I know it hasn't fully played out yet but Ozuna (from the braves) being traded for Sandy Alcantara and Zac gallen along with two prospects is mind-boggling

Haven’t seen the video yet but as a guardians fan Yandy Diaz for Jake Bauers was CRIMINAL

In the AJ Pierzynski trade the Twins also acquired the awesomely named Boof Bonser. Watched him pitch in AAA. I believe he was inducted into the Hall of Occasionally Pretty Good.

Idea: The greatest player to be named laters of all time

These trade videos have been some of my favourite videos from you, keep up the great work man!

Really appreciate you going through different names as opposed to the typical deals everyone knows about

That 2016 Cubs team was loaded with candidates for this list. Also, as a Twins fan, we weren't particularly upset about losing Pierzynski, because his days were clearly numbered with Minnesota's Baby Jesus (Joe Mauer) on the way up.

Really hope Hendricks can get back to somewhat his old self when he returns. Love watching him pitch. Doesn't blow guys away with power but when he's got his stuff working its a thing of beauty

I love that the Cubs were featured in three entries on this list, and that didn't include the Arrieta deal

Seattle traded Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe to Boston for Heathcliff Slocumb. We are talking about a guy with a 5.79 ERA and allowed 95 baserunners in 46 ⅔ innings and a WAR of 0.4 in his 2 years In Seattle. The Sox on the other hand got a franchise catcher/captain for the next 15 years as well as a pitcher who was an all-star for Boston as a closer and starter.They both were a big part of 2 world series teams as well as having a combined 43.6 WAR during their time with the Sox. I will say though a couple years before that Seattle got Boston good when they traded Darren Bragg to the Sox for some guy named Jamie Moyer...that one hurt a bit

Going back farther, a couple Houston trades involving 1st basemen... one coming in for a steal, and one going out (great player, but promptly injured.) Bagwell became the face of the Astros for his career. Before that, when Houston traded Glenn Davis for Schilling, Harnisch, and Finley.

Erik Bedard for Adam Jones, Kam Mickolio, Chris Tillman, George Sherrill, and Tony Butler

Appreciate you covering some trades that other channels haven’t before and not the big ones always talked about. Great content as always jolly

I've always thought the Mark Teixeira to ATL was lopsided towards The Rangers considering it set up their back to back world series appearances.

I loved Aaramis Ramirez and Derek Lee at the corners. Those were some fun guys to watch. The cubs have had some wildly lopsided trades in recent history, Hendricks, Arrieta and Strope, Rizzo

5:05 I brought this trade up in the comments of the video that you mentions at the start of the video. The cutoff for that video was 29 WAR differential, and I without even looking at the totals, I knew that had to be very close to being the cutoff point.

11:22 Boof Bonser is probably he best baseball name I've ever seen

Legit was talking about the Pierzynski trade with the homies this week! Ur the man Jolly

As a tigers fan, literally Verlander, JD Martinez, castellanos, Upton, and more

Love the aramis ramirez love

One of the most lopsided trades was Adrian Gonzalez, Chris Young, and Termell Sledge to SD from TX for Aki Otsuka and Adam Eaton

I love getting an Asdrubal Cabrera highlight. Great video as always!

I would love to see 3+ team trades. See how it all balances out.

Haven’t started watching the vid yet but hoping to see the Freddy Peralta trade

6:14 The Pirates had overestimated the revenue that their new ballpark would bring in. They ordered the GM to cut payroll by any means necessary by owner Kevin McClatchy. So Ramirez and Brian Giles were both traded away for cheaper players. They also rushed him to the majors in 1998 and didn’t get a good season from him until 2001.

damn you jolly... as a bucs fan i have certainly not "forgot about" the ramirez/lofton dump. guess not all your viewers are of the mainstream elite mlb ilk, goddamn you. THE JOLLY ROGER SHALL RISE AGAIN

Matt Brash was a PTBNL in the France/Nola trade

The cubs also made 2 more stellar trades around that time, getting Pedro strop and Jake Arrieta from the Orioles for almost nothing, and then Anthony Rizzo from the Padres for Andrew Cashner

im going to throw in a few trades here that hardly ever get mentioned is when texeira got traded to the braves. the rangers gave up a player who most likely wasnt going to sign and in return got matt harrison who turned out to be a solid back of the rotation guy for years, elvis andrus who was a good player for years, and feliz who was one of if not the best closers in the league for a while and i think we have had a much better longer career if the rangers didnt try screwing around making him a starter. then braves trading justing upton and northcraft for max friend e and the tarde the braves made for tim hudson

Jolly, you're so good at structuring videos. The list of "here's what we're doing, here's what we're not doing" is so good. Watching you succeed is wonderfully fun.

