What would the Jays do without the White Sox? (Apolitical Staples)

What would the Jays do without the White Sox?

Of late it seems that the Boston Red Sox will not lose and the Blue Jays are having no luck chipping away at their lead. Today it stands at 5.5 games and no Bosox collapse appears immenant. Thankfully the Chicago White Sox are in a full fledged, dog days of summer, swoon. The Jatys are only 3.5 games back of the Wild Card but a bigger issue may be that the New York Yankees and the en Fuego Minnesota Twins are now between them and the playoffs. But I will remind the faithful reader that all I have been asking for is meaningful games in September and the Jays are on pace for that. Now if we could only get Chacin back.
As for the trading deadline I teams will have to overpay for starting pitching and the Jays should hold off trading blue chippers this year. I think they would be better served getting a rent-a-player shortstop. John A. MacDonald does not cut it.

Posted on July 26, 2006 | Permalink

Comments (4)

McGuire:

But MacDonald is certainly getting the job done in the meantime. Hit a grand slam last nite

Posted by McGuire | July 26, 2006 3:24 PM

Posted on July 26, 2006 15:24

The Hack:

I’d rather ride John McD’s defence and overpay for a pitcher. El Duque comes to mind.

Going to be interesting. There’s a Minney series coming up in a couple of weeks that could make or break the season.

Boston’s also gotta slow a little bit eventually. Too many rookies to keep cooking with gas the whole way out.

Posted by The Hack | July 26, 2006 8:10 PM

Posted on July 26, 2006 20:10

Scott:

I was quite surprised to hear all the rhetoric at the all-star break around the fact that the AL east would not send a wildcard. I thought that to be premature then and it is definitely premature now.

Posted by Scott | July 26, 2006 9:52 PM

Posted on July 26, 2006 21:52

cb:

Jays are probably getting Julio Lugo to plug the shortstop position, at least for the next 2 months. If Lugo signs, expect the Jays to offer him a 5-year contract which he has been seeking from the D-rays.

Rumors are that the Jays are (re)getting Corey Lidle from the Phillies, which should give them a semi-reliable 5-inning pitcher.

Hinske should fetch another middle reliever or spot starter. Given how good he is playing, JP should quickly cash him in before his stock craters again.

A lot of these rumors can be found on the mlb.com site, as well as on prosports.com.

Posted by cb | July 27, 2006 1:27 PM

Posted on July 27, 2006 13:27

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