Wow, reading this story was crazy. I admittedly am not the biggest baseball fan, but can you imagine Mariano Rivera in any uniform other than the Yankees? Former manager Joe Torre made a shocking confession this week about how they came very close to trading the legend in the spring of 1996. Hit the jump to see more.
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According to the New York Post:
“At spring training, there was some conversation about trading him, only because we had an abundance of those types of pitchers,” Torre said this week at a golf outing at Sleepy Hollow Country Club to support the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, via the New York Post. “I didn’t really know where he’d fit. We didn’t think closer because we had other people, but we thought he could contribute. … We really weren’t sure. Obviously, that was the best trade that the Yankees never made.”
At that time the Yankees had an all-star closer in John Wetteland, who led the league in saves that year. The next season however, he left for the Rangers and the rest is history. Sometimes it’s the moves you don’t make that are the best ones.
