Frank Thomas released:
| Good move |  46 (22.44%) |
| Bad move | 26 (12.68%) |
| Neither good nor bad, but inevitable | 97 (47.32%) |
| This will come back to "Hurt" the Jays | 22 (10.73%) |
| Matt Stairs ... AL MVP! | 6 (2.93%) |
| Other (what?) | 8 (3.90%) |
205 votes | 4 featured comments
Boy it seems like just a few days ago ...
Big Frank gets a pitch he likes, and on the hi-def you can clearly see his eyes just light up right before he swings. Frank unloads on that sucker, and smashes it into the gap. The Jays score...take the lead...huge clutch hit from the Big Hurt. Frank chugs into second base...leaps high into the air, claps his hands together..."YES!!!!!!!" RBI double!
Wait. That was just a few days ago.
... :-(
Big Frank gets a pitch he likes, and on the hi-def you can clearly see his eyes just light up right before he swings. Frank unloads on that sucker, and smashes it into the gap. The Jays score...take the lead...huge clutch hit from the Big Hurt. Frank chugs into second base...leaps high into the air, claps his hands together..."YES!!!!!!!" RBI double!
Wait. That was just a few days ago.
... :-(
Frank Thomas benched- bad move. Frank Thomas released after being benched then complaining- good move.
I voted "other"... it's hard to see this as strictly a baseball move because, as many others on the site have suggested, the baseball move would have been a quiet benching or less regular appearances against tough righties, not a public pronouncement on Frank's suckitude.
So... I'm not sure this is either a good or bad move in baseball terms, but rather another immature move prompted by JP and Gibbons consistent inability to handle difficult situations. If there's a potentially thorny issue to do with this team, you can be guaranteed that JP and John will expose it, blow it up, and then subtly or not-so-subtly blame the other guy.
And look... if JP really thought Thomas was done, he would have seen that coming in spring training...at least some inkling of Frank's washed-upness, no? I mean, it wasn't just 60 ABs that cemented this feeling... so if, in the back of your clever little GM-brain, there's a worry that maybe, just maybe, big Frankie don't got the stick no more, wouldn't you be holding on to Reed Johnson in the eventuality you need to plug him into RF while Shannon (who actually DOES suck, btw) got some time at DH?
I dunno... top to bottom, the only relevant issue I can see in this mess is JP's poor decision-making ability.
So... I'm not sure this is either a good or bad move in baseball terms, but rather another immature move prompted by JP and Gibbons consistent inability to handle difficult situations. If there's a potentially thorny issue to do with this team, you can be guaranteed that JP and John will expose it, blow it up, and then subtly or not-so-subtly blame the other guy.
And look... if JP really thought Thomas was done, he would have seen that coming in spring training...at least some inkling of Frank's washed-upness, no? I mean, it wasn't just 60 ABs that cemented this feeling... so if, in the back of your clever little GM-brain, there's a worry that maybe, just maybe, big Frankie don't got the stick no more, wouldn't you be holding on to Reed Johnson in the eventuality you need to plug him into RF while Shannon (who actually DOES suck, btw) got some time at DH?
I dunno... top to bottom, the only relevant issue I can see in this mess is JP's poor decision-making ability.