Beeston, Anthopoulos, Stroman, Lind, Delgado all on FAN 590 today

[G-Snarls]

Beeston:

 

http://pmd.fan590.com/audio_on_demand-3/Paul-Beeston-with-Jeff-Blair-and-Kevin-Barker-bc-20140602-Interview.mp3

 

AA:

 

http://pmd.fan590.com/audio_on_demand-3/Alex-Anthopoulos-with-Jeff-Blair-and-Stephen-Brunt-JB-SB-20140602-Interview.mp3

[G-Snarls]

Listened to AA first

 

Loving Melky, Buerhle and Dickey improved performance this year - main reason they're better

 

Hopes Stroman sticks in the rotation this year - threw out Sonny Gray comp

 

Says they have the resources to re-sign Cabrera and Rasmus if they want to - prefers off season and more information but we shouldn't ne shocked if something got done sooner

 

Gose looks good, sounded like he's not guaranteed to stay though

 

Hendriks kept in AAA as a starter in case yhey need him again "as soon as 10 days from now"

 

Hutch "not happy" abut being pushed back but they didn't like how he looked last time out and they though more rest would help him. Not on any innings limit but don't want to regret having overused him at end of season.

[G-Snarls]

Not sure I can bear to listen to 18 minutes of the Beest

 

Anyone else willing to do so and report back??

[TwistedLogic]

Already done. I was gonna post all of it in the Stroman thread, but I realized that I should check if someone already made one about the interviews themselves, and sure enough you did. Here's the report for the first three interviews I've listened to, gonna check up on Lind and Alex after this and write something for those as well.

 

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Stroman Interview: Talks about his first start, Hosmer's "wow" reaction, the run support he got, how he kept warm during the 7-run inning, how he felt about his struggles in his relief innings, etc.

 

Delgado Interview: Talks about the offense, talks about the epic 2000 Jays offense (four guys with 20 homers at the all-star break), what he thinks about the club right now. Listening to this interview, I don't know why someone hasn't already hired him as a hitting coach, some of the stuff he says is exactly what you'd want your players to hear.

 

Paul Beeston Interview: Talks about payroll, pitching options in the event they're still contending a month from now, trade deadline, impending FA's (Colby/Melky), and the grass field. It seems that the Jays are intent on getting a grass field eventually because they want to attract FA's, don't want to sit people on the turf, and want to be like the rest of the teams in baseball, so the Argos will have to find a new place to play, whether it's BMO or somewhere else. Heavily implies that Melky and Colby won't be extended mid-season and that they'll deal with all of that after the season's over.

 

Really like something he said in regards to attendance, where he admitted that the Jays broke the trust of the fans last year and so they'll have to work to get them back. People thought they'd be playing October baseball last season, and they weren't, and he believes that now those fans are saying "show me". Says that attendance will not have any bearing on what they do at the trade deadline, and that he also won't use excuses like the Gardner being busy as a reason for fans not showing up.

 

Based on the Beeston interview, it really seems like they've got a good idea of what they have (they know it's early in the season), what they want to do (explore the trade deadline, deal with the FA's after the season, keep winning to draw more fans), and how they have to proceed. I gotta say it made me feel better, since Beeston's interviews usually do the opposite for me.

[Captain Adama]

Not sure I can bear to listen to 18 minutes of the Beest

 

Anyone else willing to do so and report back??

 

As super moderator of.this fine board.you are hereby obligated to listen to that nasally voice and provide cliff notes.

 

We're waiting.

[G-Snarls]

As super moderator of.this fine board.you are hereby obligated to listen to that nasally voice and provide cliff notes.

 

We're waiting.

 

LOL

 

OK

 

Sigh...

 

Edit: Twisted Logic seems to be on it

[kgm1]

<<<< Not sure I can bear to listen to 18 minutes of the Beest >>>>>

 

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<<<< Anyone else willing to do so and report back?? >>>>>

 

Sometimes you have to take one for the team.

[TwistedLogic]

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Adam Lind Interview: Talks about what it's like to be hitting between Joey and Eddy, how he feels this team's newfound health and resilience, what it's like to be lead by two pitchers who throw in the 80s, and how he feels about transitioning into a complete platoon player. Also talks about the state of the AL East, who his toughest pitching opponent was so far this season, and how it feels being a first place team going into a series against the Tigers, another first place team.

[G-Snarls]

Beeston:

 

Broke the trust last year. Wants to show fans

 

Willing to add payroll and expects attendance to go up if they're winning

 

Attendance suffering due to inconvenience/Gardiner construction - no excuse, not much they can do. There was a sellout one day the gardner was a disataer and there were to fundraiser walks going on. "Give people a reason to come down".

 

Buerhle - not surprised about his leadership, pleasantly surprised about his hot start to the season. (knew his W-L record and ERA off hand)

 

Had the same feeling this spring training as he did in 1992 spring training. The "resolve" and talent feels equivalent.

 

Edwin is ridiculously hot

 

Video replay - he is on related committees. There will be tweaks. Will be done this off season. Keeping opinions to himself.

 

Managers fighting with umpires was a "fun part of the game" that he seems to miss

 

Melky and Colby - likely to wait until the end of the tear. Doesn't know what direction they'll go.

 

Grass - blah blah blah

Edited June 3, 2014 by G-Snarls

[Candy Maldonado]

Lind wants to take a club to Cito Gaston's nuts.

[dineke]

Beeston was high the entire interview.

