RealityChuck Old-Timey Member Posted December 4, 2019 Posted December 4, 2019 Bosch said from the first that Cardwell was going to be the better part of the deal.I'll go with the big one: the Nolan Ryan trade was a bad one.If you look at Ryan's record, he was a stinko pitcher that year, and his numbers each year declined, going from a WHIP of 1.254 to 1.586 and increasing each year. He was especially bad during the second half of the season, with a 7.74 ERA. The conclusion was that he would never make it big, and he wasn't even the important element in the deal: the Angels would have accepted Jim McAndrew, whose WHIP that year was 1.218. The Mets chose Ryan (McAndrew even had a better WHIP the next year than Ryan).OTOH, Fregosi was a multiple all star and all contemporary accounts of the deal thought the Mets had won it.Alas, Ryan immediately turned it around and Fregosi kept getting injured.So I disagree that it was a bad deal. It was a good deal at the time that didn't work out.
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