1995 Trade Page
Clarkston Crush trades Pavlik
Springfield Homers trades Fryman
Crush long on pitching and
pick up a 3B. Pavlik responds with 15 wins for the Homers. But Fryman doesn't last long
either. He winds up in Bay City for Canseco and draft picks.
Clarkston Crush trades Portugal + 24th round pick
Bergen Bombers trades Henke + 17th round pick
Bergen may have lost 99 games
the year before, but have a lot of extra bullpen. Henke goes to the Crush where he saves
40. Portugal returns to Bergen and wins 15 for the newly christened Storm, 2nd high on the
team after Nomo. The Bergen pick turns into Greg Harris, who is later shipped to Sydney
for another starter, where he somehow leads the league in saves. Clarkston's pick is Walt
Weiss, who becomes the Crush shortstop for a couple of years.
Clarkston Crush trades 27th round pick
Springfield Homers trade Karkovice
Karkovice hits .164 for the Crush, but
somebody had to catch. Coomer is the draft pick. He only appears in 7 games, but at least
he didn't hit .164.
San Juan Bums trades Hayes & 20th round pick
Springfield Homers trades Drabek & Van Poppel
The new Bums combine to go 11-29.
Charlie labors through a .255 season, but at least he doesn't go 11-29. Blair is the pick,
and he winds up in BCB as part of the Shane Reynolds trade. Advantage Springfield.
Clarkston Crush trades Klesko
Lake Wobegon Warriors trades Pedro Martinez
The Crush are the first ones to figure
out Klesko can't hit lefties. It turns out to be a spectacular trade for the Crush, as
Pedro wins a lot of games for them. Klesko will be traded the next year to Taiwan for the
other pitching brother Martinez.
Moniave Greenhorns trades Jeff King
Lake Wobegon Warriors trades 21st round pick
King hits 24 homers for the Warriors
(Pilots) and Jamie Moyer goes 7-2 for a bad Greenhorn (Stormcloud) team. However, King
delivers many clutch hits for the division winners.
Dresden Blacks trades Witt & Jaha
San Juan Bums trades Bonilla
Jaha and Bonilla have about the same
stats, but Bonilla has a few more plate appearances. Jaha has no position except to back
up McGwire. The Blacks get a league leading RBI performance from Bonilla, playing RF, LF,
1B, and 3B. Jaha doesn't disappoint, hitting .331 with 26 HRs, but he's alone, being
intentionally walked a league leading 29 times. Witt goes 8-16, 5.08.
Clarkston Crush trades 22nd & 26th round picks
Montreal Trekkers trades Amaral & Mouton
Amaral gets 50 at bats, Mouton goes in
the next trade. Nunnally (the pick) gets 43 ABs. A non-trade.
**** Round 1 of Draft ****
Clarkston Crush trades Cordero & Mouton & 29th round
pick
Maine Squeeze trades Blauser & 22nd & 23rd round picks
Cordero has a lot of history with the
Crush, but at the end of the day Younk decides his future is limited. They'll do better
with Osuna and Tim Worrell. Cordero has a terrible season (.228-5-47) for the Squeeze.
Hana Storm trades Finley, Surhoff, Ritz, 23rd & 29th
round picks
Dresden Blacks trades Leiter, Myers, Dykstra, 27th & 28th round picks
Hard to criticize a trade
which wins a World Series, but Leiter is brought in to be the #2 pitcher behind Nomo. He
wins up 11-11 and then gets traded a year later for Terry Hundley. Meanwhile, Finley and
Ritz combine for 68 wins over the next two years. Surhoff also outplays Myers offensively
and defensively. And Surhoff begat Hoiles... . Advantage, Dresden.
**** Round 2 of Draft ****
Maine Squeeze trades Clemens and Mabry
San Jose Seals trades Tettleton and Foster
Second bad trade for the Squeeze.
Maybe, without Clemens this might make sense.
