Baseball Musings: A.J. a B.J.

December 06, 2005

A.J. a B.J.

ESPN is reporting that A.J Burnett agreed to join the Toronto Blue Jays for $11 million a year for five years. The yearly amount is not outrageous, but the length of the contract is pretty iffy.

The Blue Jays sign another pitcher with lots of strikeouts, okay walks and who is very good at keeping the ball in the park. Of course, he's only been able to pitch 200 innings twice in his seven year career. The Blue Jays appear to be playing Moneyball with real money.

Since they now have A.J. Burnett and B.J. Ryan, can the following be far behind?

C.J. Nitkowski as the mop up guy.
D.J. Tanner as the new luxury seats beer girl.
E.J. Dionne as the cranky sports writer.
JJ Evans as the holler guy (Dyn-o-mite!) and practical jokester.
MJ Watson as the girlfriend.
O.J. Simpson as himself.
P.J. O'Rourke as the funny sports writer.
R.J. Reynolds as the sponsor.
TJ Hooker as the new security chief.

Posted by David Pinto at 12:21 PM | Free Agents | TrackBack (0)

Comments

and don't forget PJ Carlesimo as the coach.

or DJ Shockly as the QB.

Posted by: Mike A. at December 6, 2005 12:59 PM

DJ Jazzy Jeff providing the music.

Posted by: Benjamin Kabak at December 6, 2005 01:01 PM

How long do they have Halladay signed for? If this sets their price for starting pitching, what will they have to do in order to keep Doc? $75M for 5 years? $90M for 6?

Posted by: ron at December 6, 2005 01:16 PM

Don't forget about "J.P." Ricciardi -- according to ESPN, they just inked him to a 3-year extension.

Posted by: Darren at December 6, 2005 01:18 PM

Hey, what about me!?!?!

Posted by: A.J. Hinch at December 6, 2005 01:18 PM

Doc's locked up thru the 2007 season at $10.5M per year.

I've been saying on my blog in recent days/weeks that the Jays had better save some of that money they have for Halladay, cause if he hits the open market in 2007 (when he'll be 30), forget it. only a handful of teams would be able to afford him and you can bet the Yanks will oubid everyone like they did for Mussina in 2001, when they signed a pitcher they knew could handle the AL East.

Posted by: Mike A. at December 6, 2005 01:29 PM

What, no LL Cool Jay?

Posted by: rbj at December 6, 2005 01:29 PM

I do think it's hilarious that the Jay's are signing all the J's. I smell a marketing scheme...

Posted by: Mike at December 6, 2005 01:49 PM

well it worked with the "Killer Bees" didn't it?

Posted by: maest at December 6, 2005 01:55 PM

Put George Will as the cranky sports writer. It's a bonus that he actually writes about baseball on occasion!

Posted by: Mark at December 6, 2005 02:12 PM

I just don't think George Will would fit in too well with that rest of that group, Mark.

Posted by: Benjamin Kabak at December 6, 2005 02:44 PM

And BJ Barrackus as "The Bodyguard."

Posted by: Joseph J. Finn at December 6, 2005 03:02 PM

I'm thinking you mean BA Baracus from the A-Team (i had to look it up myself).

maybe the Jays should shoot for JD Drew and JJ Hardy to help their offense while they're at it

Posted by: Mike A. at December 6, 2005 03:14 PM

Bear in mind, the part he's good at keeping the ball in is the Marlin's stadium, a pitcher's park. His numbers outside it are not nearly as good, though still somewhat better than average.

Posted by: JeremyR at December 6, 2005 03:22 PM

Don't forget JT Snow, he's a free agent as well.

Posted by: Biased Giants Fanatic at December 6, 2005 03:22 PM

or Mr. Controversy - AJ Pierzynski

Posted by: Mike A. at December 6, 2005 03:37 PM

I hope they don't sign DJ Carrasco and TJ Tucker!

Posted by: vc at December 6, 2005 03:47 PM

But I wouldn't mind Jay Payton or Jay Gibbons.

Posted by: vc at December 6, 2005 03:49 PM

SJ Perelman could write the short story of the Blue Jays' playoff successes.

XJ Kennedy could tell us why everything's verse in Canada.

Vijay Singh could help J.P. work on his putts. (That's a Yiddish pun, kids.)

Posted by: El Lefty Malo at December 6, 2005 06:06 PM

Man I cant believe I got a shoutout, Thanx BK.

Posted by: Jazzy Jeff at December 7, 2005 12:26 AM

Nobody remembers me.

Posted by: D.J. Dozier at December 7, 2005 06:11 AM

C J Cregg, T J Lambert, Raymond J Johnson Jr, and of course they could do spring training in Tijuana...

Posted by: john swinney at December 8, 2005 10:44 PM