Hartford/NY Highlanders 1974

[TimGuru]

Hartford Sends

SP-Maxwell Ewart (MLB)
SS-William Edwards (MLB)
OF-Theodore Alridge (MLB)
OF-Russ Johnson (AA)


New York Sends

SS-Elmer Myers (MLB)
OF-Finardo Spindola (MLB)
SS- Derek Forrest (AAA)


I think this will be a good trade for the highlanders. On the surface I am giving up the better players but Meyer was leaving anyway (which Muns knows) and Spindola was getting long in the tooth for a team whose motto is to not make it to .500 next season. So in some ways I am looking at this as moving Forrest for 3 players who can play for me now competently, and Johnson could grow into the same player Spindola is now, but at a time frame that he will complement Conway and others coming up in my farm system.

[Young Drachma]

Wow. The end of an era in New York!

[muns]

Hartford Accepts

I think I reached, but if it works out ill be happy.

I gave up Ewart who wont make my staff next year due to my young kids coming up, and Edwards and Alridge would have been back ups next season for me, so dealing them was ok for me.

I looked at Russ Johnson for Derek Forrest being even to NY getting the better end....

Meyer if he wants to deal should be a nice pick up, but thats a HUGE IF, and I was last in the RL in homers, and just about every power category out there. So im hoping adding Finardo Spindola will help me out next year in those categories

[Young Drachma]

Processed.

[muns]

Well I took the gamble and got burnt. Meyer wont deal with me so he becomes a FA. Good idea in theory though