If you’ve ever bought a new house, paid full price, without having yet sold your old house, you might have an inkling of how anxious Blue Jay GM Alex Anthopoulos felt on the evening of July 27.
The Blue Jays were four days short of the trade deadline, the most important trade deadline in club history. For the current management group it was now or never and they desperately needed a starting pitcher.
Now they were faced with a dilemma. A deal was on the table with the Colorado Rockies to get Troy Tulowitzki and reliever LaTroy Hawkins.