Talk:John McDonald (infielder)

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I am editing this article: Prior to my viewing, it does not seem to include anything about 2007 season, and still lists Bengie Molina and Russ Adams as Toronto players.

Detroit/Toronto Trade[edit]

The trivia section says John McDonald was traded for himself. That is not exactly true per se.
Jul 22, 2005: Toronto traded McDonald to Detroit for "future considerations" which ended up being cash [1].
Oct 11, 2005: McDonald was traded back to Toronto from Detroit for cash again[2].

However, it was never released how much cash actually changed hands. I don't think McDonald was actually traded for himself, but was purely a rental player for Detroit. If I remember correctly, Detroit was really injured for a short period of time and just used McDonald as a stop-gap until their players got better.

99.245.225.17 02:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moving to John McDonald (infielder)[edit]

Moving this article to its present location is somewhat inaccurate. Although John McDonald has most often played as an infielder, he has occasionally played right field.Guinness323 (talk) 04:10, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to his baseball-reference page, McDonald has played the infield in (to date) 783 major league games, and the outfield in 6. I believe we are on safe ground. Also, he has never played right field in the majors -- all six of his outfield appearances to date have been in left field. -Dewelar (talk) 15:33, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Players traded for themselves[edit]

Is John McDonald really the only other player besides Harry Chiti to be traded for himself? Dickie Noles's page cites him as having been traded for himself in 1987, and also cites this as having happened to Brad Gulden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.122.232.130 (talk) 13:19, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this up - I had not noticed. Noles' "trade for himself" has a source with it, so it should read three players at least. I will look into finding a source for Gulden. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 17:47, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Located a source for Gulden, I will update the player pages accordingly. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 17:52, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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