Mets Trade Dickey to Blue Jays

[Broons66]

Very true treehugger! Another Drew? I'm shaking my head... This Drew, 110 games this year tops! Brittle like his brother, who also was overpaid, and not missed!

[smashem]

Originally Posted by Broons66

Very true treehugger! Another Drew? I'm shaking my head... This Drew, 110 games this year tops! Brittle like his brother, who also was overpaid, and not missed!

I give JD a pass, reason being he hit a grand slam in game #7 against the Indians, Worth the money if you are a Sox fan. On the other hand Knuckle ballers can be 8-14 just as easy. Watching Wakefield for years, here is Beantown.

[theknuckler]

[Phila26Flyers]

Originally Posted by theknuckler

Ball.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by I_am_Belak_2

TORONTO -- The long-rumoured deal that would send 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey from the Mets to Toronto is finally complete.

Toronto officially acquired Dickey, catcher Josh Thole and Minor League catcher Mike Nickeas in the seven-player trade that was announced Monday evening. The Mets received top catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud, right-hander Noah Syndergaard, catcher John Buck and Minor Leaguer Wuilmer Becerra.

The two teams came to terms over the weekend, but the deal was contingent on the Blue Jays and Dickey being able to agree to an extension. That happened Monday morning, when Toronto tore up the final year of Dickey's contract and signed him to a three-year contract valued at $29 million plus a club option worth $12 million in 2016.

"Now that it's official, I want to say that I don't have the words to express how grateful I am to you for the steadfast support and encouragement I received from all of you," Dickey wrote in a message to fans on Twitter. "I've always felt that there was a connection beyond the uniform.Thank you for making me feel wanted."

"Now that it's official, I want to say that I don't have the words to express how grateful I am to you for the steadfast support and encouragement I received from all of you," Dickey wrote in a message to fans on Twitter. "I've always felt that there was a connection beyond the uniform. Thank you for making me feel wanted."

Rumors surrounding the Blue Jays' interest in Dickey date back to the Winter Meetings, but really began to pick up steam Friday morning. That's when reports first began to surface that Toronto was willing to part with d'Arnaud, who previously had been viewed as being off limits.

Those rumours continued to swirl and the framework of the deal was leaked late Saturday night. Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos prefers to operate in the shadows but in this situation, he was forced to operate under the public spotlight as the merits of the trade were constantly debated all over social media.

The acquisition of Dickey continues a complete rebranding of the Blue Jays this offseason. Toronto, which is coming off a disappointing 73-89 season, recently made it a top priority to acquire a pair of front-line starting pitchers in order to become relevant in the American League East for the first time since 1993.

Not only did Anthopoulos achieve his goal, but he has now officially surpassed it. Dickey will join fellow recent recruits Josh Johnson and veteran Mark Buehrle, along with incumbents Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero, to form one of the best rotations in baseball -- at least on paper.

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news...s_tor&c_id=tor

I guess the mods could lock the other topic?

First that I have been in here and some of the comments are comical like Dickey only had one good year or Dickey is not good because he went to a knuckleball to salvage his career!
Tell that to HOF pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Phil Niekro or tell that to Joe Niekro who sucked for years and developed the knuckleball and won over 200 games in the majors. Tell that to Charlie Hough who was washed up as a reliever with the Dodgers and salvaged his career becoming a starter!
Tell that to a Bruce Sutter who hurt his arm and became great when he learned to throw the split finger pitch and is a HOF pitcher!
Tell that to Mariano who learned the cutter and was moved into the bullpen from being a starter and became a star and future HOF pitcher!
So this crap that a guy sucks because he hurt his arm and reinvented himself is stupid! It's the other way around. A guy with balls and guts to start over and make it is a fantastic story!
We have also seen guys like Stan Musial who hurt his arm as a pitcher and became an outfielder! Does that make Stan sh*t because he failed as a pitcher!
How about Lefty O'Doul who sucked as a pitcher and later became an outfielder and .349 hitter lifetime?
How about George Sisler who was also a college pitcher who failed in the majors and went to first base and became a .340 hitter lifetime!
Lastly is the Mets need young players and I love the deal. We all know about D'Arnaud but Syndergaard is a great prospect and the young and raw kid outfielder could be a steal in 3-4 years named Becerra. Alot of scouts are saying that he could be the steal to the deal!
My one issue with Alderson is he should of dealt Reyes for prospects and didn't! The Beltran deal was great and this deal is great!
I used to watch Frank Cashen deal guys like Mazzilli for Darling and Terrell and Bob Bailor for Sid Fernandez and Schraldi for Bobby Ojeda and Ed Hearn for David Cone and then Terrell for Ho Jo and every deal was a steal! I'm hoping that Alderson will eventually do what Cashen did and it took Bowtie Frank 4 years to clean up the sh*t of 1977-79 and in 1984 the team came together and won 90 games!
Only stupidity and drugs derailed the Mets that Cashen built from winning 2-3 titles and they won 90, 98, 92, 87, and 91 and finished 2nd all those years and missed the playoffs! Today those Mets teams would of been in the playoffs every year under Davy Johnson!

