Check Out How The Twins Turned Chuck Knoblauch Into Brian Duensing And Lester Oliveros

[Parker Hageman]

Over at Grantland.com, Ben Lindbergh created the top 30 "transaction trees" highlighting the lineage of how a player was eventually turned into another player or handful of players.

 

The number seven overall transaction tree was how the Minnesota Twins changed Chuck Knoblauch into LHP Brian Duensing and RHP Lester Oliveros (oh yeah, with some wet hot Delmon Young action sandwiched in between): 

 

 

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[drunksam]

Interesting article and also the true inspiration for the "Duensing Rule", to keep the connection to Knobby alive.  

[ashbury]

 wet hot Delmon Young action

Ew.

 

 

 

sandwiched

 

Ew².

[Giles Ferrell]

I love the tree. But yikes for Knoblauch turning into Duensing and Oliveros

[big dog]

I love the tree. But yikes for Knoblauch turning into Duensing and Oliveros

To be fair, that's turning Knoblauch into Duensing, Oliveros, and 16 years of production from other people.  The Yankees got 4 years of CB, much of it with negative fielding value, and let him go as a free agent.

[Giles Ferrell]

To be fair, that's turning Knoblauch into Duensing, Oliveros, and 16 years of production from other people.  The Yankees got 4 years of CB, much of it with negative fielding value, and let him go as a free agent.

True. I did enjoy the Guzman years.

[Brandon]

Over at Grantland.com, Ben Lindbergh created the top 30 "transaction trees" highlighting the lineage of how a player was eventually turned into another player or handful of players.

 

The number seven overall transaction tree was how the Minnesota Twins changed Chuck Knoblauch into LHP Brian Duensing and RHP Lester Oliveros (oh yeah, with some wet hot Delmon Young action sandwiched in between): 

 

 

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This tree leaves off what we got for Milton....Punto and Silva which both players eventually left as free agents but still more to add to the haul.

[pbrezeasap]

They forgot to add Jim Hoey to the tree.

[Parker Hageman]

This tree leaves off what we got for Milton....Punto and Silva which both players eventually left as free agents but still more to add to the haul.

 

 

AND BOBBY KORECKY.

 

Yeah, I think the point was to show the eventual ties to the current roster. An Eric Milton tree would end at Punto/Silva/Korecky as they all left as free agents (and Korecky as a waiver wire claim). 

[Seth Stohs]

I love these trees!

[Rosterman]

Ben Lindbergh is one of those guys who had some spare time on his hands, so he examined EVERY team's 40-man roster to see what the longest thread backwards was for every team.

 

In Minnesota Twins Land he came upon two names: Brian Duensing and Lester Oliveros, both who can be traced back to the drafting of Chuck Knoblauch back in 1989, a amazingly, this is only THE 7TH FURTHEST BACK TREE out of all the teams.

 

Makes for a fun and fascinating read if you got the time.

 

http://grantland.com/features/mlb-transaction-trees/

[maxisagod]

Wow!

 

I get why the author did it, but the way the graph is drawn, it makes it look like Eric Milton is a dead end even though he netted Punto, Silva, and Bobby Korecky who got in sixteen games for the Twins.