Bronx Pinstripes · Apr 18, 2020
The best trade Stick ever made
Every Friday I’ve been releasing ‘A Brief History’ podcast about the Yankees. It started as a way to stay sane during quarantine, but evolved into something that I look forward to researching each week.
The most recent episode was about how Gene Michael built the 1990s Yankees dynasty — starting with his early tenure with the Yanks in the 1980s all the way to the key moves he made in the early 1990s that set the building-blocks for a dynasty. A key move that goes down as the best trade Michael ever made was acquiring Paul O’Neill.
In November 1992 when the Yankees sent Roberto Kelly to Cincinnati for Paul O’Neill and minor-leaguer Joe De Berry, even Michael called the move “a gamble.”