GeorgiaPeach

So the focus isn't winning?

What a great group of solid and great fans populate the GTA.

I understand what you're saying and agree the Jays & MLB would die a slow death if they didn't try to attract new fans. I just don't care too much for fringe fans, their fleeting interest in the game and their green opinions, which is why I exclude them from anything of importance.

Is it? When I'm at work I don't consider the 300 or so employees as a baseball market. There's maybe 10-15 Jays/baseball fans. Then there's the dozens who come out of the wood work and inquire about the Jays when the media buzzed them in the media. And then when the media buzzes them negatively those same people ride the s*** out of me about how baseball sucks, the Jays suck....blah, blah, blah. Sorry, but fringe fans IMO aren't a market.

I understand the potential market is one of the largest. But I factor fandom into market size when I look at teams in each sport.

I said Canada...not GTA. Chicago would have more intelligent baseball fans than all of Canada. I don't count someone that puts a hat on, or crawls out from a cave after ceasing to follow the team/sport in 94/95.

And sacrifice winning, nice trade off.

I wonder why he wasn't giving it 100% in the minors.

I'd be willing to put big money on it there's more fans who can carry an intelligent conversation about baseball in Chicago than all of Canada. And if you're basing market on Population does that mean the Coyotes are a bigger NHL market than the Habs?

Please refute the fact that most people from Caribbean countries have a poor education. Sorry that's not racist, its an observation.

I'm on here a little bit. Still trying to get use to the site.

It's sad and probably true.

And? What's their opinion, what do they want? They want a winner. Their opinions on building a winning team would be like a child on Just Like Mom making chocolate chip cookies with C-Plus & Ketchup as the main ingredients. cheer, spend money & spread the word.....but it should be questions they're asking, not opinions.

If I remember correctly, the Carter/Alomar, Fernandez/McGriff trade wasn't a fan favourite either when it went down.

I was thinking the same thing. I would've taken a Mazara, Guzman, Odor return if Profar was off the table.

Not big market either.

Come clean dude. In some posts you sound like a typical islander with a Grade 3 education. And in others like this one, its like you were born here. Sorry, but this s*** just doesn't come and go.

Why wouldn't people wanna see stud players/prospects succeed?

My guess is on breaking balls his bat is in a good position not allowing the pitch its full break, since his bread & butter is down and in.

They all seem like experimental locations. And what happens to the AAA teams currently there? I wouldn't think it to be a feasible business venture to continue operating a minor league club with a MLB team in the city. Unless the relocating team gets a swap of affiliates and has their own AAA club in their MLB city.

There's 29 other teams and a bunch of kids in the minors to follow.

I'm not really a fan of pushing it to the last possible minute to trade a guy. So when Rasmus gets more expensive next year (still good value) the value won't clearly be the same. And with him being a streaky hitter who's to say he doesn't go into the shitter next year? The point about Stroman is fair. But he's getting some play from prospect sources as one of the most likely prospects to get promoted after the deadline (July 31)....as a reliever. If you don't want his clock started that's cool, but if the Jays do start his clock in a nothing year, as a RP it would be foolish.

I'm not a fan of the, "you need a power bat at these positions" thought process. The plan should be to get the best players you can at every position, no matter what their skill set is.

Gose over Rasmus has more to do with Colby getting a raise and being pretty close to his age pinnacle. As well as Gose being able to hold his own in CF defensively and being plopped at the bottom of the lineup where there's no pressure and he can get a regular run. Then the money saved off Colby could be used to address other areas of need.

Yep, you're right, I don't know. And you're also correct that I'm basing it on the ARL system that is usually right, but not always. But I'd prefer to be safe and guess probably right, than sit on my couch hoping and praying that a prospect I'm not really all that enamoured with and don't follow is raking because he's on the Jays farm. I follow every team and doing that for all prospects would be a waste of time. As for Gattis. He's kinda in the same boat for me where a highly regarded prospect flames out early and gets released or doesn't sign, maybe gets a second chance to start out new with a new organization at the bottom and slowly work and be molded back into what it was that had him highly regarded in the first place. But for the most part, I would've ignored a kid like Gattis. Its kinda like how I'd prefer the Jays to look to dealing Smoral as soon as they can. I'm not a fan of tall pitchers who everyone drools over for the possibility they turn into a Randy Johnson or JR Richard. As for preferring Pillar over Melky I do as well. Gose over Rasmus, Stroman over Redmond, youth over old & expensive all day. But Paul Beeston's sheep need name players, otherwise the Rogers Centre is empty.