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If only we had kept him and Werth. Think of the tons of threads we would have had last year on why we needed to trade them before they got cold.

Correct me if I'm wrong but we had Bautista so long ago that he wouldn't have even been under the O's control last year. He really is freaking amazing, though. I was absolutely sure last year was a fluke.. I saw him maybe hitting 30 homers again but he's on pace to blow that out of the water.

Really wish I was the guy who picked up Bautista off waivers in my fantasy league last year. Marked him as a keeper and guaranteed him Bautista in the last round this year. 50+ homers with your last pick, amazing.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but we had Bautista so long ago that he wouldn't have even been under the O's control last year. He really is freaking amazing, though. I was absolutely sure last year was a fluke.. I saw him maybe hitting 30 homers again but he's on pace to blow that out of the water.

Really wish I was the guy who picked up Bautista off waivers in my fantasy league last year. Marked him as a keeper and guaranteed him Bautista in the last round this year. 50+ homers with your last pick, amazing.

We picked him up as a Rule 5 in 2004 from Pittsburgh, he then went to Tampa, KC and the Mets (I don't think he ever got an AB in NY) and then back to Pittsburgh where he was until they traded him a year later to Toronto for a PTBML. What a tale.

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At some point folks are going to have to start talking about Toronto as one of the better front offices around. Some really great decisions over the past two years...

This is definitely true, but some other stuff I would write off more as luck than as a testament to AA's skill. That Wells dump was huge for Toronto, but unless AA sent in some black ops guys to drug Tony Reagins, I would chalk that up mostly to colossal stupidity on the part of the Angels front office. I mean even Bavasi's Bedard trade was semi-justifiable--they thought they were one arm away from contention. Reagins was out on the prowl looking to do something stupid and reactionary and AA was at the right place at the right time.

AA's handling of the draft, however, has been incredible. And obviously that Bautista extension is highway robbery.

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