April 10, 2013; Detroit, MI, USA; Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Emilio Bonifacio (1) throws his helmet after he strikes out in the sixth inning against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

With those stats leading into his prime years with us, I thought he was going to shove Izturis to the bench and run with the role of starting 2B. And this is why we all love this game because nothing is for sure. Nothing is a given…as long as that uncertainty balances out with the other teams. I don’t know what weird hex has been thrown on our team but I see that crazed look of indifference in Boni’s eye. He doesn’t look comfortable, his spirit seems crushed already. With Reyes already our rah rah guy we need someone to step up that is not named Kawsaki. Boni could have been that guy.

I see it with my eyes. There is no fight in this team. If Boni could lighten it up, steal a couple bases, flash the leather (rather than sit on it) we would be a better team today. Instead he has a slash line of .171/.213/.300. Add to that his 23 Ks against 3 walks, no stolen bases (not even an attempt at one) and you have the poster boy for our newbie underachievers (yeah you too Dickey and Buehrle). Did all the colours of Miami’s stadium cause their brains to malfunction? There were circles that lauded th fact we were getting this guy.

I expect players to be held accountable and thank you Mr. Gibbons for pinning his Boni butt to the bench (see what I did there?). Do not put him in again unless you can prove to me he is better to have in the field that Rajai DAvis or Colby Rasmus or Maicer Izturis. We need desperately to get out of this funk and Boni could still be that X-Factor. He is performing at his worst so perhaps with a little patience we will again see him at his best. a 10th man kind of sparkplug. Not Mopey McBoringson that we have seen so far. Feel free to list your favourite underachiever in the comments below.

If you live in Toronto or anywhere in Canada or are a baseball fan anywhere on planet Earth and were near a computer, radio or television on November 13th (bad luck number in Miami, good luck number in Toronto) this was probably how you took in one of the biggest trades in sports history. If you’re a fan of the Blue Jays you probably also had a mixed bag of emotions to.

Trades this big don’t happen very often that’s why they’re considered big trades. In baseball big trades don’t typically happen in November either because it’s the month after the season ends and teams haven’t figured out the trade and free agent market enough to do anything crazy. Trades this big also don’t happen to the Blue Jays, to the chagrin of Blue Jays fans for years.

It would be hard enough just trying to trade for one of Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle let alone all 3. The perfect combination of the Marlins needing to dump salary and not having no trade clauses along with the Blue Jays having a very deep farm system to make trades from and having a substantial payroll increase because of increased attendance made this trade possible.

The fact that all the players the Blue Jays acquired have no trade clauses made it a lot easier than it normally would be to get star players to Toronto. It also makes it a lot easier for the Blue Jays to trade any of them to if they were inclined to.

This trade is so big that if the Blue Jays chose not to do anything else for the rest of the offseason, no one could say they’re not contenders. It would be a huge boost if they got someone better than Maicer Izturis to play 2nd, someone better than Emilio Bonifacio or Rajai Davis to play left field, someone better than Adam Lind to play DH, someone better than J.A. Happ to be the 5th starter but even if they don’t they would still be a very good team.

There is still a lot offseason left though which means a lot of time for the Blue Jays to make those upgrades and get even better. It also means all the other American League teams have time to get better to but the Blue Jays just got a huge head start.