Madison Mensheviks trades Griffey
Montreal Trekkers trades Brown and 29th round pick
Ken Main, author of the former Playoff
Pitch, pulled the trigger on this one. Griffey had just suffered one of those hand
injuries, Hal McRae was competing for time in CF, and Kevin Brown was tearing it up. All
true, but for Junior? Advantage, Montreal.
Clarkston Crush trades Blauser + 30th round pick
San Juan Bums trades R. McDowell + 34th round pick
McDowell pitches 101 effective innings
for the Crush, Blauser gets 19 AB. Bums on the short end.
**** Round 3 of Draft ****
**** Team Name Changes Implemented ****:
Lake Wobegon Warriors -> Bellingham Pilots (BEL)
Oakland Concordes -> Colorado Rockies (COL)
Bergen Bombers -> Hana Storm (HAN)
Moniave Greenhorns -> Seattle Stormclouds (SEA)
Minnesota Blizzard -> Dresden Blacks (DRE)
Catoosa Cops -> Cleveland Cops
Clarkston Crush -> Yukon Crush (YUK)
Dixon Devils -> Sierra Leones (SRL)
Starbuck Mochas -> BayCity Barracudas (BCB)
San Jose Seals -> East Coast Cyclones (CYC)
Storm sends Orlando Miller, Lira
Dodgers sends Mayne, Greg Harris
A more significant trade than first
glance. Lira becomes the important #5 starter for the Storm while Harris becomes the
Dodgers best reliever, saving 46 games
Crush sends Nixon, Radinsky
Knights send Seitzer, Webster
Nixon plays a platoon role for the
Knights, Radinsky is twice protected (!) (Maybe he was a parrot in a previous life?)
Seitzer hits .316 with 48 doubles for the Crush, who get the better end of this trade.
Storm sends Crabtree
Blacks sends Baldwin
Blacks still short a reliever for the
pennant chase, Baldwin a marginal protect. Crabtree justifies the trade with two strong
seasons, Baldwin toils as a midlevel Hana starter.
Homers send Baerga & Blair
Barracudas send Gates & Reynolds
Baerga starts his grand tour. First to
Bay City, where they have hopes of a pennant chase. Reynolds has a disappointing season
for the Homers (8-13, 5.30), Baerga plays well for the Barracudas, but the team falters
midway, and then goes on to the Storm, where he gets his ring. Gates has a reasonable
season sharing time with Rex Hudler. Slight advantage for the Homers.
Blacks send Carter, Russell, Lewis
Homers send Mieske, Belinda
Carter the lure for the future (!),
having hit 25 homers at the all-star break. However, he slumps badly, and the Homers wind
up with nothing to show for Belinda, who saves 35 games for the division winning Blacks.
Crush sends Fryman, Hill, 25th, and 29th round picks
Barracudas send Canseco, Hasleman, 17th, and 19th round picks
Certainly a winner for the Crush.
Canseco provides power off the bench for a couple of years, and the draft picks (the next
year) turn out to be Naulty and Macfarlane, keys in the 1996 division champs. Fryman's
defense doesn't quite make up for his .251average with 12 HRs and his 116Ks.
**** Period 5 ****
Storm sends Garret Anderson, Mark Lewis, 20th round pick
Barracudas send Alex Gonzalez, Carlos Baerga, 13th round pick
Craig Hayes in a self-destruct phase.
The trade of Baerga an admission they were too far behind the Blacks, but the trade of
Gonzalez and the 13th round pick (Mel Rojas the year after) was at the end of the day just
wrong. We should note that Mark Lewis was already at limit for 1995, and was a future pick
only.
Crush sends Tim Worrell
Barracudas send Frank Castillo
Good trade for the Cudas, picking up a
useful player for the next year, for someone who wouldn't be.
Crush sends Paco Martin, 22nd round pick
Homers send Kent Mercker, 34th round pick
Crush looking for pitching down the
stretch, but it fails. Mercker goes a credible 7-7, but the Pilots pass them anyway.
Springfield gets Jeff Nelson with the pick.
PLAYOFFS
Hana defeats Dresden 4 games to 0
Rosehaven defeats Bellingham 4 games to 2
WORLD SERIES
Hana defeats Rosehaven 4 games to 1