Atkins has answered that one. They would have loved to started the rebuilding process earlier but you don't rebuild coming off a playoff season in which the team led the league in attendance. Again...they held steady through that process and Donaldson got hurt so the value dissipated
Lars Anderson, Shin-soo Choo and Tony Sipp for Albers, Shaw, Stubbs and Bauer was pretty damn good. Pestano for Clevenger (in August in a year where they were contending). I don't think there are many GMs that could get the Donaldson trade it was the perfect combo of persistence and a stubborn GM who was annoyed with a player. Remember this always...the Angels came to the Jays with the Wells trade. All AA had to say was yes and he actually tried to negotiate that a different player be thrown in and only accepted when he had a deal in place for Napoli.