1996 - Baltimore & Madison trade four

[Fat Nige]

Baltimore send
3B Masuichirou Bunjiro & 1B Alphonso Torres

To Madison Wolves for

SP Rick Cushing and CF Alan Sue

Rick remains in Baltimore and although currently on the D/L is Monarchs No.2 starter with a franchise record of 55-33 with a career 4.01 ERA in 118 starts. Alan Sue remains too and although the trio of Labrie / Caves & Clarke has left him with few opportunities he has played a vital role backing up all three in 279 games hitting a Monarchs’ career .301.

Bunjiro and Torres lasted a mere season and a half season in Madison before both were shipped off to Chicago for pitcher Chet Steadman.
Bunjiro had 197 games in Madison hitting 50 homers at a career average of .322 and his currently appeared 437 times for Chicago with 81 homers and a .282 average while Torres hit a similar 39 homers, .309 average in 198 Madison appearances before making another 428 appearances in Chicago hitting at a .308 clip with 65 more homers and 238 driven in.

Meanwhile back in Madison, Chet Steadman went 40-14 in 73 starts and a Wolves ERA of 2.89 before heading off to Greenville this season in a four player trade.

A trade which has enriched the fortunes of three franchises and undoubtedly helped all three to be constant challengers at the top of their division.

[7teen]

Looks like some pretty even deals across the board. The original deal looks good and then all future deals that involed these players looked pretty good.

I was only involved in the one that sent Steadman to Greeneville.

[Fat Nige]

Although it was before my time, I couldn't believe just how joined at the hips Bunjiro & Torres were. To move twice in the same deal and then to produce almost identical stats each time is way scarey