Here's Your Inside Dirt For the Day

[KSaw]

And don't bust my balls and ask for sources. I'd get freaked on if I provided them!

 

1. Josh Johnson- straightest fastball in MLB since he came of the DL. Almost no movement! Total tee off time flat ball. Might be a 5th starter at best if he can't fix it.

 

2. Arencibia- "At this point only Doumit is worse but barely. Can't see him in the Majors next year unless someone is really stupid!"

 

3. "Rasmus owns pitchers since he moved up in the box. One of the most dangerous hitters in baseball right now. Can't believe he's not hitting third."

 

4. MLB ranks Joe West, who lost 40 pounds and an ex-wife during the offseason as a top 5 umpire in 2013. Go figure but that's what their evaluations say.

 

5. MLB hung Angel Hernandez on the blown HR replay call this year. The replay feed was messed up and fuzzy and MLB didnt want to admit it. Hernandez being an unpopular and weaker umpire ate the heat. He was not fined. He was bonused for shutting his mouth.

 

6. The A's will move to San Jose. It's all back room dealing right now to get it done.

 

7. Future commissioner of baseball-- Joe Torre.

 

I've got more but that's plenty for now...

[Caper]

Where did you get this information? Edited July 28, 2013 by Caper

[8D]

" Today, 04:20 AM "

 

you high?

[KSaw]

Where did you get this infoformation?

 

And the very first question is about where I got the info- lol.

 

I honestly can't post that. I wouldn't pull your or anyone's chain. I can only say persons employed by MLB, not the Blue Jays but MLB. Best I can do for you.

[KSaw]

Lol no. To me it's about 11pm. My hours aren't typical.

[8D]

And hey, at least Doumit put up some nice offensive seasons.

 

Interesting 1, 3 and 5.

 

i won the internet

Edited July 28, 2013 by 8D

[KSaw]

I'd prefer u deleted your guesses so it can't be Google searched by name. You got at least 1 correct. I'm just trying to add to the forum for fans and not trying to stir any pots. Ya know.

[8D]

Ya I hear ya. I figured you were kirksaw from the old boards. I enjoy your posts even

though you got shitted on regularly for credibility concerns. Always had a feeling you were legit.

[8D]

You got moar news?! I can't sleep!

 

Woah! Totally missed #6!! f***ing about time! Anything about the Rays?

[KSaw]

Appreciate your class in regard to this. I do. Thanks.

 

Check your PM.

[Caper]

And the very first question is about where I got the info- lol.

 

I honestly can't post that. I wouldn't pull your or anyone's chain. I can only say persons employed by MLB, not the Blue Jays but MLB. Best I can do for you.

 

I know... it's just when someone asks us not to ask.... it means the first thing we do is ask.

[Caper]

And don't bust my balls and ask for sources. I'd get freaked on if I provided them!

 

1. Josh Johnson- straightest fastball in MLB since he came of the DL. Almost no movement! Total tee off time flat ball. Might be a 5th starter at best if he can't fix it.

 

2. Arencibia- "At this point only Doumit is worse but barely. Can't see him in the Majors next year unless someone is really stupid!"

 

3. "Rasmus owns pitchers since he moved up in the box. One of the most dangerous hitters in baseball right now. Can't believe he's not hitting third."

 

4. MLB ranks Joe West, who lost 40 pounds and an ex-wife during the offseason as a top 5 umpire in 2013. Go figure but that's what their evaluations say.

 

5. MLB hung Angel Hernandez on the blown HR replay call this year. The replay feed was messed up and fuzzy and MLB didnt want to admit it. Hernandez being an unpopular and weaker umpire ate the heat. He was not fined. He was bonused for shutting his mouth.

 

6. The A's will move to San Jose. It's all back room dealing right now to get it done.

 

7. Future commissioner of baseball-- Joe Torre.

 

I've got more but that's plenty for now...

 

 

 

 

Some of these are obvious... but some are just straight up observations. Rasmus moved up in the box last year... and it worked for about a month. Did anyone else notice what it was like watching Perez pitch after Johnson? The movement on Perez's pitches. Maybe JJ goes on the velocity program next year.

[KSaw]

You got moar news?! I can't sleep!

 

Woah! Totally missed #6!! f***ing about time! Anything about the Rays?

 

Players and umpires and others in the game love going to the Tampa area and want the Rays to stay. It isn't likely they do. Indy is the supposed front runner, followed by Charlotte and New Orleans. I found New Orleans to be a surprise but apparently the Super Dome is an easy configuration to baseball and the corporate community is strong. MLB figures 4 million fans/year there if it happened. Houston would try to block New Orleans btw.

[GD]

1. Josh Johnson- straightest fastball in MLB since he came of the DL. Almost no movement! Total tee off time flat ball. Might be a 5th starter at best if he can't fix it.

 

JJ's fastball movement is -3.26 horizontally and 8.30 on his four seamer. Both numbers are very comparable to the rest of his career. I remember seeing something late last night from Scott MacArthur;

 

Johnson is trying to improve his line to the plate. His tendency, on occasion, is to fall slightly toward the first base side as he's completing his delivery. As a result, his fastball runs over the plate and his breaking stuff, instead of starting in the strike zone and tumbling, flattens out.

