Blue Jays acquire Jonathan Villar for Griffin Conine

[Slade]

[LGBJ29]

[Jays24]

Wow... where does he fit if our team is fully healthy? Does he take 3b full time?

[BlueRocky]

Joe Panik in shambles

[Deadpool]

Threads merged.

[BlueRocky]

wow... Where does he fit if our team is fully healthy? Does he take 3b full time?

 

ss/2b/3b/of

[Laika]

Villar is like the player AA thought Emilio Bonifacio was.

 

Seems like a great fit, honestly.

[L54]

Great fit, presumably low cost. This has been a good deadline

[Dr. Dinger]

Apparently Starling Marte is about to be traded to the Marlins and Dan on the broadcast insinuated that perhaps Marte is being flipped as part of a three-team deal... the subtext being that maybe the Jays are getting him as well.

[TheDragon]

Pretty good, he can do some things

[z3r0s]

6 WAR in the last 2 seasons. Will be interesting to see the price.

[Jays24]

ss/2b/3b/of

 

 

You assume OF/SS/2B are already taken. 3B is the only spot you can see him playing full time since Shaw is up and down.

 

Does he bat leadoff ahead of Biggio?

[Funky]

Switch hitter with speed that can play all over. Leads majors in steals. Has some pop. But who did we give up?

[Slade]

 

No word yet on what they got but it might be really low cost.

[Deadpool]

You assume the OF/SS/2B are already taken. 3B is the only spot you can see him playing full time since Shaw is up and down.

 

Does he bat leadoff ahead of Biggio?

 

I imagine he'll be the main SS until Bo is back...

[Dr. Dinger]

Does he bat leadoff ahead of Biggio?

 

I sure as f*** hope we don't take our .390 OBP guy out of the leadoff spot. Biggio getting on base is probably the single biggest driver of the recent success.

[dineke]

 

No word yet on what they got but it might be really low cost.

 

Atkins doesn't do trades unless the cost is low.

[Slade]

Atkins doesn't do trades unless the cost is low.

 

For where we are right now, that's a good thing.

[glory]

I like the Villar pickup (assuming nothing of real value is being traded). Solid utility player with speed, and hopefully enough vetrin presents to push Panik down in Charlie's eyes.

[Jays24]

I imagine he'll be the main SS until Bo is back...

But where when Bo comes back?

 

If we have a Villar move to 3rd, you'd have to assume our infield defense would improve dramatically on top of our team speed. So happy to have him instead of Panick and Drury.

[jerb]

[BlueRocky]

I sure as f*** hope we don't take our .390 OBP guy out of the leadoff spot. Biggio getting on base is probably the single biggest driver of the recent success.

 

Dinger is officially back

[Krylian]

I sure as f*** hope we don't take our .390 OBP guy out of the leadoff spot. Biggio getting on base is probably the single biggest driver of the recent success.

 

If Buntoyo is old school he'll put Villar leadoff and slide everyone else back one spot.

[Funky]

So we have basically added

 

Villar and Vogelbach on offense

 

Ray and Walker as starters

 

Sounds like Giles is close.

 

Well we are better than we were a week ago.

 

No more Drury and way less Panik is a good thing

[Jays24]

If Buntoyo is old school he'll put Villar leadoff and slide everyone else back one spot.

 

Where do you think he belongs?

[Dr. Dinger]

Dinger is officially back

 

It's been less of an ******* wasteland around here lately, mod game has been stepped up.

[Ex Player]

Apparently Starling Marte is about to be traded to the Marlins and Dan on the broadcast insinuated that perhaps Marte is being flipped as part of a three-team deal... the subtext being that maybe the Jays are getting him as well.

Unfortunately we wont

 

[Deadpool]

But where when Bo comes back?

 

If we have a Villar move to 3rd, you'd have to assume our infield defense would improve dramatically on top of our team speed. So happy to have him instead of Panick and Drury.

 

Yeah, I think he takes over at 3rd most of the time (in a perfect world, given our current roster construction). Though, I'm not sure he's a defensive upgrade over Drury, who is a very good 3B (but such a black hole with the bat that he shouldn't be anywhere near a MLB team ever again...). I'm not familiar enough with Villar's defence to say for sure, however.

[wilko]

I sure as f*** hope we don't take our .390 OBP guy out of the leadoff spot. Biggio getting on base is probably the single biggest driver of the recent success.

 

Montoyo: We're going to put Biggio 7th to help turn the lineup around.

[BlueRocky]