Toronto was one of the most active organizations this off-season. Almost turning around their complete roster and minor league system.
In the eyes of management, Toronto lacked that ace needed to dominant a playoff series. It was clear with the loss to Greenville in last years playoffs that SP was one of the biggest reasons for the loss.
To send a message, Toronto acquired Shawn Jackson from STL as a tease and then delivered the fans a special treat with Guillermo Mendoza from HAD. Mendoze clearly is one of the elite pitchers in the BSA universe. Toronto was very sad to see popular and producing players leave the organization but, clearly had to pay the price to bring home an ace.
Toronto was not done. Lacking funds to be an active player in the Free Agent market, Toronto moved solid prospects that were a few years away from making the big club for CASH.
Then in a big a trade that made star Martin Griffin upset to walk to Free Agency, the Titans acquired solid closer Jose Gomez from POC plus obtaining more CASH to help resign star Raul Gonzalez 1B.
During Spring Training, Toronto completed two more moves to bring in future stars in the rotation. First the Titans acquired; Mike Saunders from CLE and then acquired Reagan Wear and Cesar Martinez from VIS. Both those trades probably hurt the major league roster a bit but, the feeling was by our management team that we could absorb the losses because of our depth.
A list of all the major trades are shown below:
Traded 17-year-old minor league right fielder Xamida Machuka, 23-year-old minor league first baseman Jesús Ontiveros and 23-year-old minor league reliever Didyu Ghosh to the St. Louis Browns, getting 26-year-old starting pitcher Shawn Jackson in return.
Traded 26-year-old second baseman Steve Robinson, 25-year-old starting pitcher Alfonso Gutiérrez, 25-year-old starting pitcher Ross Holley and 19-year-old minor league center fielder Héctor Camacho to the Haddonfield Hackers, getting 26-year-old starting pitcher Guillermo Mendoza, 25-year-old minor league center fielder Donovan Price, 19-year-old minor league center fielder Jorge Gutiérrez and 24-year-old right fielder Luis González in return.
Traded 26-year-old minor league third baseman Ángel García to the Greenville 84s, getting $2,000,000 in cash in return.
Traded 26-year-old minor league center fielder Jesús Santos to the Greenville 84s, getting $2,000,000 in cash in return.
Traded 15-year-old minor league closer Adrián Martínez, 24-year-old minor league starting pitcher Cho-yeong Cho and 16-year-old minor league reliever Manny Benavides to the Pocatello Boccabellas, getting 29-year-old closer José Gómez and $6,000,000 in cash in return.
Traded 25-year-old starting pitcher José Orozco, 28-year-old second baseman Jesús Valdéz and 26-year-old minor league left fielder Eduardo Bautista to the Cleveland Monsters, getting 24-year-old minor league starting pitcher Mike Saunders, 26-year-old starting pitcher Gary Cox, 32-year-old first baseman Rich Smith, 23-year-old minor league second baseman Will Newman and $2,600,000 in cash in return.
Toronto Sends; SP/MR John Stricker, CF Donovan Price, SP Clint Murphy, SP Ban-xao Lam, MR Alfredo Soto, 1B Claudio Hernandez
Vista Sends: SP Reagan Wear, SP Cesar Martinez, DH Santiago Marquez
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