Hey JP, it’s me, one of those
“haters” you like to refer to. To start
things off, I’d just like to get it out there that I don’t hate you. I actually find many of your tweets quite
humourous and I also greatly appreciate your involvement with the community
doing charity work.
As for your abilities as a baseball
player, I think you are a good player who has a lot of value, as do most of the
fans you label “haters”. The reason we
are bringing you up in trade rumors is that we think that you have enough
valuable to fill another position of need.
You like to deal from a position of strength and Catcher is strength on
this team. Given John Buck’s contract
and Travis d’Arnauds top prospect status, we feel that you can get the most
value to help out the Blue Jays in a trade. It is no slight to you that we
believe in Travis d’Arnaud, all the things that we hear say and influence our
thoughts and opinions. Despite knowing
that there is no such thing as a sure-fire prospect, we believe in his
ability. It is not that we don’t believe
in yours, but we just feel that he can be a rare talent. Once again, this is not meant as a slight,
you are a talented and will have a long career.
As I said, it just
boils down to the fact that we think you can greatly help this team, just maybe
as a part of an equation to add a piece.
No matter what happens, trade or not, we will support you and we will
believe. I would also like to apologize
for those who have been tweeting you asinine comments. You don’t truly deserve
that. Twitter searching your own name
though will lead to fan concocted rumors. These are just fans looking at ways
to improve the team, they aren’t out there to insult you or push you off the
ship. As fans, this is what we do, we
speculate and look at ways to improve the team.
If you are traded, I can guarantee that we will be sad, even if we
really like what we get in return, because we do appreciate the players who
come to the Jays and have a great attitude and work hard. It really is nothing
personal JP.
It’s going
to be a good year.
Signed,
Jays fans
who speculate.
