The Blue Jays have generally steered clear from this kind of trade in the past
) have been players with multiple seasons of team control. It's hard to dispute the logic in that.
In the case of Hicks, for instance, if he continues to appear at approximately the rate he did as a St. Louis Cardinal, the Blue Jays can expect about 20 innings from him in the regular season and as few as one or two in the playoffs. — pitching well in Double-A, who could be bottom-of-the-rotation MLB starters in short order. That might not sound sexy, but when the market rate for such players is an eight-figure salary, developing guys such as that internally is extremely valuable.Robberse and Kloffenstein aren't sure things by any means, but there is a world in which the Blue Jays gave up 12 years of useful MLB production for less than 24 appearances from Hicks.
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