GeorgiaPeach

As Dane Cook would say....."dream it, you f***in' dreamer."

Sil, any interest in taking over a team that was just given up in another 30 team league?

Isn't Florida one of America's hotbed for baseball players? Isn't Quebec a hotbed for the NHL and hockey players?

No need to insult. The forum is moderated well, aside from the few morons who made their way over from the old forum early on.

Agreed.

It's not really blaming. I don't think the interest in either Vancouver or Montreal is sustainable for a MLB team. The only thing I've ever trashed Montreal about as a city, is the stadium and its location. Everything else I did while there, hotel, restaurants & casino we're all great, so I'd be foolish to comment on something negatively that I didn't have a negative experience with.

So I'm supposed to listen to Canadians suggest MLB locate teams into mediocre Canadian markets from current mediocre markets? Now that's comical.

It could be a twisted story line where Trouble With the Curve intersects with Wherever I Wind Up. A ridiculous story of the geriatric scout, scouting the Jays to a WS title and that scout reminiscing to throwing an 8 year old boy a curve.

Just like the baseball team there.

Hopefully they don't leave out the hardship he inflicted on his wife, by cheating on her.

And hopefully the phone keeps ringing.

It would be a longshot of that happening. But hey, in a hypothetical scenario, what's one year??? It's not like it took long for Canadian hockey fans to realize their teams aren't very good. Most Canadians seem to enjoy watching American teams in the later rounds now anyways.

I don't understand why a team can't be re-located within another team's territorial rights (eg. Brooklyn), and have MLB compensate the the teams who "may" be losing out on "lost revenue/profit" (Yankees and/or Mets).

I wonder if there'll ever be a time people will want him traded. Or are we riding him out to retirement?

I won't be attending. Jaysblue likes making stuff up. One game at the Big O was enough for me.

Because JP doesn't know how to call a game. When the difference between the CH & The FB keeps getting smaller and smaller, the "mistakes" become less frequent and the change is no longer a change and starts getting battered. His SL which was traditionally a bread & butter pitch was a lot more hittable last year and for some reason he increased the use of his Two-Seamer which has never really been a successful pitch of his.

Coming back from not pitching for 8-9 months? I'd say its initially more difficult coming back from not pitching for 8-9 months than it is pitching through a nagging injury without a break in pitching.

My thoughts on this conversation are: In rudimentary terms: Josh Johnson had been a very good pitcher prior to joining the Jays. Johnson was pitching injured in 2013 and his stuff has been declining since peaking in late 2010. The variance between his CH & FB has been gradually shrinking the past few years as well leading to the CH looking more and more similar to the FB. So with hitters sitting on a pedestrian FB and being more hittable, and the CH being less of a weapon, mistakes are more likely to be hit harder. In 2013 Josh Johnson was horrible, but not as bad as he would've been, if he wasn't injured. If Johnson gets healthy after this strain I expect him to pitch better than he did for us in 2013, but gradually worse going forward with the odd blip up or down, here or there. I attribute most of the downfall in 2013 to the injury and to a lesser extent the loss of stuff. Going forward and JJ being "healthy" I expect #3 type numbers from him, but the health concerns push him to a questionable SP the rest of his career.

There's no such thing as a good or bad pitcher. Every result is a combination of luck, the batter, the catcher and the fielders behind the pitcher. It just so happens that hitters are less lucky against pitchers who have better skills than pitchers with worse skills.

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I thought the earlier discussion was whether or not JJ pitched well in 2013. And when I watch a pitcher look like he's pitching BP, he's not good. IMO defence and bad luck aren't much of a factor when balls are getting laced all over the park. Over the past few years the difference between JJ's FB velocity and his change has gradually dropped from 7.5mph in 2010 to 4.3mph in 2013. His change is essentially becoming less of a change.

Hasn't Phil Humber pitched a perfect game?

But Josh Johnson was not Josh Johnson last year.

No worries dude. I just think people are putting themselves in JFaS shoes and pretending to think that everyone would love this analyst job, which they may, or may not. Not every dream job, turns out to be a dream job and if you think it does, then you're dreaming. I believe it was BTS who said earlier, low level scouts, analysts may easily grow tired of the job. They got their break into a Front Office or being good enough to be a scout and grew tired of the job. People think....OMFG I work in a baseball Front Office doing what I want to do. But in reality there's probably a handful of other people with similar educations all doing the same thing, with similar ideas. And suddenly you realize you're not on the BlueJaysMessageBoard dominating common fans with number wizardry any more. Your're working with people who speak your own language and all of a sudden, you're not as special as you use to be.

For some it never wears off....like a Don Zimmer who's been involved in MLB in some capacity into his 60th year this year. Then you get someone like say an Alexandre Daigle who people & the NHL gushed over and after flaming out said he wasn't really interested in playing hockey. Depends on the person, the job, their experience once immersed in the job......the whole ball of wax when thinking something is awesome. I've read multiple FG execs say they have no interest in leaving their jobs to pursue jobs in a MLB FO. They're content working from home and not taking a huge pay hit. Different strokes for different folks