Griffin: Confused Adam Lind optioned to AAA-Las Vegas

May 17, 2012

Griffin: Confused Adam Lind optioned to AAA-Las Vegas

The Blue Jays on Thursday optioned Adam Lind to AAA-Las Vegas and purchased the contract of catcher/infielder Yan Gomes from their top farm team.

Lind was struggling through a horrible season with the Jays, recently being demoted from cleanup behind Jose Bautista to eighth in the batting order. Lind, 28, was batting .186 with three homers and 11 RBIs in 34 games. He has struggled with his offesnive approach and has admitted that he sometimes changed his mechanics from at-bat to at-bat. Lind is making $5 million this season with another $5 million guaranteed in 2013, with three additional club option years that could be bought out for $3.5 million total.

Gomes, 24, a native of Sao Paolo will become the first Brazilian-born player in the majors. He attended high school in Miami and was a 10th round selection by the Jays in '09. He came to camp as a non-roster player and impressed manager John Farrell at every spring stop, at several positions. He was hitting .359 at Vegas with five homers and 22 RBIs.

Gomes is capable of playing third base and with Brett Lawrie dropping his appeal of his four-game suspension on Thursday, that opportunity may come as soon as the end of the current Yankee series.

This signals the intent of the Jays to have Edwin Encarnacion become the starting first baseman and opens the door for veteran free-agent Vladimir Guerrero to get signifcant at-bats at DH as soon as he is game-ready at minor-league spring training.

Posted by Richard Griffin at 01:50:44 PM in Blue Jays

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As a Brazilian and Blue Jays fan I am very excited. I believe many Brazilians are going to follow baseball from now on and become Jays fans. Hope the guy makes the team for good.

By the way, he is from Sao Paulo, not Sao Paolo.

Posted by: Pedro Tuccori | May 17, 2012 at 02:38 PM

It's about time. Not sure what's wrong with Lind. But hopefully Yan Gomes can fill the void. We sorely need more consistent hitting. As for Lind, maybe he can right himself in AAA...to regain the confidence he's been lacking. He just doesn't look the same.

Posted by: Ron | May 17, 2012 at 02:43 PM

great serious pic..but i get the feeling he just wanted to smile and do the happy dance ..

Posted by: joanne | May 18, 2012 at 01:32 AM

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Richard Griffin began working for the Star as baseball columnist on Feb.13, 1995. Griffin began his career in major-league baseball with the Montreal Expos in 1973 while attending Concordia University. He became director of publicity in 1978. Griffin is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown as '93 winner of the Robert O. Fishel Award and has been at all or part of every World Series since 1978.

May 17, 2012