As a part time Rangers fan I am grateful for the Cruz trade to Texas. That’s where he became one of my all time favorites and remains so to this day.

Fun fact about one of the other guys in the Nelson Cruz trade. Kevin Mench was my neighbor as a kid after he retired, and he wore the largest hat size in baseball at the time (8 1/4), and was nicknamed Shrek.

thank you for including the clip of dempster hitting arod. i’ll never forget that

I’d put the Eric Bedard trade on this list. Yeah even though the best returning player was Orioles franchise player Adam Jones, it’s the fact that Seattle just tossed him aside in favor of Willie Bloomquist. It’s a shame that Bedard was a bust in Seattle because he was a BEAST in Baltimore.

Crazy to ignore the fact that the Twins also got Boof Bonser, the best named player in baseball.

I thought of Shin-Soo Choo for Ben Broussard, the A's three team trade for Johnny Damon and Mark Ellis, Ramon Laureano for Brandon Bailey, Josh Hamilton for Edinson Volquez, and the Seattle Erik Bedard trades

I hate to check the date of this video when you said Andrés Muñoz is a setup man. It's okay, I forgive you. Most New Yorkers forget the Mariners exist so you're ahead of the curve 🤪

Funny you mentioned Carlos Lee. Lee was dealt from The White Sox to the Brewers for Reliever Louis Visciano and speedy outfielder Scott Podsednik. Podsednik's metrics aren't great by todays standards (He had 0 HR's in 2005) but this was the exact kind of player Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen wanted in his lineup. Podsednik definitely lacked power but he was a great table setter for that '05 Chicago team getting on base w/ a .351 avg and stealing 59 bags. He helped propel them to a world title that year.

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Great video! Enjoyed all the way through

Marco Scutaro to the Giants? Crucial to their World Series win in 2012, happened during the same time the Dodgers pulled off their blockbuster

Dan Straily to the Marlins for Luis Castillo back to the reds. One of the biggest finesses of recent history. And one of the very few trades the reds ever won

this video was great, keep up the great work

Yandy Diaz trade to the Rays should have a mention. Randy Arozarena from the Cards… Drew Smyle to the Mariners for Mallex Smith and Ryan Yarbrough….

I remember Aramis Ramirez. The guy felt like a steal and he just...kept hitting. For, like, a long time. For some reason, I have him mentally linked with Adrian Beltre.

If you look at the twins trade they traded away Liriano which got the Eduardo Escobar who on his own was a pretty good infielder then he was traded and in the trade twins got current star closer Johan Duran

Ahhh yes I definitely remember Aramis Ramirez. Great hitter. Good defender when he could get to it. A bit slowed by injuries. Terrific RBI man. Miss him greatly, the current Cubs could use him badly. Hes was the definition of the Hall of Very Good😂

the fallout plays outro music playing is throwing me through a MASSIVE loop

Is there another video that mentions the Fred McGriff trades??

As a Phillies fan not a day goes by when I don’t think about the hunter pence trade and how we got shafted with the prospects

Thought for sure the Mariners miss with Cleveland was going to be Ben Broussard for Shin-Soo Choo. -0.7 bWAR to 21.8 bWAR.

Before I watch, I hope AT LEAST one of Bautista/Encarnacion to the jays is included in this vid

The Cardinals trade of Colby Rasmus was One of their best trades. A solid player for three Stud pitchers, and a solid outfielder 🤓.

I definitely think Glen Perkins was better than Joe Nathan but your point still stands

Jolly hating on my man Boof Bonser dang

Love Rami, glad to keep Pittsburgh in the spotlight for bad trades. I still think that the Carlos Gomez deal was one of the worst trades in the last decade, never seems to get as much love.

As a padre fan, you could’ve dunked on us in this entire video, Kluber for Ludwick, Cashner for Rizzo, etc etc

Dempster ended up winning the World Series with the Red Sox in 2013 which I find hilarious

Babe wake up, Jolly Olive just posted

Aramis Ramirez is extremely underrated.. I figured you'd notice jolly lol, was waiting for him on ref guess lol

Deal hasn't fully played out yet, but the Dbacks gave the Cardinals Paul Goldschmidt in exchange for... Luke Weaver Carson Kelly Andrew Young Competitive Balance Round B Pick in 2019 Draft (became Dominic Fletcher) Ouch.

to this day, still no one acknowledges the Erik Bedard trade in 2008. Orioles sent Erik Bedard to the Mariners for a package that included Adam Jones and Chris Tillman. Jones and Tillman were franchise cornerstones for the Orioles 2010s playoff squads while Bedard never stayed healthy and left Seattle after a few years. i never see it ever mentioned in any videos of this sort.

