Comments on: Rangers sign Jason Frasor to one-year, $1.5 million deal

By: jaysjunkie

jaysjunkie — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:36:15 +0000

Very disappointing to see Frasor leave. Surprising, too, considering how much better the team has gotten.

By: paint771

paint771 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:11:10 +0000

Still kind of unclear why the Jays didn’t find room for him. He is by no means a flashy pitcher or strikeout artist and was never confused with a “great” reliever, but he’s also not one of those relievers that puts up fantastic numbers one year and then sucks for the next three, or who will have a string of weeks where he can’t seem to find anything. Dude was just solid; a lunch pail kind of guy. He’d get hit, he’d never blow you away, but he’d show up and put in his inning and it was fine.

That’s not at all damning with faint praise, as that is the exact opposite of the prototypical Jays reliever these last several seasons. They have had relievers that are better than Frasor, and a damn lot that were worse, but for nearly all of them, they’d go through stretches where you would moan when they came out to the mound in a tight spot. Frasor, you’d just think “oh, it’s still the seventh, and maybe they’ll get a run or two off him, but cool, I can handle that”. It’d never be a trainwreck, is what I’m saying.

Course, maybe that says more about the mentality of Jays fans regarding our recent bullpens than it does about Frasor.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:47:39 +0000

…and as a side note to this signing Eli Whiteside was DFA by the Rangers to make room for Frasor. Eli Whiteside is quickly becoming a very well traveled player this off season. He’s gone from the Giants to the Yankees to the Jays to the Rangers to the unemployed all within just a few months.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:38:11 +0000

A good guy and a solid pitcher. He’ll do well for The Rangers.

See ya Jason Frazor. Good luck.

By: lewp

lewp — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:39:39 +0000

About time te Rangers got a stroke of luck. How come he is leaving the jays?

By: tc4306

tc4306 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:13:22 +0000

Frasor made his home in Toronto, married a Canadian girl and was quoted as saying, “Heck, even my dog is Canadian.” He was a loyal and solid citizen for the Blue Jays.
As jaysfan says, when his playing days are over, if he wants it, Beeston and AA will find him a role in the Blue Jay family. Good luck, Jayson.

By: jaysfan64

jaysfan64 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:58:45 +0000

Too bad there’s no room for him in the Jays pen this season…he’s a solid setup man and a good guy who was a part of some real crap teams here… he’s also the Jays all time leader in appearances…solid addition for the Rangers and we’ll miss him…when he’s done playing don’t be shocked if AA has a job for him here in some capacity…