Collabello Called up

[Laika]

OMG Donaldson at SS plz

 

eat a dick, Ma'am.

[TRM]

eat a dick, Ma'am.

 

Jesus Christ ruining another thread with your bullying.

 

Reported.

[Laika]

Jesus Christ ruining another thread with your bullying.

 

Reported.

 

Pretty disrespectful to take the Lord's name in vain when 75% of this message board is religious. Nerd.

[burlingtonbandit]

Why is everyone freaking out lol. My guess is Saunders can't play yet because of his knee so they will have Colabello play in RF tonight.

[jaysfan2014]

Collabello's stay is likely to be short. Tolleson cleared waivers and was outrighted to Buffalo. Expect him to be re-purchased and rejoin the Jays by Friday.

 

[o2cui2i]

But to be entirely fair, in all likelihood Jonathan Diaz is actually a sub-replacement level player so if Goins ever gets hurt, Donaldson at SS would probably lead to a superior arrangement of position players than just plugging the nominal backup SS Diaz in there.

 

why was Diaz called up instead of Kawasaki?

[bendera3]

Well s*** if Donaldson is a viable shortstop then why not give him more starts there now while you're a it? A lineup with Valencia at third and Donaldson at short would just demolish left-handed pitching and then Goins comes in for late inning defense (the role he's best suited for anyways).

 

Donaldson is a good fielder but his arm accuracy is suspect. In that scenario I'd worry about him trying to get to balls on the outskirts of his range and botching a throw. Is Valencia a better 3rd baseman than Donaldson?

[Spanky__99]

How long before we can call him back up, 2 weeks after he was optioned??

 

10 days, unless injury.

[Sammy225]

This whole Donaldson to SS thing reminds me of when we had Glaus on this team and for whatever reason he had to play 1 or 2 innings at SS someone help jog my memory....

[bendera3]

why was Diaz called up instead of Kawasaki?

 

Probably because they didn't expect his stay to be long and the front office didn't want to risk losing Muni but cared less about Diaz.

[Laika]

why was Diaz called up instead of Kawasaki?

 

I was thinking about that this morning and whittled it down to two possibilities: 1) they wanted a more "pure" SS, whereas Kawasaki is more of a 2B, or 2) racism.

 

Leaning option 2.

[Spanky__99]

So they sent Diaz back down, so we have no back-up middle IF.

 

what the fk is this team doing?

 

Valencia?

[Sammy225]

Valencia?

 

He is more or less a Corner IF guy. In a pinch he could likely play 2 bag.

[Laika]

Collabello playing LF tonight with Carerra in right, Jose getting night off, Smoak at 1B.

[KingKat]

Probably because they didn't expect his stay to be long and the front office didn't want to risk losing Muni but cared less about Diaz.

 

Yes DFAing Muni was probably a concern but whether it should have been is I think a question worthy of debate. I mean what is the point of even having Kawa if not to plan for a Reyes injury? If you're afraid to use him in such a scenario because you might lose him then there's a bit of a paradox at play. On the flip side, you could say that a short term injury to Reyes isn't really what you're planning for. You're planning for a long term one and that hasn't happened yet (holy f*** is that ever a depressing but quite possilby valid rationale for not calling up Kawasaki).

[King]

Scott MacArthur ‏@TSNScottyMac 1m1 minute ago

Steve Tolleson clears waivers and is outrighted to AAA Buffalo. #BlueJays #MLB

[KingKat]

Collabello playing LF tonight with Carerra in right, Jose getting night off, Smoak at 1B.

 

Seems like Collabello is here just to make this one start and then Tolleson to replace him. I actually don't mind the move now that it's all becoming clear. Scrapping some kind of backup ss plan together for a single partial game at most is no big deal. I might have timed this a bit differently though to give Bautista the day off before the off day but that's without knowing how he feels.

