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Goldstein: Execs Favor Yoenis Cespedes Over Colby Rasmus

Jared Macdonald — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:30:45 +0000

In Kevin Goldstein’s latest over at Baseball Prospectus, he asks eight Major League executives whether they’d take newly-established Dominican Republic resident and international free agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes over five other young MLB outfielders — Colby Rasmus, Drew Stubbs, B.J. Upton, Chris Young and Adam Jones — who haven’t quite reached their full potentials yet.

The executives, “many with extensive international experience and in-person looks at Cespedes,” Goldstein writes, were hypothetically offered each of the six outfielders for free, so cost wasn’t a factor in their decision.

Rasmus leads off the article (before the paywall hits for those of you that aren’t BP subscribers), but let’s just say that the results aren’t pretty, and six of the eight executives polled chose Cespedes over the Blue Jays center fielder.

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Darvish Goes To Texas, is Cespedes the Next Jays Target?

Mat Germain — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:20:49 +0000

If you were lucky enough to witness the craziness that was last night on Twitter, you got a glimpse of just how excited Jays fans can become when the Jays make, or are rumored to be making, big moves. No, Yu Darvish was not meant to become a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, so the question becomes this: what now?

There had been reports which pointed to the Jays also being in on Matt Latos, right to the end, which tells us just how involved the Jays have been as they try to improve their pitching. Both of these pitchers, Darvish and Latos, fit the Alex Anthopoulos mold in that they are top flight starters. If he’s going to add a pitcher, it’s going to be one that he believes can step in as a difference maker.

With that in mind, I’ve come up with a few targets that the Jays may covet now that they’re back to square one.

Matt Garza (CHC) 6’4″ 215 lbs (more…)