Blue Jays acquire Miguel Olivo

[The Flying Gent]

That's disappointing. How can you send JP back to the minors. what can he do there now? How hasn't he earned a shot at the starting job?

Well, in that case, hopefully he's going to be involved in a big trade.

[Kid Canada]

jpa sucks. poor catcher and his hitting wont be good enough to put him at first.

[baulderdash77]

That's in interesting change. I thought they were just going for the extra draft pick.

Personally I think they should bring Buck back instead of Olivo. He was a leader in our clubhouse and was especially good with the pitchers.

It's a fact that the team has too much young catchers when 3 of our top 10 prospects are catchers. I guess JPA must be on the block.

My fear with giving up JPA is that he's going to end up being a .800+ OPS catcher with over 20 HRs per season. That's difficult to replace.

[Kurtz]

Why does baseball outlaw the trading of picks? Other leagues do it no problem.

Well, it'd be quite nifty seeing the Yankees and Red Sox buy up the Pirates and Marlins first round picks for the next 10 years. I mean under the current rules, they have to wait a whole 6 years to get those players, that don't seem right.

[Schad]

Why does baseball outlaw the trading of picks? Other leagues do it no problem.

Well, it'd be quite nifty seeing the Yankees and Red Sox buy up the Pirates and Marlins first round picks for the next 10 years. I mean under the current rules, they have to wait a whole 6 years to get those players, that don't seem right.

Yep. I go back and forth on the draft pick issue...you already have problems with players falling thanks to demands, but if they were able to leverage trades you'd see all sorts of pre-draft shenanigans.