David Cone trade

[OldHeidelberg]

Just thinking last night about this after reading the Cubs may be favorites to land Suarez. Cone put Toronto over the top in what was a memorable season for Brewers and at the time it seemed like big market team squishing the little guy. Looked back last night and realized that it happened Aug 27 so Brewers could have blocked it by claiming him off waivers? Oof, those were pre internet days so I wasn't really aware of those rules. Unlike Suarez we didn't need Cone that year but seems like it would have been worth preventing Toronto from acquiring him. Maybe the trade deadline was different then.   

 

Edit:

Further research says Canseco was traded Aug 31 that year so that must have been deadline. 

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/06/remembering-the-1992-trade-deadline.html 

 

[Outlander]

Even though I was barely a teenager back then it was known that the Brewers could have had Cone or at least blocked the move to Toronto. There was some excuses like the Brewers can't claim everybody but it will always be a what if. The Brewers actually scored 20 runs on the Blue Jays the game before Cone's debut and then the Brewers beat Cone the next day. If the Brewers could have closed out that final game I think they would have caught them but they lost. The Jays never lost back to back games the rest of the way. The Brewers played well in September and even had a better record than the Jays but the deficit was too much to overcome.