"The trade deadline, without waivers, came and went yesterday at 4 p.m. and while the much discussed and highly coveted Roy Halladay remained a Blue Jay, GM J.P. Ricciardi did make one deal, his fifth July trade in eight years.

The Jays sent veteran third baseman Scott Rolen to the Cincinnati Reds for third baseman Edwin Encarnacion and a pair of right-handed pitchers, Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart. Rolen, apparently, had requested the trade but was unavailable for comment as he made plans to get to his new home in time for today's game. He never made it to the A's ballpark. Halladay declined to discuss his feelings on remaining a Jay.

"We're going to miss Rolen," manager Cito Gaston said. "But he's probably pretty happy. He gets to go back close to home (in Indiana) and that's somewhere he wanted to go. We got a couple of good pitchers and a third baseman.""