I find it very amusing that people are supporting and defending Anthopoulos, after he literally stabbed the whole team in the back due to his inflated ego.
In one short brief desperation move on the behalf of salvaging his career and not for the sole pursuit of bringing a team a championship, Alex destroyed the very fabric of what he spent so many years building up and that is selling the farm, we were considered among the league to have some of the best pitching prospects coming up through the system, and when he heard the writing was on the wall of Beeston's future, Alex scrambled knowing full well that new management would not adhere to Alex's free reign, that Beeston so casually allowed.
knowing full well of his own displeasure of such concept, Alex set out to rebuild his resume, scrambling to make sure he secured some sort of baseball career, by completely overpaying for players that would propel this team into the playoffs....Hamel's a world series mvp was traded for peanuts, same a papelbon, etc, the jays were the only ones to fork out huge at the trade deadline.....hell alex even went against his own words regarding price
Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos explained that he'd prefer to acquire controllable players when possible.
“Ideally you don’t shop in the rental market, that doesn’t mean we’ll rule it out, we’re open to it, but our preference is always to have guys under control that can be here for a while,” Anthopoulos said.
To think that teams will line up for his services his hilarious, not only was he subpar in building a championship team over how many years ?, he destroyed his prospect work, threw his team under the bus all for the sake of not wanting to work with others .... a young guy like Alex could have learned a lot more working side by side with Shapiro. Furthermore, such a merger would have made this baseball team a lot better period.
and if there is still doubt about Alex's ego, the Jays were sitting in a much more comfortable position last year, top spot and not 7 games behind at the trade deadline and did nothing, and most fans as well as players were completely outraged, last year general manager Alex Anthopoulos said the prices for the players he wanted were too high and that additions could still be made during August’s waivers period.
last year The Tampa Bay Rays, on the fringes of the race, swapped out ace David Price for left-hander Drew Smyly and second baseman Nick Franklin , yet we paid a hefty price this year, for 2 months of Price
let that sink in