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Monday, December 27, 2021
This was how it was structured:
Mariners get: Octavio Dotel, Armando Benitez and Roger Cedeno
Mets get: Ken Griffey Jr.
The deal soon fell through, because Junior used his 10-and-5 rights to veto the trade.
Let’s hop in our time machine, though, and like the great explorers Bill and Ted, take a look at the six ways the baseball world would’ve changed if Griffey had said yes.
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1. Adam Starblind Posted: December 28, 2021 at 02:26 PM (#6058841)Bad assumption right off the bat. The Mets would not have had Dotel or Cedeno, but, uh, maybe the Stros would've agreed to someone other than Dotel and Cedeno? They still had a number of pieces left.
Certainly replacing Dotel would have been manageable (Jason Isringhausen? Grant Roberts?) but Cedeno might have been a little more trickier. Alex Escobar was untouchable at the time and the Mets didn't have another young, major league player OF with Cedeno's perceived potential. Maybe Benny Agbayani would have worked even though he was 3 years older than Cedeno. Otherwise, the Mets would have dipped into one of their top tier prospects beyond Escobar to get the deal done.
Dotel was starting to look like a busted prospect at the time of the trade as well. He had ERA of 5.38, 14 starts, 85 IP in that season (his rookie season). It's a perfect comparison but I think there is somebody on the Mets roster who could take Dotel's place and Isringhausen came to mind.
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