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Lastings Milledge, Very Touchable
Written by wrigleyville   
Friday, 30 November 2007
Lastings Milledge, once one of the great un- to barely-touchables of the New York Mets or any other system, is going to the Washington Nationals for Ryan Church and Brian Schneider. The Mets clearly held onto "the Next Gary Sheffield" much too long if this is all they could get for him.

Running the name "Lastings Milledge" through the MLB Trade Rumor blog shows how many times over the years his name popped up in rumors - and how many times those rumors included very big names (though the newer entries have rival GMs cooling considerably on him).

They include Barry Zito in December 2005 and through much of 2006, Livan Hernandez in May 2006 (Mets laughed this one off), Bobby Abreu in July 2006, Roy Oswalt or Jason Schmidt in July 2006, Manny Ramirez in October 2006, Mark Buehrle in December 2006, Joe Blanton in December 2006, Dan Haren in January 2007, Dontrelle Willis in June 2007, Chad Cordero and John Rauch in July 2007, and Joe Blanton again July 2007 (Mets say "no").

I'd also like to point out the 11/23/2005 entry: (Alfonso) Soriano is considered nonessential to the Mets at this point, and any trade for him would not include Lastings Milledge. The Rangers have a stronger need for pitching and that will be the focus of any Soriano deal.

While few of these trades would have been straight-up, one-for-one trades, it seems any one of these players could have helped the Mets prevent their epic collapse of September 2007.

Perhaps this should be a cautionary tale for the Chicago Cubs and their handling of Felix Pie, Eric Patterson and company.

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