Baseball's Greatest Trades & Power Surges

0:00It's March 26th. MLB News. Today starts now, AI-powered and game-ready. I'm Cory with the story. Back in 1973, veteran pitcher Jim Perry made history with the Minnesota twins as the first player to approve a trade under the new. 10 and 5 rule. Heading to the Detroit Tigers for a player and some cash. Perry, fresh off a 24-win season in 1970, went on to notch 14 victories for Detroit that year. Fast forward to 1987, and the New York Mets pulled off a steal by trading for pitcher David Cohn from the Kansas City Royals, giving up-catcher Ed Hurn in two prospects. Cohn exploded onto the scene, posting a 23-record the very next year, while Hurn's career got cut short by injuries. In 2002, Slugger Jose Conseco got released by the Montreal Expos after they said he wouldn't play every day, even though he needed just. 38 homers for 500. The guy who'd hit 16 the prior season with the White Sox never made it back to the majors.

1:03Two decades later, in 2022, Albert Pujols, at age 42, signed a one-year deal with the St. Louis Cardinals to wrap up his stellar career right where it began. Ownership shook up, too. Like in 2012, when Magic Johnson and Stan Kasten won the bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers out of bankruptcy. Court from Frank McCourt, big offensive fireworks lit up the date as well, from the San Diego Padres crushing the Houston Astros 21-6 in Mexico City back in two. 2016, and the Baltimore Orioles slamming six homers in a 12-to-two opening-day route of the Toronto Blue Jays in 2000. 25. These moments remind us how trades and timely power surges keep baseball's legacy alive.