Over the winter, I’m going to look back at trades the way I look at the draft. All the information to be consumed is information that was available at the time of the move. After all, anything else could be coaching, luck, or sticking a dagger in the side of your former team. My glances will start in the “here and now,” and veer a bit to “looking back.” Today, I start with a reasonably lengthy look at a trade that made quite a bit of sense for the Cubs at the time: Lou Brock plus two for Ernie Broglio plus two.
Cubs history: The time they swapped an extraneous outfielder for a top starting pitcher
