In going through all the sections of my website during this offseason, I ran across the old “Turn Back the Ranger Clock” section. It was a series of articles written by Jeremy Northrip for my website. There were two sections in it. One being “Ranger Player from the Past”, and the other being “Worst / Best Trades in Team History”.
He did these during the 2000 season, and got into January of 2001, and then disappeared, unfortunately. It was a good series, and I never found out what happened to him. He completed the 5th through 2nd worst trades in history before he stopped. The worst trade (in his opinion) never was published, and he never got the best trades in history. I’ve contemplated picking up the series a few times over the years, but I don’t know enough about the 70’s & 80’s Rangers to make a guess in regards to trades back then – I didn’t start following the Rangers until the early 90’s.
One thing I will add on my own, is that the #1 Worst Free Agent signing in team history has to be Chan Ho Park. I have no idea how anything could be considered any worse than that.
I’ve preserved the articles in here so you can look at them. Check out the menus on the side and click on the “Turn Back the Clock” category to see all of them. Jeremy, if you’re still out there, and see this, I’d love to continue the series, if you’re interested!