By Jon Weisman
And with the 1,390th pick in the 1988 amateur draft, the Dodgers select 6-year-old outfielder Andre Ethier …
Well, not exactly, but over at Grantland, Ben Lindbergh did something I’ve always wanted to do but never attempted — see how far back you can trace the acquisition of a given player.
Amazingly, he’s done it for all 30 MLB teams, and as you can see above, he routes Andre Ethier all the way back to the 1988 draft, when the outfielder wasn’t quite two months past his sixth birthday. (Click the image to enlarge.)
Ethier is also a generational descendant of the 1998 Mike Piazza trade, which also eventually led to the 2012 Hanley Ramirez-Nathan Eovaldi exchange.
Don Bright
Funny I was thinking the other day about Ethier being the last link to the Piazza trade as of now and wondering what he’ll bring to continue it.
oldbrooklynfan
Wondering how many players have been traded away since the Dodgers acquired Ethier.