Who We Could Get For Chone Figgins

It goes without saying that Chone Figgins has not lived up to the hype so far.  He was supposed to be a top-of-the-line second baseman, that we converted to third base, but has not been able to bring us what we thought that he would.  The Figgins, if anything, has been a liability for the team.  His hitting has been atrocious, and his fielding is the only thing that has saved him so far.  I don't think that he really has a place on the squad next year and will continue to be a liability.  If it were up to me, we would've traded him a long time ago.  I don't even know if another team would really want victims of this point, given what is shown so far.

One thing that you can bet on, is that the Los Angeles Angels are happy to have gotten rid of.  Instead of paying him a large sum of money that the Mariners did, they were able to offload him and pick up other players in the process.  So far, he's been a real disappointment to the team and I expect that we will make every effort to reduce them as soon as we can.  At this point in the season, he is batting less than 200, and the only saving grace for him is his defense.  I expect Adam Kennedy to get the most playing time at third base for Toronto.  He is playing much better than Figgins and will be a much better at to the team as a whole.

It will certainly be interesting to see when he is moved.  Our first mean that we have to find a team that is interested in picking him up.  I doubt very much that that will happen anytime soon, but my hope is that it will happen before the trading deadline this year.  The problem is is that any other team would have to take on his contract, either that or the Seattle Mariners would have to agree to pay a large portion of his contract.  I can guarantee that this is something that the Seattle Mariners do not want to.