One week after Jerry Crasnick gave his Starting 9 for Potential Impact Players in the 2nd half, Crasnick gives his Starting 9 for several recent trades in July, that have had a strong impact come October.  One Sox and Mets trade are included in the list.

#4- Boston's acquisition of SS Orlando Cabrera and 1B Doug Mientkiewicz in a four-team deal, that included trading SS Nomar Garciappara to the Cubs.

#9- Mets acquisition of SS Mike Bordick from Baltimore, in exchange for Melvin Mora and others.

To read about all 9 trades, view the whole ESPN list HERE

The Boston's trade was one of the boldest moves ever made by a GM and turned out to be extremely successful.  Theo Epstein traded away long-time fan favorite and seemingly always injured Nomar Garciappara away for better defense.  Theo realized that his team had good enough offense and pitching to win, but they needed help in defense.  Cabrera was a great acquisition and he should've never been let go.  How great would it be if we still had him here, instead of going out to sign Edgar Renteria, which completely flopped.  And who can forget Doug, who played great defense all season and in the playoffs and eventually the man who will be infamously known for catching the Foulke flip to win the Sox the World Series in 04.  Besides the fact that Doug went on to steal the ball, he will always be remembered for that catch and that image will never leave any red sox fan's head.  Great trade by Theo!

As far as the Bordick things concerned, I'm not really sure why he is on the list.  All I remember about him is that first HR in his first AB.  He barely had an impact for the Mets run in 2000, but did have a successful first month with the club.  Mora went on to become a pretty good player with the O's.  Not a great trade by Steve Phillips, but they needed a SS, with the injury to Rey Ordonez.