1919 AL - Stalemate over, Mays dealt to Yankees

After a protracted feud with the Boston club that dates back to salary squabbles in the offseason, Carl Mays has gotten his wish and been moved to a new home. He was traded to New York today in exchange for right-handed pitchers Allen Russell and Bob McGraw as well as $40,000 cash. The 28-year-old submarining right-hander, who has long carried a reputation as an unpopular and abrasive personality, bickered with club owner Harry Frazee over salary demands into the spring of this season and then walked out on the club two weeks ago after telling scribes "I am getting out. … maybe there will be a trade or a sale of my services. I do not care where I go.” Frazee had been working the telegraph lines to find a deal that suited the Red Sox, and after AL President Ban Johnson's concerns over the precedent set by the trade were overruled by the other owners in the circuit, a swap was finalized with Jacob Ruppert's club.

Carl Mays, BOS

Russell, who turns 26 in a few days, has been a bit of a Swiss Army knife for the Yankees, starting eight games while providing relief in ten contests; he has outstanding movement on his spitball, resulting in one of the highest whiff rates in the League this season. McGraw is a 24-year-old out of Colorado who hasn't gotten much of a chance to show what he can do on the big-league stage, having only pitched in eight games over his three-year career, but the Western boy pitched well in Newark in 1917 and Boston will hope that a chance to pitch regularly under the bright lights will unlock the talent that motivated the Yankees to entice him out of Georgetown Law School less than three years ago.

The tale of the tape on the deal looks like this . . .

To NYA	G	GS	CG	W	L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Mays, Carl	22	16	8	7	7	0	150	160	62	54	50	59	3.24

To BOS	G	GS	CG	W	L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
McGraw, Bob	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	9	6	4	5	11.57
Russell, Allen	18	8	3	5	7	1	70	84	40	30	28	45	3.84