OC to Toronto?

Could the Toronto Blue Jays be lying in the weeds waiting to make a player move? I'll say this: I've been told that they have some interest in free-agent shortstop Orlando Cabrera — who has also attracted interest from the Oakland Athletics — but that they need to first clear some payroll, even if it's just a couple of million dollars.

8 months ago larry 13 comments 0 recs |

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

20th pick

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/ask-ba/2008/266992.html

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Feb 28, 2009 5:40 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

make it so.

Cashing checks and having sex.

by MarketMaker on Feb 28, 2009 5:52 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

You watch Extras?

“You live alone, you don’t have a GF, and you don’t watch Star Trek the Next Generation? Good god”

by madvillian on Feb 28, 2009 9:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That Patrick Stewart scene may be my favorite in the history of televised comedy.

You don’t really need context if you want to watch it here.

by CatBrains on Mar 1, 2009 10:45 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

never seen extras. watched that scene. hilarious. now i'm going to have to netflix it.

Cashing checks and having sex.

by MarketMaker on Mar 1, 2009 1:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

lol...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jd1Ih8EUmw

"God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise."

by Shoeless In SC on Mar 1, 2009 9:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't see that coming.

Thought they were trying to cut payroll?

the post wasn't for you. fuck off.
by larry on Feb 10, 2009 12:43 PM EST

by winningugly on Feb 28, 2009 6:11 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

i had them listed as a possible destination earlier in the year.

they must be contemplating a multi-year deal and think they can get OC to sign one for a cut-rate price. jays aren’t contenders this year but could engineer things for next year.

southsidesox.com - now the best place on the interwebs for chicago white sox analysis and discussion.

by larry on Feb 28, 2009 6:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

MLBtraderumors said

That they would like to trade Rolen and Overbay and might include Brandon League to “sweeten the deal”.

my president is white.

by JoeCoolMan24 on Mar 1, 2009 12:35 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The Toronto Blue Jays called the Chicago White Sox a couple of weeks ago, and planted an idea in the head of Sox general manager Kenny Williams:

The Jays would like free-agent shortstop Orlando Cabrera, but they don’t want to sacrifice a draft pick to sign him. Would the White Sox consider re-signing Cabrera — who turned down salary arbitration from the team — then trade him to the Blue Jays? Then, last week, they called Cabrera’s agent, Dan Lozano, to bounce the idea off him.

They’re awaiting a response, and while the Blue Jays themselves are skeptical of getting this particular deal done, some in baseball believe it’s a sign of the times.

http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090301.wsptblair02facts/GSStory/GlobeSportsBaseball/home

southsidesox.com - now the best place on the interwebs for chicago white sox analysis and discussion.

by larry on Mar 2, 2009 11:21 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

larry, you are the Collective Bargaining expert.

Would that scenario violate it?

the post wasn't for you. fuck off.
by larry on Feb 10, 2009 12:43 PM EST

by winningugly on Mar 2, 2009 11:26 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

kenny on the talks with toronto

With regard to the conversations between Williams and Toronto general manager J.P. Riccardi, Williams said they weren’t “quite sure” how the whole sign-and-trade thing would work, or if anything would have eventually resulted from the talks.

“In our minds, there would have to be value to the picks to where whatever you got compensation trade-wise would still have to outweigh what you could get in Draft picks,” Williams said.
…
“You still have to get somewhat close to the value,” said Williams of the sign-and-trade possibility. “I say that in the spirit of also wanting to do the right thing for a guy that helped us win a division championship.”

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090302&content_id=3906900&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Mar 2, 2009 3:43 PM CST reply actions 0 recs