Ahoy hoy, everyone. While normally I would wait until Wednesday to put out a call for questions for this week’s mail bag, the rumour mill isn’t giving us much to work with at the moment, and the big baseball news stories of the day — the league nakedly trying to score P.R. points against the union by pretending to care about health and safety, the Rockies being an absolute disaster, and yet another man in the industry being outed as a known sex pest — are depressing and, sadly, not going away any time soon.
Plus, I missed last week’s mail bag, and some rather interesting Blue Jays developments have taken place since the previous one. So let’s have at it a day early, shall we? Submit your questions in the comments on this post!
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With the return of Francisco Liriano, it made me think: Was the trading of Drew Hutchison for (essentially) 2-years of Liriano, McGuire & subsequently Teoscar the best trade (and one of the first, mind you) of the Shapiro/Atkins era?
Good ol' Hutch pitched a grand total of 11.1 innings for the Pirates (at 0.0 WAR), where Liriano, McGuire & Teoscar have combined for 4.8 WAR in their Jays seasons (and Aoki had 0.2 WAR in his short stint with the Jays to bring it to an even 5.0!).
{WAR is from Baseball Reference - did not search fWAR}
Trying to think of a better series of trades by the current FO and can't - how about you?
Can you see any problem with the Jays offering Matt Shoemaker an invitation to spring training?