Originally Posted by
stevenash
Oh the Pirates have a long standing history of that.
Pitt jettisoned John Tudor to the Cards for a box of rocks back in the day.
Gave up Tyler Glasnow and Austin Meadows for Chris Archer whose career quickly went down the crapper.
Remember Jason Schmidt, the second he arrived in SF from Pittsburgh he turned into Cy Young.
Jay Buhner to the Yanks for Tim Foli. Another epic Pitt fail. Buhner only wound up hitting over 300 taters.
I can go all night.
Doug Drabek.
Kenny Lofton and Aramis Ramirez to the Cubs for Bobby Hill.
John Leiber
Bert Blyleven and Manny Sanguillen for a couple of Indian rejects.
A little before my time but didn't Pitt give away Dave Dravecky and Rick Honeycutt too?