Today in Blue Jays history: Rolen/Glaus trade
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Thirteen years ago today (time flies), January 12, 2008, in the middle of what had been very slow January for Blue Jay news, the Jays traded
Troy Glaus to the Cardinals for
Scott Rolen. As Hugo said in his post on the trade, each team was trading off a player who wanted out.
Glaus was having foot troubles (plantar fasciitis), which, he felt, were made worse by playing on the carpet covered concrete at Rogers Centre. No one should be surprised that playing baseball on concrete might cause troubles? The new ‘carpet’ seems massively better than the old stuff. And this year, there is to be newer stuff (if they play in Rogers Centre. Troy had a lot of power. He hit 58 home runs in his two seasons with the Jays (even though he had only played 115 games in 2007).