Hoping for a clean slate this season, rumours began during spring training that he would be traded to Cincinnati for Jay Bruce. The other irony involving Saunders is that both he and Bruce are both in San Diego for the All-Star Game. There was the trade to the Toronto Blue Jays, the team he dreaming of playing for as a kid. But now here he is in at Petco Park for Tuesday’s All-Star Game. Surgeons removed 60 per cent of the cartilage from his knee, which caused problems with bone-on-bone friction within the knee.

Source: National Post July 12, 2016 23:37 UTC