Halladay craps awesomeness

Just how good is Roy Halladay?

As ridiculous as this sounds, I’ve always seen the Toronto ace as being underrated and only now, as he looks set to be traded by the idiotic Jays FO, he is starting to get the credit as one of the better pitchers of his generation.

Halladay thoroughly outpitched Jon Lester today and that’s not easy to do. Lester pitched well himself but you can’t allow three runs against Halladay and expect to come away with the win, it just doesn’t happen.

Johan Santana is rightly considered the best pitcher on Earth but Halladay is up there; he is a consummate horse who continues the get the job done. Perhaps he isn’t as flashy as Santana, Verlander et al but considering the pisspoor excuse for the team he plays on, he shouldn’t have won nearly as many games as he has, which is a nod of the standard of excellence he has put forth for the better part of the last decade.

I have said that the Sox shouldn’t entertain the idea of trading for Halladay, given what it would cost in relation to the question marks over the future rotation (would you trade Clay Buchholz right now?) but I certainly would like to see him in a Boston uniform, as much as every other fan, coach, manager, GM and player would like to see him wearing their uniform.

Where Halladay will end up is in some question given the no-trade clause and aforementioned cost; my bet is St. Louis should JP Riccardi really decide it’s a good idea to trade away his best player (look how well the Santana trade has turned out for the Twins) but there is no team that would not be better for having him in their rotation.

So the Sox ending up losing the series in Toronto but that’s not the end of the world; the Jays can pitch and the Sox line-up isn’t so hot right now. It’s off to Texas tomorrow where hopefully John Smoltz can show something, anything against the annually powerful Rangers line-up; he’ll face Kevin Millwood, who despite a solid ERA just isn’t very good.