{"id":26599,"date":"2018-08-03T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.ngscsports.com\/?p=26599"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:52:45","slug":"blue-jays-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngscsports.com\/2018\/08\/03\/blue-jays-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays: It’s about to get ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was no secret that the Toronto Blue Jays were going to be bad in 2018. A team with a stud at third base who has struggled to remain healthy since winning MVP in 2015, one of the best up and coming arms being sent away, young players struggling to find the brilliance they\u2019ve shown since their rookie campaigns and a team full of question marks when it came to expiring contracts.<\/p>\n
Sitting near the bottom of the MLB is exactly where they belong.<\/p>\n
The team is now trying to move past this ugly season by doing whatever they can to acquire young talent in exchange for expiring contacts. The downfall to some of the deals however, is the Blue Jays are trading some of these players at the worst times of their career.<\/p>\n
Roberto Osuna, 23, is arguably one of the best young arms in baseball, not to mention one of the best closers in baseball when he is healthy. He messed up and Toronto made him pay the price; but the Blue Jays are the ones who are going to suffer.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays wanted nothing more than to wash their hands with the situation. Domestic violence is no joke, but for a young man like Osuna, a guy who gave everything he had to make the ball club, coming from nothing and having no record prior to this incident, Toronto should\u2019ve stuck by his side and help him get through it, not turn their back on him.<\/p>\n
Due to the situation Osuna was in and the Blue Jays made it be known they wanted no part in it, the return they received was awful. Not to mention in the end the team just inherited another problem with taking on Ken Giles in the trade.<\/p>\n