The 2008 Trade Deadline Changed MLB Forever

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A pair of future Hall-of-Famers donned uniforms that you wouldn’t expect. A former Cy Young winner helped snap a baseball curse. A slugger with over 500 career home runs rejuvenated a proud city and franchise. This deadline had it all, and changed baseball for good.

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[WASTERKY]

"Criminally underrated Carlos Delgado" My favorite line in the video.

[thatgingermatt]

Babe wake up. New Jubilant Kumquat video just dropped

[thegamingpigeon]

And the crazy thing about those CC starts on 3 days rest? The manager didn't ask him to do it. The other players didn't ask him to do it. His agents sure as hell didn't ask him to do it. He asked the manager if he could. As a Brewers fan, that man quite literally carried us into the postseason singlehandedly.

Also fun fact: that comp pick the Angels got from the Yankees? It was originally supposed to go to the Brewers, however as Teixeria was the only type A free agent ranked higher than Sabathia, it went to the Angels instead. Both former Brewers gm Doug Melvin and assistant gm Gord Ash have since said that Mike Trout was very high on their list and had they had they had the 25th pick, they would've taken Trout if here were available.

[jk]

The Power Pros music is so fitting for this video. Brings back memories of playing with these guys in that game

[washboy]

Love Joe Blaton. Cluch homers and all. If memory serves, that 4 aces SI cover wasn’t supposed to have Blanton on it, but Halladay & co. refused to do it without him.

[TKainZero]

They absolute madness of Mannywood is hard to put into words.

Was hoping for part II of that this year with Randywood.

[PrazMaster]

The Rich Harden trade could’ve been so much better for the Cubs if Lou Piniella had started him in Game 1 against the Dodgers in 2008 when he literally had the most rest of any Cubs starting pitcher going into the playoffs. Instead, he started Ryan Dempster, who went on to walk 7 Dodgers hitters, allow a grand slam to James Fucking Loney, and couldn’t make it through 5 innings after being one of the best starting pitchers in baseball during the regular season. Also, while it did suck seeing Josh Donaldson turn into a borderline HOFer, the Cubs did feel like they were dealing from a position of strength at that time. Donaldson was still a catcher at that time and the Cubs catcher that season, Geovany Soto, was the NL Rookie of the Year. Sadly, he was never the same player as he was in 2008 beyond 2008.

[melodymelos]

"Criminally underrated Carlos Delgado" <---among the truest of all baseball words

[ZSGoat]

this is such a banger video, i was 8 years old watching these teams and had no clue how each players got on these teams. please more videos like this

[BKF]

Since it wasn't mentioned in the video (because it's not really relevant lol), in 2008, CC Sabathia separately led both the AL and the NL in complete games -- he's bolded on both rows of his BBRef page. I'm not sure how many players have led both leagues in any stat, let alone CGs.

[musicmanenator]

2008 = Greatest Year Ever. Miss it so much. Wish I could go back.

[asdfaeou]

The level of joy I assume Jolly got posting the Phillies awkward interview clip, I assume is great.

[lorimeyers]

6:07 Phils fan here, I fondly recall a game Blanton pitched for the A’s at home against the Phillies in 2007 or 2008 (pretty sure it was 2008) and he blew them away. Hitting 93, painting it on the corners. I remember at the time thinking “why isn’t this guy on our team” not even realizing they would soon trade for him.

[smolitj]

I think people underestimate how much the CC Trade changed the culture is Milwaukee for years to come, while the Brewers missed the playoffs in 2009 and 2010 the 2008 team layed the framework for the 2011 NLCS team and make the front office confident that the Brewers were always just a step away. If CC never comes to Milwaukee in the first place, Ryan Braun might not sign the huge extension he did. That extension prevented the Brewers from totally rebuilding. If the Brewers just rebuilt with their Prospects that never panned out then maybe they never trade for Yelich to complement a very underrated bat in 2018-2020 Ryan Braun. Yelich has publicly stated that Braun was a good influence during his MVP caliber seasons in 2018 & 19. Yelich is still an amazing bat to this day. I don’t know, just something to think about.

[ilanablumsack]

I will never forget the 2008 deadline. I was 11 and at sleepaway camp on cape cod. we didn't have access to the internet or outside media. We were at an all-camp assembly (not related to baseball) when our camp directors broke the news of the Manny trade to the mostly Red Sox fan campers. We were all stunned, having grown up watching Manny, and had no idea who jason bay was.

[doorkman]

As somebody whose favorite player was Pudge even after he left the Rangers, I still forget he was on the Yankees. And the Astros for that matter.

[TimMitch]

calling jose bautista the greatest player in jays history is dave stieb erasure and i won’t stand for it

[AF-bkbw]

I love Jolly vids - just A + quality at story telling and vocal tones.

[theapologist]

The irony of the deadline was the Phillies won the WS and the Phils had one of the most confounding non-deadlines for a competitor ever. They "addressed" their 3 biggest needs... but the players they got screamed "6th Option"

The biggest issue was by far the rotation. It was Hamels and Moyer dragging 3 different 5.50 ERA rocks... so they naturally went and got....
-- A 4.96 ERA, -0.2 WAR Joe Blanton??? 

That was the watershed move.

The other two needs were LHP bullpen depth and a bench bat.

To address that... they got...
-- A 36yo, 7.15 ERA, -0.3 WAR in Scott Eyre for the pen
-- A 40yo, 98 OPS+, -0.4 WAR in Matt Stairs for the bench

Yet, all 3 showed up and delivered well beyond expected role.
Better yet, all 3 of those guys had another year on their contract and stayed productive in 2009 too... wild man...

[joegolden]

16:23 dodger stadium was electric during the mannywood era. Ned Collettie deserves to he in the hof for the teams he put together with that terrible owner