And at Second Base for Your Toronto Blue Jays...

Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 06:37 PM EST

Contributed by: John Northey

Maicer Izturis. AA signed him today to a 3 year deal plus an option year (he does love having options) for $3 million per year.

He is the brother of ex-Jay Cesar Izturis and is similar in that both are defense first guys, except Maicer has shown a bit with the bat, having a lifetime line of 273/337/381 with a 94 OPS+. Lifetime he has 290 games at 3B, 246 at 2B, and 194 at SS. Twice he was put into the outfield covering all of 1 inning.

A solid choice as he enters his age 32 season - he is a perfectly good backup who can play close to everyday (twice over 400 PA, 5 times playing 100+ games in a season) thus takes over the old John McDonald role. I figure he is the stopgap until Hechavarria is ready or a better 2B is found, then he'll be a regular backup ala Davis in the outfield.

Also the Jays did a minor trade of cash for Jeremy Jeffress, a 25 year old reliever who has been very wild (30 BB in 38 2/3 IP) so far in his ML career. Can a day go by without AA getting another reliever? I don't think so.

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