Schad wrote:phillipmike wrote:Wonder if the Jays trade him for an equally bad contract like a Tomas or a Braun. Zimmerman?
The money owed Braun is almost exactly equivalent, but among other things, I cannot imagine Braun waiving his 10/5 rights to come here, nor Milwaukee having any interest in moving a career Brewer for a guy that mostly spends time on the DL.
I raised Tomas in the offseason, and that seems like the only sort of route that we could reasonably expect. It's basically like eating Tulo's salary, because Tomas is really bad and should probably just continue rotting in the minors, but if done in midseason it'd save us about $9m, which is
something. And it's theoretically possible if increasingly improbable that Tomas might learn how to baseball over the next couple seasons.
Its more wishful thinking than anything else for me because the odds to trade Tulo in his current state is slim to none.
Tulo isnt a bad player and he fits a big need but only if he is healthy. If he is healthy then you have no problem playing an above average SS with an average bat for the next 2 years after this season so it comes down to healthy and that is the big question - in fact with the depth in Diaz and others you would be extremely happy with 100+ games.
So in the end it comes down to what the Jays want to do. Keep Tulo in hopes he is healthy or make a baseball trade to find a change of scenery... or in the Tomas case get a much worse player but save money.
If Tulo is somewhat healthy and proves he can play when he returns then Milwaukee might have interest to clear their Thames, Santana and Braun log jam. But i doubt they want to block Arcia.
DBacks are also near the bottom in quality SS so to get rid of Tomas a Tulo/Tomas swap might make sense as at least Tulo would be on their 25 man roster.
Outside of that no one else really fits in terms of "need" and/or having a bad contract so the Jays are likely stuck with him.