Well, you are, in essence, trading draft picks. If the Yankees traded for Burnett, they would get draft picks if Burnett opts out and leaves, assuming they offer him arbitration. That said, I can’t see the Jays dealing him to the Yankees.
OK, now I see what you were saying. It was not very clear to me.
True, but I bet there are a few other teams. The Jays can always try for a bidding war between the Yanks and Sox. The Dodgers would probably have some interest. The Cubs apparently would. Etc.
Toronto won’t trade Burnett for single A talent. As Hawk points out, Burnett essentially carries two draft picks with him. The compensation for his opting out, which everyone expects he will do, is low-minor talent. So you’d be trading good picks for players just barely more developed than that.
Toronto has talent in the low minors. They have almost no talent in AAA, and only one certified prospect in AA. A Burnett package must be centred around major-league-ready talent, or else why not just keep the draft picks?
The hedge against injury. Besides, I wrote a “**good AAA pitcher ** and two young A level prospects” on the assumption that the Jays are done for this year with no manager and an idiot GM.
I am not sure the Yanks could swing the deal, that was more of a joke. But as I put in my last post, there are others.
For the record, I don’t actually like Burnett. I would prefer if the Yanks did not trade for him. This is just hypothetical.
Cito Gaston was welcomed back into the major leagues by having his team get shut out in a 12-inning game. They lost 1-0 in the bottom of the 12th on an error. Tonight’s display of hitting was one of almost perfect ineptitude. It was hard to imagine that a team of such terrible hitters could ever have scored a run.
You can change the jockey, but a donkey isn’t going to win the Preakness. What you need is someone who can pick better horses, and that means firing someone whose last name rhymes with “Mitchiardi.”
My feelings about the Jays are no longer suitable for a friendly baseball thread. Please refer to the Pit thread for more thoughts:
Wow, and I thought the Reds were bad at generating runs. I feel bad for you, my friend.
At least Edinson Volquez is for real, 10-2 now, leading MLB in SO and ERA, and just spanked the Yanks.
Your kid Thompson, did great today. The Reds have been putting on a fielding display.
The Yanks 31 year old career minor leaguer is pitching an incredibly efficient game. Giese has pitch 6 shout out innings on 62 pitches, only 2 hits and 4 Ks.
I agree, I was really worried. Thompson started the season in AA, too, and now here he is. I wished we could have scored at least a run for him before he exited; he deserved the win for fighting through all those jams.
Beating the Yankees at Yankee stadium twice in a row over a weekend is no mean feat, even if the Yankees team is subpar by Yankee fan’s standards (well, and when compared to the recent version of the Red Sox). Especially since the Reds struggle to win on the road and score runs in general.
Shit, you guys still have a winning record though!
Have you guys heard of this?
This ambidextrous pitcher in the Yanks farm system?
hilarity ahead:
We have been discussing him in this thread about switch hitters facing him.
Oops, sorry.
Well RickJay, our clubs are about to mix it up in your neck of the woods. What do you think about this series? Will Adam Dunn go nuts and homer three times in three games?
I kind of hope so. It would accelerate Riccardi’s demise. We need a fresh start.
Your wish is my command!
I made a call to my buddy, Bronson Arroyo, and I asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing a fellow SDMBer a favor. He obliged.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ that guy fucking blows chowder. 11-1 in the second?
Unbelievable.
Oh, and you’re welcome.
14-1 beatdown. Well, this just means that you’ve expended your run production for the remainder of the season, so you shouldn’t expect to score any runs the next couple of games!
At least, I hope.
We should fare better with Aaron Harang on the hill, whom is decent despite a poor record.
Shit, that was their allocation of runs for the rest of the week, dude. They won’t score again until Sunday.
The Jay announcers were all “The bats are back!” but all I saw was a pitcher throwing the most atrocious sort of beach balls I’ve seen in many moons. A random selection of nine Dopers who’ve posted in this thread would have hit him up for five or six runs. What happened to him? He used to be good.
Rest of the week? That sounds optimistic.
You know, every time I see the box scores and notice the Blue Jays, I hear a faint sobbing sound coming from the Northeast…
Thanks be to God that the sobbing wasn’t coming from Cincinnati tonight after an extra-inning game.
I don’t like our chances to get to .500 at this point. We’re like seven games behind that goal, and the Cubs keep winning.
Isn’t there supposed to be some intervention on behalf of the baseball gods at this point, whereby the Cubs meltdown and either St Louis or Milwaukee wins the division?