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7 hours ago, pcq said:

If it weren't for their names being so different I would be really confused. We could call our guy Yolmer Basabe. 

There is a great story, and maybe it's even mentioned in this article, that the Dbacks traded for the wrong brother from the Red Sox for Brad Zeigler. They screwed up the paper work and wrote the wrong name. Red Sox kept the guy the Dbacks actually wanted, and then obviously traded him to us for Sale.

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7 hours ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:

There is a great story, and maybe it's even mentioned in this article, that the Dbacks traded for the wrong brother from the Red Sox for Brad Zeigler. They screwed up the paper work and wrote the wrong name. Red Sox kept the guy the Dbacks actually wanted, and then obviously traded him to us for Sale.

That's exactly what I heard from a hard core BoSox fan right after the Sale trade.

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7 hours ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:

There is a great story, and maybe it's even mentioned in this article, that the Dbacks traded for the wrong brother from the Red Sox for Brad Zeigler. They screwed up the paper work and wrote the wrong name. Red Sox kept the guy the Dbacks actually wanted, and then obviously traded him to us for Sale.

That is hinted at in the article.

 

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didnt somethign similar happen with the white sox ....i want to say it was a trade with teh blue jays (maybe david wells?) or the yankees ...they thought they were getting someone named J. Berry but they got J. Barry or something like that 

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17 hours ago, daa84 said:

didnt somethign similar happen with the white sox ....i want to say it was a trade with teh blue jays (maybe david wells?) or the yankees ...they thought they were getting someone named J. Berry but they got J. Barry or something like that 

 

17 hours ago, daa84 said:

didnt somethign similar happen with the white sox ....i want to say it was a trade with teh blue jays (maybe david wells?) or the yankees ...they thought they were getting someone named J. Berry but they got J. Barry or something like that 

That was Kenny's favorite deal, the Berry/Barry trade with LA.  They fleeced him, but no one involved had any impact in MLB.  It would have embarrassed most GM's, but not Kenny.

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