Opinion | Roy Halladay. Joe Carter. John Olerud. Revisiting the Blue Jays’ December trades to remember

in their quest to return to glory. Dickey had just won the Cy Young and posted a 2.95 ERA over the previous three seasons after refining his knuckleball. His skill and durability were enough to get the Jays to part with Syndergaard and d’Arnaud, consensus top-30 prospects in all of baseball.

Nothing worked out for the Jays in 2013, however. Johnson and Reyes suffered major injuries, as did starter Brandon Morrow andThey finished last after entering the season as Las Vegas favourites to win the World Series. Dickey never fulfilled expectations, pitching to an exactly league-average 100 ERA+ over four years as a Jay, but he was a workhorse and a big part of the Jays’ 2015 and 2016 teams that reached the AL Championship Series.

Many fans still lament the departure of Syndergaard, who has pitched a grand total of 852 2/3 innings since debuting in 2015. D’Arnaud has been almost exactly average as a big-league hitter over 10 years, but has played over 100 games only four times and never more than 112.Caudill was supposed to be the answer to the Jays’ bullpen problems: the end of the Joey McLaughlin era, goodbye Roy Lee Jackson.

who electrified Toronto by hitting over .400 into August, had become a shell of the hitter he once was. Having struggled with the coaching staff’s insistence that he try to pull the ball more and hit for more power, the sweet-swinging lefty had a combined 57 doubles and 26 home runs over the ’95 and ’96 seasons after 54 and 24, respectively, in ’93 alone.

In New York, Olerud was back to his old self almost immediately: .294 with a .400 on-base percentage and 22 homers in his first year with the Mets, and a .354 batting average the next season. He would play eight years after this deal and post an impressive slash line of .296/.400/.461 and 146 home runs.Victor Cruz to Cleveland for Alfredo Griffin and Phil Lansford. Griffin was co-winner of AL rookie of the year in 1979.

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