24 home runs and somehow managed 115 RBI with a sub 700 OPS. Carter bounced back and probably benefitted from Toronto's lineup and the SkyDome, and Alomar was as good or better than Gillick thought he'd be in his projections.