didnt see that coming

Sergio wasn’t a high salary guy ($1 mil this year) and was under control until 2016.

Nester Molina is a borderline prospect since he’s in A ball. He won’t be ready for 3 or 4 years. This is

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=molina001nes

superb K and BB numbers from last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJexbmxEn00&feature=related

Let’s see what other dominoes fall today.

I actually like it. I don’t think Santos is the fit for long term closer. Molina looks good. Well its a rebuilding year now.

Now lets pry Teheran from Braves

and don’t have to go all the way up to chavez ravine.

Kenny realizing that a “closer” isn’t that valuable per se, and now having a manager who won’t fight him on that front?
I know the money was manageable, even cheap. But didn’t Sergio intimate a sense of entitlement at some point last year? Saying that he’d earned the “position”? Maybe that plays into it too.

Chances are we won’t need one, just hope the return was fair. Blue Jays gm certainly seems to know what he’s doing up there.

1. RHP Nestor Molina — This is the only place you’ll see Molina as Toronto’s No. 1 prospect. Sorry, folks, but I’m believing my own eyes and ignoring the grossly inaccurate scouting reports. The 22-year-old was Verlander-like in Double-A, dominating hitters to the tune of a 13.5 strikeouts/9 innings. Awesome stuff. Fastball (92-94-mph), devastating split, changeup. Pitching coach Pete Walker told me his stuff is “as good as I’ve seen at this level.” Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus once tweeted, “Not a ton of stuff, a finesse type without much upside.” Um, no.

I’ll take it, guy with a blog!

“This is the start of a rebuilding.”
Interesting.

Buster Olney
CWS’s scouts view of Molina: Potentially a front-end-rotation guy. 4-pitch mix with great command. Plus makeup and athleticism, as well.

The closer’s market is quite interesting as we’ve seen (Papelbon, Bell), and Sergio is signed to a very friendly deal with reasonable buyout options once he gets bigger bucks. Molina’s numbers are gaudy, but this is his first year as a full-time starter and we don’t have much of a sample in AA.

I think KW should have negotiated more considering how deep the Jays system is.

Q~ is gonna be pissed!

However, I am not going to pretend I am nearly as well versed on these type of things as some others around here.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/09/white-sox-sergio-santos-agree-to-multiyear-deal.html

but he immediately becomes #2 or #3 in White Sox org behind Addison Reed.

Or “none of the above”?

If you want to rebuild, fine. But I’m tired of Kenny trading players with value for players only he thinks will bust out. Sickels is fine, but I’ll go with the pro in Goldstein who pegged Molina as a fringe pitcher. The BA 18th ranked player in Toronto for Santos is a horrible trade.

Can’t wait to see what junk they get for Q and Danks.

Also, they should do Konerko and give him away to whatever team he wants to go to…he didn’t sign up to finish his career amid suckage.

And Molina becomes a STUD