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Bozak is a 3rd line center just like Matt Stajan is. There is a role for players like him.

Their short term chances just shot up drastically, but he is going to be 32 after next years all-star break. The Rangers are starting to play with fire here, can't afford any drastic f***-ups.

I don't feel like Wilson deserves to part of that grouping of players. He's going to earn every bit of that contract.

Honestly the best thing to do in my opinion is to quit mentioning it. I haven't been posting here much since the new board, but now that I am... I feel like I can't escape the premise of mods. Just do what you guys do and quit bringing it up or mentioning it in public threads. Everyone will trust your judgement.

Tim Connolly and Wade Redden are off enjoying retirement together, somewhere.

I didn't survive a month on there. I tried trolling the leaf forum and that was it.

It seemed like you had to surpass 5000 posts before a ban was coming, thus making the dogg & others (or just the dogg) invincible.

Yikes, I'm reading through this rolling my eyes. We make fun of places like hfboards for a reason.

JVR, Kessel and Raymond don't have an ounce of defense to give in the dzone. Add in guys like McClement, Fraser, Ranger and the fourth line giving away possession like it's their job. Top it off with Carlyle using the "let them attack us" approach and you get a team that cannot and will not sustain success. Leafs are in a tough place because Carlyle isn't the guy, but in order to fire him management has use up their one and only mulligan.

Don't tell your average Sens fan that Ryan will only be in Ottawa for 2 years. It will get violent.

Exactly this.

ECJF should hold a "how to mod workshop"

NJH is in this boards DNA. It's just flat out weird.

Nox and Boxy saying what everyone is thinking. I had to read it twice because I originally thought the ban was a quick joke.

Not true at all, but yeah.

I wouldn't put anything past RAJr. As far as he's concerned Bronson Arroyo was better than Hamels in 2013.

Lol I'm not sure why that was necessary. On another note, this scares me:

Imagine you're the GM of a team that just grossly underperformed. The boss tells you in order to retain your job security going forward it is imperative that the team remains competitive in 2014. What do you do? I'm not suggesting this happened (although you'd have to assume it did), but stripping the team down of pieces that were just recently required and/or pieces that were signed to highly valuable extensions would require this front office to completely swallow their pride. THEY built this roster and it's too late for them to differ from the plan they sold to everyone last year. The issue here is what BTS brought up. Our front office cannot seem to set their sights on the middle tier grouping of players that would each respectively bring a marginal increase in wins. How are we not giving Infante 41+ million or Ellis 2 years? Instead we're supposedly scouring the trade market for pitchers that would almost ALWAYS require us to give up Sanchez, Stroman and others. That's the standard Alex set last offseason with the Dickey trade and that's why he's not going to be the guy for us going forward. Let this year blow up in the face of our management, allow Rogers to gut the entire place and then we can start the process of "going back to what we were doing". That may seem unreasonable, but I think it's clear as day that with Alex in charge, we're never going to be a team with a patient and structured approach.

Right because that's logical! You guys haven't come to the conclusion that he's a f***ing terrible poster yet? It's clear as day he doesn't belong anywhere near this place.

You're right, but it's a little harder to actually act on this. Go all in, trade everyone under 21 that's not contributing to the Major League team? Slow & methodical, sell high on Rasmus and the bullpen? How does a front office do either of these two moves while considering last year?

Who the f*** actually thinks the Jays don't make a profit? Your Econ 101 terms don't fit what you're trying to say.

Moogy just spoke the truth. Well said.

Shhhh, let the blind and irrational love for Alex continue...

Right because teams would much rather have DJ Davis & Mitch Nay. Our best prospects are pitchers, what do you expect? We've had exactly ONE 4 WAR position player other than Edwin & Jose under AA's tenure. Also, there is nothing easy about the three players you listed. One took 700 at bats before he became an asset and the others were flipped for each other in a move that actually decreased our $/WAR efficiency. That may be off the point since you're talking about the cost of acquisition, but you're kidding yourself if you think AA has found some market inefficient which revolves around trading pitching specs for quality bats. You really should be able to differentiate between post-DFA'd Edwin and pre-DFA's Edwin. The latter gutted us every other night with his defense & was wrongly placed into the role of an everyday infielder by yours truly AA. Why create some false narrative about only Alex being able to see past his defensive flaws? Everyone could, it was just a matter of finding a replacement at the corner infield spots. In regards to everybody wanting to sell high on them.. Maybe reconsider your motive here. That's not true, AT ALL. Who am I to criticize AA for signing Edwin & Jose long term? I have never once done it and never will. It's his greatest achievement as a general manager and these contracts are the envy of the league going forward. Also, not every f***ing team has players that come out of no where and especially not players like Jose Bautista & Edwin Encarnacion. I think it's safe to say that Alex will be the first and last GM to acquire 32.4 fWAR from two players over the course of three years, FREE OF COST (Sure Scott Rolen, blah blah blah). You're certainly part of a minority in thinking that AA is the guy for the future. This isn't blind hate, this is hate that has progressed over three years and was capped off by trading 2 A level prospects for a 38 year old knuckleballer. The lack of position players in the draft is just one of many things on the "Fire Alex" list.

This is the worst article I've read all month. I truly mean that. Shame on you Parks.