vote for pedro!
Last year first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz was in the season's biggest deal,
a four-team trade in which Boston's Nomar Garciaparra was sent to the Cubs
and Mientkiewicz went from the Twins to the Red Sox. Since Minnesota was
playing Boston at home that day, Mientkiewicz just switched clubhouses. "I
was already dressed for BP and I was doing a press conference" -- about not
being traded after the deadline had passed -- "when someone tapped me on the
shoulder and told me I had been dealt," says Mientkiewicz, now with the
Mets. "I didn't even walk outside. I walked behind the laundry room, and
there was Pedro [Martinez] standing butt naked on my chair saying,
'Welcome.'"
-SI at CNN.COM
a four-team trade in which Boston's Nomar Garciaparra was sent to the Cubs
and Mientkiewicz went from the Twins to the Red Sox. Since Minnesota was
playing Boston at home that day, Mientkiewicz just switched clubhouses. "I
was already dressed for BP and I was doing a press conference" -- about not
being traded after the deadline had passed -- "when someone tapped me on the
shoulder and told me I had been dealt," says Mientkiewicz, now with the
Mets. "I didn't even walk outside. I walked behind the laundry room, and
there was Pedro [Martinez] standing butt naked on my chair saying,
'Welcome.'"
-SI at CNN.COM