Fill in the blank. (Don't look it up until you've tried getting it without looking it up.)
1. Joe Mauer
2. Mark Prior
3. [blank]
4. Gavin Floyd
5. Mark Teixeira
Bonus points if you have any idea where he is now (I don't). It's not John VanBenschoten (who's #8 on the list in question behind two names I don't even recognize).
Actually gettable bonus points (that in turn might give away the answer): This guy is to Opening Day 2005 as which two players (actually traded for each other) are to Opening Day 2004 and Opening Day 2006?
Additional (gettable) bonus points: This guy was traded in December 2005, straight up, for whom? (And as a matter of opinion, which of the two players in that deal is a bigger bust?)
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 16, 2008 01:36 PM