[pesadillamal]

A little late to the party and all you brought was a bunch of party hats nobody want to wear.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by pesadillamal

A little late to the party and all you brought was a bunch of party hats nobody want to wear.

Grow up and stop being stupid.

[Cat Smasher]

I heard the catchers are having problems catching for Dickey.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by Cat Smasher

I heard the catchers are having problems catching for Dickey.

One of the reasons that Josh Thole was dealt for Buck was his ability to catch Dickey. That is interesting!

[Phila26Flyers]

Wow, great thread bump by bigjack giving us a history lesson about a whole lot of stuff no one cares about involving a whole lot of players no one has ever heard of on a team no one wants to remember.

You're right, Dickey didn't have just one good year. He had two. Not bad for a 38 year old.

[theknuckler]

Originally Posted by Phila26Flyers

Wow, great thread bump by bigjack giving us a history lesson about a whole lot of stuff no one cares about involving a whole lot of players no one has ever heard of on a team no one wants to remember.

You're right, Dickey didn't have just one good year. He had two. Not bad for a 38 year old.

three in a row

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by theknuckler

three in a row

Exactly the Flyer Moron comes in here flaming and is clueless that Dickey pitched excellent ball for the past 3 years with sh*tty Mets teams! He was 39-28 with the Mets the past 3 years with a 2.95 era!
Two years ago he received no run support and lost many wins or received tough losses and last year he received great run support in his starts and those tough games from 2 years ago became wins!
Like I wrote when I posted, some of the comments in here were clueless like Dickey is no good because he reinvented himself and salvaged his career! I gave all kinds of examples of others doing that who are in the HOF and the Flyer Moron shows us he knows sh*t if he doesn't know some of the greats that I wrote about who reinvented themselves!
The Flyer Moron made a complete ass out of himself and showed us his total ignorance!

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by Phila26Flyers

Wow, great thread bump by bigjack giving us a history lesson about a whole lot of stuff no one cares about involving a whole lot of players no one has ever heard of on a team no one wants to remember.

You're right, Dickey didn't have just one good year. He had two. Not bad for a 38 year old.

First off you showed us your ignorance and also your inability to read and comprehend. I remember when older and great posters like Video Guy would come in here and write about hockey from the late 1940's to the 1960's, I couldn't wait to read his posts and embraced and appreciated his being older and around longer to share with us younger posters!
Now we have dicks like this guy who not only doesn't know who a Stan Musial or George Sisler is but then is even more a dope not knowing sh*t about Dickey and his Mets career! Instead of reading and embracing knowledge and experience, this dick knocks it!
I'm not surprised, he's another ignorant punk clown!

[I_am_Belak_2]

Originally Posted by Cat Smasher

I heard the catchers are having problems catching for Dickey.

J.P. will be catching for him at the WBC.

[Phila26Flyers]

Originally Posted by bigjack

Exactly the Flyer Moron comes in here flaming and is clueless that Dickey pitched excellent ball for the past 3 years with sh*tty Mets teams! He was 39-28 with the Mets the past 3 years with a 2.95 era!
Two years ago he received no run support and lost many wins or received tough losses and last year he received great run support in his starts and those tough games from 2 years ago became wins!
Like I wrote when I posted, some of the comments in here were clueless like Dickey is no good because he reinvented himself and salvaged his career! I gave all kinds of examples of others doing that who are in the HOF and the Flyer Moron shows us he knows sh*t if he doesn't know some of the greats that I wrote about who reinvented themselves!
The Flyer Moron made a complete ass out of himself and showed us his total ignorance!

Originally Posted by bigjack

First off you showed us your ignorance and also your inability to read and comprehend. I remember when older and great posters like Video Guy would come in here and write about hockey from the late 1940's to the 1960's, I couldn't wait to read his posts and embraced and appreciated his being older and around longer to share with us younger posters!
Now we have dicks like this guy who not only doesn't know who a Stan Musial or George Sisler is but then is even more a dope not knowing sh*t about Dickey and his Mets career! Instead of reading and embracing knowledge and experience, this dick knocks it!
I'm not surprised, he's another ignorant punk clown!

I read you post in its entirety, and you started off alright by backing up your opinion with other examples (as flawed as they are), but then your ramble quickly fell apart into stories about the Mets front office conducting trades in the 70s and the Mets World Series team. Long story short, I lost track of your point.

You seem to think I have an issue with players who switch positions or pitchers who come back from arm injuries. At least, that's what you were trying to prove. Unfortunately for you, I never said any of that, so you're talking to a brown stain on the wall AS USUAL, Jack. Why don't you try quoting my posts if you're going to respond to me so I can at least make an attempt to put your self-absorbed replies into context.

My point was Dickey, while a great story, is not that special. He is a junkballer, just like Joe Niekro and Tim Wakefield, who, by the way, are not that good and are classic compilers. If you need 20 years to win 200 games like those two did, you are not a good pitcher. Just one with longevity because you throw JUNK. Dickey had a special year and won the Cy Young but we just saw him peak big time. The Mets made out as the big winners in this trade, so you, as a Mets fan, should be happy there was a desperate team willing to overpay big time for Dickey.