Corey Italiano wrote:

Steve Lombardi wrote:
According to the book, it was the Astros getting Curt Schilling, Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch for Glenn Davis.
The Astros didn’t make the playoffs with any of those players playing for them…

He’s rating the trade according to overall value accumulated by the players involved after the deal was made.

Schilling turned in a likely Hall of Fame career.

Finley was an excellent outfielder for over 10 years, accumulating 2500 hits, 1400 runs, 300 HR, 300 steals, won 5 Gold Gloves, made the All-Star team twice. He’s just a not quite marginal Hall of Fame candidate.

Harnisch’s career was shortend by injuries, but he was an excellent starter for several seasons, as well. Made one All-Star team, finished in NL Top Ten in wins twice, and ERA three times, and K’s three times.

Davis, who’d had 5-6 decent-to-good years with the Astros in the Astrodome, promptly fell off the cliff after the trade, hitting .223 in the remaining 180 or so games of his career, albeit with some power (28 HR).

Though Ruth had the most valuable career in baseball history, the sum of Schilling, Finely and Harnisch, minus Davis’ piddling contribution, is larger than Ruth’s surplus value to the Yanks, by at least the worth of 1 good player.

Steve Lombardi wrote:

According to the book, it was the Astros getting Curt Schilling, Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch for Glenn Davis.

The Astros didn’t make the playoffs with any of those players playing for them…

Corey Italiano wrote:

What trade could be better than the trade that put the Red Sox under for all of those years?

According to the book, it was the Astros getting Curt Schilling, Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch for Glenn Davis.

What trade could be better than the trade that put the Red Sox under for all of those years?