FRANK COSTANZA: What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?!?! He had 30 home runs, over a hundred RBIs last year, he’s got a rocket for an arm … YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE DOING!” 

GEORGE STEINBRENNER (Larry David): Well, you know he was a good prospect, no question about it. But my baseball people loved Ken Phelps’ bat. They kept saying, ‘Ken Phelps! Ken Phelps!’ ” 

Pete Crow-Armstrong is the case study now, the reddest of all red flags, the most cautious of all cautionary tales, the warning flare teams will shoot into the night sky in these final days and hours before Thursday’s MLB trade deadline that forces them to ponder the most important question of all: 

“Is the guy we’re getting better than the guy(s) we’re giving?”