The 2014 Josh Johnson Thread

[Sammy225]

They should have offered him the QO. Nothing can change that.

 

Unless you have seen is Medical records and such I really don't think you can formulate a solid opinion of that.

[flafson]

Padres should have added more options, he could be alright in 2 years.

[theblujay]

A good reason why stats don't tell the entire story

 

Yep

[theblujay]

They should have offered him the QO. Nothing can change that.

 

They shouldn't have and I'm very glad they didn't

[NorthOf49]

Not quite right... one thing could. More in depth medical knowledge than we have.

That's probably fair. If it comes out that the Jays were pretty sure JJ would get hurt and that's why they didn't offer the QO, I'll say they made the right choice.

 

On the other hand, if in-depth medical knowledge can predict which guys will get hurt then why do teams get burned so often?

[G-Snarls]

LOL

 

MLB News Today @MLBNewsToday

 

Padres' Johnson set for second Tommy John surgery http://dlvr.it/5TGTtx

2:08 PM - 23 Apr 2014

 

Ah, s***. Well, sure glad he wasn't here making 14.3M

[kgm1]

They should have offered him the QO. Nothing can change that.

 

 

That probably would have been the final nail in AA ,s coffin

[Caper]

How does it work for JJ in the offseason? Assuming the Padres don't resign him. Who signs a guy that can't play until mid next season? Off their second TJS at that. What possible value could he have next year?

[fatcowxlive]

Buy low next season? lol

[Boxcar]

BTS:

 

No. Not Gose. Please not Gose.[/Quote]

 

PLEASE NOT GOSE!!! ANYONE BUT THAT RAT FACED ONE DIMENSIONAL f***!!! waaahhh

[wardhenke1]

I'm not convinced they even had the money to qualify him. With 5 players having to be asked to defer their salaries to try to bring in Santana, it would have been a stretch to see Johnson come back anyway.

 

Imagine that conversation with Bautista, EE and so on "Errr we know Josh was not quite as good as we thought he would be last year, but would you mind deferring a bunch of your salary to bring him back again? Sorry, could you repeat that in English?"

[Terminator]

They have an option on him for dirt cheap now.

 

I wonder if the Padres will even exercise it....

[Caper]

I wonder if the Padres will even exercise it....

 

I can't see it. You can't expect him back till next July or something... then there is that long period where they rediscover themselves....... then he just gets hurt somewhere else.

[glory]

I was wrong. I wanted the Jays to qualify him as long as he passed all the medical exams, which at the time the Jays had to decide to QO him, was probably not 100% clear yet. Good move not to take that risk, in hindsight.

 

If only we could turn back time and not make that Miami trade with Johnson involved. I'd imagine a trade for Reyes and Buehrle alone would have cost much less.

[Sammy225]

They should. It's a measly $4M or something like that.

 

Depends how surgery go but you have to think for 4M that this Reward is ALOT greater than the Risk... You think of how many pitchers are being paid 4mil to put up terrible numbers lol. This would be worth the gamble.

[KingKat]

You think of how many pitchers are being paid 4mil to put up terrible numbers lol. This would be worth the gamble.

 

Happ, Happ, something caught in my throat, Happ, Happ,

[Cooler Heads Prevail]

You're not wrong though. You wanted them to qualify IF he passed all medicals. Considering he only got $8M AND had the injury clause, there's no way there were clean medicals.

 

And yet they were wrong, and you're continuing your delusion to ridiculous levels. Johnson is out for the entire season and given recent examples with the Jays, likely out for most of if not all of 2015 as well. Yet you can't let it go, you'd actually pay $4M to keep him in 2015. You are showing such bad judgement here, as you have at every step in this process.

[GD]

You'd be really dumb not too.

 

Grammar.exe was obviously replaced with irony.exe in cyborg JFaS' system. Even better after criticizing kgm.

[Boxcar]

And yet they were wrong, and you're continuing your delusion to ridiculous levels. Johnson is out for the entire season and given recent examples with the Jays, likely out for most of if not all of 2015 as well. Yet you can't let it go, you'd actually pay $4M to keep him in 2015. You are showing such bad judgement here, as you have at every step in this process.

 

Yup, the guy who will probably get a job in a baseball front office is wrong and you are right. How are those leafs doing?