Well, this took me by surprise. Per Brian Walton at the Birdhouse, Cody Haerther is now a Toronto Blue Jay. I know the outfield situation was becoming crowded, but did it really call for letting Haerther go for absolutely nothing? I don’t think so.
Haerther had his wrinkles, notably his platoon issues and lack of fielding prowess. But he’s hit everywhere he’s been. He’s had some injury issues with his wrist and his hand, but when he came back he picked up where he left off. Best of luck to Cody with Toronto, I don’t think he got a fair shake. I take it this means all the 40 man question marks that went to the AFL–Hoffpauir, McClellan, Motte, Pomeranz–are on.
I’m confused by all this right now. Couldn’t they have just bounced Kelvin Jimenez or Falkenborg? Does this make sense to any of you?
See ya, Cody. Say hi to Rance Mulliniks for me. That’s just a fun name to say, right up there with Bob Apodacka.
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Good luck to Cody and the Blue Jays.
Keeping the pitchers around is more important than keeping Haerther protected. I guess we can assume Dove cleared.
dove hasn’t cleared yet, it takes 10 days….he was outrighted either on the 12th or 13th.
If you’re going to keep Jiminez and Cavazos, you might as well put Worrell on waiver too.
Bad move by Mo. He hasn’t made one move yet that I particularly liked.
jrocke - are you sure about that? I thought a player was placed on waivers and once they cleared they were out outrighted. I also think it is a 3 day process either way.
I believe Haether was more valuable than Jiminez, but I think the bat boy has more value than Jiminez. I am disappointed that we lost him for nothing, I believe he was a decent piece. The outfield was crowded so something had to give. I guess I would rather have seen a guy like the almighty 40 year old Marti be released before Cody. My guess is that when Mo called Marti into his office to release let him know they were going to release him Marti showed up without a shirt on and said “NO”. Mo then did what any of us would have done immediately change your mind and release the first guy you can think of. It’s not Mo’s fault.
Stoooooopid - Why wouldn’t you just do this right before the Rule 5 when teams have picked everyone else’s prospects over? Falkenboug? Taguchi? Jimenez? Huh?
carioca-my bad, guess its a 48 hour business day period