Comments on: Cafardo's latest: Halladay, Millwood, Lowe, Tejada

By: hop

hop — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:37:44 +0000

What dirck doesnt seem to understand is that Halladay is at the very least one of the top 2 or 3 pitchers in the game and if you want that kind of talent you better be willing to give some. Not sure whats so hard to understand about that but to give him away for nothing is a stupid move that shouldn’t happen. It’s a no brainer for anyone with a brain

By: len

len — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:01:05 +0000

the jays have the richest ownership group in the sport . maybe they should spend some of that money and re sign him . they may want to give their fans something to look forward to .

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:57:04 +0000

that’s the “joke” the blue jays were asking for last year that the sox declined.

By: Dirck

Dirck — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:21:30 +0000

It seems to me that hop is completely ignoring the financial realities of baseball today . You can’t build a winning team in Toronto by re-signing a 33 year-old ace pitcher to what would probably be about a $ 20 million per year contract , especially when they are still crippled by Ricciardi’s stupidity in giving Vernon Wells that albatross of a contract . Boston also is not going to give up TWO potentially excellent young INEXPENSIVE pitchers for the privilege of paying Halladay $ 12 million for one year and then having to compete with the rest of baseball for him next year . Why not just wait until they can try to sign him next year as a free agent ? Toronto’s options are basically —- 1. Trade Halladay now for whatever you can get and save $ 12 million this year when you won’t be competitive even with Halladay . or — 2.Keep Halladay this year and spend $ 12 million on his salary in a year when you are already financially squeezed and will not be competitive and then lose Halladay at the end of the year and get only draft choice compensation for him , which might not even be a # 1 draft choice , depending upon which team signs him .

By: hop

hop — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:48:39 +0000

Got bad news for Theo, the Jays are NOT going to trade maybe the best pitcher in the AL for Buchholz and some guy named Casey Kelly who has never played above A ball for the love of god! Thats the sort of trade that ends a GM’s career, they would have to be insane to accept such a deal. I dont even think Buchholz is much of an offer by himself and they are going to only kick in a single A guy? Thats a joke