G-Snarls

Agree. We get people reporting posters all the time "this is Dogg/Zee I know it!" Well sometimes they're right and sometime they're not. We've gotten better at figuring out who is a legit new member vs a re spawned troll. We're not perfect but much better.

Davidi on his recent triple and how much more confident he feels running this year: http://bit.ly/1idNowB

Interesting observation. Not sure how to explain.

She/he hasn't been banned. hasn't done anything wrong.

Davidi speckin' the truth Listen to him AA

Yep. And if/when Morrow or someone else goes on DL you have Happ or Stroman to step in.

Davidi: Really, there is no excuse at this point for general manager Alex Anthopoulos not to aggressively pursue the free-agent right-hander and stabilize a rotation that badly needs another supporting pillar, especially with J.A. Happ’s back woes and dodgy command leaving a substantial crack in a shaky foundation. Up until the events of the past few days – when shifts within Santana’s representation seem to have left the 31-year-old with Jay Alou as his agent – a reasonable case could be made against anteing up the roughly $50 million over four years he was believed to be seeking. As Anthopoulos, speaking in general terms, put it on Feb. 20, “It’s a comparison, how much better are they than what you have? We have to make that evaluation. Term and dollars are important. You like every player, but at certain years and dollars they don’t make sense for us.” But on a one-year deal, the conversation shifts dramatically on a number of fronts. First and foremost, adding Santana would allow the Blue Jays to run out a rotation of him, R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Brandon Morrow and Drew Hutchison without depending on Happ to play a substantial role. One of Happ, Esmil Rogers or Todd Redmond could then serve as the long man/sixth starter out of the bullpen, while buying more development time for Marcus Stroman and more recovery time for Kyle Drabek. ... Ultimately, though, there’s no arguing that the Blue Jays would be a better team with Santana on it, and it makes business sense to spend an extra $8-$12 million to support the roughly $135 million in payroll commitments already in place. Go boom or bust in 2014, since if things go awry the current Blue Jays core will probably need to be turned over, anyway.

Davidi: Jays have perfect opportunity to land Santana http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/jays-have-perfect-opportunity-to-land-santana/

There's just ZERO reason not to now. No longer wanting a 4 year deal. Drabek and Happ sucking. He's presumably quite happy to sign here. Sign him 1 year 12-13M, then as long as he's decent a QO giving us another single year of him or a draft pick.

Boooooo

One good game? He has those occasionally.

Ditto Well played BTS, as usual

The other odd thing is that last year we were yelling for Happ to make the team and this year we're yelling for him NOT to. I guess last year Ricky was his only competition. This year there are better alternatives.

LOL. That's all the people who were worried, sitting in that section?

I mean I expect JP to have a few good games and probably steal one from Toronto with a "clutch" 3 run HR. But he's not getting significantly better.

No one was worried

I would have gone with: cat filler

Awesome dude!! That's great!

Agree. They REALLY should have added a free agent starter this off season and called these guys up when needed.

LOL. That was so painful last year. We were losing our minds, so was Happ, and then when they FINALLY announced it was going to be Happ then Ricky was pissed.

Yeah Incan see an agent still asking for patience but FFS these guys want to sign and play f*** it would be nice to sign Santana and Drew on short deals right now

Hutch: "He’s off to a great start. He’s opened some eyes and he’s a strong candidate to make the rotation. He still has to make it, but I love what I see.” That's about as close as AA can get to saying Hutch is going to make it

I presume it's all Q and no A?