At Reddit, someone posted a Tim Kurkjian article from SI’s 1994 Baseball Preview about the fabled Pedro Martinez/Delino DeShields trade. The entire article is here. Read it.
5 quotes from a Pedro/DeShields trade story
This doesn’t have much to do with America, considering it’s a story about a) a Canadian team and b) the Dodgers, but it’s always worth remembering.
Bob DeChiara-US PRESSWIRE
My five favorite passages:
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“He had as good an arm as we saw last year,” says Pittsburgh Pirate coach Rich Donnelly. “Even if we’d had five strikes against him, we couldn’t have hit him.”
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Dodger fans were upset about losing an enormously popular pitcher who averaged 10 strikeouts per nine innings last year. (No L.A. starter struck out as many as 10 in a game in ‘93.) But once the fans began hearing good reports on DeShields, the trade became more palatable to them.
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Duquette narrowed his search for an inexpensive starting pitcher to Martinez and Boston’s Aaron Sele, who went 7-2 with a 2.74 ERA as a rookie last year.
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“I don’t know why I was traded -- was it spite, was it money, or was it to improve the club?” DeShields says.
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Figuring there were enough up-and-coming reliever prospects who could replace Martinez, including 1993 first-round draft pick Darren Dreifort, Claire started to come around.
