The essential Chicago Cubs terrible trade.
June 15, 1964: Traded by the
Chicago Cubs with
Jack Spring and
Paul Toth to the
St. Louis Cardinals for
Ernie Broglio,
Doug Clemens and
Bobby Shantz.
Broglio had been a 21-game winner and had gone 18-8 in 1963.
He went 7-19 in 2-1/2 seasons for the Cubs and was out of baseball before his 31st birthday.
Clemens hits .279 in 1/3rd of a season for the Cubs, then fell off to .221 the next year. He was gone in a trade to the Phillies a year after.
Shantz was already 38 years old and went 0-1 with a 5.56 ERA. They sold his contract to the Phillies 2 months later.
Brock led the NL in stolen bases for 8 of the next 9 seasons, including 118 when he was 35, which seems physically impossible. Six seasons of 100 runs, 3 seasons of 200 hits, 4 seasons of at least 10 triples.
After the trade he hit .348 for the Cardinals and hit .300 as they won the World Series. In the '67 WS, he hit .414 as the Cardinals beat the Red Sox. In the 1968 WS, which they lost to Detroit, he hit .464.
In 21 WS games (no league playoffs back then), he hit .391, slugged .655 and had an OBP of .424. In the 67 and 68 WS, he had 7 stolen bases per series.