Revisiting The Worst Trade in Modern Baseball History Two Years Later 

Lol it’s fine

Mouth breathing or not this was really interesting. Thanks for the vid

i have seasonal allergies too and it sucks man its fine i can barely breathe while sleeping atleast you can commentate

I hear ya. Oregon is moldy. I take Zyrtec everyday to combat it.

I tryd breathin out my ass once lol ain’t work

What's even worse is that there WAS a winning team around him until they willingly let all of them leave. Absolute clown show. I went to the ASG in Coors a couple years ago and Nolan got like a 20-minute standing ovation just for being thrown out at first. Rockies fans love him and he loves the Rockies fanbase.

such a thin line between refusing to build a winning team around him and being too incompetent to do so.

@@moaf2padventures757 there’s incompetence, and then there’s the Rockies. A normal team would trade a 36 years old reliever having a surprising great season on expiring contract to a contender for asset to build for the future at the trade deadline. An incompetent team would have traded for poor return or not at all. The Rockies chose to EXTEND Daniel Bard for 2 more years … they’re not contending for the next 2 years and relievers are the most volatile position in the game, let alone an aging one. Why??? I don’t get this team.

The rockies having talented young players and refusing to build around them or attempt to make the team contend? Color me surprised. -20 year rockies fan

The Rockies refuse to build s winning team. Any success they have is purely by chance.

That and it was you know, 60 games

If he gets a pass, but people don't give Machado the same credit after his nasty ankle Injury in June 2022, where he mostly played through it, still put up great numbers, and out performed arenado in his "best WAR season to date" then I just don't know anymore

Us Rockies fans can dream

Rockies Fans in perpetual turmoil..

Imagine .500 baseball being your ceiling. Being a Rockies fan is pure masochism 🤣

Maybe .350 at best

Imagine saying that when you have to play the Dodgers and Padres so much, as a well as a mediocre Giants team and an underrated Diamondbacks team. Rockies will almost most likely end up dead last in their division

Over and over again.

Nelly is proud

wild how he got” Spokane” right but not “St. Louis”

Meet me in St. Louis, Louie, meet me at the Fair...

​@senororlando2 that's how some innst louis say it

Acquiring “arenado at home” when you literally already had arenado at home

The Rockies front office is THE worst in baseball!

And us pirates fans. It feels like a 40 year old man living in his moms basement bad

And as a cardinals I am eternally grateful for the Rockies cheapness and ineptitude

@Mopac 82 if the rockies were halfway intelligent, they'd have traded for Paul Goldschmidt

Same

You and me both

What's a little odd about the Goldschmidt trade is that every single player from that trade made the big leagues, but none of them have been great. Luke Weaver and Carson Kelly looked to be the best receptions from that haul, but Weaver struggled with injury and consistency and is now on the Royals (and not doing so hot) while Kelly just had his first major injury cause his starting role to be supplanted by Gabriel Moreno's hot start (who himself was received in a notable deal, but notable for how it looks like an excellent decision for the Diamondbacks). Andrew Young didn't truly pan out, he hit the ball really hard but is now out of the league entirely. The Diamondbacks also received a competitive balance round B pick with the trade (more on that soon). Overall, the biggest Diamondbacks benefit in the long run has been that 1B was cleared up for Christian Walker, who has been an excellent producer with the bat plus being far and away the best defensive first baseman in the league. He's so good defensively that he's the only first baseman in the top 50 of Outs Above Average last year (and has put up excellent career metrics), and more than doubled the second place 1B in that leaderboard. Also, it's really early to tell for sure, but Dominic Fletcher, who the Diamondbacks selected with that Competitive Balance B pick they received, has looked really good in his first couple weeks with the team. Even when he regresses to the mean, Fletcher stands to have good league potential to stick around. The aggregate WAR of Goldschmidt in his STL years is 20.2 and counting. The Diamondbacks trade return gave them 6.5 and counting, but if you add in Christian Walker it becomes 16.5. So it's a heist as far as prospects are concerned unless Kelly and Fletcher start putting up big numbers, but Walker has done a better job than most could have done as a Goldy replacement. As a Diamondbacks fan I'd rather see Paul here still, but everyone's production coming together has made a bad trade more bearable.

Dodgers, Yankees and 28 glorified farm teams

@@gregoryfilar1783 lmao. Mets? Red Sox?

Yeah this video completely ignored that he was leaving whether they traded him or not. All the other teams knew this and had no reason to offer any star players for him.

