So it’s the Ed Hearn World Series, with the Royals looking to get even for the Mets sending them Hearn, Rick Anderson, and Mauro Gozzo in March of 1987 for David Cone and Chris Jelic, and I really can’t call this the David Cone World Series, because he also pitched for Toronto and that would be a little confusing, plus Hearn is on a short list with Eddie Taubensee and Einar Diaz and (stay with me) Kansas City manager Ned Yost of catchers were badly traded for, which is not to be confused with Josh Donaldson being traded very badly two different times, once as a catcher, because the list is supposed to be of catchers who really, really didn’t pay off, rather than the opposite, plus Donaldson is a Blue Jay and that would be confusing, and the Hearn deal was epically bad, worse than Jim Sundberg for Yost three years earlier, a year after which Sundberg was traded to the Royals in a deal that sent Don Slaught to Texas, and now you might agree that I’m getting off track, and while Hearn managed to log 35 big league at-bats in two Kansas City seasons before moving on to Cleveland’s farm system (where he preceded Taubensee with AAA Colorado Springs by a year) and then retirement, Cone spent almost six years with the Mets, reaching the post-season once while the Royals missed it all six years, but it wasn’t quite six years with the Mets because he was shipped to Toronto in late August 1992 and made seven regular season starts, two ALCS starts, and two World Series starts that summer and fall, and then Cone went back to Kansas City as a free agent that winter, and in two seasons that time he won a Cy Young but didn’t get to the playoffs, after which the Royals traded him badly again — to Toronto for Chris Stynes and two others who never reached the bigs that I won’t identify because I don’t want today’s report to bog down — but his second Jays stint lasted just four months before he was traded to the Yankees, where he pitched in 1995 and 1996 and 1997 and 1998 and 1999 and 2000 and reached the playoffs in 1995 and 1996 and 1997 and 1998 and 1999 and 2000 before spending one year in Boston and, after a year out of the game, 18 career-finishing innings back with the Mets, 13 years after Ed Hearn retired, probably not by choice, and if you ask Cone I bet he’d tell you that 1992 season with Toronto was pretty special, given that it was the first of five World Series Champions he pitched for, and it was also the year that Jurickson Profar was about to be born, and after doubling in his first 2015 Arizona Fall League at-bat on Thursday and then tying that game with a two-out home run on a 95-mph, 3-2 sinker in the ninth, both hitting from the left side, Profar doubled in a run from the right side on Friday, which has nothing to do with the schadenfreude-ish news that the Angels are about to lose both of their Assistant General Managers in the space of two days, although you know me — surely there’s a completely appropriate tie-in somewhere in there, unless there’s not.
World Series analysis.
