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Cleveland traded Sudden Sam for Gaylord Perry and Frank Duffy during the 1971 off-season. The Giants got McDowell's thoroughly-overcooked arm. He was terrible for the Giants in 1972 and managed only 1.2 WAR and 25 wins over his final five seasons. The Indians got 27 WAR, 64 wins, and a Cy Young out of Perry from 1972-1974 before trading him and also got 11 WAR over the next four seasons from Duffy, who was a defensive whiz as their starting shortstop.
This was one of the few good trades that Cleveland made between 1968 and 1978, as they traded away the likes of Luis Tiant, Sonny Siebert, Chris Chambliss, Graig Nettles, Buddy Bell, Oscar Gamble, George Hendrick, and oh, some guy named Eckersley. Don't even ask who they got back in these deals. Graig Nettles was the only score (Tiant), and then they traded him to the Yankees for a barrel-full of trash. GM Phil Seghi has to go down as one of the worst ever. It's amazing he held onto his job for a dozen years running a team that lost 148 games more than it won while trading away half a lineup-full of guys who played in the World Series for other teams.
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