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Well, after Don Cardwell went down for 6-8 months, showing that the Bouton trade was useful as the latter is now our long relief spot starter guy, Jerry Koosman was injured for the rest of the season with our record 22-21. This is a major hit of course. I had no choice but to trade the last tradeable asset we have without cutting into our real core team - minor league SS Ted Martinez, getting Tony Cloninger from the Reds. So Cloninger with some starts by Bouton will have to cover Koosman's spot in the rotation for 1970. Ugh. The Big Three experiment has not yet gotten off the ground.
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