Checking In On The AL East
Sometimes you really have to shake your head. Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi set a deadline today of July 28 for moving Roy Halladay. He says he has yet to see a deal he likes, and he says that dealing Halladay is now unlikely. Ricciardi is a moron. If he doesn’t manage to get this one right then he doesn’t deserve to be in charge of a big league team. Of course, nothing he has done in the last three years has made us think that he deserves that. I like th Jays, and if you read this blog then you know that I think Halladay is the best there is. I’d love him to stay in Toronto forever, but there are a couple of unavoidable facts – this team is not going to be a serious contender for the next couple of years, and Halladay can’t last forever. The Jays need to get rid of him, and they need to use this opportunity to add to the young talent they are already developing. This is a once in a decade opportunity for the Jays, and this moron Ricciardi is going to screw it up. The only thing they will accomplish by keeping him this year is to significantly reduce the haul they get back for him when they inevitably dump him next year in the last year of his contract. There is no issue here – nothing to debate. I hope that Ricciardi figures that out before it is too late. With enough contending teams in good markets desperate for pitching there is a big deal to be made, and Ricciardi needs to buck up and make it. He’s a disgrace to guys with initials for names.
I was sad to see that Tim Wakefield has hit the DL. He strained his back throwing on the sidelines and will be out until it clears up. I don’t really understand how a guy can strain his back throwing as softly as Wakefield does, but then I guess he is about 200 years old. I don’t really care about the RedSox, so that definitely not why this story caught my eye. Besides, they have Clay Buchholz in the wings so they’ll be just fine. I’m sad for Wakefield. No guy in the league deserves to win 20 more than he does after the long an interesting career he has had, and if he stayed healthy he would have had a look at it. Now that’s out, and he might even find it hard to find regular starts when he comes back ifBuchholz settles in. Too bad.
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Tags: Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, J.P. Ricciardi, Roy Halladay, Tim Wakefield
