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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Bad bad signing. His home/road splits were exactly what you would expect in Boston. Gets killed on the road and 4 of his 5 HR's were 'just enough' according to hittrackeronline.com at home in Fenway with a 310 foot fence. He won't get that in Toronto, or anywhere else really. Take away those HR's and he was going to still OPS .650. That is about what you should expect with him moving forward, .650 OPS and solid defense.


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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    Bad bad signing. His home/road splits were exactly what you would expect in Boston. Gets killed on the road and 4 of his 5 HR's were 'just enough' according to hittrackeronline.com at home in Fenway with a 310 foot fence. He won't get that in Toronto, or anywhere else really. Take away those HR's and he was going to still OPS .650. That is about what you should expect with him moving forward, .650 OPS and solid defense.
    They probably liked the idea of taking Gonzalez off the table as an option for the Red Sox, since most of the teams likely to be in the mix for Scutaro have a protected 1st round pick.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blumj View Post
    They probably liked the idea of taking Gonzalez off the table as an option for the Red Sox, since most of the teams likely to be in the mix for Scutaro have a protected 1st round pick.
    Its still dumb. Let the Red Sox have him then. The guy is just not a good player and the odds he can be a .700 OPS bat next year are incredibly slim.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Blue Jays seem to have decided they want EE at 3d and Alex G. at SS. Make anybody feel better about the Rolen trade? Maybe the Jays are a little less smart than some seem to believe.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    Bad bad signing. His home/road splits were exactly what you would expect in Boston. Gets killed on the road and 4 of his 5 HR's were 'just enough' according to hittrackeronline.com at home in Fenway with a 310 foot fence. He won't get that in Toronto, or anywhere else really. Take away those HR's and he was going to still OPS .650. That is about what you should expect with him moving forward, .650 OPS and solid defense.
    They probably saw how well the EE/AGon combo produced for us!


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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Columbus paper today has Toronto interested in Phillips, perhaps for a move to 3b.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HokieRed View Post
    Columbus paper today has Toronto interested in Phillips, perhaps for a move to 3b.
    do you have a link? i did an internet search for this and all i found was stories (speculation) from 2 weeks ago.
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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Alex Gonzalez is a complete joke. I'm just glad he's not our problem anymore.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Quote Originally Posted by HokieRed View Post
    Columbus paper today has Toronto interested in Phillips, perhaps for a move to 3b.
    I missed the signing of Leatherpants to the Toronto front office
    Where we gonna go?

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Quote Originally Posted by Strikes Out Looking View Post
    I missed the signing of Leatherpants to the Toronto front office
    LOL! That would be interesting if they tried to get Phillips.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Quote Originally Posted by HokieRed View Post
    Columbus paper today has Toronto interested in Phillips, perhaps for a move to 3b.
    Odd. Who would want to move Phillips to 3B? SS maybe, but 3B doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    Sorry I don't have a link for the Columbus paper story. Some sports commentator in the paper, sounded like he'd heard something, though, as he said the Jays had discussed Phillips and thought he had enough arm to play 3rd.

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    Re: Blue Jays sign Alex Gonzales

    From the sun deck

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1364415/

    ...Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds doing some pro-active payroll pruning, and if the Reds are serious about trading Brandon Phillips as has been speculated, the Toronto Blue Jays will be all over him. Blue Jays scouts think he has the arm to play third base – Phillips won a Gold Glove at second in 2008, but Aaron Hill’s not likely to be moved – and Phillips is well-known to both general manager Alex Anthopoulos and adviser Tony LaCava. LaCava was with the Montreal Expos in 1999 when Phillips was chosen second overall, and as an adviser with the Cleveland Indians, he pushed for him to be included in the Bartolo Colon deal. Phillips has two years and $19-million (U.S.) left on his contract.
    Also being discussed on O's message board

    http://forum.orioleshangout.com/foru...ad.php?t=90263
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