THE TRICKS OF THE ROY HALLADAY TRADE..

The Roy Halladay trade stunningly reeks of the brutal Johan Santana trade...I'll go into detail, but first let's review the tricks of the trade.

It's hard to watch the team you love fall into the quicksand under new general manager Alex Anthopolous...

That's kind of what the feeling is around the fanbase right now, that this deal is the defining moment of Anthopolous' GM career. I don't want to go as far to say that, although Halladay, for eight seasons was certainly the cornerstone pitcher of the organization. Will the prospects turn out to be any good? Well, time will tell. They got the AA rookie of the year, the son of legendary pitcher Doug Drabek who's supposed to be even better, and a catching prospect that I really am not sold on considering we always have five or six highly-touted catching prospects in the organization that don't seem to pan out.

The one thing that shocks and annoys me is that the Blue Jays are being asked to pay SIX MILLION DOLLARS to the Phillies for part of Halladay's 15.75 million dollar contract this season, like honestly, what the fuck? How does that make any sense at all? The Phillies are gaining baseball's best pitcher over the last eight seasons. Anthopolous is an economics major, he should understand that this is six million dollars he wasted, and especially to buy players that may not even make it to the major league level? Unproven minor leaguers.

I don't get what the Phillies are thinking either- shipping Cliff Lee, who was just absolutely outstanding for Philadelphia down the stretch and in the playoffs to Seattle. Clearly, Philadelphia was concerned about their own future and giving up their prospects in obtaining Phillipe Aumont, who is rumored to be like a Randy Johnson, but not a number one. I never saw how that made any sense as top prospects often fall off the wall like Humpty Dumpty. Just check out this next example.

The Minnesota Twins dealt Johan Santana for four prospects:
Feb 2, 2008: Minnesota Twins traded Johan Santana to the New York Mets for Carlos Gomez, Philip Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra.

It didn't hurt Minnesota too much. Gardenhire led Minnesota to another improbable AL CENTRAL title, their fifth in eight seasons.

The prospects?

Phillip Humber- very mediocre starter in the minors, .500, ERA over 4.50...a few major league appearences out of the bullpen, but nothing impressive
Kevin Mulvey- not even with the team anymore
Carlos Gomez- hit .229 last year...brutal numbers in 137 games
Deolis Guerra- 20 years old, but not impressive in the minors;

The Minnesota Twins? They got fuck all for Johan Santana.

The Toronto Blue Jays? Did they just get fuck all for Roy Halladay?

FUCK.

Anthopolous better have picked some damn good prospects, because prospects aren't golden always. Prospects are prospective, remember? I sure as fucking hell hope this doesn't turn out to be like the Santana trade, because at the very least, the catcher they picked seems to be a flop.