ALEX ANTHOPOULOS: "I went to Winter Meetings, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt -- and a closer." (OK, you got me. The Toronto GM didn't really say that.) Today the Blue Jays re-acquired old friend Sergio Santos by trading top pitching prospect Nestor Molina in a straight-up deal with the White Sox. The Jays believe Santos -- a former New Hampshire Fisher Cats shortstop -- will continue to blossom into one of baseball's top closers. The deal comes with cost certainty, with Santos signed through 2014 and team options for the following three seasons. Sergio would stay on the books for no more than $31.5 million over six years as the Jays Prospects laid this out quite nicely.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Nestor, we hardly knew you
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Well, while the Jay’s had a dozen or so high end starters in the minors it was widely accepted in particular they had FIVE very high end YOUNG starters: Hutchison, Syndergaard, Nicolini, Norris, and Molina.
They’ve just traded the oldest Molina (22), for a closer with the "best slider in the show" of whom KLaw says its late break makes it "look like it fell off a cliff" and over whom they’ll have 6 years of control! Not to mention 42 hits in 63 innings and 93 SO's.
AA continues to be – without question – the master of the dance, the Silent Assassin! He is clearly reading from a play book other GM’s didn’t even know exists.
wow, I have to say I think it is a good trade, but what do I know????.....perhaps, I just like Sergio.....:-)
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