On Feb. 8, 2000, the Cincinnati Reds traded a quartet of promising young players — outfielder Mike Cameron, pitcher Brett Tomko, infielder Antonio Perez and minor-league pitcher Jake Meyer — to the Seattle Mariners for one of the best players the game had ever seen: Ken Griffey Jr.
Per his wishes, the trade brought Griffey closer to his home and family in Orlando, Florida, but it also moved him back to the city where he’d grown up. The same city where he watched his father capture two World Series titles as part of the famed Big Red Machine.