G-Snarls

I think there's enough money and resolve for the Blue Jays to be a contender next year. Heck, if we could have won 5-6 more games in April I'd say we have a good shot this year with a solid trade deadline move and reinforcements coming.

Padres appear to have signed Renfroe: Padres To Sign First-Rounder Hunter Renfroe by Mark Polishuk, Jul 8 at 4:57 PM CST The Padres are close to signing first-round draft pick Hunter Renfroe, as MLB.com's Corey Brock reports (via Twitter) that the Mississippi State outfielder is in San Diego today to take his physical. Once the physical is passed and the deal is signed, Renfroe will report to the Padres' short-season A ball affiliate later this week. Renfroe is advised by McKinnis Sports Management. No terms of the deal are known, though the 13th overall pick carries an assigned slot value of $2.678MM. The Padres have agreed to terms with the rest of their picks from the first 10 rounds and are roughly $83K under their assigned draft pool budget, so it's possible this extra money could be used to give Renfroe a slightly-above slot deal. (Tip of the cap to Baseball America for the previous two links.) Renfroe, 21, was originally a 31st-round pick for the Red Sox in the 2010 draft but he instead chose to attend Mississippi State and ended up improving his draft stock considerably. Baseball America ranked Renfroe as the 11th-best prospect of the 2013 draft class, while ESPN's Keith Law ranked him 12th and MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo ranked him 28th. Renfroe projects as a right fielder due to his strong throwing arm and plus speed. The right-handed hatter has "outstanding raw power" according to MLB.com's scouting report and has "progressed tremendously at the plate" in college, though "there's still some swing and miss to his game." Once Renfroe's deal is finalized, he will be the 29th of the 33 first-round picks from the 2013 draft to sign contracts.

Unfortunately Red Sox are in pretty good shape

Not that simple. Spend more money yes, maybe. But the team has to remain profitable or his boss/the board of directors at Rogers is not happy.

This works great:

He's too young, big and healthy for it to be purely physical. I think it's focus/mental fatigue or luck.

Why wait?

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Cashman can (rightfully) use the injury excuse this year. But I don't see how he can turn this thing around for 2014.

I'll cut the FO some slack on this fact - no one, not one single GM would have ever thought Johnson and Dickey could possibly have been this bad. By some measures we got really unlucky. Both were in the riskier end in terms of acquisitions but its been ridiculous.

Shits + giggles

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http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2013_07_08_dbcafa_dunafa_1&t=g_box&sid=milb

Done No hitter vs Sanchez Booo!!!

I'm sure most of us would do the same thing

These guys are shameless. LOL.

Exactly. It's all hindsight. Some guys we have clamored for have been very good non-signings too. You never know. In retrospect I wish we'd gotten Darvish, that's all.

Manny has started playing, went 1-3 in his AAA debut: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-baseball/22675100

Holy s***! #FrugalAnthopoulos

I've voted Delabar and Puig aplenty

So true And the one guy we DID get that off season (Santos) has been a complete bust so far too

I don't know that at all I am speculating Just a cumulative feeling from what all the writers said, and the way Rogers dealt with it the day the signing was announced.

Pretty sure they were. We will never know but I'm pretty convinced the Rangers just oubit them by about $10M. (Just speculation on my part)