Jimcanuck

Looking like the Jays are gonna more less run with what they have. Ticket sales must be good enough, I guess.

short term gain for long term pain approach old, aging roster and f*** up the prospects

Similar plate discipline, Berti has more speed, and better defensively

Berti has better offensive tools while being similarly skilled in defense. More speed and base stealing ability, more plate discipline, and more versatile

+1..... the bottom half of the roster is going to kill this team

Nah, Berti can play like 6 positions... he's going to be a supersub, AAAA similar to Airmiles McCoy

might have to do what someone else suggested and find some mediocre starters for peanuts and toss them in the bullpen... find some s*** that sticks

every professional athlete these days has makeup issues..... no such thing as a perfect human being hell, even a guy many thought was the epitome of class and goodwill, Bill Cosby, is being revealed as far less than perfect also, random stupid comments by dumbass commentators are commonplace in the digital age

well, its Smoak we are talking about here, a guy with home run power. 20 additional feet is significant in this case. not so much for say a Goins at what point is it significant..... varies by player

at one point I thought RR was a gamer, a 1A and could be traded with a secondary piece to the Reds for Votto

Of course you would, so would I. my post is in response to a couple of earlier ones suggesting Hutch can be a #1

damn, good mechanics

not as high on Hutch as some others.... see him more as a Jim Clancy type, solid #3 did not see dominance to Stroman level to warrant a 1 or 2 tag

Not sure 'needed' is the right word. At the time, MB, Johnson, Morrow, Romero, Happ were all on the team. No one knew the depth of suckage 4 of the 5 would turn out to be in 2013. But the point is, holding on to d'Arnaud and Syndergaard was, by f***ing FAR, the better move to make.

How long before the Bautista - Cabrera dustup?

you say it was a bad trade, and also say you can't damn it * head scratcher *

From MLB.COM: When the Mets received Syndergaard from the Blue Jays in the December 2012 R.A. Dickey trade, the hope was he'd eventually develop into a frontline starter. After two seasons in the system, a 2013 start in the Futures Game and a year in Triple-A (along with a second Futures Game appearance), the former supplemental first-round pick was knocking on the big league door entering the 2015 season. A big, strong classic power right-hander, Syndergaard combines plus fastball velocity with outstanding command and control. He can crank his fastball up to 98 mph and will run it in on right-handed hitters. Syndergaard will add and subtract from his curve, giving hitters different looks. His changeup improved in 2014, giving him a third above-average offering. He's always been around the plate, having walked just 2.6 per nine innings through the 2014 season while striking out 10. He's a good athlete and repeats his delivery well, throwing downhill consistently from his 6-foot-6 frame. Syndergaard never wavered from his gameplan in 2014, even when faced with pitching in the hitting haven that is Las Vegas, and he showed improvement results-wise in the second half. That put the 22-year-old on the precipice of joining the other young arms in the Mets rotation in 2015. Damn that f***ing Dickey trade - could have been Stroman, Hutchison, Syndergaard, Norris all frontline starters and cost controlled, and more on the way!

that's rather ambitious, most will wash out of baseball

yes but not favourably

I'm talking about the little jump and reset. Carter and Bench moved very little once the pitcher got set.

look at all the movement by Navarro as Norris goes through his windup.... shouldn't he be offering a stable target?

I have the right, and I judge you completely cuckoo

Bautista and Osuna for Strasburg and Desmond

someone forgot his meds

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