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Whenever someone reaches the Baseball Hall of Fame, his career will be revisited and his stats, awards and other accolades will be magnified. But in the case of the latest man to be elected to Cooperstown, former slugging first baseman Fred McGriff, there’s another tab on the Baseball Reference page that ought to be of interest: the Transactions page.

Few Hall of Famers have been involved in as many consequential trades as McGriff has. It makes for a fascinating sidebar to the Crime Dog’s illustrious career as he prepares to be inducted at Cooperstown next summer.

Here’s a look at those deals, which had big implications for baseball in the 1980s and ’90s.

Staying with one team for an entire career is increasingly rare, though this offseason has seen Clayton Kershaw and Adam Wainwright return to their teams for another year. Here is where they rank among the 10 longest current tenures.

Only 10 players have won a Cy Young Award in their walk years, and three have come in the past three seasons. Here is the updated list now that Justin Verlander has joined the club and changed teams.

Even though that’s not really him on Twitter, Old Hoss Radbourn was truly one of a kind. To mark his 168th birthday, let’s take a look at his remarkable career.

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