General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread

[Boxcar]

He broke his foot, not any time soon.

 

I've never wished injury on any player but I hope he breaks it again

[Spanky99]

I've never wished injury on any player but I hope he breaks it again

 

Booooooo... I think the birds would do the right thing and DFA Goins.

[Jonn]

Booooooo... I think the birds would do the right thing and DFA Goins.

 

They will never DFA Goins.

[Boxcar]

They will never DFA Goins.

 

I have learned to live with this unfortunate truth

[Dick_Pole]

Until each and every one of you f***s line up single file and personally apologize to Gruber for being right, Goins will not be released from this team. The day you do that is the day he gets released and no longer sticks. The ball's in your court f***ers.

[Spanky99]

Until each and every one of you f***s line up single file and personally apologize to Gruber for being right, Goins will not be released from this team. The day you do that is the day he gets released and no longer sticks. The ball's in your court f***ers.

 

You're talking Karma, really?

[Brownie19]

Jays seen scouting Sonny Gray.

[Spanky99]

Jays seen scouting Sonny Gray.

 

Or Chad Pinder... both make sense.

[Boxcar]

Jays seen scouting Sonny Gray.

 

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[P2F]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This made my night!

[Captain Adama]

I really don't care if the Jays pay for him like a mid of the rotation starter.

[Spanky99]

I really don't care if the Jays pay for him like a mid of the rotation starter.

 

Who Gray?

[Pendleton]

Or Chad Pinder... both make sense.

 

Jed Lowrie perhaps?

 

Edit - he's been hurt so probably not

[Spanky99]

Jed Lowrie perhaps?

 

Edit - he's been hurt so probably not

 

Yup... pay low though.

[Jonn]

Yup... pay low though.

 

[Spanky99]

 

Is that Ball's dad?

[Spanky99]

lol... no more man! Nothing gets by me.

[G-Snarls]

[G-Snarls]

[G-Snarls]

Then again...

 

[G-Snarls]

Aaron Sanchez starting his rehab assignment

 

Pitching for Dunedin tonight

[TholesWeirdEye]

Aaron Sanchez starting his rehab assignment

 

Pitching for Dunedin tonight

 

http://i.imgur.com/9AS705u.gif

[Candy Maldonado]

Zeke is back!

 

The Jays are slow: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard?year=2017&position=&team=TOR

[bones10]

Then again...

 

 

True.... but we're a different team than the one fielded for most of april may... would wait a bit longer to make a good judgement on whether this year is a lost cause or not

[jerb]

 

Bob McCown‏

@FadooBobcat

 

Jays trying to re-sign Michael Saunders. Would likely send him to Buffalo, at least for a while.

[Bobthe4th]

 

Bob McCown‏

@FadooBobcat

 

Jays trying to re-sign Michael Saunders. Would likely send him to Buffalo, at least for a while.

 

Minor league deal would be fine. Anything more = no thanks.

[Krylian]

2016 All Star. Michael Saunders. What a steal that would be.

[Dick_Pole]

Then again...

 

 

That's only fair if we compare injury time to-date as well with players that are now back in the line-up. The Jays had some pretty AAA-worthy teams responsible for that -22. The point of the 2015 comparison is to suggest that there is a lot of time and that the Yankees are s*****, over rated chokers.

[LGBJ29]

where do you city folks print off stubhub tickets downtown

[metafour]

That's only fair if we compare injury time to-date as well with players that are now back in the line-up. The Jays had some pretty AAA-worthy teams responsible for that -22. The point of the 2015 comparison is to suggest that there is a lot of time and that the Yankees are s*****, over rated chokers.

 

No, the comparison is really stupid. That 2015 team quite obviously had a historically strong offense. By comparison, even "when healthy" this year's offense isn't even in the same ballpark. Yes, you can use the claim that pitching injuries have hurt our run differential this year, which they have, but you need to also then go back to 2015 and realize that in the same reference point (~first half of the season) we were actually a below-average pitching team in 2015. So in reality that +87 run differential was created almost entirely by the offense. Do you want to argue that a couple of injuries to Donaldson/Tulo/etc. is the ONLY difference between the first half offensive output in 2015 and 2017? That is silly, as even with Donaldson and Tulo back we are quite obviously an average-at-best offense this year. By comparison that 2015 team was first in Team wOBA and had scored nearly 80 more runs than the next highest scoring team (which is also almost the exact positive run differential they had...) in the 1st half of the season. We are 23rd and 26th by those metrics this season, and it ain't because Devon Travis is injured.