Worst modern sports trades

[a7x1337]

2000- Oli Jokinen Traded to Florida by NY Islanders with Roberto Luongo for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha

2001- The falcons trading fifth overall pick in the first round, their third-round pick, their second-round pick in 2002 and wide receiver Tim Dwight to get the #1 pick (vick) instead of LT :ohnoes:

2003- The San Francisco Giants trade pitchers Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser to Twins for A.J. Pierzynski

2004- The New York Mets trade pitcher Scott Kazmir and infielder Jose Diaz to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Bartolome Fortunato and Victor Zambrano.

haha, the islanders sucked with trades. some others i found:

McCabe, Bertuzzi, and 3rd Rounder(Jarko Ruutu) to the Canucks for Linden

Chara, Bill Muckalt, and 1st Rounder(Jason Spezza) to Senators for Yashin

[Quiet_Riot]

Michael Carrick to Manchester U*ited for £18.5 million.

:lol:

[UncleJemima83]

2002 (i believe) - Milwaukee Bucks essentally traded Ray Allen for Gary Payton

[poopchow]

Well im being a bit biased but one trade that payed off very well

Kwame Brown for Butler and Atkins

[beardo]

tribe tardes bartolo colon to montreal, in the deal was a player to be named..grady sizemore anyone?

[navid]

trading gretzky is by far the stupidest trade in the history of sports.

[TheWhiteRecluse]

Not really a trade but I would be very pissed if the Cubs let Zambrano leave because they wont resign him. Hes the best healthy pitcher they have and they dont need to let him walk away.

[2y4life]

This is just MLB

1997 – The Seattle Mariners trade pitcher Derek Lowe and catcher Jason Varitek to the Boston Red Sox for closer Heathcliff Slocumb

1989 – The Texas Rangers trade pitcher Wilson Alvarez, outfielder Sammy Sosa and infielder Scott Fletcher to the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Harold Baines and infielder Fred Manrique.

1987 – The Detroit Tigers trade pitcher John Smoltz to the Atlanta Braves for pitcher Doyle Alexander.

1993 – The Los Angeles Dodgers trade pitcher Pedro Martinez to the Montreal Expos for Delino DeShields.

1997 – The Oakland Athletics trade first baseman Mark McGwire to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitchers T.J. Matthews, Blake Stein, and Eric Ludwick.

2003 – The San Francisco Giants trade pitchers Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser to Twins for A.J. Pierzynski

[poopchow]

Any trade by the Expos, these are the people they could have had on their team

Grady Sizemore
Pedro
Vlad
Colon

thats a great core of players right there

[psychotic n00b]

Fran Tarkenton to the giants

[pacaveli]

Well im being a bit biased but one trade that payed off very well

Kwame Brown for Butler and Atkins

word to that butlers a better player than kwame will ever be in the NBA
Biggest waste of talent, he and Darko

[bobtheflob]

The worst trade ever has to be the Cowboys trading Herschel Walker for 5 players and 6 draft picks, 4 of which turned into Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith, and Darren Woodson.

[gatorpatric0]

The worst trade ever has to be the Cowboys trading Herschel Walker for 5 players and 6 draft picks, 4 of which turned into Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith, and Darren Woodson.

How is that a bad trade for the Cowboys?
Emmitt Smith > Herschel Walker

Why you ask?
UF > UGA

[YankeesSuck]

I tend to think what the Celtics would be like if they never traded Chauncey Billups for Kenny Anderson after drafting him.

[beardo]

Any trade by the Expos, these are the people they could have had on their team

Grady Sizemore
Pedro
Vlad
Colon

thats a great core of players right there

dont forget that they had randy johnson and larry walker lol

[gatorpatric0]

Just some players that have gone through the Braves Organization....

Greg Maddux
Tom Glavine
JD Drew*
Kyle Farnsworth*
Adam Wainwright
Vinny Castilla
Gary Sheffield

...I should be better at this list, I remember making this list in my head a long time ago and it was much longer....

*The Braves are famous for having players in for One year and then those players leave and get PAID.

[Ace Hippie]

A couple of other 'gems'

Boston Red Sox trade Jeff Bagwell to Houston for Larry Andersen, a veteran relief pitcher. Andersen gives the Red Sox 22 good innings, Bagwell went on to a Hall of Fame quality career.

Baltimore trades Steve Finley, Pete Harnisch and Curt Schilling for Glenn Davis. ouch.

[John Galt]

Orlando trading Ben Wallace and 5 other players for Grant Hill in 1999.

