{"id":503,"date":"2005-05-27T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:59:39","slug":"trade-chain-snapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Trade Chain Snapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/hearn.gif\" width=\"135\" height=\"182\" \/>When the Mets failed to recall Norfolk reliever\u00a0<strong>Scott Strickland<\/strong>\u00a0last Sunday, triggering the rehabbing righty&#8217;s right to free agency, they also clipped off the lone remaining branch of a\u00a0<strong>Trade Tree<\/strong>\u00a0with roots in the infamous\u00a0<strong>Ed Hearn-for-David Cone\u00a0<\/strong>trade of 1986.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves one-time reserve infielder\u00a0<strong>Tim Bogar<\/strong>\u00a0as the grandfather of the current longest trade chain: Bogar was traded to Houston in 1997 for<strong>Luis Lopez,<\/strong>\u00a0who went to Milwaukee for\u00a0<strong>Bill Pulsipher,<\/strong>\u00a0who went to Arizona for\u00a0<strong>Lenny Harris,<\/strong>\u00a0who went to Milwaukee for\u00a0<strong>Jeromy Burnitz,\u00a0<\/strong>whose trade to Los Angeles yeilded<strong>Victor Diaz<\/strong>\u00a0and minor leaguer Joselo Diaz; the latter brought back\u00a0<strong>Victor Zambrano.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Mets failed to recall Norfolk reliever\u00a0Scott Strickland\u00a0last Sunday, triggering the rehabbing righty&#8217;s right to free agency, they also clipped off the lone remaining branch of a\u00a0Trade Tree\u00a0with roots in the infamous\u00a0Ed Hearn-for-David Cone\u00a0trade of 1986. That leaves one-time reserve infielder\u00a0Tim Bogar\u00a0as the grandfather of the current longest trade chain: Bogar was traded to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trade Chain Snapped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,63,189],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ed-hearn","tag-scott-strickland","tag-tim-bogar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}