Phillies: Most impactful trade made with every team

Chicago Cubs: Ryne Sandberg

"On January 27, 1982, the Chicago Cubs traded Ivan de Jesus to the Philadelphia Phillies for Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg."

The Phillies and Cubs have pulled off some very impactful trades over the years. In one deal the Phillies traded a future Hall of Famer in Fergie Jenkins to Chicago, and in another Philadelphia got back Manny Trillo in an eight-player deal.

In a smaller August trade, the 2008 Phillies boosted their bullpen by acquiring reliever Scott Eyre.

But no trade can match the impact of the 1982 Ryne Sandberg trade.

In 1981 the Phillies were coming off the franchise’s first championship nearly years after its creation in 1983. The player’s strike eliminated nearly two months of the season and the team lost to the Expos in game five of the division series.

Going into the 1982 season the Phillies had an opportunity to get younger while still competing for a championship. They were able to reunite 35-year-old Larry Bowa with Dallas Green in Chicago for 29-year-old Ivan de Jesus.

Green insisted that 22-year-old rookie Ryne Sandberg be included in the deal, which was pulled off in January 1982.

This trade would go down as one of the worst deals in Phillies history with Sandberg going on to become one of the greatest second basemen of all-time as a member of the Cubs.

Over the next 15 years as a Cub Sandberg would have 2,385 hits, 282 home runs, 403 doubles, nine Gold Gloves, an MVP, 10 All-Star games, and seven Silver Sluggers. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005.

de Jesus was nothing more than average for the Phillies, hitting .249 with 51 doubles and seven home runs in three seasons. The Phillies would trade him after the 1984 season, the same year Sandberg won the MVP in Chicago.