In his latest mail bag in the Toronto Star, Richard Griffin's got a good description of the whole Jeremy Accardo situation:

"Oh my, the Jays do not like Accardo all right, but the feeling is now clearly mutual. In fact this time around, Accardo more than likely insisted he not be called up in September as much as the Jays were not interested in having him around to spoil the current upbeat clubhouse chemistry. The weird thing is that Accardo's father-in-law is the brother of Rogers big-shot Phil Lind and even with that relationship Accardo can't catch a break with the organization. Accardo, 28, led the Las Vegas '51s with 24 saves and has major-league experience and success but the Jays reached out for Rommie Lewis and Josh Roenicke instead. Accardo has always felt that his service time has been manipulated to always keep him a year further away from free agency allowing the Jays to control him. He's right. He ended the '09 season two days shy of four years in the majors. Go figure. At the time he was sent down last July 31 to make room for the just acquired Roenicke in the Scott Rolen deal, Accardo stormed out of Cito Gaston's office and threw his Jays' hat in a clubhouse garbage can bolting before the clubhouse opened to media. It was sitting there when we came in. Call me Sherlock. But before Accardo could catch his flight from 'Frisco to Vegas, Scott Downs went down with one of his injuries and Accardo was called back. That was kind of uncomfortable and I don't think Cito has forgotten. In any case, Anthopoulos when he took over assured Accardo things would be different with a new sheriff in town. Things haven't been different and Accardo wants nothing to do with this organization. The feeling is mutual."

That bit about his wife's uncle being a Rogers honcho is interesting (Maybe as good an example as any that the Rogers brass don't interfere with baseball operations - otherwise, you'd think the uncle would have tried making some peace). Anyway, Accardo's got to be toast with Toronto. Nevertheless, with his PCL reliever of the year award and being controllable for a few years, it would be nice of the Jays got some value in return for him. You'd think he'd at least be useful as a part of a multi-player trade. If I'm another organization, I'd have some worries about Accardo's attitude, but probably mostly right this off as some bad history and look at him as a player who might thrive with a fresh start with a new organization.