About ####### time. What a stiff.

Those might be record lows for BA and RBI for somebody with 10 HR. His 13 runs too.

Donaldson is proof that a players clubhouse rep is based mainly on how the team is doing - as a Jay he was viewed as a leader, a positive force. He won an MVP and they made the playoffs twice after decades of crap. At first with Atlanta the same thing. With Minnesota I can't recall hearing anything about him being a cancer until after he was traded to the Yankees who now get to pay over $50 mil for 2.2 bWAR over 2 years (including the $8 mil buyout of next year).

When he was in MN he was sort of a loudmouth, but it was all spewing out of the clubhouse at umpires and pitchers that used sticky stuff and whatever else bothered him that afternoon. After he left it came out that he wasn't universally beloved, but he seems like a hard guy to like in general: Lots of bluster, which isn't great in the best of times and nigh on intolerable from someone not playing well and injured and formerly at odds with players in the clubhouse. Edgy usually sucks to live with.

He was good last year. Not great, but he was 36 years old and a half-win above average. What more did you expect?

This year ... it's just 120 PA, and a 0.076 BABIP has got to be a fluke. Still replacement level despite missing 3 out of every 4 non-HR hits based on historical performance.

But the season's over, and he's not the future, so might as well free up the roster spot.

About ####### time. What a stiff.

Less than one season of poor play treated as some unforgivable injustice. How dare they be saddled with bad players for 125 games!

Donaldson is proof that a players clubhouse rep is based mainly on how the team is doing - as a Jay he was viewed as a leader, a positive force. He won an MVP and they made the playoffs twice after decades of crap. At first with Atlanta the same thing. With Minnesota I can't recall hearing anything about him being a cancer until after he was traded to the Yankees who now get to pay over $50 mil for 2.2 bWAR over 2 years (including the $8 mil buyout of next year).

I think he was always a redass. And this profile from 2017 suggests he made his share of enemies long before he got to New York, even if most of them were from the other teams (though two-time teammate Liam Hendriks has admitted to never liking him).

But there's no question that redassery plays a whole lot better when you're playing well and winning.

When Donaldson is bad, it is analytics!

I am reminded of Ozzie Guillen's quote about A.J. Pierzynski: "If you play against him, you hate him. If you play with him, you hate him a little less."

Donaldson had that run-in with Tim Anderson a few years ago (calling TA "Jackie" IIRC).

From the Yankees standpoint, he was horrible in the playoffs last year. He hit .172 with one extra-base hit in 36 PAs. Against Houston, he was up all the time with runners on base, and he K'd 10 times in 13 ABs.

It's just 155 PA and he's been on the IL for over a month (surprise!) but Aaron Hicks has a 120 OPS+ and average WAR for the O's.

Aaron Hicks has a 120 OPS+ and average WAR for the O's.

Are the O's the new Cardinals? Maybe channelling some interdivision dark magic from the Rays?

Somehow, 12 makes me think of the original ghostbusters where Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver are both getting infused by Zuul. I presume it’s obvious who is Moranis and who is Weaver in my mind.

The Keymaster and the gatekeeper,oooohhhh

And Gary Sanchez has a 118 OPS+ and 2.4 WAR for the Padres

Sanchez had to bounce around a few teams to do that though

The Brewers have signed Donaldson.

It’s a minor league deal, so it’s not yet clear how Donaldson fits in with the Brewers. Is he on a something of a rehab assignment or will he have to show a lot to earn a call up?