Dude... my point was, as a backup to a young catcher, he's got some years of experience, and he can manage pitchers. Both attributes you look for. If he's a throw-in you had to 'swallow' to make a trade happen, its not that bad...
They would take John Buck so that they have a serviceable major league catcher available so they can trade JP Arencebia and make room to bring up their prospect rookie Travid D'Arnaud who is waiting in AAA. That's why.
I would hardly say they are "playing this out in the media"... Anthopolous was forced to comment as Farrell misquoted him saying basically that Alex agreed he would do the same thing given a similar situation. The Jays have said nothing till now about loyalty so all you trigger happy trollers can just chill...
After so many years of listening to Yankee fans comment on their own huge 'ridiculous' signings with inanities like "its just money" or "its not your money" or "if you got it spend it" this smells suspiciously like sour grapes. Especially when your starting rotation is the area requiring the most attention with flame outs like Burnett.
I should correct myself. They hold the rights to him for two more years but would probably be getting a bump over last year's 850K through arbitration (but none the less, extremely affordable).
Good luck with Farrell...