Op-Ed: Brad Wilkerson signs with Boston Red Sox; Won't be missed in T.O.
It's over, my friends. The Brad Wilkerson era in Toronto, which began on May 9, 2008, has mercifully come to an end nine agonizing months later.
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Brad Wilkerson is a first baseman who has played for Seattle, Toronto, Montreal and Texas.
Wilkerson, a free agent, is
off to play terrible baseball for the Boston Red Sox, the fourth team he will inevitably let down in the last five years.
His signing, worth a base salary of $400,000, but with the potential to go as high as $2.5 million, proves that baseball actually is immune to the ills of the
global financial crisis. If Wilkerson can parlay his dry-heaves inducing 2008 statistics - a .220 batting average, .308 on-base percentage, and .634 OPS - into a job during these trying economic times, well, Major League Baseball is doing just fine, thank you very much.
You know, I don't know much in life, but I am certain about one thing: my unborn son is so playing baseball.
As he packs his bags for New England, I wish Wilkerson nothing but the best. I look forward to never seeing him in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform again.
