Article: Blue Jays Hope to Announce Glaus Trade

ROB GILLIES, For The Associated Press
AP Online
12-27-2005
Dateline: TORONTO
The Toronto Blue Jays hope to announce this week that they have acquired slugger Troy Glaus from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

"Hopefully, soon. But not today," Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi said Monday evening. "Right now we're just trying to finish everything off."

Ricciardi said Glaus had not yet completed a physical.

Glaus and a prospect are expected to be sent to Toronto for reliever Miguel Batista and Gold Glove second baseman Orlando Hudson. Glaus led Arizona in homers (37) and RBIs (97) last year, playing in 149 games despite occasional flare-ups of a strained tendon in the back of his left knee.

He was ...

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