Wang Signs with Blue Jays, to start Tuesday

[Rene88]

I think the Orioles should have been on this, particularly with SJ going down and Garcia having a bad start. Just my take.

[lovetoaster]

We may have been...

[Can_of_corn]

So they have Wang and Dickey both in the rotation.

[LookitsPuck]

I think the Orioles should have been on this, particularly with SJ going down and Garcia having a bad start. Just my take.

Really don't like that the Blue Jays got him.

[The Wedge]

Nailed it.

[JDubs]

Probably should've included a link, OP. Here: http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=424941

Hasn't Wang been pretty bad for a quite some time?

EDIT: I looked it up and, yep, he's been awful. He hasn't pitched for more than 100 innings in a season since 2007. Last season with the Nats (i.e. the National League--not the AL East), he had a 6.68 ERA and a WHIP of 2.010.

How could we have missed out on that?!

[Morgan423]

Probably should've included a link, OP. Here: http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=424941

Hasn't Wang been pretty bad for a quite some time?

Poor Blue Jays. There's nothing worse than having a bad Wang.

[canonfaz]

Poor Blue Jays. There's nothing worse than having a bad Wang.

And a under-performing Dickey.

[SeaBird]

Probably should've included a link, OP. Here: http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=424941

Hasn't Wang been pretty bad for a quite some time?

Well, put it this way. His opt out date on June 1st passed and had zero offers of a job with any ML team. He wasn't interested in another MiL deal with any other teams so he stayed with Yankees. His next eligible opt out date was to have been June 30th but he asked for and received his release today. Apparently, NY didn't see anything worth holding onto. It was pretty clear they had no plans to call him up.

Toronto has a "decent" offense but they also have the worst pitching in the AL East and the worst in the AL except for Houston so they are looking for anything that might help them. Maybe he'll click up there.

[Guest rochester]

So, they spend ~$30M in offseason acquisitions of Dickey, Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle and they're signing Chien-Ming Wang in the begninning of June?

[crissfan172]

So they have Wang and Dickey both in the rotation.

It's times like this I regret not giving out more rep to other posters.

[Rene88]

I think some would argue the value of having a Dickey with slower moving balls.

[DrungoHazewood]

Duquette is the reigning king of the dumpster diving waiver wire pickup. If he passed on Wang I'll trust he knows what he's doing.

[glenn__davis]

I think some would argue the value of having a Dickey with slower moving balls.

Of course, for Wang, it's very important that his balls drop. Being a sinkerballer and all.

[bdlj0887]

Wang-Dickey-Johnson

You can't make that up.