Blue Jays cut Edwin Encarnacion

• Mooney44Cards

  

  According to John Fay
  
  http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/2010/06/21/blue-jays-cut-encarnacion/
  
  What a shame. But its yet another trade where the Reds gave up a player who is no longer a major leaguer for one of their current starters.
  
  Wily Mo Pena for Bronson Arroyo
  
  Ryan Freel for Ramon Hernandez
  
  Edwin Encarnacion (among others) for Scott Rolen
  
  Hopefully EE gets his head on straight and can find his way to success with another team. He has loads of talent but just never saw it realized.
• jordo212000

  

  I heard they sent him down to AAA, but not that they released him. So now the trade from last year is basically Scott Rolen for Josh Reineke. Pretty good deal, right? The best part is that Edwin is no longer stinking up the joint in Cincinnati
• Mooney44Cards

  

  Same thing really. He doesn't have any options so they have 10 days to either trade him or release him.
• jordo212000

  

  ah so he was designated for assignment. I didn't read the article, nor did I know he was out of options. Although I should have probably known that. I thought they just flat out released him
• Ironman92

  

  Edwin Encarnacion is just Willie Greene about 10 years later
• mhs95_06

  Mooney44Cards;396542 wrote:According to John Fay
  
  It's yet another trade where the Reds gave up a player who is no longer a major leaguer for one of their current starters:
  
  Ryan Freel for Ramon Hernandez
  
  Edwin Encarnacion (among others) for Scott Rolen

  In both these cases the hard part to stomach for the Reds was the additional salary they took on. In both cases the quality of the player they got was way more than the player they gave up, but the player they got was older and overpriced. So they got rid of someone they wanted to, but had to pay dearly for it.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  mhs95_06;396621 wrote:In both these cases the hard part to stomach for the Reds was the additional salary they took on. In both cases the quality of the player they got was way more than the player they gave up, but the player they got was older and overpriced. So they got rid of someone they wanted to, but had to pay dearly for it.

  
  The Blue Jays paid the Reds cash to cover part of Rolen's salary and they restructured his contract only a few months later. I wouldn't call that "paying dearly", I'd call it "highway robbery", and the Jays were the victim.
• burt07

  I always thought of Encarnacion as the Jhonny Peralta of the Reds, I only hope the Tribe can hustle some team into some bad trade too.
• darbypitcher22

  

  he was hitting like .200... he dropped some bombs for Toronto(the night he hit 3 in Arizona was something to watch, I'm probably the only person on here who did), but he just didn't play consistently well enough
• Ironman92

  

  that is his game
  
  he'll go 6/8 with 2 HR and 2 doubles then he'll go 2-28 with 13 K.....then make web gems 5 nights in a row then allow 3 balls to trickle through his legs.....all with a facial expression of not giving a crap
• jordo212000

  

  Mooney44Cards;396626 wrote:The Blue Jays paid the Reds cash to cover part of Rolen's salary and they restructured his contract only a few months later. I wouldn't call that "paying dearly", I'd call it "highway robbery", and the Jays were the victim.

  
  Amen.
  
  2010 season
  Player A: .306, 15 HRs, 50 RBI
  Player B: .301, 14 HRs, 45 RBI
  
  Player A is Albert Pujols. Player B is Scott Rolen. I would say the Reds are happy take on that salary "hardship"
• CinciX12

  

  I always liked EE. Granted obviously Rolen being there is just a liiiiiittle bit better.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  I loved him and hated him. He was like Jekyll and Hyde.
• darbypitcher22

  

  he just never figured it out offensively.
  
  And i'm not sure he will