Tomorrow, 22-year-old Blue Jays prospect Kyle Drabek will make his Major League debut for the Toronto Blue Jays. While Drabek is excited for the start, the Blue Jays are certainly excited to be seeing the top prospect they received for Roy Halladay make his debut.
Drabek is the son of Doug Drabek, a Cy Young winner and who made his Major League debut in 1986 for the Yankees at age 23. Doug Drabek was traded to the Yankees in 1984 as a prospect and after a year of pitching for the Yankees, was traded from their team to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Can you name the name main player that Drabek was traded to the Yankees for and the one that the Yankees received in return for dealing him?
Bonus Question: In 1994, Doug Drabek came in 4th in NL Cy Young voting. The AL Cy Young vote featured 5 guys on the ballot who at some point in their career were Yankees. Can you name those 5 players?
Put your answers in the comments below (without cheating and going to Baseball-Reference). Good luck. Correct answers will be revealed later
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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No idea about the Drabek trade. A little before my time.
ReplyDeleteBonus: David Cone, Jimmy Key, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, David Wells
Cone (1st place), Key (2nd place) and Johnson (3rd place) are correct for the bonus but Clemens and Wells are not correct
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure who was involved with the Chicago trade for Drabek. The Yanks and White Sox made a ton of deals in the mid 80s. Ron Hassey was traded back and forth three times within a year. Could have been Joe Cowley or Scott Nielsen.
ReplyDeleteRick Rhoden was the main guy coming back from Pittsburgh, I think Cecilio Guante was part of that deal as well. Brian Fisher went with Drabek. I think there might have been a minor leaguer or two involved as well. Logan Easley? Jay Buhner maybe?
As for the '94 Cy Young voting, I'll say Jack McDowell and Mike Mussina were the others.
Regarding Kyle Drabek - had the Yankees not pushed Pettitte's rehab start back from Game One to Game Two of the ELDS, Pettitte would have faced Kyle, after pitching against Doug in '97.
Not Hassey or Cowley (both traded from the Yankees to the White Sox) or Nielsen (traded for Dan Pasqua, Steve Rosenberg and Mark Salas).
ReplyDeleteBut Rick Rhoden was the main guy that the Yankees got back from Pittsburgh in the Drabek deal (and you have a great memory because Brian Fisher and Logan Easley did go to Pittsburgh in that deal and Pat Clements and Cecilio Guante came back). Jay Buhner was Ken Phelps (Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps!)
Mussina was one of the others for the bonus, but Black Jack was not the last one.
Nice stat and nice work on the trivia!
Thanks. I looked up the Chicago trade and it was another name I had considered, but I was pretty certain the Yankees had traded that guy back to Minnesota, not Chicago.
ReplyDeleteNo one will ever forget the Phelps trade, but Buhner came to the Yankees from Pittsburgh. It was a couple years before the Drabek deal, and he came for the low low price of Tim Foli and Steve Kemp. Coming with Buhner were Dale Berra and Alfonso Pulido, who a young Hank Steinbrenner suggested should replace Dave Righetti as the Yankee closer.
Melido Perez?
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, Matt.
ReplyDeleteNot Perez, Ben. A hint: the guy only played on the Yankees for part of a season (he was an August 31st deadline acquisition). But he did play with Perez.
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ReplyDeleteXavier Hernandez
ReplyDeleteNot Neagle. The only time he really made it to the AL was for the Yankees (he pitched a few innings with the Brew Crew when they were in the AL)
ReplyDeleteHint: think reliever
Definitely not Hernandez
ReplyDeleteLee Smith?
ReplyDeleteThere we go! Nice work, Ben. Lee Smith was the final--and most difficult--answer
ReplyDeleteStill have part of the original question to get right. Who can get the player the Yankees traded to the White Sox for Doug Drabek?
ed figueroa?
ReplyDeleteNot Figueroa. Hint: he was an infielder
ReplyDeleteSteve Balboni?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.baseballtoddsdugout.com/1976ToppsTradedGamble.jpg
ReplyDeleteWasn't he an outfielder?
ReplyDeleteNot Balboni
ReplyDeleteAnother hint: the player had a diminutive-sounding last name
ReplyDeleteRoy Smalley? He and Steve Kemp were really the poster children for this era. I loved Winfield, Mattingly, and Randolph, but the other pieces never got the job done ---- especially pitching.
ReplyDeleteThere we go! Forgot to post the answer but Alex got it. It was Smalley
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