Today in Blue Jays History: Vernon Wells Trade

Jan 21 2022 by Bluebird Banter

 
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Eleven years ago today, Alex Anthopoulos managed to trade Vernon Wells, something that I figured was pretty much impossible.

The Angels took Vernon and his rather large contract in exchange for Juan Rivera and Mike Napoli.

We were:

shocked. And then giddy. It took a couple of days before we could look back at Vernon’s time with the Jays.

At the time of the trade, Vernon was owed about $86 million over the next four years. His salary was to jump from...

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