Scrapbook Sunday: July 3, 1992

1993 Topps #712 Stan Javier

Not all trade deadlines have been as exciting as the past few years for the Phillies. Take 1992, for example. (No really, please take it.) Well before the deadline that year, the Phillies pulled the trigger on a less-than-blockbuster deal sending reliever Steve Searcy to the Dodgers for outfielder Stan Javier. The deal was necessitated by Lenny Dykstra's bum hamstring. The team wasn't going anywhere in July of '92, so I guess the deal was made because of a complete lack of depth at the AAA level. At the time of the deal, Javier was hitting below the Mendoza line, although he'd go 3 for 4 in his first game with the Phillies, against his former Dodger teammates.

Javier ended up doing a decent job for the Phils in the second half of the '92 season. In total, he appeared in 74 games for the team, hitting .261 in the process. He shifted over to left when Dykstra returned from the DL, knocking Mariano Duncan back to the infield, and he shifted back to center in mid-August when injuries finally ended Dykstra's season. Javier bounced around the league for 9 more years, finally calling it quits in 2001 after a 17-year career.

Searcy, who appeared in 28 games with the '91 and '92 Phils, never pitched for the Dodgers. He pitched in the Dodgers' system in '92 and in the Orioles system in '93 before calling it a career. The player to be named later shipped to the Dodgers was outfielder Julio Peguero. Peguero played in 14 games for the '92 Phils, hitting .222.