[JerkyMyTurky]

word to that butlers a better player than kwame will ever be in the NBA
Biggest waste of talent, he and Darko

Kwame Brown is a bust, Darko is far from a bust. Darko is putting up numbers on the Magic and that is mostly off the bench and having to take a secondary role on that team to Howard. If you put Darko on a poor team, he would be averaging pretty good numbers. Also, consider Darko didn't get a chance to play for 3 full years at the Pistons, waste of 3 years. Only until he got to the Magic last year, did he start playing meaningful mintues. This year is his first full year getting legitimate minutes and has been stating games recently. He's also 3 years younger than Kwame, who has had 5 years prior to this year, playing meaningful mintues and has only managed to average 11 points in his best year, while Darko is averaging 8, with less minutes and while playing behind the main guy on the Magic, in Dwight Howard. Kwame = Bust, Darko = On the rise. Darko > Kwame.

Lakers fans better hope they don't make a similar mistake and trade away Bynum, who I think is going to be a great player. The worst trade that bothers me is the Mets trading away Scott Kazmir for Victor fucking Zambrano. The guy has no arm and is afraid to throw strikes. :banghead:

[bobtheflob]

How is that a bad trade for the Cowboys?
Emmitt Smith > Herschel Walker

Why you ask?
UF > UGA

This was obviously a bad trade for the Vikings. The Cowboys got the NFL's all time leading rusher plus several other probowl type players that formed the cornerstone of the Superbowl winning teams. The Vikings got a decent running back for a few years.

[gatorpatric0]

Kwame Brown is a bust, Darko is far from a bust. Darko is putting up numbers on the Magic and that is mostly off the bench and having to take a secondary role on that team to Howard. If you put Darko on a poor team, he would be averaging pretty good numbers. Also, consider Darko didn't get a chance to play for 3 full years at the Pistons, waste of 3 years. Only until he got to the Magic last year, did he start playing meaningful mintues. This year is his first full year getting legitimate minutes and has been stating games recently. He's also 3 years younger than Kwame, who has had 5 years prior to this year, playing meaningful mintues and has only managed to average 11 points in his best year, while Darko is averaging 8, with less minutes and while playing behind the main guy on the Magic, in Dwight Howard. Kwame = Bust, Darko = On the rise. Darko > Kwame.

Lakers fans better hope they don't make a similar mistake and trade away Bynum, who I think is going to be a great player. The worst trade that bothers me is the Mets trading away Scott Kazmir for Victor fucking Zambrano. The guy has no arm and is afraid to throw strikes. :banghead:

Now I dont know how you can say that Darko > Kwame. Though Kwame is not a star and didnt really deserve the number one pick, he has been putting in quality minutes his whole career. Darko is starting to be an effective off-the-bencher for the Magic, after 3 years of Garbage time on a great team. Dont tell me that Darko > Kwame, I cant agree with that.

But that may just be because I went to High School with Kwame Brown (Glynn Academy in Brunswick, GA. Look it up.)

[Mysterio]

Marcu Sturn, Wayne Primeau, and Brad Stuart for Joe Thorton.

O well at least it worked out for the Sharks:D

[poopchow]

Orlando trading Ben Wallace and 5 other players for Grant Hill in 1999.

Didnt even know Ben had 1 year in orlando. That trade wasnt that stupid, grant has had some bright spots, its just that he has been injured for so many games

[JerkyMyTurky]

Now I dont know how you can say that Darko > Kwame. Though Kwame is not a star and didnt really deserve the number one pick, he has been putting in quality minutes his whole career. Darko is starting to be an effective off-the-bencher for the Magic, after 3 years of Garbage time on a great team. Dont tell me that Darko > Kwame, I cant agree with that.

But that may just be because I went to High School with Kwame Brown (Glynn Academy in Brunswick, GA. Look it up.)

You can't hold those 3 years in Detroit against Darko. Detroit got the #1 via trade and weren't going to play him, considering they had a championship team on their hands. If you recall, that team had Ben Wallace and Mehmet Okur (both quality big men and all stars) on the team and Larry Brown wasn't going to use Darko until garbage time. That's not Darko's fault, he needed to be drafted by the worst team in the league, not the best team in the league. Now he is on the Magic and he's finally getting legitimate minutes, so this is going to be his first full year with real minutes, even while playing in the shadows of Howard. You can't compare that to a guy who has 5 full years and still hasn't come close to being what a #1 draft pick should be. Best year is 11 points per game. Give Darko 5 years of minutes like Kwame had, I can assure you he is averaging close to 20 ppg.

