500 and four games behind the Red Sox for the division lead, with the Blue Jays nipping at their heels. Meanwhile, the Yankees were only two games above. On the bright side, he was still a very good defensive third baseman. 229/.296/.355, which is a below average level of offense even when adjusting for Petco Park. Headley was just a rental at that point in 2014, and to make matters worse, he was having his worst offensive season outside of his eight-game debut in 2007, hitting just. Instead, the Padres had to settle for what they could get.
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He still had two seasons left until free agency, and had the Padres decided to move him that winter, they probably could have gotten a great haul for him. 286/.376/.498 with 31 HR and 6.4 WAR, all of which were career highs except for his batting average. He was a top ten player in the NL that year, hitting. The time to trade Headley was after his stellar 2012 season. Byrnes had been let go a month earlier, but the damage had already been done.
Unfortunately, the Padres did not have a lot of trade assets, partially because then-GM Josh Byrnes held on to Headley too long. The team needed to tear it down and rebuild. They had not made the playoffs since 2006, and had a record above. Things were not going so great for the Padres, which sadly has been a common occurrence for the franchise, as they were 12 games below. Having said that, we will still take a look at how the trade worked out for both parties. That is the only fair, logical way to evaluate trades and strip luck out of the equation: process over results. In this trade retrospective series, trades will be evaluated based on what was known at the time. The Yankees sent Yangervis Solarte and minor league pitcher Rafael De Paula to San Diego to complete the trade. Shortly before the 2014 trade deadline, the Padres decided to trade Chase Headley to New York.
For the fifth straight offseason, BtBS is looking back on some of the biggest trades from years past.
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