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Just need to go 17 and 23 and end up at 80 wins...for the first time all year I believe in this teams ability to make me right.

If anyone hasn't seen the Buxton collision yet, here is the video. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/top-mlb-prospect-byron-buxton-of-minnesota-twins-sustains-concussion-in-collision?content_id=89489710&partnerId=as_mlb_20140814_29727486&vkey=news_mlb&ymd=20140813

I did well with April, May and June...off in July though and August might be close. My sig prediction is doing much better.

supposedly Sean Rodriguez confirmed his godlike super utility status by calling JPA an *******

only one reported post on a sweep...must be too late for the trolls.

It was more of a statement about his "advanced stats ruining the game". Baseball can be enjoyed no matter what aspect you pay close attention to. I personally don't get the guys that watch a ground ball pitcher induce a ground ball that gets through the hole and say "f*** he sucks, why is he in" but I don't harp on them ruining the game or my enjoyment.

Fan Duel announced their iPhone app today. If anyone gets it please give me your review.

My favourite arguments against advanced stats is the usual "just enjoy the game". Moogy slows down a pitchers stride and watches it to analyze it...but mentally noting that there are a lot of hard hit balls that the defense saved the pitcher on, is somehow not enjoying the game. I like scouting players, I should say I like scouting hitters (don't know enough about pitchers to truly scout them), I like advanced stats, and I love to watch a f*** tonne of baseball (that is the actual number of baseball games I watched last season). I am not an anomaly, most hardcore fans are similar to me. I say to each their own and do your best at educating the less educated on the stuff you understand best.

is that leading?

Valbuena, Uribe in trade. Casey McGehee in FA?

I offered him some rehab...the Astros wouldn't have been so nice. and I don't give up my Jelly

hand over some f***ing rehab money and dump him off the 40. No more of this Luis Perez ******** keeping relievers on the 40 man through the off season. I know I'm cold but this is a f***ing business.

This might be one I was seriously wrong on.... Lucas Giolito's 2014 season has been so good that even the obstacles of opposing lineups don't seem to be enough for the right-hander. Now he's creating challenges for himself. The Nationals' top prospect removed his curveball from his arsenal and worked strictly with a fastball-changeup mix Monday. And once again, he was nearly untouchable. Giolito allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out six over five shutout innings as Class A Hagerstown defeated Delmarva, 13-7. "I was talking with my coaches, and I thought that it would be cool to go out there and try to work two-pitch combination," Giolito said. "The main things I'm trying to develop are the consistency to command the fastball to both sides of the plate, low in the zone, and throw the changeup as well for a strikeout -- low, inside, outside." Aiming for "more feel and consistency" with his two selected pitches, Giolito (9-2) had to wait a little longer than normal to get his chance to employ it due to a seven-run Hagerstown top of the first. "I was actually still in the bullpen when [Rafael] Bautista hit a leadoff bomb, and I was like, 'Oh, this is going to be a good day,'" he said. "I could tell from the start. It's always great when the offense is able to support you like that." When he got his turn, Giolito diced through Delmarva's lineup. The 20-year-old surrendered two-out singles to Drew Dosch and Creede Simpson in the first and third and walked Chance Sisco and Jared Breen in the fourth, but none of the Shorebirds' four baserunners made it past first. "Defensively, [my team] did a great job," Giolito said. "There were a few hard-hit balls that guys were able to make great plays on. [shortstop] David [Masters] made an unreal play, a diving stop on a ground ball that turned into a double play. That was huge in the second inning. It kind of just got everything moving along really nicely." Throughout the win, Giolito was able to keep Delmarva's hitters off balance, thanks to a rhythm he found with catcher Spencer Kieboom. "We were able to get a good mix going, throw the changeup in the right situation when guys were cheating fastball," he said. "In a fastball count, I threw a lot of changeups. I threw the fastball inside when necessary and outside when necessary. I even through a couple high. We just had really good sequences set up the entire game." Wilmer Difo led the Suns with five hits in six trips to the plate and Carlos Lopez hit a two-run homer as part of his game-high four RBIs. A 2014 Futures Game selection, Giolito has accomplished a lot in his 19 outings with the Suns. Though he falls short of the innings qualification for the South Atlantic League's ERA race, Giolito's 2.23 mark would place him second in the circuit in that category. His 105 strikeouts are fourth-most in the league, and the righty has twice been named South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week. Nevertheless, Giolito isn't content to simply go through the same motions every start. "There's definitely goals that I set for myself every time I go out there," he said. "I want to improve as a pitcher every time I go out. There's never a start where I'm just going out there and trying to win the game. There's certain little aspects I like to work on. Obviously, we're in Minor League Baseball, so you're trying to develop as a player. All of us are. We all have things we want to work on, and I just want to go out and do that every time as well as try to put up zeros and get the 'W' for the team." As for his next outing, Giolito hasn't determined what personal challenge will await. "I'm not fully sure yet. I'm going to go into my next bullpen, side work and keep working on things and see what my next goal for my next start is. As long as we keep winning, we'll be having fun."

I didn't realize we were talking about a fantasy world. Jays aren't going to go from not giving out 5 or more year contracts to being in on the biggest FA's in the game. There is no doubt that the Jays are better with Lester and Sanchez. I just don't think it's at all realistic.

He's Beeston's drinking buddy, pretty sure he occasionally writes what Beest asks him to.

and this exaggeration from that article. "After Chad Jenkins pitched one of the best games in Blue Jays history on Sunday"

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I'm not sure if you all are advocating trading Dickey and Buehrle to gain payroll flexibility but if you do that this team has lost it's biggest asset they had this year...pitching depth. You can't move 450 innings and replace them with pitchers that have never hit 140 innings and take away most of the minor league starting options at the same time. Well you can do it, but it's a really dangerous move and you hare hoping for 2005 White Sox lightning in a bottle. Having pitching depth this year is what has allowed guys like Jenkins and Sanchez to come up and provide a little value to the pen. I'm certainly not against moving one of Dickey or Buehrle if the right deal comes along but no way should or will the team move both. Not to mention there is poor optics in moving Buehrle at least.

I think what he's saying is that the 5.5 runs per game team that the Jays were in May is not an indicator as their true talent. EE's streak was a big part of that, and as great as EE can be, he's not always going to be that good. The bigger thing is that we'll probably never see a streak like that from Francisco ever again. Using your O's comp (a team that I still struggle to believe is as talented as their output) they will probably never get similar output from a guy like Steve Pearce who suddenly in June/July was more than a lefty killer and hit everyone.

Ray Hanson (Angels) perfect through 7. Gives up a HR in the 8th.

An 8-3 putout in the National Youth baseball Championship. http://mlb.mlb.com/images/9/5/6/88928956/NYBCthrow_3l36qgm8.gif

ftfy

Seems JPA was bothered by the Astros mascot making fun of him in the on deck circle yesterday...so today he decided to troll him. I have a new favourite mascot.

Something I failed to do in the PL this week.

even if he hit it out it would have been a two RBI situation as Melky came back and gave him the chest bump