Older fans will remember one of the greatest ever trades ever consummated by the Blue Jays. At the 1990 baseball winter meetings in Chicago, Toronto GM Pat Gillick traded 27-year old 1B Fred McGriff and 29-year old SS Tony Fernandez to the San Diego Padres for then 22-year old 2B Roberto Alomar and 30-year OF Joe Carter.
All four were All-Stars; Alomar and Carter would help the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series in 1992 and 1993, McGriff won a home run title for San Diego before winning a championship with the Braves, and Fernandez eventually came back to Toronto, where he won a ring in 1993.