Why this card is awesome: Because here's trade that the Mets got the better of. After a few solid, but average, years with the Mets, they shipped him to Detroit for Howard Johnson, who was a pretty productive player for New York.
Cool stat: Terrell has one of the most recent seasons with double-digits complete games but a below-average ERA. Interestingly, Jack Morris did it 3 years in a row!
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Actually, Terrell is just half the story.
The Mets traded Lee Mazzilli for Walt Terrell and Ron Darling and then, as Andy said, ended up turning Terrell around a couple of years later for HoJo.
So, from Lee Mazzilli alone, they extracted two key components for their 1986 Championship.
(And, they even re-signed Mazzilli down the stretch in 1986. I guess that means that Terrell is the odd man out here.)
Even as a Mets fan, it still feels weird to think back on HoJo (and his three 30-30 seasons) and recall that he was an elite player. He just doesn't look like a star player.
As for Walt Terrell, meh.
Future bucco!!
hojo was one of my favorite players growing up...
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