03-24-2010, 10:44 PM
<!--quoteo(post=84409:date=Mar 24 2010, 09:37 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Mar 24 2010, 09:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Some blogger had insinuated that the Brock-Broglio trade was made because of racism. I highly doubt that. I wrote back:
I doubt that was a factor in the Lou Brock trade. At the time, the two biggest stars on the Cubs were African-American fellows: the beloved Ernie Banks, and future HOFer Billy Williams. If the Cubs had any inkling that Brock would turn into a HOF talent, he could have acted like Milton Bradley, and still wouldn’t have been traded.
The Cubs just made a bad trade. OK, a terrible trade. Still, it’s ironic that the Brock-Broglio deal stands as the epitome of bad trades, because the Cubs made up for it only a couple years later when they got a young Fergie Jenkins from the Phillies for a bag of balls. In his first 6 years with the Cubs, he won 20+ six times, including the 1971 Cy.
The Phillies also gave the Cubs a young Ryne Sandberg, as a throw-in in the Ivan deJesus/Larry Bowa swap. BOTH those transactions were worse for the Phils than Brock-Broglio was for the Cubs.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Brock is overrated.
I doubt that was a factor in the Lou Brock trade. At the time, the two biggest stars on the Cubs were African-American fellows: the beloved Ernie Banks, and future HOFer Billy Williams. If the Cubs had any inkling that Brock would turn into a HOF talent, he could have acted like Milton Bradley, and still wouldn’t have been traded.
The Cubs just made a bad trade. OK, a terrible trade. Still, it’s ironic that the Brock-Broglio deal stands as the epitome of bad trades, because the Cubs made up for it only a couple years later when they got a young Fergie Jenkins from the Phillies for a bag of balls. In his first 6 years with the Cubs, he won 20+ six times, including the 1971 Cy.
The Phillies also gave the Cubs a young Ryne Sandberg, as a throw-in in the Ivan deJesus/Larry Bowa swap. BOTH those transactions were worse for the Phils than Brock-Broglio was for the Cubs.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Brock is overrated.