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I totally forgot about Whitey with the Cards. In The White Rat, he wrote about calling the Brewers' GM (forget who it was) and saying, Hey, Bob, how would you like to win the pennant next year. "He said he'd like that fine."
Whitey's trades were about baseball chemistry first. He remade the Entitled Vet clubhouse into a cage full of hungry young tigers.
I mean, Fingers, Simmons, and Vuckovich were all legit stars. Look at what Whitey accepted back.
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Yeah. Whitey would roll over a roster in a year's time, too. Zduriencik is pulling a White Rat here, the more so because chemistry is a huge part of the equation.
I daresay that cyber-Seattle is having a hard time perceiving the attitudes behind a Herzog Rollover.