Sixteen years ago today, the Blue Jays traded Robinzon Diaz to the Pirates for Jose Bautista. It was such a big deal that we here at Bluebird Banter didn’t even do a post on the trade. We did talk...
Sixteen years ago today, the Blue Jays traded Robinzon Diaz to the Pirates for Jose Bautista. It was such a big deal that we here at Bluebird Banter didn’t even do a post on the trade. We did talk about it later, but the day of the trade went by without a mention of the deal. It turned out to be the best trade of J.P. Ricciardi’s career. The news did get into a post I did a couple of days later: I missed that one. A day later, I put up a poll on the trade.
Jose spent a lot of time giving tips and help to his teammates. Sometimes, I wish he’d have a little more fun, but the same ones who think he’s too intense would complain as much if he was smiling and happy. He had more than his share of people complaining about him. That’s just part of the price for being the best player on a team that tends to disappoint. For some reason, people blame losing on the best players.
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