TheHurl

I know not a lot are on this at work and we've never really discussed nudity in the mod boards but if anyone complains I'll remove that and the posts that quoted it. It's a small pic so it's probably less offensive than a big bikini pic of Selena Gomez to anyone that is actually at work.

she was raped by Walt? She's not a disney girl is she, I thought she was a nick girl?

AJ is one of the coolest small c Canadian Celebrities I've ever met, which isn't a huge list but still it's more than 20. I'll agree on the attractiveness too

All true and Spanky completely agreed with me (the surgeries he has gone through he knows it) but I think he was just asking if I've seen the documentary though. Which I have not yet. Not sure why I haven't

2 minutes into the Rays game and it's already more excitement than the Jays game.

email or PM me. I might be interested. I only have pitchers I like at this point and I don't deal well in pitchers.

okay that wasn't a cheap groundball

Can I still pine for TdA?

I didn't have to wait for the IP report we have that one memorized.

See ya Clown. At least try a new gig when you come back.

Nice start to your account here. Hope you aren't on the dup accounts report. I'll have you gone by tonight.

That's an impressive run by Ramirez. There better be no one not running out flyballs tonight

Then maybe you should say that. I've been saying since day 1 of the trade. A pitcher getting hitters to make weak contact is going to be successful over the long run.

Where the f*** was all this defensive awareness when some of the smarter posters were saying "defense is a thing" for all those years?

I always love the groundball hits getting through and fans immediately start ripping the pitcher.

He should have pretended he dropped and catch someone napping and not going back to the base. They can't see

A little surprised that Sandberg just signed for $775K...I'm find it hard to believe that so many teams would let him go in the 2nd if they knew that was his number, well done by the Phillies

He's at every autograph signing hours early from what I understand. I think it's great that he's not only thrived on twitter (4,230 followers, almost all baseball players and fans) but he even appears to have got himself a woman.

The draft seriously needs to be abolished. Jonah Keri had a nice little Grantland article on it (admittedly stolen idea from David Rawnsley from about 10 years ago) . Just have signing pools for all amateurs, just like the international pools. Everyone is a free agent...but the teams have limits on what they can spend, worst teams get more to spend. Every player can see their value from every single team, if they don't get their number they go to college.

He can refuse to allow them to draft him a second time. Just as he could have done with the Pirates or the Tigers. I don't see them not having a good idea what he wants this time around and he'll sign at a price where it allows them to sign everyone. Boras has a great relationship with Luhnow and my guess is they agree to an underslot value with a callup this year.

In some ways you need to be a little more aggressive with international signees. He's already three years into his development now which means that he has to be added to the 40 man by the end of 2015. You'd likely give him his first full right to the end and attempt to make the squad spring in spring training. Until then I don't think it really matters what level you play him at.

yep. Just saying the word Agent is enough to lose your scholarship. Especially this statement " but we had been talking to him a little bit and he said he had been trying to work out a deal with the Blue Jays.". I'm not even 100% sure he's supposed to publicly say that he had a pre-draft offer...but while against MLB rules, MLB would look stupid pursuing any team for that as absolutely everyone does it.

If anyone could repair that "hole" they'd be making millions as a batting coach. Snider was always thought to be a guy who's power would develop huge so there probably wasn't a huge concern about the K's (as I've always said there are two ways a hitter can get away with a big K-Rate, Lots of HR's or a big BABIP. I was huge on Snider when he was a prospect because I thought he'd hit 30+ HR's every year. The power didn't develop and whether it is because of stubbornness, uncoachability or just the swing isn't as good as what was anticipated. He was supposed to be a guy that would kill FB's...turns out he's really not good against any FB, especially up in the zone...and he just can't lay off of them. We don't really get O-Contact rates (contact on swings on pitches outside of the strike zone) until AAA and I understand the triple A stuff isn't overly accurate. to sum it up, doesn't make contact on pitches outside of the zone, so no sense cutting down his swing as it probably won't help a guy like him. So keep swinging hard and hope the power develops was the plan of attack for him. Didn't work

http://www.truebluefan.com/news/one-on-one-with-clinton-hollon/ Jays must have had a pre-draft deal cause after reading this interview from two days ago they had him over a barrel as he would have lost his scholarship over this interview. Will be very disappointing if he did indeed sign for slot. Hollon: I was actually heading back from the state game and I got a call from my agent, Rob Martin and he told me the Toronto Blue Jays wanted to take me in the second round. I tried to call my dad and he didn't answer because one of the local scouts with the Texas Rangers came to the house because he wanted to watch them [Rangers] take me on the screen; but, as soon as my dad was shaking his hand coming into the house the Blue Jays announced that they took me and I got that call so they [my family] said they got to celebrate it with the Rangers, instead of me

Similar enough to what I'm hearing though.