Buffalo Boy's Blog

Shaun Marcum was traded today to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for second base prospect Brett Lawrie who is from British Columbia, a Canadian native who has the tools to be a great player at the big league level.

Shaun Marcum leaves after a resurgent year in 2010, and while some Jays fans are probably scratching their heads, two aces in two years, let me remind you, they survived the trade of Roy Halladay and came back last season and won 85 games. Marcum is good, but he is no Roy Halladay.

Marcum stabilized the youth in the rotation last year and without him I shutter to think of what last year could have been and for that Marcum deserves full marks, but he is going on 30 years old and despite the relatively injury free season last year he still has a history of Tommy John surgery and that will always pose a threat to his resurgence.

The Jays are also about 8 pitchers deep still in potential starters and these are not push over type guys they have probably the most talented depth chart for a starting rotation in the AL.

So I would like to wish Shaun good luck and Im glad we sent him to the NL and to all Jays fans, relax, we will be okay, we have Cecil, Romero and Morrow and others.