[TwistedLogic]

Here's the expanded summary of the Alex interview:

 

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Alex Anthopoulos Interview:

 

- Begins the interview talking about this team's new resilience in bouncing back after devastating losses (like the bullpen implosions and the Reyes throw), and how they are different from last year.

 

- Talks about Marcus Stroman's place in the rotation going forward. Says he hopes Stroman can stay in the rotation for the rest of the season, and that he's happy he got that first stint as a reliever because it helped move the jitters and pressure out of the way. He says that the team's performance in June will be a huge indicator of who they are (and that Stroman will be a big part of that) and that he hopes Stroman can have a Sonny Gray-like impact for the Jays.

 

- In regards to the Liam Hendriks demotion, he mentions that they've made a decision on who they're going to call up in his place for the bullpen, but that they want to tell the player first so that he doesn't hear it on his phone. Also mentions that they didn't like demoting Hendriks because they feel he played well, but that they'd prefer to keep him on his regular turn and stretched out so that he can come back into the rotation after 10 days if needed, as opposed to putting him into the pen as a long-man and interrupting his rotation cycle.

 

- Mentions that the Blue Jays don't have any type of caps or inning limits, but he likes pitchers getting an off-day every now and again. April had an off-day in almost every week, but they feel that they can manufacture their own offdays during long stretches of games (like May), the way they did by bringing up Stroman to push Hutch back after he began to look a little tired (something we saw ourselves in his velocity drops). Hendriks can be used in a similar manner, being brought up to make a spot start to give another guy some well-needed rest.

 

- Directly addresses Hutchison, acknowledging that they did notice the velocity drop, and that they didn't feel he looked very sharp in his last outing. Makes it clear that there's no "conspiracy theory" to it, and that he hasn't complained about anything, implying that Hutchison's velocity drop had to do with fatigue, and had nothing to do with any sort of injury. Mentions that this isn't exclusive to Hutchison and that they can even give extra rest to Buehrle or Dickey if they need it. On the opposite end, they can even shuffle the rotation to pull guys forward and have them pitch on normal rest (despite an off-day) if someone else needs a day off. They want to stay on top of the rotation and don't want it to end up where guys are complaining about being sore.

 

- Discussing the Melky Cabrera and Colby Rasmus free agent cases, he says that they prefer to avoid in-season contract talks because players go to other players for advice, it becomes the talk of the clubhouse, leaks to the media, and then becomes a huge deal and an unnecessary distraction. He says they've always felt this way, and if you had asked them about the Encarnacion extension prior to the signing, they would have said the same thing. That being said, similar to Edwin's situation, they wouldn't rule anything out. When it comes to Colby and Melky, he feels that they both like playing in Toronto, and then this gem: "I have every confidence in the world that we'll have the resources to sign them and I wouldn't rule out that we would do something before the end of the year". Still, he thinks that the ideal situation is that you don't have to talk about contracts while the guy is playing.

 

- In regards to Gose, he feels like he's made major strides. He took time out of his actual offseason to go down and put in some serious practice for his bunting.

[Inklink]

Barker is heavily underqualified for this job. Turrible.

[G-Snarls]

One last thing AA said - they have flexibility to re-sign anyone they want and they would rather wait longer and get more information to do so even if it costs them a few more $

 

I forget the exact numbers he said but I know what he meant. They won't gamble early on a guy in order to save 5M. But they will if they worry it could cost them 40-50M if they wait too long.

[Olerud363]

Lind wants to take a club to Cito Gaston's nuts.

 

Did he hint at that?? I'll note here that Adam had his best year under Cito. So my ranting is a bit silly. But maybe Cito didn't like Adam having success hitting to all fields so in 2010 went nuts at him. My impression of Lind's career.

 

Adam - comes up as .300 .370 .500 hitter with big platoon splits but could of learned to hit lefties.

 

Cito - pull the f***ing ball

 

Adam - .240 .280 .400 for his prime.

 

Cito - f***in awesome, Adam almost hit the fifth deck, to bad it was 20 feet foul.

 

Adam now 30. Good platoon player but his prime (late 20s) was ruined.

[Bunchedundies]

Beeston:

 

Broke the trust last year. Wants to show fans

 

Willing to add payroll and expects attendance to go up if they're winning

 

Attendance suffering due to inconvenience/Gardiner construction - no excuse, not much they can do. There was a sellout one day the gardner was a disataer and there were to fundraiser walks going on. "Give people a reason to come down".

 

Buerhle - not surprised about his leadership, pleasantly surprised about his hot start to the season. (knew his W-L record and ERA off hand)

 

Had the same feeling this spring training as he did in 1992 spring training. The "resolve" and talent feels equivalent.

 

Edwin is ridiculously hot

 

Video replay - he is on related committees. There will be tweaks. Will be done this off season. Keeping opinions to himself.

 

Managers fighting with umpires was a "fun part of the game" that he seems to miss

 

Melky and Colby - likely to wait until the end of the tear. Doesn't know what direction they'll go.

 

Grass - blah blah blah

 

That's all I needed to hear.

[BigCecil]

One last thing AA said - they have flexibility to re-sign anyone they want and they would rather wait longer and get more information to do so even if it costs them a few more $

 

I forget the exact numbers he said but I know what he meant. They won't gamble early on a guy in order to save 5M. But they will if they worry it could cost them 40-50M if they wait too long.

 

He said the delta in a later signing of say "40 to 46mm" over a period of years is not enough to make a move early with less information on a player vis a vis their resigning.