Revisiting the Lonnie Smith Trade

Whitey Herzog’s rebuild of the St. Louis Cardinals in the early 1980s is most remembered for the Simmons-Fingers-Vuckovich mega-deal with the Milwaukee Brewers, the acquisition of Bruce Sutter from the Cubs, and the Garry Templeton-Ozzie Smith swap with the San Diego Padres. However, Herzog’s shrewd pickup of Lonnie Smith proved to have an enormous impact […]