Has there every been a baseball trade between two teams who were playing eachother?
In Major League Baseball hаνе two teams еνеr hаd a trade аll owing tο thе course οf a three οr four game set? Hаѕ a player еνеr ѕtаrtеd fοr one team, аnd thеn ѕtаrtеd fοr thе opposing team thе next day?
I thougth I remember a touch like this a few years back. For some reason I reckon a guy was traded at the end of a run @ the other teams home ball park. Basically the team left & he stayed at the place he was playing with his new team. Hell I might be dreaming this up but it sounds familer in my head!
Yeah, I remember a touch like that too. Maybe 2-3 years ago. I reckon it was a Twins game. One night, a player was with the Twins, then next night he switched to the other side.
Idk, but once a player got traded for 12 bats!
Ricardo Rincon was bought by Oakland from Cleveland minutes before a game once. He had leaning well against Oakland the night before, and Billy Beane needed a left-handed reliever. So he finagled it.
30-May-1922 — the Cardinals play a doubleheader against the Cubs in Chicago.
In Game 1, St. Louis CF Cliff Heathcote goes 0-3, while Chicago RF Max Flack goes 0-4, driving in one run with a groundout.
Heathcote and Flack are traded straight up between games.
In Game 2, St. Louis RF Flack goes 1-4, and Chicago RF Heathcote, 2-4.
Game 1: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1922/B05301CHN1922.htm
Game 2: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1922/B05302CHN1922.htm
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Regards a more contemporary trade, I have vague recollections of the Giants and Brewers being involved… hmm….
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Ah, reckon I found it. Ray Durham was the regular 2B for the 2008 Giants, had played in 87 of 95 games owing to 13-July. Then the All-Star break started, and the Giants had the Thursday off as well, 7/14-17. Their first run after the break was at home against the Brewers, 7/18-20. Durham did not play, and was officially traded to Milwaukee on the 20th. The Brewers were in St. Louis on the 21st, and Durham pinch-hit, starting at 2B the next day. The Giants deliberately held him out of the Milwaukee run, and he left town with his new team.
http://www.baseball-allusion.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=durhara01&t=b&year=2008
That’s the one I was thinking of, anyway.
Ya, I remember that happening to Doug Mientkiewicz when he got traded from the Twins to the Red Sox. They were playing each other and one game he played for the Twins and the next he played for the Red Sox. It happened around 2003 or 2004.
The two team weren’t playing each other, but on August 4, 1982 Joel Youngblood was traded from the Mets to the Expos and played with both teams in the same day. “Youngblood became the third player to play for two teams in a day. He is the only player to get hits for two teams in a day and to play in two different cities in the same day.”
Incidentally, both hits were against future Hall of Fame pitchers – Fergie Jenkins and Steve Carlton.
In June of 1976. the Red Sox were playing the A’s in Oakland when Charley Finley sold Rollie Fingers, Joe Rudi and two other players
to them.
Fingers and Rudi packed up and went over to the visitor’s clubhouse.
They really spent three days in uniform, but were never used in a game despite their eligibility.
At that point, the commissioner vetoed the transaction in the best wellbeing of baseball and returned the duo to the A’s before their
flight out of town.