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Originally Posted by Jason14h
To me this is a trade both teams win.
Rivera will have people going nuts by the all star game, and in a bad way! He oinly hits HR when you are down 8-1 in the last inning! Wait till you see him try and hit a breaking ball. He is only included for salary. Napoli is under control for 2 years, so a nice 6-7 hitter and catcher insurance.
For Anahiem, they have money to burn. Wells instantly ungrades their team, and with Oakland and Texas both having good offseasons (Relatively) they had to do something.
They surrendered no prospects, and got a CF who was one of the best Sluggers last season and can "sorta" play good D still.
It is amazing we were able to ditch 80 million. But Wells is a very very good player when healthy, and has been nothing but class act to Toronto. I truely hope he gets a great round of applause when he is here next.
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Agreed. There's only one thing I didn't like about Vern, his contract. The only way he could have lived up to that contract would have been 35-40 HRs 95-120 RBIs every year and still playing stellar in CF. He obviously couldn't do it (very few can), but he's a class act and I wish him the best in Cali.
I think (hope?) most Jays fans are smart enough to know the situation and will greet him warmly when he comes back.
On another note, I have to say, I'm very impressed by Anthopoulos so far. I have hope again for the Jays since he took over as GM.