The number of Brewers strikeouts shown in this video was painful, then the last trade was the cherry on top 😢

Reds traded Josh Hamilton(23 bWAR for the Rangers) to the Rangers for Danny Herrera and Edinson Vólquez (4.5 bWAR for the Reds for both players combined)

The Reds getting Luis Castillo for Dan Straily and Eugenio Suarez for the corpse of Alfredo Simon are two elite trades as well. They might’ve done it again with Steer and CES for Mahle.

Great content as always my friend

The marcel ozuna for zac gallen and sandy alcantara trade is also noteworthy

A crazy thing about the Nelson Cruz trade is that if the 2011 Brewers had Nelson Cruz he’d play against the Cardinals in the NLCS and therefore either he helps the Brewers beat the Cardinals or even if not, he’s not in RF for the Freese triple and that ball might get caught. It’s possible that the Brewers gifted the Cardinals a 2011 World Series win by trading Nelson Cruz in 2006. Then, since both Cruz and Braun got caught in the biogenesis scandal in 2013, both being Brewers, if they potentially won the 2011 World Series with Cruz, people would give that World Series ring an asterisk. That’s a massive change in the course of MLB history. -no Cards ring -no Freese -Brewers title -2011 Brewers World Series champions Ryan Braun and Nelson Cruz suspended in Biogenesis scandal, ring tainted😳😳😳

Orioles & Mariners O's receive Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, and George Sherrill (42.4 WAR) Mariners receive Erik Bedard (4.1 WAR)

Was really hoping for Bartolo for Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee, and Brandon Philips!

The Royals trading Greinke in 2010 was a crazy win for the Royals

Nelson Cruz is one of the greatest "What ifs" in Brewers history

To be fair to the Padres, Nola came up clutch for them a few times in last year's playoffs.

Personally, I think it's is slightly unfair for you to include extensions in the accumulated WAR. When the trade happened the extensions were not a part of what was being traded. Obviously the better players are gonna get extended, making it seem more lopsided because the lesser player has less time to accumulate war with the team. AJ Pierzynski was let go only after 1 year on the Giants because he underperformed with him, but he did great with the White Sox, but that wasn't represented because the Giants let him go instead of extending him, so I feel like if in Pierzynski's case, since you're only representing the rest of the contract (at the time of the trade) when the trade happened, you should have only represented the rest of the contracts (at the time of the trade) of Joe Nathan and Francisco Liriano.

One trade that dodgers got burned that’s a lil lowkey, is when they traded Carlos Santana to Cleveland for Casey Blake

That Braun, Cruz, Fielder 3,4,5 would’ve been crazy

A season of Hunter Renfroe for Cronenworth and Pham is a steal as well

Hey you put some respect on Boof Bonser. First ballot name Hall of Famer.

What’s the comparison between the Perez-Cabrera trade v the Broussard-Choo trade? I think the WAR split is close

Giants fans never forgot about the Nathan-Pierzynski trade. We were mad the day it happened and we're still mad about it to this day.

7:38 Colby Lewis is a name I haven’t heard in a minute. His career story would make for a good video

Here after Ty France got waived 😂

Regardless of the three SF championships, in the 2010s... this trade still haunts me

Aramis is my favorite non hall of fame Cub ever. He is so underrated

The Tigers dealing Luis Gonzalez and cash considerations to the Dbacks for Karim Garcia not being on here is odd

Never enough about the Cubs, Jolly

Finding out the giants had Francisco Liriano in there system is devastating and not even remotely surprising

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Yeah here we go!!!!

Ya all of the ones we aren’t talking about are pretty well known so that’s good

I feel like another good one would be Luis Gonzalez and cash for Karim Garcia

Sandy and Gallen for Ozuna is crazy

Props for showing Cabrera’s unassisted triple play.

So, I as a Tigers fan went through all those nightmares of Nelson Cruz because a sub-.500 Brewers team wanted to get a little better in the bullpen? *sigh*

WAR isn't the most constructive stat for relief pitchers

Justin Verlander got traded for a bag of peanuts and a cart of cotton candy

Wasnt Cruz DFA before he broke out with Texas? I know he was, just cant remember when

JD Martínez trade to Arizona was an underrated trade

When I heard the name Bobby Hill I couldn’t help but think of Bobby from king of the hill

If you played mlb power pros, you know how much of a beast Aramis Ramirez was