When you think of bad Yankees acquisitions and trades, you probably think of the late 80s and early 90s. The most famous ugly move might be the Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps trade forever immortalized in “Seinfeld.”
However, you can go through pretty much any era of Yankees’ history and find ill-fated moves. That includes the 1920s through 1950s when, looking back from current times, it seems like everything they touched turned to gold back then. Despite that, there are bad moves you can find from those decades. This one we’ll focus on here isn’t quite one of them, but it might have been were it not for a bucket.