This isn’t a usual Trade History post, where I would talk about one major Blue Jays trade, and break down the players involved. This is going to be a kind of “Special Edition”. This wasn’t a major trade or even just a single trade, but it’s an interesting situation, that I think has to be talked about in any Jays trade history series.
This is what the two trades looked like:
To Toronto: Player to be named later (Cash Considerations)
To Detroit: John McDonald, UTL
November 10, 2005
To Toronto: John McDonald, UTL
To Detroit: Cash Considerations
As you can see, John McDonald essentially became the PTBNL that Toronto was owed in the first trade.