5:23pm: Jackson’s minor league contract included an end-of-May opt-out clause, which played a role in the A’s decision to trade him, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets. Slusser adds that it looks “more than likely” the cash in this deal will cover what the Athletics paid Jackson on his minors pact this season.
2:37pm: Per a team release, the Blue Jays have acquired righty Edwin Jackson from the A’s for cash considerations. It’ll be the staggering 14th career organization for the 35-year-old Jackson, who’d been pitching for Triple-A Las Vegas since he was signed by the club a few weeks ago.
Jackson enjoyed something of a renaissance with Oakland last season, posting a 3.33 ERA in 92 IP (17 starts) for the club. Teams were presumably put off by his ugly 115 xFIP-, though – just a slight uptick from his baseline established between 2014-18 – and he didn’t catch on with a club until April 12 of this season.
Blue Jays starters have done better than anticipated this season, though the unit’s dealt with a rash of injuries of late. Matt Shoemaker is out for the year after tearing his ACL in a base running incident, and righty Clay Buchholz is again on the shelf with an ailment of his own. Jackson may indeed find his way to Toronto immediately, where he should be afforded ample opportunity to see if his newfound run prevention is sustainable.
What the heck, i assumed he was ready to be called up by A’s, aaron brooks sucks
He’s not pitching much better in AAA
He has an ERA upwards of 8 in Triple A. That’s not “ready to be called up” worthy performance.
He has one nice start in Single A but, we’ll see what happens. It would definitely be cool to see him break the record.
Let’s hope his 2nd tour with the Jays will be more memorable than the first.
This is his first
He was in Toronto for about two hours in between trades in 2011. Never played for them, but was technically a Blue Jay for part of a day.
Proves how unmentionable it wa
Proved just how unmentionable it was.
“2nd your. Really???
are you ok
What Benjamin said. Seriously I was kidding, bad joke or not.
The uniform numbers on the top of Edwin Jackson BR page look like a Keno board.
Pick five and cash the ticket. BTW, is 14 MLB teams a new record?
Yep.
Surprising move. Guess A’s Beane feels Brooks can do better and Puk and Manea will be back soon…
We have a full rotation when Mengden comes up. Fiers, Anderson, Montas, Bassitt and Mengden. Either Brooks goes to the pen after today or he gets DFA’d.
Which is tomorrow for Mengden
This is a team he’s already been on, smh.
Been in the organization, yes. Played in the majors for, no.
So I guess it’s not so “staggering” then?
That’s a shame
He should be a Pirate. Huntington liked him a while back and he just fits their M.O.
Between this and Blevins, makes no sense. Hopefully the A’s got more than $1 in return this time.
This trade is oddly satisfying in the fact that he gets to break Dotel’s record.
Gee… I wonder what cap he’ll wear when he goes into Cooperstown?
(note: KIDDING!!!)
Lol @ Cooperstown…hope he can stay healthy and help this rotation out.
But what if he was good enough to get a call to the hall? What cap would he wear? Would it just be a generic MLB cap?
Maybe he would wear a rainbow cap
This is the joke of the day. Well done.
14th team to pitch for if the blue jays use him.
I wouldn’t doubt it if he’s playing for his 15th different club by July
A’s are calling up Daniel Mengden to start Sunday and pushing Mike Fiers out a day after his 14,567 pitch effort on Tuesday. Jackson wasn’t going to do more than Mengden, so why keep Mengden in AAA?
Isn’t this his 14th team? At this point, he should just do a Will Ferrell and play an inning with the teams he hasn’t been with yet.
Makes him the player that has been the most teams 14. Very cool
Ross Atkins at his best for the Blue Jays. Not much has changed in his tenure, Picking up old disgarded scrapheap guys.
Yah they need innings eaters at the MLB and AAA level. We all see that.
It is a good indicator of just how bad the Jays organization is for pitching. Dombrowski and Cashman would have none of this. They would pay big money or trade the farm for very good to elite starting pitching and if it didn’t work they would try again. Keuchel?
How many more years before the Jays rotation is championship calibre? 5? 10?
I did tell ya the Jays needed a starter to fill the rotation. Nobody on the AAA Bisons deserve a promotion.
Because of what has happened I’m actually ok with this. For now. This move illustrates the weakness in pitching depth. Lower level guys are performing and the team is not willing to promote. Hopefully they do after the draft.
Will those cash considerations go to extending Chapman or signing Kimbrel?
Nope, right into owner pockets, smh.
Chapman won’t get extended until he hits arbitration and Kimbrel is trash. But okay, we’ll just continue on with the “cheap A’s owner” narrative the shill Giants writers for the SF Chronicle started to try and defame Fisher.
Turns out it worked, because even without proof people still eat that up.
Do you really think the $25,000 or so they are getting from this deal would be enough to sign Kimbrel or extend Chapman?
He ended his post with the cliched cheap owner comment. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Oh I know. I have seen enough of this guy’s posts to already know that ten times over.
Idiots are upvoting it though so I must be wrong or something.
How do you look at them and not think their cheap? They’re consistently near the bottom for payroll and always sell off their stars before they become expensive. I’m not saying they aren’t savvy or sometimes sell high but you’re just being delusional if you think them being cheap is a narrative.
It IS a narrative, though. What you’re doing is basically equating not spending money to being cheap, but not all teams are in the same situation financially. We’ll use the A’s and Giants as an example here because they’re in the same metro area.