[bendera3]

Yes DFAing Muni was probably a concern but whether it should have been is I think a question worthy of debate. I mean what is the point of even having Kawa if not to plan for a Reyes injury? If you're afraid to use him in such a scenario because you might lose him then there's a bit of a paradox at play. On the flip side, you could say that a short term injury to Reyes isn't really what you're planning for. You're planning for a long term one and that hasn't happened yet (holy f*** is that ever a depressing but quite possilby valid rationale for not calling up Kawasaki).

 

For all we know Reyes won't be out much longer. If he was going to be out a month or more I can understand bringing up Muni because you could always option Goins to keep him on the roster, but if Reyes is only going to down for a couple weeks I wouldn't want to risk losing Muni, who is versatile, and while maybe not a great hitter, makes pitchers throw a lot of pitches, for only a couple games.

[Spanky__99]

Seems like Collabello is here just to make this one start and then Tolleson to replace him. I actually don't mind the move now that it's all becoming clear. Scrapping some kind of backup ss plan together for a single partial game at most is no big deal. I might have timed this a bit differently though to give Bautista the day off before the off day but that's without knowing how he feels.

 

Everything points that way.

[Atothe]

This whole Donaldson to SS thing reminds me of when we had Glaus on this team and for whatever reason he had to play 1 or 2 innings at SS someone help jog my memory....

 

He definitely did, I think it was more then two innings. 8 games started, 3 complete games and 55 1/2 innings during 2006

[Spanky__99]

He definitely did, I think it was more then two innings. 8 games started, 3 complete games and 55 1/2 innings during 2006

 

Yeah, we were decimated at SS and he had experience in the minors.

[Sorrow]

Yeah, we were decimated at SS and he had experience in the minors.

 

Wasn't it also so we could get whoever was DHing into the line up in interleague games? Hillenbrand at 3B, Glaus at SS and Overbay at 1B is how it went I think.

 

Damn that 2006 team was good. The only hole in the line up was McDonald and Russ Adams off the bench.

[Spanky__99]

Wasn't it also so we could get whoever was DHing into the line up in interleague games? Hillenbrand at 3B, Glaus at SS and Overbay at 1B is how it went I think.

 

Damn that 2006 team was good. The only hole in the line up was McDonald and Russ Adams off the bench.

 

That's not even a bad bench...

[Sammy225]

Yeah, we were decimated at SS and he had experience in the minors.

 

Was this during the Adventures of Russ Adams epidemic????

[Sorrow]

That's not even a bad bench...

 

Reed Johnson (.390 OBP), Gregg Zaun, Russ Adams and Eric Hinske. It was a nice, nice bench.

 

It's a shame we only had 3 good starters that year and Burnett only made 21 starts.

 

It really makes you wonder what might've been with 2007 if we could've had Lilly and Meche with Halladay and Burnett and one of McGowan, Marcum or Litsch who were all pretty good that year.

[Spanky__99]

Was this during the Adventures of Russ Adams epidemic????

 

It was always this with Russ, no? The Yips are ugly, brah.

[Spanky__99]

Reed Johnson (.390 OBP), Gregg Zaun, Russ Adams and Eric Hinske. It was a nice, nice bench.

 

It's a shame we only had 3 good starters that year and Burnett only made 21 starts.

 

It really makes you wonder what might've been with 2007 if we could've had Lilly and Meche with Halladay and Burnett and one of McGowan, Marcum or Litsch who were all pretty good that year.

 

JPR came close!

[DaKiNdLa]

JPR came close!

 

BJ Ryan's first year here. Fap. Man I miss having a real closer. #Clozersroverrated

[Spanky__99]

BJ Ryan's first year here. Fap. Man I miss having a real closer. #Clozersroverrated

 

BJ Ryan was awesome period, until his arm exploded. #pitchersoverrated

[o2cui2i]

I was thinking about that this morning and whittled it down to two possibilities: 1) they wanted a more "pure" SS, whereas Kawasaki is more of a 2B, or 2) racism.

 

Leaning option 2.

 

yeah but Diaz can't double as the teams mascot.