Matt Stairs DFA, Jays' top prospect Travis Snider called up

[Halladay_is_God]

Blue Jays designate Stairs for assignment, trade imminent

BLUE JAYS DESIGNATE STAIRS FOR ASSIGNMENT, TRADE IMMINENT


ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Toronto Blue Jays designated Matt Stairs for assignment after Thursday night's 3-2 loss to Tampa Bay, and the designated hitter-outfielder expects to be traded by Saturday.

"I can tell you that I am going to a contender, so that makes it a little easier to swallow," said Stairs, who would not name the team. The Blue Jays would only say they were working on a potential deal.

"He's not shocked," manager Cito Gaston said. "He's a veteran. He knows it's that time of the year. He's fine."

Stairs, a 40-year-old native of Fredericton, is hitting .250 with 11 homers and 44 RBIs in 105 games.

Toronto also purchased the contract of outfielder Travis Snider from triple-A Syracuse.

"We're going to play the kid and see what he's got," Gaston said.

Snider also played at class-A Dunedin and double-A New Hampshire this season. The 20-year-old had a .344 batting average with two homers and 17 RBIs in 18 games at Syracuse.

a sad day for S3F, Matt Stairs is DFA, but a trade is happening, La Revolución!

excited to see Snider for the first time, shot up through the system very quickly after being drafted in 2006. still sad to see Stairs getting the ax for the move

and J.P. Ricciardi lies again, earlier in the month he said something along the lines of, Snider won't see the majors this year even as a September call up.


Edit: Stairs to Philly for a prospect

[NYgiantsfan5689]

a sad day for baseball fans around the world. and canadians.

[Halladay_is_God]

update

FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Sources: Phils get Stairs from Blue Jays

[browntown653]

PHILLIES FANS REJOICE! The god is with you.

[ljshorty89]

**** my life, the Mets season may as well be over.

FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports that the Phillies have acquired Matt Stairs from the Jays for a prospect.
The Phillies wanted Mark Kotsay, but came up short. They're settling for a more limited player here, but one who could be a nice fit in their ballpark. Stairs will get the occasional start in right field against righties. He'll be used as a pinch-hitter the rest of the time. The Blue Jays will call up Travis Snider to fill the open spot.

[missionhockey21]

Sorry guys. I was in talks trying to claim him and work a deal, but when they (the Blue Jays) found out that I was a 22 year old college student with relatively no money and representing an online location that only talks about baseball he just asked me how much I was willing to give and an S3F membership, two sig pics and Fishercat's *eventual* first born wasn't enough.

[ljshorty89]

Damn. Well, at least you made the effort, Mission. We all would have loved to add a winner like Matt to our team, but you can't always make every move.

[Halladay_is_God]

Sorry guys. I was in talks trying to claim him and work a deal, but when they (the Blue Jays) found out that I was a 22 year old college student with relatively no money and representing an online location that only talks about baseball he just asked me how much I was willing to give and an S3F membership, two sig pics and Fishercat's *eventual* first born wasn't enough.

to be honest I'm surprised JP turned it down

[Kingdom]

We should have offered Toronto dirtykash and Adam Dunn.



ooooh wait.

[Fishercat]

I would like to note that Philly is enthralled over this right now.