LADodgerTalk.com · Dec 26, 2017
A Final Parting-Shot to THE TRADE
On August 12, 2012, the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto for Ivan De Jesus, James Loney, Allen Webster, Rubby De La Rosa and Jerry Sands from the Boston Red Sox. Some Dodger fans call it the Nick Punto Trade, evidently because of his insignificance. When the trade went down, I immediately wrote “the Dodgers will rue the day they made this deal.”
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I wrote that for two reasons:
I thought that was way too much to give up, and I believed at least a couple of those players traded (particularly De La Rose and Webster) would be very good MLB Players. To date, that has not occurred;