Cliff notes

Cliff Floyd in 1994 during his first stay with the Expos

Five years after shipping him to the Florida Marlins in 1997, the Montreal Expos reacquire onetime wunderkind Cliff Floyd 24 years ago today in an eight-player trade that also brings infielder Wilton Guerrero, pitcher Claudio Vargas and $1.5 million to Montreal for infielder Mike Mordecai and pitchers Carl Pavano, Graeme Lloyd, Donald Levinski and Justin Wayne.

Floyd’s reunion with the Expos in 2002 is brief, however, as Montreal’s trade-happy, short-sighted general manager Omar Minaya flips him to the Boston Red Sox only 19 days later for pitching prospects Sun-Woo Kim and Seung Song.

Floyd ends up playing 17 years in the majors before retiring in 2009 with 233 career homers and a World Series ring from the 1997 Marlins.

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