Raul Mondesi turns 53 today. Raul had a 13-year MLB career, spent mostly with the Dodgers , but he spent two and a half seasons with the Blue Jays . We traded for Mondesi from the Dodgers (with Pedro Borbon) for Shawn Green . The Green trade wasn’t something the Jays wanted to do, but Green demanded a trade when the team hired Cito Gaston as the hitting coach . Green didn’t get along with Cito when he first came to the majors, and Cito was the manager.
Cito liked players to pull the ball, and Green preferred to hit to all fields. They clashed a bit. You can read about it in Green’s autobiography. Green also wanted to be closer to his home in California and was likely to leave when he made it to free agency. It wasn’t a good trade for the Jays. Gord Ash felt Mondesi’s numbers would improve since Rogers Centre is a much better hitter’s park than Dodgers Stadium. It didn’t happen. And Raul wasn’t happy about being in Toronto. He was making a lot of money, and we had three better outfielders (Shannon Stewart, Vernon Wells, and Jose Cruz). So it could have worked out bette
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