Russell Martin traded to dodgers.

[jays4life19]

I remember a lot of people s***ing on the idea of trading Martin +15M for a couple low-ranked prospects a month or two ago. Most of the forum IIRC.

 

I think people may have been holding out we would make a couple moves and maybe have an outside chance at a WC while not mortgaging the future. With how the off season has gone moving Martin for whatever we can get is pretty much a no brainier. Let the kiddos play.

[Terminator]

[The Iceman]

Kendrys definitely needs to be the next sunk cost causality. Just pay all his salary and get some low minor C prospect. That will allow them to use DH to rest players throughout the year.

 

And yeah I was arguing for trading Martin months ago and remember a lot of opposition to that from this forum. Wonder what changed.

 

Kendry is a family friend of Vlad and a team friendly vet. In a year of transition no rush to show him the door...besides he can play 1st when we get our big package for Smoak.

[Jonn]

Thank you for reading my post and proving a serious and negatively coloured response

 

You now have chlamydia

 

It was my pleasure. Was it good for you?

[Jonn]

Kendry is a family friend of Vlad and a team friendly vet. In a year of transition no rush to show him the door...besides he can play 1st when we get our big package for Smoak.

 

Can Vlad Jr. be family friends with better players in the future. Thanks.

[Laika]

Yeah, I'm confused too because I f***ing hate this trade

 

How? Why?

[jays4life19]

How? Why?

 

Because he's dum

[Brownie19]

Do the Dodgers expect Martin to play 110 games behind the plate??

 

They still have Barnes...

[Boxcar]

How? Why?

 

Because Martin still has some use, we're still paying the vast majority of his remaining money and our reward is 2 org guys.

[Carlos Danger]

I have wanted Martin gone since 2016, but seeing all the "French" comments on the Jays page on FB makes me even happier I don't have to hear/see any more Quebecois (Not calling it French because I don't want to insult the French).

[Laika]

Because Martin still has some use, we're still paying the vast majority of his remaining money and our reward is 2 org guys.

 

How is Sopko even close to an org guy? Great peripherals in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

 

I understand hating Brito but org guy also seems excessively negative for him

Edited January 12, 2019 by Laika

[BallsDeep]

Because Martin still has some use, we're still paying the vast majority of his remaining money and our reward is 2 org guys.

 

What ever will we do without his elite framing skills?

[Maico450]

Because Martin still has some use, we're still paying the vast majority of his remaining money and our reward is 2 org guys.

 

Use, to sit on the bench, and take up a roster spot?

[BigCecil]

Is it this one?

 

 

That's the one! Love the French call of that Martin HR. You are in Calgary too? This is my kid with Danny Jansen last weekend at small Camp he did.

 

[Boxcar]

How is Sopko even close to an org guy? Great peripherals in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

 

I understand hating Brito but org guy also seems excessively negative for him

 

Sopko is a 24 year old in AA with middling results. If that's not an org guy, not sure what to tell you.

[Boxcar]

What ever will we do without his elite framing skills?

 

Use, to sit on the bench, and take up a roster spot?

 

Uh oh, I've gone against the popular opinion! I must return to the herd!

[Laika]

Sopko is a 24 year old in AA with middling results. If that's not an org guy, not sure what to tell you.

 

Clearly you don’t understand what the term org guy even means.

 

Unless you’re just trying to be contrarian here

[Grant77]

For 3.6 million I think we would have been better off just keeping Russ. That being said, we did right by him and I don't think the move is terribly harmful. We might get a useful reliever out of it.

[Bobthe4th]

I remember a lot of people s***ing on the idea of trading Martin +15M for a couple low-ranked prospects a month or two ago. Most of the forum IIRC.

 

It definitely wasn’t most of the forum, but a few people were advocating keeping him in a mentor role for Jansen, and presumably moving Maile instead.

[L54]

Unless Martin quietly wanted out, I’d rather have kept him instead of saving 3.6M and a couple of dusty prospects

[Spanky99]

Unless Martin quietly wanted out, I’d rather have kept him instead of saving 3.6M and a couple of dusty prospects

 

Most likely, he wants a ring.

[Dr. Dinger]

Because Martin still has some use, we're still paying the vast majority of his remaining money and our reward is 2 org guys.

 

I feel like you’d be the first person complaining that Danny Jansen isn’t getting enough PT if Martin was still a Jay by mid-season. I don’t agree with your premise that having Martin around for vetrin presents in a write-off season is more valuable than two s***** prospects and a handful of change. Either way it really doesn’t seem consequential.

[TheHurl]

The reaction by the casuals is much worse than anticipated

[TheHurl]

A small sample from the Jays FB group

 

This is the worst trade ever!!

 

What is this front office doing? Other than gutting the team.

 

They came in to dissolve the BJs

 

Traded him away for a guy to fill the position of another guy WE PAID to walk away and join the Yanks. 20 more years until meaningful baseball in late September.

 

!!! Lets Go Bisons !!!

 

I am crying. We have no Canadians in the team now is it going to be worth watching only for Pillar

[BTS]

It definitely wasn’t most of the forum, but a few people were advocating keeping him in a mentor role for Jansen, and presumably moving Maile instead.

 

No, it was most of the forum. Or at least most of the people in the conversation at the time. Jim advocated trading him in a deal like this, Boxy jumped on him, and then a bunch of people piled on.

 

Edit: Actually is was saskjsysfan2 who suggested this exact trade and got dragged for like 3 pages by the hive.

[Jimcanuck]

No, it was most of the forum. Jim advocated trading him in a deal like this, Boxy jumped on him, and then a bunch of people piled on.

 

Boxy on my iggy list, this won't happen again.

[JimmyG]

A small sample from the Jays FB group

 

I am crying. We have no Canadians in the team now is it going to be worth watching only for Pillar

 

Imagine watching this team for Pillar.

[jays4life19]

Imagine watching this team for Pillar.

 

Welcome to the BJMB. Are you friends with JimmybobC by any chance?

[JimmyG]

Welcome to the BJMB. Are you friends with JimmybobC by any chance?

 

Thanks! And no, I don't know who that is.

[jays4life19]

Thanks! And no, I don't know who that is.

 

Oh you will soon enough my friend.