But does that describe Blue Jays stud Roy Halladay, the best pitcher the Canadian dollar can buy? Or not?
Right now? Right this minute? That's a "not." A biiiiiig "not."
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Halladay is not sitting in the window of anybody's trading-deadline department store. Sorry. Not in the last week of February, anyhow.
In fact, Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi is already more tired of this topic than he is of hearing about the Yankees' payroll, the Canadian economy or the number of pitchers occupying his trainers' room.
"Roy Halladay is not going anywhere," Ricciardi says, as emphatically as he can possibly say it without grabbing a bullhorn or splashing it on a billboard. "This has become kind of a hot topic in baseball, but we're not trading him. We have no intention of trading him. He allows us to be good. And we feel we are going to be good. And he's going to be The Guy."
So there. It's settled, right? Trading his ace has never entered the GM's mind?
"Nope," the GM says succinctly.
And would there be any scenario that could cause it to enter his mind?
"Let me ask you this," Ricciardi says. "What do you think we'd get for Roy Halladay? What do you think we could get that could ever replace Roy Halladay? He's the best pitcher in baseball. Who's going to give you a combination of guys that could [replace him]? All these guys you could supposedly get -- they won't become Roy Halladay. So if we think we're going to be good, we're going to be better with him here."
Anybody want to argue that point? Or any of those points? Didn't think so.
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