Blue Jays acquire OF Fred Lewis from Giants

[Michael Bradley]

Solid move. Lewis has a career .805 OPS against RHP and has some speed. Ideal platoon mate with Bautista, but looks like it won't be a platoon for at least the time being.

[raps4life~]

The people that think Joe Carter was much better than he actually was have always amused me.

So, you would platoon a guy who could hit 35HR and 120RBI just because his splits are a little one sided?

[satyr9]

The people that think Joe Carter was much better than he actually was have always amused me.

Joe was basically the face of some of our favorite Jays teams. I'm not blind to what Joe actually did in his career, but I was 13-15 for the best Jays/Carter years and so I, and I'm guessing many others, have a soft spot for him.

I'm not the biggest Bill Simmons fan, but there was something fairly recent he did about how the advanced stats got him turned off from baseball because it wasn't about what you were watching, or something to that effect. I don't really agree with him, but this is one of those instances where the pleasure I got out of watching Joe trumps all the numbers in the world. I'm just a fan is all and I could care less if his OPS+ wasn't stellar. He hit in the middle of the order for a team that won back-to-back WS so he's freaking great; that's the end of the story for me. I won't try to stand up for him in a player vs. player comparison, but I'll always do a little "Joe was teh awesomeness!" in threads like these.

He was better than he (actually) was to me, because of what was accomplished while he was here and the nostalgia I still get out of it. I mean he hit the walk-off, if he was sub-mendoza the rest of his career he'd still be worth admiring. It's not logical or rational, but so what?

[Randle McMurphy]

So, you would platoon a guy who could hit 35HR and 120RBI just because his splits are a little one sided?

Joe Carter's main claim to fame is wrongfully hitting in the middle of orders for the entirety of his career. But no, I never said he should have been platooned. He was pretty equally mediocre against both kinds of pitchers.

[Randle McMurphy]

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[Brew666]

Anyone know if Lewis will be with the Jays this weekend? I saw that he is/was on the 15 day DL and I haven't heard if he's going to LV or Toronto...Anyone have any further info?

[CapeCrusader]

Not gonna lie, never heard of the man...hopefully he'll give us speed and can hit for contact.

[Attonitus]

So, you would platoon a guy who could hit 35HR and 120RBI just because his splits are a little one sided?

Joe Carter's main claim to fame is wrongfully hitting in the middle of orders for the entirety of his career. But no, I never said he should have been platooned. He was pretty equally mediocre against both kinds of pitchers.

Yeah really, for every home run there was about 100 strikeouts but that one swing will immortalize him amongst Jays fan forever.

[Randle McMurphy]

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