Fun idea over at MLB.com: In honor of Groundhog Day on Tuesday, the website's reporters asked some current and former general managers to recall the one trade they'd like to do over.

You'd expect most of the blunders to be giving away minor leaguers who later blossomed -- such as former Padres GM Jed Hoyer trading Corey Kluber for Ryan Ludwick; the Giants' Brian Sabean trading Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano and Boof Bonser for A.J. Pierzynski (who played just one season in San Franscisco and was released); or former Brewers GM Doug Melvin throwing in Nelson Cruz in a trade with the Rangers.

There are several of those in the article, but a couple of really interesting ones were a trade that kind of worked out for both teams and a trade that wasn't made.

Former Angels GM Bill Stoneman mentioned his trade of Jim Edmonds to the Cardinals for Adam Kennedy and Kent Bottenfield after the 1999 season. In terms of value, it was certainly a huge win for the Cardinals. Edmonds would compile 37.8 wins above replacement with St. Louis and help the Cardinals to six postseasons and the 2006 World Series title. Kennedy played seven seasons for the Angels and compiled 18.3 WAR, while Bottenfield didn't even make it through one season. Kennedy, however, played a key role on the 2002 World Series champion Angels, hitting .340 in the postseason with four home runs and 10 RBIs in 15 games, so it wasn't a complete washout for the Angels.

The trade was made late in spring training -- March 23. Edmonds had been an excellent player from 1995 to 1998 but had played just 55 games in 1999, hitting .250/.339/.426, so the Angels were selling low coming off an injury. But they were also trading a guy who didn't have a great reputation. As Jeff Pearlman wrote that spring in a Sports Illustrated article, "The hard part will be overcoming the hellish reputation that has dogged him for years. A friendly .300-hitting slugger who signs autographs, produces in the clutch, is accessible to the press, hates to lose ... and may be the most unpopular player in the game."

Pearlman had a quote from pitcher Mike James, a former teammate of Edmonds' with the Angels and then with the Cardinals: "Probably everyone in [this clubhouse] has heard the stuff -- that he doesn't play hard, that he's a show-off, that he's not a team player. I told them the truth, that 99 percent of it is totally false."

Whatever the reputation, Edmonds obviously flourished in St. Louis. With the Angels, his highest OPS+ had been 137. In his first six years in St. Louis, it was 147, 149, 158, 160, 171 and 137. Meanwhile, the Angels, who had the reputation of underachievers at the time, finally broke through in 2002 with Darin Erstad at center field.

The other interesting regret was a deal former Indians GM John Hart didn't make, involving Randy Johnson and Brian Giles. From the piece:

"[The Mariners] wanted Giles included in the deal. At the time, I didn't want to put Giles in there. We ended up not making the deal, and we ended up coming a little bit short. Even though Houston didn't win even with Johnson, I thought our team really could have used him, and I probably held on to a prospect longer than I should have."

Hart is referring to the 1998 trade deadline, when the Mariners ended up trading Johnson to the Astros for Freddy Garcia, Carlos Guillen and John Halama. Johnson went 10-1 with a 1.28 ERA in 11 starts for the Astros. The Indians were in the middle of that great run, making the playoffs each season from 1995 to 1999 and again in 2001. The 1998 team finished 89-73 but won the American League Central and beat the Red Sox in the Division Series before losing to the Yankees in the American League Championship Series in six games. The team had plenty of firepower with Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, David Justice, Kenny Lofton, Travis Fryman and Giles. The rotation, however, lacked a No. 1 -- a young Bartolo Colon was the team's top starter after going 14-9 with a 3.71 ERA, but he had struggled in the second half with a 5.65 ERA and was the team's fourth starter in the postseason behind Jaret Wright, Dwight Gooden and Charles Nagy. Maybe Johnson would have made the difference, although that was the dominant Yankees team that won 114 games.

What's even stranger: Hart ended up trading Giles after the season, to the Pirates for reliever Ricardo Rincon. That was a terrible deal; Giles compiled 27.1 WAR in five season with the Pirates while Rincon was worth 2.9 WAR in three-plus seasons with the Indians. And that great Cleveland team never won a World Series.