Worst trade in American professional sports history?

Bulls trade Lamarcus Aldridge to Portland for Tyrus Thomas after the draft

 

As far as worst Blazers trade, I believe we traded a then-future HOFer for cash in the very early days of the franchise.

 

Again, great trade if Roy's knees were worth a fuck. If he retires at season's end we don't make that trade and LaMarcus takes over the team with an extremely complementary point guard instead of a fat sandbagger.

 

That was a horrible trade.










































For us.

 

This is an easy one for me. How about a curse that helped sink a franchise and end a curse? In 1997, the small market Montreal Expos traded away Pedro Martinez for Carl Pavano & Tony Armas Jr. The Expos were being forced to trade away their top talent over a series of years. Pedro was the best pitcher they had. He would go on to to have the most dominant seven year pitching stretch in the history of the game. Boston won the World Series in his last contract year. The Expos eventually moved to Washington a flaming wreckage of a franchise. If Moneyball had existed back then and their owner been more like Paul Allen, maybe things would have been different.

 

The worst trade I remember is the Rams for the Colts. Los Angeles is a much bigger market than Baltimore.

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