SI Article on Jason Bay

[TheKilo]

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1146232/index.htm

 

That was no one-way trade when Boston gave up its superstar for Jason Bay. The baggage-free leftfielder acquired from the Pirates is the anti-Manny in seemingly every way but one: He can rake too

 

JASON BAY was so naive to the hysteria of big-market baseball that when he landed at Boston's Logan Airport on Aug. 1 and heard the announcement over the loudspeaker—"Jason Bay, your bags from Pittsburgh are coming in on carousel 13. Welcome to Red Sox Nation"—he actually assumed that the public address announcer at Logan greeted other travelers similarly. But when Bay got to the baggage claim, and the P.A. announcer left the microphone, went to the carousel and offered to carry his luggage for him, it became clear that baseball players really are treated differently in Boston. While Bay was getting to know his new city, Bostonians were getting to know this new leftfielder, who does not bring quite as much baggage as the old one, and insists on carrying all of it himself.

[BoSox21]

best LF in the AL

[ORS]

Not a day goes by where I don't hear some media type proclaim that Boston fans have to be so upset because they are missing out on what Manny is doing LA. Not one. None of them seem to remember that we got somebody back in that deal, and if they do, well they certainly weren't watching the ALDS. Bay was fantastic.

[TheKilo]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/angels/la-sp-elliott4-2008oct04,0,4147359.column

[YAZMAN]

Two good reads, nice find.