GDT: Bluejays vs Rays. Dickey vs Hellickson.

[burlingtonbandit]

Would free up enough cash to sign both Lester and Scherzer

 

Also would be a team with one of the worst outfields in the MLB. All 3 are unproven and haven't shown they can hit MLB pitching.

[JaysFan4Ever]

Dickey doing it all tonight

 

If this Dickey pitched every night we'd be a lot better off.

[o2cui2i]

Pat: he can react and go either way

[burlingtonbandit]

Yup... Not a good commitment so far, draft taking over a month..etc

 

Isn't there 4 ppl still needing to sign up?

[burlingtonbandit]

So much movement on that last knuckler.

[o2cui2i]

2 hours for 5 innings.... turtles are walking past this game.

[Jimcanuck]

CF - Gose

RF - Pompey

LF - Pillar

3B - Lawrie

SS - Reyes

2B - ?

1B - EE

C - ?

DH - ?

 

Lester

Scherzer

Dickey

MB

Stroman

 

Sanchez & Norris in Buffalo with the better of the two replacing MB in 2016

 

If Bautista can yield a good young 2B and C - this is a team loaded with pitching and defense and enough offense

[jays4life19]

CF - Gose

RF - Pompey

LF - Pillar

3B - Lawrie

SS - Reyes

2B - ?

1B - EE

C - ?

DH - ?

 

Lester

Scherzer

Dickey

MB

Stroman

 

Sanchez & Norris in Buffalo with the better of the two replacing MB in 2016

 

If Bautista can yield a good young 2B and C - this is a team loaded with pitching and defense and enough offense

 

Yeah. We're not signing Lester or Scherzer.

[JaysFan4Ever]

I want to see the Jays plate a few more so maybe they can start moving some of the call ups out there to see what they can do with some kind of a cushion/less pressure.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

CF - Gose

RF - Pompey

LF - Pillar

3B - Lawrie

SS - Reyes

2B - ?

1B - EE

C - ?

DH - ?

 

Lester

Scherzer

Dickey

MB

Stroman

 

Sanchez & Norris in Buffalo with the better of the two replacing MB in 2016

 

If Bautista can yield a good young 2B and C - this is a team loaded with pitching and defense and enough offense

 

We're going to sign Scherzer and Lester?

[o2cui2i]

Yeah. We're not signing Lester or Scherzer.

 

we're just waiting for Alex Andhisfloppyass to give us the "internal options" speech for next year.

[JaysFan4Ever]

Lester or Scherzer? Hell no! This team can barely sign minor league free agents and fringe players. Melky seemed to only come because he was coming off the suspension and offered a 2-year deal. Most of the guys brought in haven't been near the level those two are. It also doesn't seem to be AA's MO unless they sign elsewhere and AA ships out prospects for their contracts that were more than what AA wanted to sign them for.

[Jimcanuck]

We're going to sign Scherzer and Lester?

 

Just spitballing some options here...... this year's FA crop is pitching heavy.... so strategically that's where you focus improvement

 

Of course AA is too f***ing cheap to bring a FA here..... despairing doesn't work

[closetjaysfan]

CF - Gose

RF - Pompey

LF - Pillar

3B - Lawrie

SS - Reyes

2B - ?

1B - EE

C - ?

DH - ?

 

Lester

Scherzer

Dickey

MB

Stroman

 

Sanchez & Norris in Buffalo with the better of the two replacing MB in 2016

 

If Bautista can yield a good young 2B and C - this is a team loaded with pitching and defense and enough offense

 

Id do you one better and list the starting lineup for the AL allstar team but im too lazy.

[saskjayfan]

Yeah. We're not signing Lester or Scherzer.

 

there's an outside chance they might get shields though...

[JaysFan4Ever]

we're just waiting for Alex Andhisfloppyass to give us the "internal options" speech for next year.

 

"Well, if you look at what ______ and ______ did during the minor league season last year, in a handful of ABs in September, I mean they're not a lot of ABs and we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but if you look at what they've done, and we didn't call them up just to do so, we think they're MLB ready, if you look at that we have some good, home grown young players to supplement our core, and are under contract for 5-6 years and at reasonable numbers since they won't be arbitration eligible for a number of years, and if you look at how they fit the mold and needs and if you compare what they could give us in a full season, even with some bumps along the way, and compared to some of the FAs out there and some of the trades that didn't' line up because they didn't' want what we had and we weren't going to take away from the 25-man roster, you'll see that these internal options are even better than some of the guys we could bring in elsewhere and they're not costing us large sums of money nor prospects plus they're home grown and who doesn't like them?!"

 

Yes, all one huge run on sentence.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Brewers imploding. Wow.

[o2cui2i]

Yes, all one huge run on sentence.

 

we all know it's coming.

[burlingtonbandit]

Just spitballing some options here...... this year's FA crop is pitching heavy.... so strategically that's where you focus improvement

 

Of course AA is too f***ing cheap to bring a FA here..... despairing doesn't work

 

Free agents don't want to come to Toronto unless they overpay. You might be able to get a guy like McCarthy but not a top end FA.

[burlingtonbandit]

Ump just went derp. ball was right down the pipe

[closetjaysfan]

Just spitballing some options here...... this year's FA crop is pitching heavy.... so strategically that's where you focus improvement

 

Of course AA is too f***ing cheap to bring a FA here..... despairing doesn't work

 

I don't think cheapness is a factor in the lack of FAs in Toronto. Mgmt already shows it will spend through assuming expensive contracts. No the problem is that players are given the choice between playing for a team that has not had success in 20+ years, IN CANADA... vs. an American team with a recent history of winning.

[JaysFan4Ever]

we all know it's coming.

 

It's only a matter of when he graces us with it. Could it be immediately after the season? Could it be in an interview a couple weeks after? will it be at the winter meetings? Will it be repeatedly in some form or another, rinse and repeat? Probably all of the above.

[o2cui2i]

Free agents don't want to come to Toronto unless they overpay. You might be able to get a guy like McCarthy but not a top end FA.

 

why would anyone come to Toronto while AA is in charge. the guy thinks it's more important to give out ridiculous promises, to fringe players, than it is to win games or make the playoffs.

[JaysFan4Ever]

Thole is trying to get JPA numbers this game!

[o2cui2i]

It's only a matter of when he graces us with it. Could it be immediately after the season? Could it be in an interview a couple weeks after? will it be at the winter meetings? Will it be repeatedly in some form or another, rinse and repeat? Probably all of the above.

 

AA got his icloud hacked and all they got was pictures of naked food.

[JaysFan4Ever]

Can we get George Kottaras to take over the last inning for Dickey? See what he can offer for an inning catching Dickey? Thole is having problems.

[burlingtonbandit]

Thole really struggling catching.

[Jimcanuck]

Naturally with 29 other teams, we're going to sign the 2 best starters on the market. #MakesSense

 

Melky, Bautista, Rasmus, Janssen, Morrow, Happ and a few others frees up $50Million

[JaysFan4Ever]

AA got his icloud hacked and all they got was pictures of naked food.

 

lol! Oh god, I just had some horrible mental images.

[jaysfan2014]

Brewers imploding. Wow.

 

Cardinals are probably already thinking about another division title.. and possibly another shot at getting the World Series they lost last year to that fluky Red Sox team who got incredibly lucky last year.