Abomination
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Whenever people talk about stuff like that, I can't get the image out of my mind of a ball bouncing off Canseco's noggin for a home run.
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If Izzy didn't play here this year, he's exactly the kind of low cost bounce back option people would be talking about picking up to play 2nd next year.
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If player A has a .250 average and walks 75 times, and player B has a .290 average and walks 20 times, which do you think is more valuable to the team? The problem is, simple stats like batting average don't tell you stuff like that (and it gets even worse with power vs no power). It's not about the average, it's about the total offensive contribution. Now I actually think Goins may eventually be league average offensively, but you can't just take one stat to determine how he's doing.
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The problem is, you're cherry picking a single stat that doesn't properly represent the value of his offense to the team (and that's to say nothing about luck or small sample size).
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Sidearm knuckleball???
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Maybe we can con Seattle into taking him for Ackley lol.
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It'll be interesting to see what the Yankees do, whether they stick to their previous stance and get under 189M or not. If they do, they may not be big players in the free agent sweeps.
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Sierra raising his trade value a bit here in September.
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Sent mine in a PM
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I'm not sure either really did. Maybe EE, but Jeter could have easily gone in around baseball. Not that it really matters.
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Don't Get Your Hopes Up - Blue Jays Scouted Tanaka (Elliot)
Abomination replied to GD's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I would think more in the 25M range, but hard to say for sure -
Well, prior to this year that player was basically Izzy, and really he probably is due to bounce back towards those numbers. Let's face it, we'd be listing him as a target if we didn't have him this year. If Goins can put up an 80 wRC+ his defense probably makes him close to 2 WAR. I'm not sure there's a need to bring in someone else unless they are a clear upgrade over Izzy (prior to this year), with Goins as the sort of wildcard. We have to use whatever resources we have in the most efficient way possible. If that means we improve the team more by addressing pitching and catcher, and not not having enough left to bring in an obvious upgrade at 2nd, so be it. If it does mean addressing 2nd, then that's preferable.
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I'm not sure how much I want Kendrick, unless we address catcher and pitching first and have money left over. Otherwise, I think I'd rather try and nab someone like Ackley or Infante.
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We're up to 14!
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Great play by Goins!
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Don't Get Your Hopes Up - Blue Jays Scouted Tanaka (Elliot)
Abomination replied to GD's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I don't remember if someone posted it here or it was on mlbtraderumors, but I think they said that while Tanaka has had success, he doesn't have Darvish's overpowering fastball and would more likely be a mid rotation guy. Still, if the posting cost isn't too high ... -
Jeffress is filthy when he's on. Upper 90's sinking fastball with horizontal movement. Too bad he's not on more often.
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Always funny when the home fans boo their own pitcher for an intentional walk (although in fairness Jays fans might outnumber the Twins fans at the park).
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Tank nation or not, it's kind of nice to see someone else's pitchers put them in a big early hole.
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They need to pair Morris up with a sabermetric guy. The contrast between the two should appeal to people on both ends
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Maybe we should get a mod to move this to the main forum for a few days
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I'm definitely game
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Quite an amusing article from Elliott for anyone that didn't see it http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/05/bob-elliott-flies-high-with-blue-jays-gm-alex-anthopoulos-his-son
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Pick your 2014 starting catcher and contract
Abomination replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Buffalo is going to have one hell of a rotation next year. Good thing too, because they may not have any serviceable bats. -
Casey is all over the place this inning. Unusual to see him like this.