BigJonsson
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Can I get the names of all the future legends that left the Expos due to MLB's messed up player salary system?
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Grandma's Chippy
You kidding? Do a little more digging...seems to me that a lot of big players were once on the Expos over the years...not to mention that the Expos get screwed by strikesJoe said:
EDIT : Well recently? Well that is a different story ;P
you've got...
-vladimir guerrero (almost guaranteed legend status when said and done)
-randy johnson
-pedro martinez (not technically an original expo but he only had 1 full year before montreal and he was a reliever)
not legend material but very good players:
-moises alou (not a legend but very good)
-larry walker (same as alou)
and the still young, but possible legends in the making:
-carl pavano
-javier vazquez
so technically its really only randy johnson but he only pitched about 50 innings for the expo's before being traded to the mariners. it's not as great of a list as you might think.
-vladimir guerrero (almost guaranteed legend status when said and done)
-randy johnson
-pedro martinez (not technically an original expo but he only had 1 full year before montreal and he was a reliever)
not legend material but very good players:
-moises alou (not a legend but very good)
-larry walker (same as alou)
and the still young, but possible legends in the making:
-carl pavano
-javier vazquez
so technically its really only randy johnson but he only pitched about 50 innings for the expo's before being traded to the mariners. it's not as great of a list as you might think.
Alex Anderson
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Cliff Floyd, Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom, Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, and John Wetteland were all part of the 1994 Expos team that had a very good chance of winning the World Series. As a result of the strike, they were forced financially to trade away or let their star players go into free agency. It's a shame, because the strike totally killed baseball in that city.
*edit* Rondell White too, but he stuck around a while after they were all long gone.
*edit* Rondell White too, but he stuck around a while after they were all long gone.
BigJonsson
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I'm talking all the all-star caliber players that were once in the Expo's system in the last 15 years or so that left due to economics
Alex Anderson
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Oh, and they didn't lose Randy Johnson due to any type of league salary discrepancy. They traded him to Seattle in 1989 along with a few other players to get Mark Langston, one of the MLB's best pitchers of the time. Kinda sucked for them when he didn't re-sign after the season.
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