“You remember when they traded Bobby Abreu for Matt Smith, CJ Henry, Carlos Monasterios, and Jesus Sanchez?”
“Yeah, that was bad but they got Shane Victorino in the Rule 5 draft so it makes up for it”
People remember the good trades and the bad trades but no one ever seems to talk about the moves that didn’t happen. Most of the moves that you will read about led to a World Series Championship in 2008 and a World Series appearance in 2009.
Without some of these moves, the people in this picture would have had no reason to congregate in Center City, Philadelphia on October 31, 2008.