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Caution Is Costly, Scholars Say (July 30, 2003)

Posted 4:20 p.m., July 30, 2003 (#5) - MNP
Short term, perhaps; long term, such trades diminish your ability to make other trades.

I wonder how true this really is. The great fleecings -- Ed Hearn for David Cone, Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson, Lou Brock for Ernie whats-his-name, etc -- I wonder if other GMs really hold it against the "winners" in trades like that?

I can see a GM who trades dishonestly, or insults the intelligence of other GMs getting a bad reputation and people not trading with him. But I'm not sure I see the David Cone/Ed Hearn type trades creating that sort of ill will.

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