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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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You'd have a tough time finding many Jays fans who would question the kind've person Wells is or his personality outside of the ballpark. That has little or nothing to do with the trade today though. Kudos to him for having a quality season last year which was enough for the Angels to take on that contract.
I've never bought into the notion that you should make a move just for the sake of making a move which is exactly what the Angels did and starting to have a history of doing (see Scott Kazmir) The money they now have tied up in Wells and Hunter is pretty substantial. I think your being a little to easy on the Angels when you say they had money to burn, so picking up 20 million plus for multiple years on Wells is justified.
I don't think the Angels should be applauded on not giving up any prospects in this trade. The entire baseball world would've most likely still favoured the Jays in this trade, if all they got a Class A bat boy. When you consider that in many career statistics Rivera is not far away from Wells, it makes this trade even more of a great trade for the Jays.