Journeyman said:Not sure what they thought, bu they got two pretty good players in return Leon Durham and Ken Reitz, Reitz career dried up shortly after coming ti Chicago...He never batted over 300 times after the trade and was out of baseball a couple years later...Leon Durham had some very good years for the Cubs. ...
Ironically both players in the trade were done at around age 30...I think Durham got into drugs.
wilheim said:December 9, 1980: The Cubs trade reliever Bruce Sutter, the 1979 National League Cy Young Award winner, to the Cardinals for 3B Ken Reitz, OF-1B Leon Durham, and a player to be named.
Anyone's guess why the Cubs did it.
wil.
GMON said:Brock: At the end of the 1980 season the Cub's traded him to Saint in exchange for third sacker Ken Reitz and first baseman Leon Durham.
Bottomline, the Cubs got pissed at Sutter when after three years in the league he filed for arbitration. He asked for 700K which was twice what the Cubs were offering and the arbitrator sided with Sutter. That jacked-off the dudes running Chicago.........................and well, you know the rest of the story.
FairWarning said:I have followed the Cubs since 1969 and the moves they have made are head-scratching to say the least. They traded Bill Madlock to the Giants for a washed-up Bobby Murcer. Cubs can't have any high paid black players you know (William Wrigley was a racist).
Cubs never really drew until 1984 when they won their division.