Greg Maddux is indubitably one of the greatest pitchers ever to toe the slab. Across his 23-year MLB career, the first-ballot Hall of Famer stacked up 355 wins; four Cy Young awards; more than 3,000 strikeouts; and a sky-scraping WAR of 104.8.
Much of that excellence occurred while Maddux was a member of the Atlanta Braves. Maddux following the final season of his first Cubs stint in 1992 was a free agent, and as the reigning Cy Young winner in the NL he was highly coveted. He wound up signing a five-year, $28 million pact with the Braves, and that turned into one of the biggest free-agent steals ever, at least from the club standpoint.
To hear Maddux tell it now, though, he was on his way to being a Yankee before signing with Atlanta:
Greg Maddux had every intention to sign with the Yankees in 1992, but he says he never received a contract offer because one of the Yankee front office members had a heart attack[
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