However at the time Medich was a young stud coming off of win totals of 14, 19 and 16 in his first three years of Big League ball.
He was an inning-eater, tossing over 270 in both 1974 and 1975 after starting 38 games each season, and looked like a solid arm that would have a very nice Major League career ahead of him.
He would go on to play eleven seasons in the Majors, finishing up with a career 124-105 record, with 16 shutouts over 312 appearances and 1996.2 innings pitched through the 1982 season.
However that early promise wasn’t really met, never winning more than 14 games in any season the rest of the way after this trade, and that was with the Texas Rangers in 1980.
Nevertheless, that trade that sent him to the “Steel City”, while the Yankees received Randolph, Ken Brett and Dock Ellis, helped New York forge a mini-dynasty that brought them two straight World Series championships in 1977 and 1978, and a second baseman that would become of the organizations most dependable players.
