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Breaking 3 Team Trade - Hanley Ramirez to Canada

Posted on April 3, 2012 at 01:33 PM.

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The Jays made a splash today, in a 3 way trade with Miami and NY Mets, acquiring disgruntled 3B/SS Hanley Ramirez . Hanley voiced his displeasure with Florida and wanted out somewhere where he would play SS. Here is the deal:

Toronto Trades: 2B Howie Kendrick, SS Yunel Escobar, RP Kyle McClellan
Toronto Gets: SS Hanley Ramirez, 2B Daniel Murphy

Miami Trades: SS Hanley Ramirez, CF Chris Couglan
Miami Gets: SS Yunel Escobar, 2B Howie Kendrick, RP Kyle McClellan

NY Mets Trade: 2B Daniel Murphy
NY Mets Get: CF Chris Couglan

- CF Austin Jackson has torn meniscus in his knee and will be out 48+ days and will be sent to the 60-Day DL. Ezequiel Carrera has been called up from AAA and CF Jon Jay will play the majority of CF, but Domonic Brown will also play CF and Thames LF.

- The Jays needed to ship off Escobar who hasn't been himself since his injury batting .190 and not making any contact or getting on base. Howie Kendrick has been nice defensively but only has 2 RBI and batting only .220. The Jays like having Hanley, Bautista, and Howard and look scary. Murphy will take over staring 2B but will give way to Thames in a time share where Lawrie will play 2B and Freese 3B. The Jays recall Joel Carreno from AAA to replace McClellan.

Projected Batting Order (After Injury/Trade):
LF/CF - Domonic Brown
SS - Hanley Ramirez
3B - Jose Bautista
1B - Ryan Howard
3B/2B - Brett Lawrie
DH/3B- David Freese
C - JP Arencieba
- Last 2 spots will be between 2B Daniel Murphy, DH/LF Eric Thames and CF Jon Jay.

Comments

# 1 jhendricks316 @ Apr 3

Nice deal. It would've been tough for me to give up Howie Kendrick though. I like Daniel Murphy as a contact hitter.

# 2 BlueJays09 @ Apr 3

Thanks...I love Kendrick too but he was only hitting .220 and 2 RBI ...in the midst of a 1/21 streak and not doing anything...figured id take Ramirez and use Murphy as a 9 spot contact bat...but I also wanted to free up time for Thames ...and now that Jackson is on the 60-day DL I will be rotating Murphy/Thames/Jay in 2 spots