Denehy only appeared in 49 career games, going with a 4. During the season, Cleveland sought a change, and they found their answer in the form of another team's manager.
Cleveland GM Frank Lane at first considered the suggestion of the trade to be a joke, but eventually he came around. The Indians wound up finishing fourth in the division that year, and the Tigers were sixth. The trade was widely considered a publicity stunt.
Dykes retired at the close of the season; Gordon left the Tigers after less than a year with the team, instead signing on as the manager of the Kansas City Athletics for he was fired mid-season. Gordon's last chance at managing came in , when he led the expansion Kansas City Royals, but lasted only one season before again being let go. Lou Piniella, Getty Images Piniella wanted to keep his career alive, but also wished to relocate closer to his Tampa home.
Chuck Tanner, Getty Images The veteran manager came to Oakland before the season, but he only lasted one year with the A's before owner Charlie Finley sent Tanner to the Pirates in exchange for outfielder catcher Manny Sanguillen. Now here is something you don't see everyday. It had too many players to pay and not enough money to even feed everyone. So the club got creative: It shipped defender Marius Cioara to Regal Horia in exchange for 15 kilograms of meat, enough food to feed the team for a week.
Unfortunately for Regal Horia, though, the player—upon being traded—decided that he was done with football and quit in order to pursue a career in agriculture or construction, according to ESPNFC. It prompted this hilarious quotation from a team official: "We are upset because we lost twice—firstly because we lost a good player and secondly because we lost our team's food for a whole week. Back in , Brett Favre was just a superstar college quarterback from the University of Southern Mississippi.
The Atlanta Falcons selected him with the 33rd overall pick in the '91 draft, but there was one guy who didn't like the move: Falcons head coach Jerry Glanville. Unfortunately, he had a lot of clout. Thus, because his head coach hated him, Favre was traded to the Packers following the season for the measly price of a first-round pick, which would be used on Tony Smith. Smith's professional career would last two years.
Many years later, Glanville would insist that he sent Favre to Green Bay because the city was a better fit for him, given his struggles with alcohol and painkillers, according to NBCSports. Glanville told Gregg Rosenthal:. I could not sober him up. Dave Winfield made plenty of history throughout the course of his year baseball career.
He played for six teams, he made 12 All-Star teams, he had his number retired by the Padres—for whom he now serves as Executive VP and Senior Adviser—and he will be forever enshrined in Cooperstown. But, perhaps, the most impressive stat on Winfield's resume is that he still remains the only player in the history of the sport to ever be traded for a dinner.
Just prior the labor strike, the MinnesotaTwins traded Winfield to the Indians for a player to be named later. Because the strike ended the season prematurely, Winfield never played a game for Cleveland, and thus, the Twins never got anything in exchange for him. So the two teams settled the debt by having a nice dinner out together, and the Indians paid.
Of course, we have to address what might forever remain the most lopsided and ridiculous trade in sports history. The legendary Babe Ruth began his career as a member of the Boston Red Sox and propelled them to three World Series titles within the first five years of his career. He was the most ferocious hitter in baseball, universally feared by anyone who ever took the mound. Why would the Red Sox let him go? Thus, Frazee sold Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees, who were terrible but suddenly found their footing with the Babe on their side.
They quickly became the most ferocious franchise in baseball, winning four championships from The Red Sox, meanwhile, were cursed by the humiliating move until the planets realigned in Though they're rare, Major League Baseball has seen more manager-for-player trades than you'd think.
The Red Sox were clearly going nowhere under the abysmal leadership of Bobby Valentine, and they'd had their eyes on John Farrell as future manager material ever since he served as Terry Francona's pitching coach.
Players being traded for managers is one thing. One manager being swapped for another manager midseason, however, is another thing entirely. That's probably why it's only happened once. Both guys had sub-. He's a headcase, he's a clubhouse cancer, he's an enigma—say whatever you want about Randy Moss, but he once was one of the greatest wide receivers the NFL had ever seen, and when the New England Patriots snagged him in , it was pretty much a robbery.
Pre, Moss had been an up-and-down guy. When he stayed focused, his on-the-field performance was electrifying; in his first six seasons in the league, he registered 1, yards or more and double-digit touchdowns every season except for one.
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