Twelve years ago today The Jays traded Alex Gonzalez, Tim Collins, and Tyler Pastornicky to the Braves for Yunel Escobar and Jo-Jo Reyes. The Braves hit the All-Star break with a 52-36, good for a...
The Braves hit the All-Star break with a 52-36, good for a four-game lead in the NL East, but were unhappy with Yunel. He wasn’t hitting much, .238/.334/.284 in 75 games. On defense, he made the odd error, 9 to that point, for a .975 fielding average. Yunel was also personally not well-liked by the Braves manager, players, or, for that matter, fans.Gonzalez was having an excellent first half of the season with the Jays. He had 17 home runs, 50 RBI, and a .259/.296/.497 line in 85 games.
After the trade, Yunel picked up the pace, with a .275/.340/.356 in 60 games. 2011 went better, .290/.369/.413. Unfortunately, 2011 didn’t go as well .254/.299/.335. Here is what I don’t get: why didn’t one of the coaches or players say to Yunel, “this is a bad idea.” Not just the Spanish-speaking ones but any of them. If you couldn’t read it, wouldn’t you be curious enough to ask, ‘hey, what does that say?’ I know I would be. Maybe it says more about me, but if there was writing on someone’s face that I didn’t understand, I’m sure I’d ask. And, of course, there are enough guys on the team that wouldn’t have had to ask.
I still don’t know why a teammate didn’t say something. I’m guessing they didn’t think it would be noticed or didn’t care. We were told that Yunel had words in his eye black most games, so why wouldn’t someone take a look?translated. At that time, I thought that was a mistake, that they should get someone trained as a translator who could help Yunel or smooth out some of the language. But instead, Rivera struggled in the job.
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