Jays acquire C Miguel Montero from Cubs

[metafour]

[Pendleton]

Well it should be an improvement

[jays4life19]

Niceeee. Finally have ourselves a competent backup!

[fatcowxlive]

So a veteran catcher who was 2 years removed from a 2 WAR season, yells at his pitching staff, then we get him on a free essentially. I'll take it lol

 

How much salary are we taking on though? He's owed $14M this season, I hope we're getting significant $

[Jonn]

I like this move. Unfortunately it's too little too late. But not having a black hole at Catcher allows them too rest Martin comfortably and give him more rest and hopefully that helps him be more effective.

[Governator]

Too bad he can't throw anyone out anymore but quite a viable backup option.

[Pendleton]

Too bad he can't throw anyone out anymore but quite a viable backup option.

 

No no that was the Cubs pitchers fault for not holding runners.

[West Texas Forever]

When was the last time the Jays had a legit backup catcher?

 

Navarro

Zaun

Thigpen

Barajas

Chávez

Buck

Molina (not the good one)

Mathis

Thole

Maile

 

What a glorious 10 year span of backups.

[GreekFatAss]

When was the last time the Jays had a legit backup catcher?

 

Navarro

Zaun

Thigpen

Barajas

Chávez

Buck

Molina (not the good one)

Mathis

Thole

Maile

 

What a glorious 10 year span of backups.

 

As much as I dislike him as a broadcaster, Zaun was a pretty good catcher for us.

[burlingtonbandit]

No no that was the Cubs pitchers fault for not holding runners.

 

Outside Stroman the Jays pitchers are pretty bad too.

[Jonn]

Outside Stroman the Jays pitchers are pretty bad too.

 

Yea I was about to say the Blue Jays have to be ranked among the worst lol.

[justafan]

Way too much money tied up in catchers.

 

So a veteran catcher who was 2 years removed from a 2 WAR season, yells at his pitching staff, then we get him on a free essentially. I'll take it lol

 

How much salary are we taking on though? He's owed $14M this season, I hope we're getting significant $

[John_Havok]

Way too much money tied up in catchers.

 

Jays won't be paying his full remaining salary this season, if at all, and he's a free agent after this season. Combine this with the Grilli trade and the Jays are probably no higher in payroll than they were before.

[fatcowxlive]

Way too much money tied up in catchers.

 

I just read he was actually recently DFA'd by the cubbies so I doubt we're left with anything more than the league minimum, he was gone already and we gave them something

[Abomination]

I just read he was actually recently DFA'd by the cubbies so I doubt we're left with anything more than the league minimum, he was gone already and we gave them something

 

There had to have been a few teams interested in him. We're probably paying half of his remaining contract this year, or something like that. That probably lays to rest any speculation about whether we're looking to sell right now or not, although ultimately I guess he'd be easy to move at the deadline regardless.

[jays4life19]

There had to have been a few teams interested in him. We're probably paying half of his remaining contract this year, or something like that. That probably lays to rest any speculation about whether we're looking to sell right now or not, although ultimately I guess he'd be easy to move at the deadline regardless.

 

From MLBTR: "Unsurprisingly, FOX’s Ken Rosenthal tweets that the Cubs will pay the “vast majority” of the sum that remains on that deal as a means of facilitating the deal."

 

It doesn't sound like we're paying much at all.

[o2cui2i]

Maile has been great defensively, but worse than Thole with the stick and that's fugly

[justafan]

This sets up well to trade Donaldson. Martin will play more 3b. The Jays have been hitting poorly since the end of last August. Brook has to go as well.

[Omar]

Hard to believe but this team just got slower.

 

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[Captain Adama]

I made the mistake of seeing the comments section of the Facebook Jays group on this, and it almost makes me wish that Toronto didn't have a baseball team. I've never seen such a large group of mindless f***tards. Holy f***ing s***, they were the load that their mothers should've swallowed.

[fatcowxlive]

From MLBTR: "Unsurprisingly, FOX’s Ken Rosenthal tweets that the Cubs will pay the “vast majority” of the sum that remains on that deal as a means of facilitating the deal."

 

It doesn't sound like we're paying much at all.

 

Yeah no way the FO is gonna commit a large sum of money given the current state of them team

[jays4life19]

I made the mistake of seeing the comments section of the Facebook Jays group on this, and it almost makes me wish that Toronto didn't have a baseball team. I've never seen such a large group of mindless f***tards. Holy f***ing s***, they were the load that their mothers should've swallowed.

 

Hahaha.

[Effit]

I made the mistake of seeing the comments section of the Facebook Jays group on this, and it almost makes me wish that Toronto didn't have a baseball team. I've never seen such a large group of mindless f***tards. Holy f***ing s***, they were the load that their mothers should've swallowed.

 

"They need to replace the batting coach with someone who will teach the players the fundamentals of hitting. Swinging at air trying to get lucky and hit home runs only is definitely not working. Sorry Damarlo"

 

So many gems, so little time.

[Effit]

Also a guy on there crying for the Jays to get a new "head coach".

[Terminator]

This is a massive upgrade. Salty and Maile have been worth about -1.5 WAR and Montero has been worth .3 WAR in similar amounts of PT. Extrapolate that over a full season and we just upgraded the roster by 3.6 WAR. That's a pretty dirty way to crunch the numbers and it's probably too late but this is a big move given the s***** backups we've been trotting out there.

[Captain Adama]

-Think about it. Cleveland starts winning when Atkins & Shapiro leave. The Blue Jays who were an exciting & winning team hit the skids. Coincidence?

 

-Exactly, look at the Dodgers right now too, they've got anthropolis now

 

-the Indian's biggest acquisitions to build the best bullpen in the league came after Shapiro left. A lot of teams in this league are 3 star players away from contention, Shapiro didn't and should not be getting credit for making those moves^^

 

-Aaron Morin shapiro took over a top contender and did what? he added what to our pen? he let Edwin walk..LF is a mess..our depth is terrible.blame AA too,he deserves it for the brutal marlins and mets deals but shapiro has done nothing to keep the team trending up..today were riddled with untradeable brutal contracts..lets hope martin and tulo are the next rios's ..Donaldson needs a deal and if Edwin walked,bautista is a shell of himself,martin and tulo are a mess so do we hand Donaldson 100 million? it will get very very ugly umm uglier soon

 

-the way they handled alex...this is what they wanted bum-boys like atkins and that loser shapiro

 

-No coincidence that the Jays are losing under the leadership of dumb and dumber.

 

All of these goddamn idiots can f*** right off.

[jays4life19]

"anthropolis"

 

lol

[Effit]

"Management needs to go. What a disgrace. Those two are a disease."

[Captain Adama]

Shapiro got his executive of year cause he got lucky in draft and got great trade package for bartolo colon and again got lucky again as they panned out to be multiple time all-stars. Since then what he's he really done? Wasn't excited when he came here.

 

My IQ keeps dropping.

[Omar]

I made the mistake of seeing the comments section of the Facebook Jays group on this, and it almost makes me wish that Toronto didn't have a baseball team. I've never seen such a large group of mindless f***tards. Holy f***ing s***, they were the load that their mothers should've swallowed.

 

"They need to replace the batting coach with someone who will teach the players the fundamentals of hitting. Swinging at air trying to get lucky and hit home runs only is definitely not working. Sorry Damarlo"

 

So many gems, so little time.

 

Also a guy on there crying for the Jays to get a new "head coach".

 

F*****g hockey fans.