@@ryryshredder148 the Rockies were the party that pushed for the opt-out not Nolan

@ryryshredder148 Honestly that wasn't really the case. They made the playoffs in 2017 and 2018, and 2020 was just wierd for everyone. They still had enough talent to build a winning team before 2021. They had a great rotation with Freeland, Marquez, Gray, and Senzatela, Arenado, story, Blackmon, and a couple promising talents in McMahon, Rodgers, and Lambert. Not all of them worked out obviously, but at the time they were still promising. The rockies also run a huge payroll for a midmarket team, so they could have spent more than they did (owners were doing fine, but the only way to be a billionare is to be a criminal so it's not surprising they all lied I guess). The point is the rockies were at a point where they could absolutely still turn it around if they had wanted to.

If money was the reason they traded him why did they give $51 mil

@@jackdaniels2134 $240 million left on the deal at the time is a lot more than $51 million.

I think he’s referencing Nelly (I’m from stl) I know a lot of people here say st louie but not sure how much out of the state

@@Christopher-taysoit’s literally a nationwide nickname. Ppl are just comin in the comments to try and be the smartest person in the room but it make em look dumb as hell

real

For real! His incorrect pronunciation was more distracting to me than any sound recording or allergy issues. It's pronounced like Lewis, not like Louie.

@@JobiWan144 or at least if you say Louie, then preface it with "San" so it sounds super french

Fields still played quite a bit for the Dodgers. And given the Dodgers’ penchant for developing pitcher talent, I think they believed they would do the same for him. Instead, he regressed hard, while the younger Yordan thrived. Lopsided for sure, but not really comparable to the complete non-starters of this trade.

Definitely extremely lopsided, same with the Shields and Tatis trade, but I don't judge prospect trades like that as harshly since they're all a big question mark. Arenado was already a proven mvp caliber player and has only continued to do so

Arenado trade is way worse

@@mjisthegoat88 Yeah I absolutely agree, and I never said that the Archer trade was worse, but I find it hilarious, especially when Archer went back to Tampa Bay.

@@mjisthegoat88 idk about that one dude. Archer was complete garbage for the pirates and ended up back on the rays anyway. Glasnow is an ace, Shane baz looked like a potential ace and Austin meadows did have 2 very good seasons for the rays before he got traded and who knows how that will work out. All of them were under team control for at least what 4 or 5 years? And archer only 2 if I remember correctly. If it weren’t for glasnow and baz ending up with tommy John that is probably the worst trade in baseball history

@@kyleklecak7099 Glasnow is always injured, Baz needs to stay healthy now, Meadows already moved on. Arenado is playing like an mvp and is showing no signs of slowing down

@@Krackerboy901 all I’m saying is the pirates gave up 2 potential aces and a former all star with like 16 combined years of club control for Chris archer who was a disaster for the pirates. At least the Rockies got a serviceable player and a lot of money off the payroll

Not Goldschmidt? Him and Arenado very similar thematically for the Cards, but Goldy’s been there longer and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

@@Gemnist98 Goldschmidt a free agent after 2024, Arenado is here till 2027

​@@Galcian1995longer he opted in for 5 years goldy is probably leaving after next year

Gotta(deep breath )agree

It isn’t even bad

Audio compression. Noise Gaye is supposed to be apart for the vocal chain so the breath etc isn't boosted y the compression. But even worse, I think they hit the "Normalize Peaks) button in their editing software smh 🤦

Scott Rolen wants to know your location.

Be hearing an inhale every 3 seconds

It’s not even bad

lol I was like damn this inhaling is wild. lemme check the comments and see if it’s just me

he's trying to speak as fast as possible

It's free content on RU-vid. I can deal with it

Records are meant to be broken.

That dude was a train wreck. Signing Baez was his parting “gift” to the franchise

There's also the Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis for Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller, Burke Badenhop, and 4 failed prospects where Cabrera outlasts all the MLB players and prospects involved even if Willis was a failure away from Florida.

Story wasn’t traded they let him go in free agency

@@theohenry938 because they're too inept to try to trade anyone of value

MODERN history

@@zboyzbieler5716 🤓

The NL West is the worst division in baseball, nowhere else to run to if you want to simply stay a bad team forever.

@@Shmuely33 The AL Central and NL Central are far worse divisions

Hes the greatest player the Rockies have ever had, and he earned every dollar of that $260m. Not sure how it was an 'under water' contract, thats the going rate for superstar position players these days. Machado got more money and he isn't worth half what Nolan is. All hes done since being traded is finish 2nd in MVP voting, go to 3 ASGs, win a SS, 2 GGs and 2 PGs.....Thats more than the entire Rockies franchise combined ffs. So yeah, trading him wasn't a bad move....it was a horrific one.