 

His issue isn't movement, it's hanging pitches.

 

Aside from that, very nice scoop, thanks, Kirk.

[BlueJayWay]

A lot of this is obvious, but I hope #2 is true

[FireAlexAnthopoulos]

Players and umpires and others in the game love going to the Tampa area and want the Rays to stay. It isn't likely they do. Indy is the supposed front runner, followed by Charlotte and New Orleans. I found New Orleans to be a surprise but apparently the Super Dome is an easy configuration to baseball and the corporate community is strong. MLB figures 4 million fans/year there if it happened. Houston would try to block New Orleans btw.

 

FWIW, the Rays' owner mentioned in an interview that the MLB was pressuring them to consider moving to Montreal a couple years ago. Is that still a possibility?

[dineke]

Can someone explain to me how Rasmus does better up in the box? I would think he wouldn't be able to catch up to anything fast with less reaction time.

[dineke]

Wow. Realistically, that would probably be it for me as a Jays fan.

 

I wouldn't want to associate myself with the French Canadians. Never.

[FireAlexAnthopoulos]

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/tampa-bay-rays-owner-stuart-sternberg-talks-future-of-franchise-possible-move-evan-longoria-david-price-062213

 

FS: Has the thought ever occurred to you to move your team to Montreal?

 

SS: I thought about it as a great baseball market. But this is probably three, four years ago. I was asked and pressed about it.

(SS is Stuart Sternberg, the Rays' owner.)

 

And yes, as a former Expos fan, I would jump ship in a nanosecond if the Rays moved to Montreal.

[Daniel Labude]

Point 2 is complete ********. JPA will be close to 30 HR this year, that alone will keep him in the majors for at least 5 more years.

[John_Havok]

I think I could swallow that pill. I would not be able to resist a Friedman-built team an hour and a half from where I live.

 

This. And the fact that I was an Expos fan before a Jays fan. I really think Vancouver could support a team... get 1 Asian player and half the city would show up.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Players and umpires and others in the game love going to the Tampa area and want the Rays to stay. It isn't likely they do. Indy is the supposed front runner, followed by Charlotte and New Orleans. I found New Orleans to be a surprise but apparently the Super Dome is an easy configuration to baseball and the corporate community is strong. MLB figures 4 million fans/year there if it happened. Houston would try to block New Orleans btw.

 

They all seem like experimental locations.

 

And what happens to the AAA teams currently there? I wouldn't think it to be a feasible business venture to continue operating a minor league club with a MLB team in the city. Unless the relocating team gets a swap of affiliates and has their own AAA club in their MLB city.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Can someone explain to me how Rasmus does better up in the box? I would think he wouldn't be able to catch up to anything fast with less reaction time.

 

My guess is on breaking balls his bat is in a good position not allowing the pitch its full break, since his bread & butter is down and in.

[HERPDERP]

You got all this information from one source? Kind of weird that it covers everything from player scouting, umpires to who takes over Bud Selig.

[ElNik2013]

I think I could swallow that pill. I would not be able to resist a Friedman-built team an hour and a half from where I live.

 

 

I think I'd make it to around 60 games a year. Maybe more when I think about it. I averaged around 60 between 97-2002 at the Big O with some pretty bad teams although it was priceless watching Pedro Martinez in '97 and Vlad Guerrero.

[Nox]

You got all this information from one source? Kind of weird that it covers everything from player scouting, umpires to who takes over Bud Selig.

 

There are no bounds to what scouts think they know.

 

My favourite was: OMG Rasmus is one of the best hitters in all of baseball!! Lets underutilize him by batting 3rd!! Idiot.

[z3r0s]

I don't think Montreal is getting a team any time soon, but I have thought about who I would cheer for if they did. I'm a Manitoba boy so I don't have any loyalty to Toronto other than it being the Canadian team.

 

I guess it might depend on what division they play in, but I could see me following both teams MLB and MiLB teams. This forum could be a pretty great set-up to follow 'Canadian Baseball' if they did get a team. We already have a 'Toronto Blue Jays' sub-forum. Wouldn't be hard to to a 'Montreal Expos' sub-forum as well.

[bzapple]

First few are just personal opinions, so it doesn't really matter that they come from a "source". Have noticed that pitchers seem very hesitant to pitch inside to Rasmus lately though.

[bzapple]

Point 2 is complete ********. JPA will be close to 30 HR this year, that alone will keep him in the majors for at least 5 more years.

 

If new evaluation methods for catchers (framing studies etc.) start gaining more steam, teams could start caring less about his produkshun numbers. Big if, I know, but sometimes things happen more quickly than we expect.

[Caper]

If new evaluation methods for catchers (framing studies etc.) start gaining more steam, teams could start caring less about his produkshun numbers. Big if, I know, but sometimes things happen more quickly than we expect.

 

You mean the pitching framing studies that say JPA is a very good pitch framer?