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The San Francisco Giants acquired Shea Hillenbrand from Toronto on Friday night, two days after the Blue Jays booted him from the team for clashing with management.

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:09:00 EST

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[rmjvol]

BlueBird Banter has the 1st comments on this story. Was this a case of either have a Hillenbrand trade or get rid of John Gibbons? Sounds like Gibbons was alot better liked than Hillenbrand so maybe that's a real contributing factor. BBB's post also speculates that Toronto may go after Matt LeCroy who was recently relesased by the Nationals.

[ThePundit]

It sounds like the Jays couldn't stand Hillenbrand. And if what I read was accurate, can you blame them? What he did sounded like what a little kid would do.

[EmpireWF]

Although when you look at the standings, the BlueJays are right in the middle of it, it sounds like JP Riccardi (sp?), their GM may be on thin ice. Hillenbrand is a nice player who should do well in San Fran. The arm they got back is nice and I've heard where they're interested in acquiring Julio Lugo from Tampa.