And Dave Stieb gets his last MLB win
39 Years Ago On August 29, 1985, the Blue Jays sent three minor leaguers, Matt Williams , Jeff Mays and Greg Ferlanda, to the Texas Rangers for Cliff Johnson. At the time of the trade, the Blue Jays were in 1st place, 4.5 games up on the second-place Yankees, but we were running a platoon of Al Oliver and Jeff Burroughs at DH. They could have done a better job at the position, though Burroughs was hitting.261/.375/.422 at the time, which doesn’t seem that bad to me.
Back in the 1980s, there was a much different way to compensate teams for losing free agents than there is today. In the early 80’s, the MLB owners wanted some way to compensate teams that lost star players to free agency. More to the point, they wanted a way to slow the pace of salary inflation that free agency caused. One of the major causes of the 1981 player strike was the issue of free-agent compensation. The players, of course, wanted to keep the pace that player salaries were growing.
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