2002-2003 -- Bartolo Colon or Javier Vasquez from Montreal for Shea Hillenbrand and Freddy Sanchez or Casey Fossum and Freddy Sanchez

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Overview

In the winter of 2002-2003, the Red Sox entered serious negotiations with the Expos over starting Montreal starting pitchers Javier Vasquez and Bartolo Colon; the Expos needed to pare payroll, so one of them had to go. The Sox offered Freddy Sanchez and Casey Fossum for Vasquez, but the Expos wanted Shea Hillenbrand involved in the trade somehow, and the Sox offered Hillenbrand and a prospect for Colon but balked at Montreal's price of Hillenbrand and Fossum. The trade talks collapsed when the Yankees engineered a three team deal for Colon, completed on January 15, 2003, for the purpose of keeping Colon and Vasquez from the Red Sox.

The Actual (Completed) Trade

Yankees give:

• Orlando Hernandez (RHP)
• $2 million

White Sox give:

• Jeff Liefer (1B/OF)
• Rocky Biddle (RHP)
• Antonio Osuna (RHP)
• Delvis Lantigua (minor league RHP)

Expos give:

• Bartolo Colon
• Jorge Nunez (minor league 2B/SS)

Yankees get:

• Antonio Osuna
• Delvis Lantigua

White Sox get:

• Bartolo Colon
• Jorge Nunez
• $2 million

Expos get:

• Jeff Liefer
• Rocky Biddle
• Orlando Hernandez

Afterward

Shea Hillenbrand was later traded for Byung-Hyun Kim

Freddy Sanchez was traded for Scott Sauerbeck and Jeff Suppan

Casey Fossum was traded with three other players for Curt Schilling

Javier Vasquez became a Yankee after the 2003 season, as he was traded for Juan Rivera, Randy Choate, and Nick Johnson