Whose Baseball Team Is This? (2009 Blue Jays Thread)

BJ Ryan released, apparently.

wow. eating abt $15 million. that was a horrible contract.

holy shit!

there is nothing BUT horrible contracts on that Jays -- confirm/deny

i was going to say $13 million per for halladay is a good deal but then again they only signed him for three years, which seems a little weird. even with his injury history i'd have thought they'd have gone for five.

iirc his injury history was all freak injuries, not mechanics-related. i think he got beaned by a ball and then got tangled with a runner (art of pretend baseball trivia?)

true, which makes the contract even more overly cautious and/or cheapass

It's usually smart to sign to pitchers to shortest deal you can though (since even historically healthy ones can fall apart in a hurry.)

See BJ Ryan for example.

~*mike hampton*~

the smart move would have been to just insert low cost option into the closer slot, and i think halladay would've been worth the risk (5 years, 65 mill maybe?)

i never understand those kinds of contracts for closers. all that bj money went to waste.

don't take that out of context

throwing away that money on BJ definitely blows.

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It was a dumb contract when he signed it ... IIRC from the Hot Stove threads, we were all in agreement that Ryan's contract was even dumber than Burnett's contract, and that's saying something.

still not even the worst contract on the books tho!

Wells is really just an awful signing.

wells is awful, i can't believe how far he's fallen

i got dizzy when i heard that he was owed $20 through 2013 (or is it 2014?)

haha he's worth about $20 through 2013 - obv i meant $20 million

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heading to tomorrow's game.
gotta see Halladay pitch.
y'know.
just in case.

Ugh ... can't even think about it ...

I'd like to place a bet that Halladay doesnt go anywhere. We can do this song and dance again next year.

i agree 100%.

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um

why was Rios put on waivers? what is going on?!

So they can get rid of his contract.

b-b-b-but he won the home run derby!!!~~~ this time it counts?

why wouldn't they do that with Wells then?

They probably did, but no one claimed him.

I have to hand it to JP -- getting back spare parts for Rolen and Rios (and their contracts) would be a job fairly well done.

i'm not sure if i'm willing to write off Rios just yet.

At least Wells had a couple of years that were arguably (although it's a stretch) deserving of superstar-level money. Can't say that for Rios. And in the market for corner outfielders, he might be even more overpaid than Wells. You could buy 14 seasons of Bobby Abreu for that money.

I'm watching Jays-Orioles, and Campbell/Tabler are giving Cito Gaston the credit for developing Adam Lind and talking about how important it is for a young player to know that the manager will stick with him even if he goes 0-4 for two games in a row. W. T. F. I came back to Toronto for this? Anything else I should know? Does the sun rise in the west in this country now?

You were giving hell to Cito before for platooning Snider, what are you getting at here?

Best Blue Jays game of my life last night, btw! My cousin got box seats from his company, right beside where sam consentino(sp?) was interviewing winfield, carter, morris, devo! so i snuck in to where they were all hanging out, saw stewart, molitor, gruber, etc. was eating popcorn with candy, ward & cone, kicked out about 30 sec into it, but it was awesome

Although your memory is apparently good enough to instantly recall isolated posts that I made four months ago, you sure did miss the point of everything I've been saying about Cito on this board for the past five years (not to mention the ten years before that).

i think he had a fair point dude.
um - so are you actually back in toronto now?!

also francis - that's awesome!

at any rate - the state of this team is bummer city.

butbut didnt u see bautista's throw from the warning track?!?

blol jays

to tear-y eyed to notice whatever untility infielder we have in lf

Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi said the move was not "a financial dump."

WTF else could it be when you give up a guy and get nothing in return, asshole?

christ whenever i think there's no further way to hate on ricciardi.

that's probably the most irritating thing about the man. he just cannot be honest about anything. ever. and it certainly isn't for a lack of talking! but it's like he thinks we're idiots.

Wow, a corner outfielder with a .740 OPS with Coors-ish home/road splits ... how will we ever replace a player like that?? And who cares if Ricciardi says "financial flexibility" instead of "salary dump", either way the end result is the same. Basically, he f***ed up and badly misjudged the market on corner outfielders when he signed Rios to that contract, and now he's been granted a mulligan for that move. We should all be celebrating.

it just sucks that it's came to this. tossing Rios out the airlock isn't going to fix what's wrong with this team.

so Ruiz is up.