Well today I send it back the other way with a traded card for Bibby (though he was sent packing along with two other players: Jackie Brown and Rick Waits and $100,000):
Bibby was coming off a season that saw him go 19-19, though his earned run average was an unsightly 4.74 over 41 starts, with five shutouts.
Nevertheless, he was the key in that trade for the Cleveland Indians as they sent their recent Cy Young winner South-West.
Bibby would perform well enough over his two-plus seasons with the Tribe, going 30-29 overall with a nice 3.36 ERA over 95 appearances, 63 of which were starts.
Funny enough Perry would produce relatively similar numbers for the Rangers before he was sent to the San Diego Padres to start the 1978 season. So no one really came out “ahead” on this one.
As for Bibby, he’d have his two best seasons in the Big Leagues when he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979 and 1980 when he went a combined 31-10, leading the league in winning percentage both years, while also getting named to his only All-Star game in 1980.
All told, by the time he retired after the 1984 season, he finished with a record of 111-101, with an ERA of 3.76 over 340 appearances, 239 of which were starts, along with 19 shutouts and eight saves over 12-seasons.
