The recent DFA of Carlos Gomez has caused many Houston Astros fans, and for that matter, baseball fans to consider the 2015 pennant drive trade for Gomez to be an abject failure. For long-time Houston fans, this has brought to mind some of the not-so-great deals of years past.
This is the third in a series of articles taking a look at those trades which did not work out well for the Astros. In the first article, we looked at the “Joe Morgan Trade”. Here we will consider the “Kenny Lofton Trade.