TheHurl

I often post when I'm at games and where I am, I have posted meet ups with people on these boards often. If you want to come to one of those and have a drink and a laugh over what happens on the board, then please come along. If you want a fight or even an argument, don't bother as I won't be partaking, it's a messageboard.

I'm not here to police language and swearing but I can tell you that Auntie JPA is indeed a female poster.

Debbie Rauter, love her approach.

Love the scores on the top. Would be great if you could get inning on there

You mean that a bullpen which pitched a bunch of innings overperforming their metrics might not be as good in the second half...why didn't any of us see this coming

Should we do some kind of a fundraiser to pay for it (I can run one that gives us a $300 balance in about 3 days)? I know I could pay for my other league and get the second league discount as well. I love the hitter vs. pitcher match-up stats being right there when you set your lineup as well. Yahoo is so simple because so many people run multiple leagues out of there but if people are willing to change I'd be up for it.

I've been trying to say this for a while now but I do think that what everyone else is saying and thinking is why not try and see what he's got. I've said all along though that no one hits lefties in the minors like he has (.367/.402/.536, and improving each year) without being able to hit major league lefties at an above average clip. Statistically Jeff Keppinger is an amazing comp for him and if Pillar could play as many positions as Keppinger I'd say he'd have a long MLB career. Contact! Pillar will strike out half as often as KN. If they ever got a 500 PA season that's 50ish extra balls in play.

At this point he might not get claimed and stay with the Jays

While I don't think it's a prudent move to add anyone who doesn't need to be added, Moises Sierra has zero role on this team and is out of options next year. Dumping him and adding Pillar wouldn't be the worst move AA has done. I do believe that it's Pillar or Stroman though adding both seems like a mess in an already messy 40, especially since there are players that I think many of us would dump which this F.O. are going to keep.

I love the word. I wrote something 15 years ago on the word and it's origins and how fascinating it was that no one can identify the proper origin but yet it can offend so many people. If you say it was a soft c, it becomes a lovable work that can offend no one.

I completely understand why AA made the deal. It was almost non lose for him with the buzz it created. I didn't like the deal and would have rather saw many smaller deals but if I was running this team it would still be a below .500 team and probably averaging 10K less a game (maybe more if I had enough power to make it less child friendly of an environment around the park...first 15,000 fans get Blue Jays clit rings night). The Dickey deal gets a lot of the hate but from a pure value point of view it looked better than the Marlins deal...I thought it was complete overkill though. They had on paper improved the team with the Marlins deal, I thought that even if they didn't believe in Syndergaard and TdA as much as I did, that they should wait and see where the team was first before getting rid of all their depth.

I'd rather he doesn't face lefties either but then again I'd prefer he be dealt. Oakland has shown what you can do with straight platoons, TB has shown what you can do by taking platoon splits to a new level...but I'm not expecting our F.O. to be able to figure things out beyond lefty and Righty

Lind OBP by month April - .397 May - .409 June - .362 July - .263 August .297 And remember when the media (Zaun) was clamoring for him to see more lefties...he's back to .227/.247/.307 in 77 PA's against lefties. He's now a .602 OPS against lefties for 832 PA's. After rejecting his option, prey on his living in Canada and offer him a one year $5M contract and straight platoon him with Pillar. Build his value with only playing against righties and then if Pillar is half way successful they can deal Lind.

those trades sold tickets so probably wouldn't lead to a firing in any market in the world. Value is a thing. A player very similar to Hech was traded for a top 25 pitching prospect who was major league ready (talking about Gregorius for Bauer, while Bauer has been bad he still has more upside than anyone the Jays got and is not expensive if he doesn't reach his potential). Escobar it's forgivable to deal cause he was done with this H.O. no matter what. We'll say his value was what the Marlins got for him which is still a 2B better than Boni. Henderson Alvarez is a ground ball machine who will thrive in that park. As I said at the time he'd outperform JJ and Buehrle together over their time with the Jays (watch out when he starts K'ing more the 6 a game which despite the lack of history I believe he will do). Marisnick I was huge on at one time but I still think he's got to improve the K rate to be successful but still has a lot of potential and put himself back into legit prospect category. Nicolino is a deceptive lefty type that I really think would "get caught up to" in a second go around in the majors but if he can give them one good season in Florida it still might be better than what JJ did. But you're right the rest of the guys are nothing

You are the most annoying f***ing poster on this board {no sarcasm] please post here from now on...http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ml-bluejays

stay classy Phillies

Rios is never a sure thing to do anything though. He goes through another bout of depression and the Rangers are getting nothing from him.

i love it when Bowden looks like an idiot Jim Bowden of ESPN.com and SiriusXM reports that the chances of the Rangers making a trade for Alex Rios are "smaller than a bread basket." Garcia is interesting to me. 80 speed, 70 arm good instincts can play every position but pitcher and catcher. If it weren't for his 20 brain he'd be a real player. He's more Sean Rodriguez like though

He signed that after just 750 PA's so this was just buying out his arbitration years, while he would have done much better it's not like he cost himself a huge FA contract. Pretty sure he qualified for the super two so he's getting the higher of the two contracts listed.

I don't see it happening. They locked him up to 2017 and their only catching prospect is only 19 and really struggling behind the plate.

I bought a Rays shirt while I was in the States (went to one store that had jerseys for 28 teams, only two that they didn't was the Rays and Marlins...although the Astros they had was the old school Stros), I'm ready to rep the Rays fans and be super loud when they come in for the last series of the year. Who's with me???

only site I have that tracks all prospects (even has undrafted high school guys in the system) is CBS...but it's a pay site.

I was in Erie tonight watching Erie vs. Trenton (missed Syndergaard who is going in the next series against Erie). Had 4th row right behind the radar gun and David Phelps was charting the game right in front of me. Really liked the way Nik Turley pitched but he barely hit 90 on the legit gun once. Gary Sanchez was the biggest prospect in the game and had an up and down game. Hit every ball hard, then when I had a great angle filming him he got nailed by a pitch. In the bottom of the 9th, with Trenton up by one Slade Heathcote fires a ball at the plate and nails the runner by 10 feet. He runs into Sanchez who doesn't even come close to covering the glove with the right hand (maybe something that the Yankees told him to protect) and the ball flies loose. They lose the game on the next play with another throw to the plate and the left fielder air mails home and Erie wins. I have a lot of pics and video but my hotel is brutally slow with the upload.