Pedro Guerrero arrived in St. Louis late in the 1988 season with a résumé few hitters could match: a World Series co-MVP award, multiple All-Star selections, a Silver Slugger, and a reputation as one of the most dangerous right-handed bats of the 1980s. The St. Louis Cardinals, still searching for consistent middle-of-the-order thunder in the […]
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On August 16, 1988, the Cardinals’ quest for Jack Clark’s replacement led them to trade John Tudor, the left-handed pitcher who won 21 games in 1985, to the Dodgers for four-time all-star first baseman Pedro Guerrero. Clark had anchored the Cardinals’ lineups from 1985 through 1987, but in January 1988, he signed a two-year contract
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By the end of the 1991 season, the St. Louis Cardinals knew they once again would be in the market for a power-hitting first baseman. That market led them to trade for Expos slugger Andrés Galarraga. At 35 years old, Pedro Guerrero had just completed his third season on the Busch Stadium Astroturf, and the
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