rboomercat90
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I said it at the time, I’ll keep saying it. The Hernandez trade was made in an attempt to stop the childish crap going on at the end of the dugout. It wasn’t first and foremost a baseball trade or necessarily to free up money for a big signing.The lack of any signings of an outfielder or a pitcher makes the Hernandez trade all the more baffling.
Guess Atkins was wayyyyy too confident thinking he could sway a FA. Now he's absolutely backed into a corner which is worse than initially imagined since the Cardinals scooped up Contreras yesterday taking them out of potential trade partners.
It's almost guaranteed the Jays will either have to overpay one of the remaining free agents or overpay in a trade.
I think the hiring of Don Mattingly as bench coach is another sign that stuff won’t be tolerated anymore and that’s what Atkins main focus was this off-season.