[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by thehef

The trade of Pedro from the Dodgers to the Expos for Delino DeShields - at the time - didn't seem so lopsided as it would turn out to be... A lineup featuring Delino at Brett Butler at the top, with Piazza, Karros, Wallach, and Mondesi supplying the power, seemed pretty nice...

However, after four mostly dynamic years in Montreal, DeShields was pretty ordinary during his three-year stint in LA. For whatever reason, it took leaving LA for him to rediscover some of his dynamism...

It took Pedro a few years to make the Dodgers think, "What the hell did we do????"

I looked up Delino DeShields' numbers...his OBP was higher than I remember. A nice player.