Edwin Jackson to Blue Jays for Jason Frasor; Rasmus to Jays

[Cubswin11]

You want to give Alex Anthopoulos huge credit for this deal, but Williams and Mozeliak just look varying degrees of stupid. Mozeliak especially. I think you may as well just rename the Cardinals the St. Louis LaRussas after this. Mo is not a good GM, not at all.

 

This deal looks a whole lot like AA was taking advantage of a couple of morons.

 

Joe Sheehan said Anthopoulos basically traded air for Rasmus. That's not far off.

Anthopoulos tenure as the Blue Jays GM

 

-Roy Halladay would only accept a trade to the Phillies, yet he managed to get 3 of their top 5 prospects in Drabek, d'Arnaud and Taylor.

 

-Traded Brandon League for Brandon Morrow.

 

-Traded Alex Gonzalez for Yunel Escobar. Extended Yunel for 4 years/$20M.

 

-Traded Vernon Wells (and his entire contract) for Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera

 

-Extended Bautista for $13M a year.

 

-Traded Octavio Dotel and a LH reliever for Colby Rasmus.

 

He's pretty much GM Jesus.

And yet with all those moves they still might not win the AL East anytime soon. Which is sad, because all those moves were/are genius.

[NonProfitCow]

I think they could if they decide to spend some money. They only have 36 million guaranteed tied up for 2012 and they had a payroll of 98 million in 2008.

[Clem Fandango]

I hadn't realized they turned Marc Rzepczynski into a reliever. Prior to last season he looked like a promising starter. Duncan might be able to do some good work with him, but that's about the only silver lining in that deal for the Cards.

[Formerly Snayke]

I hadn't realized they turned Marc Rzepczynski into a reliever. Prior to last season he looked like a promising starter. Duncan might be able to do some good work with him, but that's about the only silver lining in that deal for the Cards.

 

Jon Jay is our starting centre fielder, so there's that too.

 

0-2 since the big trade.