Talk:John McDonald (baseball)

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I am editing this article: Prior to my viewing, it does not seem to include anything about 2007 season, and still lists Bengie Molina and Russ Adams as Toronto players.

[edit] Detroit/Toronto Trade

• The trivia section says John McDonald was traded for himself. That is not exactly true per se.
• Jul 22, 2005: Toronto traded McDonald to Detroit for "future considerations" which ended up being cash [1].
• Oct 11, 2005: McDonald was traded back to Toronto from Detroit for cash again[2].

• However, it was never released how much cash actually changed hands. I don't think McDonald was actually traded for himself, but was purely a rental player for Detroit. If I remember correctly, Detroit was really injured for a short period of time and just used McDonald as a stop-gap until their players got better.

99.245.225.17 02:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)