I get a daily email blast from the Baseball Hall of Fame and today's random player profile was Larry Milbourne who had a modestly successful eleven year career and was a 1983 Phillie for the first half of the season. I didn't realize he was a local guy from Millville. I also hadn't remembered that the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland the same day they traded for Von Hayes. I've often believed that the Phillies would have saved Hayes a lot of grief if they had Cleveland send a non-prospect warm body or two to the Phillies with Hayes to prevent the trade from being five-for-one which proverbially "didn't present well" to the public. Fairly or not (much more so not, in my opinion), Hayes was never able to live down that five-for-one even though the Phillies got more WAR out of that trade from Hayes than Cleveland did from the five guys combined and Hayes was a good, solid ML player for the Phillies who had the misfortune not only of being acquired in exchange for five guys but also arriving for the First Phillies Golden Age's 1983 last hurrah and subsequent unraveling which was completely not his doing. Yes, Julio Franco played forever but there was a reason he eventually became primarily a DH (and he had his best years after Cleveland). In hindsight, all the Phillies needed to do was make the trade MannyTrillo, George Vukovich, Franco, Jerry Willard and Jay Baller for Hayes and Milbourne. Five-for-two would have been much less likely to generate fanbase sticker shock and controversy, especially if the second guy was an established ML player.
https://baseballhall.org/discover/cardcorner-1975-topps-larry-milbourne?mc_cid=b5f7943c70&mc_eid=eecad7c184
