Scott Downs, Blue Jays: In 1998, sent from Chicago Cubs to Minnesota in exchange for Mike Morgan. (Named 70 days later)
Bench:
OF Craig Wilson, Pirates: In 1996, traded from Toronto to Pittsburgh along with Jose Silva, two prospects and two other PNLs (Abraham Nunez and Mike Halperin) in exchange for Carlos Garcia, Dan Plesac and Orlando Merced. (Named 27 days later)
OF David Newhan, Orioles: In 2000, sent from San Diego to Philadelphia in exchange for Desi Relaford. (Named 3 days later)
OF Brady Clark, Brewers: In 2002, sent from Cincinnati to New York Mets along with Shawn Estes and another player to be named later (Raul Gonzalez) and cash in exchange for Pedro Feliciano and a prospect. (Named 24 days later)
INF Jason Smith, Tigers: In 2001, sent from Chicago Cubs to Tampa Bay along with Manny Aybar in exchange for Fred McGriff. (Named 10 days later)
INF Bobby Hill, Pirates: In 2003, sent from Chicago Cubs along with Jose Hernandez and a prospect to Pittsburgh in exchange for Aramis Ramirez, Kenny Lofton and cash. (Named 23 days later).
INF Enrique Wilson, Cubs: In 1994, traded from Minnesota to Cleveland in exchange for Shawn Bryant. (Named 31 days later)
No longer active players who were named later:
3B Scott Brosius joined the Yankees in 1997 as a PNL when the A's traded him for Kenny Rogers and cash. (Named 11 days later)
2B/SS Jay Bell joined the Pirates in 1988 when the Indians traded him for Denny Gonzalez and another former PNL, Felix Fermin.
2B/OF Mark McLemore: In 1989, traded from California to Cleveland in exchange for Ron Tingley. (Named 41 days later)
SP Tim Belcher was given to the Dodgers four days after L.A. gave Oakland Rick Honeycutt.
Article comments
1 - Tan The Man
Yeah, the scouting for those teams must have sucked in order to miss some of those guys. But no one doubted Jason Schmidt's talent, it was just a matter of patience in waiting for him to blossom. If the Braves gave him away, then they sure did doubt how long it would take.
2 - spycake
A couple notes:
1) That was a different Kevin Brown (a catcher, I believe). The starting pitcher Kevin Brown was a #1 pick of the Rangers and came up in their organization.
2) Some of these are PTBNL's in only the technical sense, and not in the "minor-league-filler", diamond-in-the-rough spirit of this list. For example, Jason Schmidt and Jeremy Bonderman were both key components of the their respective trades; I suspect their inclusion as a PTBNL was for procedural reasons (i.e. letting them finish with the same minor league team, waiting to see results of a physical or recovery from injury, etc.).
3 - spycake
Correction: the Kevin Brown you reference was a pitcher, but he was out of the league by 1992. (The catcher Kevin Brown came a few years later)