The Dykstra Conundrum (by Robert Ludlum)

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Bob Alpacadaca wrote: Hey, Tom Edens was part of that deal, too! I never understood why McDowell was part of that deal. I don't know if they were trying to change the chemistry of the team. I imagine McDowell might have been a little challenging after a while. I don't know at what point Dykstra went from "difficult" to "addition by subtraction difficult." My guess is that it was similar to the Dykstra/Wilson battle. So it turned out Randy Myers won out. ...

I dunno. I think that the Mets traded Dykstra for, among other things, several reasons that probably havent still been fully or honestly disclosed.



They made some tremendous trades in the 80s but they weren't perfect. For one', they could've had an entire outfield of strong MVP candidates in Dykstra, Straw and Mitchell and thus, might have won more divisions.