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The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Pedro Martinez to the Montreal Expos in 1993 for second baseman Delino Shields. Shields spent three unproductive years with the Dodgers, while Martinez became one of baseball's best starting pitchers.

Martinez won 55 games and lost 33 in four seasons with the Expos, winning the first Cy Young Award (given to the best pitcher in each league) in 1997. He posted a diminutive 1.90 ERA (that's very good for you non-baseball fans) that year. In 1998, the cash-strapped Expos sent Martinez to Boston for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas Jr. By that time, the Expos could not afford to pay Martinez and would have lost him to free agency anyway [source: ESPN].

During his 18-year career, Martinez won two additional Cy Young Awards and 219 games, and posted a 2.93 ERA [source: Baseball Almanac]. DeShields didn't do as well. He played three seasons with the Dodgers, never hitting higher than .256 [source: Baseball Reference].

Why did the Dodgers trade Martinez? That question still has Dodger fans scratching their heads. Surgeons repaired the young right hander's left shoulder in 1992 after Martinez dislocated it swinging a bat. When Martinez came back the following year, he made 65 appearances for the Dodgers, posting a 10-5 record. He struck out 119 batters in 107 innings. Dodger management obviously thought the injury was too great to keep Martinez around [source: Newhan].

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154. Man I knew Pedro was small but that small and actually Weams he traded for him twice just like he has with Paredes which means of course Paraedes will be a first ballot hofer heh.

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I was concentrating of the prospect aspect. But yes. He traded for the top MLB pitcher once as well.

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I was concentrating of the prospect aspect. But yes. He traded for the top MLB pitcher once as well.

The guy who taught Mike Flanagan to be a GM traded him to Dan the second time.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9825

DL: According to Dan Duquette, who was the Red Sox GM at the time, he talked to you about that deal for two and a half months. Is that accurate?

JB: Yes. We made it at the time of the expansion draft, which was after the GM meetings that year, so I believe it would have been mid to late November. With that situation, with Pedro, once again, he had a year left on his contract, and I'd had conversations with him about an extension, and Pedro is pretty direct. He said he couldn't re-sign with us if we could only afford him, and I understood that. It sounds pretty similar to what Roy Halladay is going through right now, really, although Pedro didn't have a no-trade [clause], so he didn't have the option of vetoing anything like Halladay does. Halladay's no-trade is an extra hurdle for the Blue Jays to deal with right now, as it is for Halladay himself, and any other team that wants to deal with him. So we knew, near the latter part of that year, that we were going to be looking to trade Pedro during the offseason. The discussions were ongoing for awhile. I know that I went to the middle three games of the World Series, which a fair number of GMs went to that year, so that gave me a chance to sit down with several of them. Then there were the GM meetings, so prior to making the deal we had been laying the groundwork for about two, two and a half months, as he said. And Dan, because of his background with Pedro in Montreal, was one of the more aggressive guys toward making a deal.

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