[gatorpatric0]

You can't hold those 3 years in Detroit against Darko. Detroit got the #1 via trade and weren't going to play him, considering they had a championship team on their hands. If you recall, that team had Ben Wallace and Mehmet Okur (both quality big men and all stars) on the team and Larry Brown wasn't going to use Darko until garbage time. That's not Darko's fault, he needed to be drafted by the worst team in the league, not the best team in the league. Now he is on the Magic and he's finally getting legitimate minutes, so this is going to be his first full year with real minutes, even while playing in the shadows of Howard. You can't compare that to a guy who has 5 full years and still hasn't come close to being what a #1 draft pick should be. Best year is 11 points per game. Give Darko 5 years of minutes like Kwame had, I can assure you he is averaging close to 20 ppg.

Well that hasnt happened. Darko hasnt averaged 20 ppg, even though it isnt his fault that he didnt get to play in Detroit.

And 11 Points isnt bad. Remember, he's always played with STARS like Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant and maybe Gilbert Arenas (Im not sure if he played with Arenas in Washington or not......).

Kwame is and has been a quality role-player, even though the first pick is supposed to be a Star. Darko has yet to prove himself as either....

So at this point in both players' career.....

Kwame > Darko

But like I said, I gotta stick with my fellow GA Alumus.

[The Machine]

2001- The falcons trading fifth overall pick in the first round, their third-round pick, their second-round pick in 2002 and wide receiver Tim Dwight to get the #1 pick (vick) instead of LT :ohnoes:


by FAR the worst trade decision I've seen

[Whitelines]

I don't think the Vick trade is that bad. One of the better ones out of the ones in this thread.


As a diehard Mets fan, I was shocked when I heard about the Kazmir trade. Guy is an absolute stud, and V. Zambrano is mos tlikely done for his career. I saw it on ESPN at a Friday's. I immediately put my head down on the table and ignored the waitress. One of the worst days/moments as a Mets fan

[ftbllplr]

How can you say it wasn't Darkos fault for not getting any time in Detroit? He obviously wasn't good enough to earn a starting spot or even any substantial minutes.

[beardo]

not really a trade, but a couple years back, browns pass clinton portis for james jackson (3rd string for arizona now)

whooooooooops

[John Galt]

Darko was 17 when drafted so I don't know how anyone can expect him to start over 2 all-stars on a championship team, unless you're a Kwame groupee.

[JerkyMyTurky]

How can you say it wasn't Darkos fault for not getting any time in Detroit? He obviously wasn't good enough to earn a starting spot or even any substantial minutes.

That team had a starting cast of all stars, Rip Hamilton, Chauncy Billups, Tayshaun Prince, Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace and future all star in Mehmet Okur on the bench. They won back to back titles without starting Darko, he got on that team via a trade for a draft pick. Normally, the best team in the league doesn't get the #1 draft pick. It wasn't his fault for being drafted on that team, its that simple. Larry Brown didn't need him, they won two titles with him on the bench. If I'm starting a team, I take Darko over Kwame without hesitation.

[esruC]

Sonics trade Pippen to the Bulls...Sonics phail.
Any trade involving A-Rod (lol)

[Motion City]

not really a trade, but a couple years back, browns pass clinton portis for james jackson (3rd string for arizona now)

whooooooooops

The browns whole team is a mistake and they just need to redo the whole thing.

[gatorpatric0]

If I'm starting a team, I take Darko over Kwame without hesitation.

I Would too.....But at this point, Kwame has still had a better career. I agree that Darko still has his best days ahead of him and Kwame probably wont be better than a role-playing Power Foward.

[Wounded Sparrow]

I tend to think what the Celtics would be like if they never traded Chauncey Billups for Kenny Anderson after drafting him.

Pitino was horrid and I believe this was his dealing. The Celtics have been plagued ever since Len Bias died, you can look to the death of reggie lewis, the lotter draft, which a lot people still say Tim Duncan should be a celtic. We will probably get hosed again in the stupid lottery draft.

Gretzky trade was the worse, they got shit in return. Jimmy carson, the kid stunk. The canadien gov tried to actually block this trade.

[Weasel]

Diamondbacks trade Curt Schilling to the Red Sox for Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, Jorge de la Rosa, and Michael Goss.

Sox win 2004 WS. Diamondbacks go 51-111 in 2004.

[fudgebucket]

Fernando Vina for whoever we traded him for. Vina rules

[ftbllplr]

Portland traded Jermaine O'Neal and Joe Kleine in exchange for Dale Davis.