Interesting, apparently Butterfield wanted to be the manager and felt ready but the Jays' management decided that they wanted an experienced manager instead...hence Butterfield's move to Boston.

It's too bad, I wish he had taken the manager's job instead of Farrell a few years ago so that we could have at least seen what he would have done with this team....and maybe he'd be doing a good job and could have stuck around with some experience.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...bsI/story.html