[Tiger Fan]

That title is of an article on The Athletic that I read today and becomes the subject for a quick little dynasty I am going to run.

WILL THE THRILL FOR DONNIE BASEBALL?

In The Athletic there is a great story by writer Grant Brisbee detailing the ripple effects of what might have happened had a rumoured deal before the 1989 season occurred. The trade, originally reported by Peter Gammons in Sports Illustrated confirmed the Yankees and Giants were very close to a deal that would have sent 24 year old Will Clark along with left handed pitchers Atlee Hammaker and Craig Lefferts to the Bronx in exchange for Don Mattingly and pitcher Rick Rhoden. According to the original story by Gammons the deal only fell through because Dave Dravecky had a tumor on his pitching arm. Losing Dravecky had the Giants back off dealing the two lefthanded pitchers.

The Brisbee article, which I won't link because it is behind a subscriber wall (if you don't subscribe to TheAthletic.com I highly recommend you consider it because of great writing like this article), talks about all kinds of possible ripple effects, from saving lives as the timing of the San Francisco earthquake could have made the death toll for commuters much higher had the Giants not been playing a World Series game at that moment, to Barry Bonds maybe never becoming a Giant and Mattingly perhaps being their skipper now.

So I thought why not see what would have happened by creating that very trade prior to a 1989 start in OOTP21. I am using default settings (so 3 year recalc for ratings) and will sim ahead until all parties involved in the deal have retired and then look back at what happened in this alternative scenario.