The A’s make about $200M yearly. That’s everything; TV deal, ticket sales and merchandise. We don’t have a naming rights partner for the Coliseum and we have very few corporate sponsors. Our current payroll is hovering around $100M.
The Giants make $462M yearly. Their ticket sales ALONE is almost equal to our entire yearly revenue. The Giants current payroll is sitting at about the luxury threshold, and that’s not even half of their yearly revenue.
The rule of thumb with teams is you usually spend about half your yearly revenue on payroll. Everything goes into upkeep and operating expenses, so the A’s are in line with that business practice. In our case we’re also spending a lot of money trying to get the ballpark done, so you see $200M in revenue, $100M in payroll, $40M in operating costs and we’re probably spending more than what we actually make in a year.
Years ago a SF Chronicle writer, who happens to be a die hard Giants fan, wrote an article accusing Fisher and Wolff of pocketing funds from the team. There was never any proof provided to defend the allegation, and it hasn’t been brought up since. There was the grievance MLBPA filed against us last year because they needed a scapegoat after how the free agent market basically collapsed, but the amount of money we were spending was appropriate given the number of league minimum players we were fielding last year.
So it is very much a narrative that Bay Area media has chosen to spin against the A’s. They have no proof, and I have no reason to believe SF Chronicle writers when they’ve lied to fans and provided them with ridiculous amounts of misinformation, with the A’s even having to go as so far as to tell the media to talk to them BEFORE publishing and potentially damaging information.
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This is 2018 and obviously doesn’t include revenue sharing which would further slide the A’s and the like down the list but the team is usually among the leagues Cheapest. It’s not a narrative. Though their payroll this year is north of 100 million and is right around the league average in terms of % of rev spent on payroll.
BTW the jays revenue number is vastly underreported because rogers keeps a large Portion of his TV $$$ at Rogers and not dispersed to the jays. But that gives you an idea that the A’s are typically amongst the leagues smallest spenders and they make a healthy amount of cash. The A’s can’t support 150 million dollar payrolls every year but they certainly could afford a 100-120 million dollar one far more routinely than they actually do.
The A’s ought to pull an Al Davis and just leave Oakland altogether. No matter what they do, they will always be second banana to the Giants even when the Giants are bad.
The first MLB game I ever saw was the A’s vs. Detroit at old Connie Mack Stadium. That same year they left Philly for K.C. I bet the good citizens in Tennessee and North Carolina would roll out the red carpet for them.
Thank you athleticsnchill. This guy gets it people.
Jays have 5 pitchers on the DL and Shoemaker is done for the year. Smart depth play here.
Now, they need to get the bats going starting with Vlad. As a team they have the 2nd worse OPS in the AL. Such a shame to provide so little run support for pitchers doing their jobs.
Nice to see him finally get rewarded today
Smart depth play? Why are you apologizing for this dumpster fire? Atkins doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. He can’t even run a minor league system – all of the Jays top prospects were either signed or drafted by AA. The current front office, which has been in place since 2015, cannot manage a rebuild. 3.5 years so far with no light at the end of the tunnel. #FireShapkins
> all of the Jays top prospects were either signed or drafted by AA
Maybe you’re hearing this for the first time…but you are allowed to look up facts before typing.
But don’t worry, I’ll do it for you!
MLB Pipeline » Prospects signed during the Atkins period, 2016-present
#2 Bo Bichette, drafted 2016
#3 Nate Pearson, drafted 2017
#4 Eric Pardinho, signed July 2, 2017
#5 Jordan Groshans, drafted 2018
#6 Kevin Smith, drafted 2017
#7 Adam Kloffenstein, drafted 2018
#9 Cavan Biggio, drafted 2016
#11 Orelvis Martinez, signed July 2, 2018
#12 Miguel Hiraldo, signed July 2, 2017
#13 T. J. Zeuch, drafted 2016
#14 Hector Perez, traded July 30, 2018
#15 Leonardo Jimenez, signed July 2, 2017
That’s just 3 of the top 15 acquired by AA. Should we do the whole top 30?
The guy is an innings eater at best, he’s 35 but has so many innings on that arm that one day it could actually fall off. Give him credit that he’s still pitching when he’s never been that great.
I love this. He plays baseball because he likes it. By all accounts he’s a great teammate and a good guy. He doesn’t need the money, he’s had a nice MLB career, seen the postseason and WS, been an All-Star, pitched a no-hitter, and has a nice trivia record. Good for him.
He also thought he was worth more over the offseason and ended up signing after the season had started because, like two notable free agent pitchers, he misread the market.
Oakland is so cheap. Then I watched them on TV draw a little over 18,000 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Never mind…..
Not cheap, poor.
10 yrs too late
good acquisition.
For who? For the Trainers? For the manager to get exercise as he walks to the mound to talk out Jackson early and often?
I don’t see Aaron Brooks will be in the rotation anytime soon. Hopefully Dan Mengden or Manaea will fill in those spots!
What a dumpster fire at 16-23… half of the players on the 25-man roster aren’t even major leaguers!!! Socrates Brito, Alen Hanson, Billy McKinney, Teoscar Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Luke Maile, Sean Reid-Foley, Thomas Pannone, Trent Thornton, Ryan Tepera, etc… this is a rebuild? #FireShapkins
When did you type this comment? Three of those players aren’t on the 25-man roster. Two of them aren’t even on the 40-man roster! So why not list Ryan Goins and Juan Pierre too? Makes your “point” stronger, no?
fans are paying big bucks watching AA baseball.. might as well motor to Buffalo