TheHurl

Looking to add a reliever and starter. Picks, prospects, Mesoraco, Lake and Eovaldi are all in play if you are looking to get younger

I knew I'd find a good box score from Jimyball. http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1988/B05020SEA1988.htm I actually wouldn't be opposed to the Jays doing this.

on the lineup card for tonight's game has Lawrie and Izturis listed as 4/5 5/4 http://blogimages.thescore.com/djf/files/2013/07/LineupLawrieIzturis.jpg Does he move Lawrie to 2B for lefties? It's very Jimy Williams of a move if this is the case...it's also possible Gibbons is trying to bring a little levity to the clubhouse

and your reason for that thinking is???

I truly hate that he's stuck with us this long. Just dump him and hope he clears waivers.

Not sure what you are talking about

I dropped Wily in a couple of pools, right at the end of June

clear win for HRT...sorry I'll stop talking baseball now.

People have to stop assuming that AA and the Jays are going to look for value. He's going to look at the overall budget and if JJ fits into it, chances are he makes the QO (and in his mind gets a chance to prove that he was right.

Exactly just like John Lackey can't pitch in the AL East and put up a 6.00 ERA. Clay Buchholz and his 4.56 ERA doesn't deserve a penny because he can't pitch in the AL East. Ivan Nova and his 5.00 ERA proved last year that he wasn't AL East worthy. Glad someone gets it.

At the start of the season JJ's agent was thinking $80M...all JJ would have to do is pitch well the second half of the season and he'll be in a 3 year contract range.

I guess all the Deadpool supporters are missing that he's from the Shwa.

If the Jays sign a Free Agent who turned down a QO, yes they would lose the 11th pick (if that rule remains for this year I can't remember, someone can confirm)

Top 10 in losses Blanton, Hamels, EJax, Dickey, R. Hernandez, Lincecum, Medlen, Harrell, Sale, H. Bailey vs. Top 10 in wins Scherzer, Moore, Wainwright, Corbin, Colon, Zimmerman, Tillman, King Felix, Masterson, Lynn really could make a case for either side next year.

I just have the ability to edit people's votes. f*** the campaigning...cheating is easier.

nope it's a 1 year offer. Here's a quick writeup with 2012 references to teams Explaining Qualifying Offers By Ben Nicholson-Smith [November 2, 2012 at 8:13am CST] For the first time since baseball’s collective bargaining agreement was finalized, teams, agents and players will navigate a new system for determining free agent compensation: qualifying offers. The offers are due today, so there’s no better time for a refreshed primer. Here’s a look at draft pick compensation under the sport’s new CBA: Type A and Type B designations have been eliminated. Instead, teams will have to make players a qualifying offer to be eligible for draft pick compensation. The value of the qualifying offer, which is determined annually by averaging the top 125 player salaries from the previous year, will be worth $13.3MM this offseason. All qualifying offers are for the same duration (one year) and the same amount ($13.3MM for 2012-13). Teams have until five days after the World Series to make qualifying offers. At that point the players have seven days to accept. Once a team makes a qualifying offer, the player has two choices: he can accept the one-year deal or decline in search of other offers. If he declines the offer and signs elsewhere, his new team will have to surrender a top draft pick (the selection doesn't go to the player's former team). Teams that sign free agents who turned down qualifying offers will surrender their first round picks. However, the forfeited picks don't go to other MLB teams. Instead, the first round simply becomes condensed. The first ten selections in the draft are protected. Teams with protected picks will surrender their second-highest selections. The Astros, Cubs, Rockies, Twins, Indians, Marlins, Red Sox, Royals and Blue Jays have protected first round picks this offseason. The Pirates' ninth overall selection (compensation for failing to sign their 2012 first rounder) is also protected. The player’s former team will receive its compensatory selection at the end of the first round. Teams now obtain one compensatory selection, instead of two. If teams don’t make a qualifying offer, the player can sign uninhibited. Only players who have been with their clubs for the entire season will be eligible for compensation.

should have done this from the start...way too many people interrupting my poker tourney with reporting this guy. thread closed.

Jake Peavy 2010 4.63 ERA 3.91 xFIP Jake Peavy 2011 4.92 ERA 3.52 xFIP rewarded with a 2 year $29M contract Jake Peavy 2012 3.37 ERA 3.91 xFIP Jake Peavy 2013 about to land the White Sox some sweet prospects. Don't pay players for what they've done, pay players for what they will do.

rather than be a dick about it I'll try and answer this in a calm matter. This is where reading more into the stats is important. Has JJ given up far too many runs in his games with the Jays so far? Yes, absolutely. What is more important is how many runs should JJ give up moving forward! RR was walking more, striking out less, giving up more hits, giving up more HR's and his velocity was down. All those are bad signs. JJ's peripherals are not that different than his past, so while it's not an automatic that he'll return to form there is hope that can and will.

There isn't a team in the majors that would play Pillar over the FA signee Cabrera who, while annoying to many of us, has played through his injuries all year and is just now coming back apparently healthy. If Cabrera gets hurt again or suspended then I'm not opposed to Pillar getting a full time chance (I do believe in his bat, at a minimum against lefties). Outside of an injury, why bring him up? Let him get his reps in AAA, let him work on playing all 3 OF positions, so if he is our 4th OF he is more valuable to us..or even if he's a starting OF.

haven't read the thread once.

I think the average BB rate is 8.5%

King Kalfus thread is over 20 pages now, intelligent conversation is not based on responses around here. #sizedoesntmatter

velocity is up, K-Rate is up, BB Rate is down. HR rates are way up which can be explained partially by the Rogers Centre (where he's given up 8 of his 11). His road numbers are ugly 7.66 ERA (despite better K-Rates on the road and lower BB rates), he's had a 43% LOB rate on the road...no one can sustain that bad of a rate. Why are righties killing him to a rate of a .405 wOBA, when he's handled them throughout his career. Jays figure that out and they should get much more respectable numbers from him.

I'll admit some people are a little too quick to jump down a differing view and I've probably done it as well. But we got very used to this very stuff on the other board, this poster isn't looking to debate, he isn't looking to educate, he's looking to incite a reaction, which is why I reply with jokes rather than baseball talk