[Sylvanfan]

The benefit of Brantley would have been that he's a left handed hitter, and the Jays still seem a bit heavy with right handed hitters. Of the current group of regualar impact hitters only Biggio is a lefty, and Tellez is more of a platoon type. So it would have been a nice bonus to get another regular left handed bat into the mix.

I've never looked hard enough into analytics to see if a 315/370/850 slash line is any better than a 240/340/850 one. Brantley has always been a pretty high average hitter, with a good on base, but lower slugging number. So he's a bit of a throwback from the Modern game of Tellez types who get to a 800 OPS number by having a slugging percentage that is double their batting average.