The Blue Jays have started to address their middle infield logjam with a trade that was announced here on Saturday morning.
One of the bigger pleasant surprises from 2018 was Aledmys Diaz‘s bounce back, and the Blue Jays have now turned him into a pitching prospect from the Houston Astros. The Blue Jays will acquire RHP Trent Thornton from the Astros in exchange for Diaz. Thornton is ranked as the #24 prospect in the Astros system.
The trade makes sense from the Blue Jays perspective in that they needed to create room in the middle infield picture.