Ross Atkins spoke out of both sides of his mouth when attempting to defend trading Josh Donaldson for a player to be named later, that apparently is one-day going to impact the lineup. Atkins then went right overboard when he made an erroneous statement that the Blue Jays would have strongly considered offering J.D. a qualifying offer for the 2019 campaign.
The GM must not respect the baseball IQ of Blue Jays fans if he expects anyone for one second to believe the nonsense he is spewing out of his mouth especially just after running the former MVP out of town.