Jays Journal » Frank Thomas http://jaysjournal.com A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 21 May 2013 17:13:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 How signing David Ortiz would be different than Frank Thomas http://jaysjournal.com/2011/10/31/signing-david-ortiz-would-be-slightly-different-than-frank-thomas/ http://jaysjournal.com/2011/10/31/signing-david-ortiz-would-be-slightly-different-than-frank-thomas/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:23:30 +0000 Jared Macdonald http://jaysjournal.com/?p=9804 Over the weekend, Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star chimed in on what I speculated back on October 18th, which was the possibility of the Jays signing impending free agent slugger David Ortiz. While it’s unlikely that the Jays will pursue another DH this offseason after exercising their club option on their intended 2012 DH, [...]

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]]> Over the weekend, Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star chimed in on what I speculated back on October 18th, which was the possibility of the Jays signing impending free agent slugger David Ortiz.

While it’s unlikely that the Jays will pursue another DH this offseason after exercising their club option on their intended 2012 DH, Edwin Encarnacion, earlier this evening, signing Ortiz would obviously represent an upgrade at the position. Talks between the Jays and Ortiz will probably only take place if the Red Sox decline to offer him arbitration, which is quite possible considering he made $12.5 million in 2011.

Griffin concludes his blog entry by mentioning how the Jays signed a similar aging, DH-only type back in 2006: Frank Thomas. I opted to leave the Thomas comparison out of my initial article on Ortiz, but with it having surfaced more lately, here’s how signing Ortiz would be different.

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]]> Now that the Jays are beginning to slide a little from the AL leaders, some people are starting to point fingers. Some say it’s the fault of GM Alex Anthopoulos for not bringing the young guns up earlier. Some say it’s due to the many games lost to injury combined with “needed” demotions. Others say that it was just meant to be. And the pointing goes on. Having read and listened to all that has been put out there, there are only 3 things that I know as factual: it’s NOT the pen’s fault, it’s NOT Jose Bautista‘s fault, and Edwin Encarnacion has been a near disastrous signing as the Jays DH. (more…)

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