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Rookie ball numbers are just bonkers. I hope they're fairly aggressive with him.

Finally threw together a rough list. If Ace comes back from the dead and wants to write up a blog top 20 or so, then I can finalize it. Stroman Sanchez Davis Nay Norris Osuna DeJong Tirado Jimenez Nolin Barreto Smoral Labourt Hollon Lugo Castro Robson Pompey Dean Pillar Smith Jr. Alford Nessy Stilson Dermody Del Rosario Urena Burns Tellez Berti Barnes Wilson Dantzler Ybarra Forget anyone important? Is Goins still prospect eligible? Also, have been pretty sick for the last week or so which is mainly why I haven't pub'd anything. Hard to write a long article.

Note the compensatory beard in the picture. An anesthesiologist once told me that something like 70-80% of beards that come into the OR are covering up weak chins. When they see a beard, they know that the ibtubation has a decent chance of being more difficult.

What's better than one player that projects for a sub .300 wOBA and replacement level production? Two of them! Goins and Izzy FTW

I know they're not your projections, but I still don't really get how he's that high based on that optimistic but fairly pedestrian Steamer. For whatever reason, pitchers seem to be really, really low. I suppose it's because they are essentially locked out of contributing in basically 2 categories.

lol, some of these are legitimately insane. Travis Snider cracked the top 200, edging out Cain, Latos, and Iwakuma. Walrus is even higher!

Now I can slightly forgive nox for advising me to take Zunino over Sano in the DDL prospect draft.... wait, still retarded. UGH

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Sorry, unclear writing. They wouldn't have to pay more. The surrendered and compensatory picks would be different picks, not transferred from team to team. So the signing team loses a pick of X value based on how much they spent on the particular free agent and their team record/payroll the previous season. Another way to knock them value here without taking a pick away would be to penalize their first or second round pick by a certain amount of slots. So 20th overall becomes 40th overall because you signed Chris Sale in free agency (or whatever). And the team losing the free agent gets a sandwich round pick compensation package determined by how much the guy signed for and how bad/poor they were in the previous year. Sandwich packages could include multiple picks for big free agents lost.

Because scouty types probably care about it too much, at least when they're asked to make roster decisions. I was mainly being facetious, but I'm almost sure they place much more value on ERA than they should. Run prevention can probably influence scouting grades too.

Scouting org. They're probably looking at velocity, ERA, pitch grades, mechanics, etc.

Rogers essentially sells the TV rights to themselves for a fraction of a penny on the dollar.

I'd give Ubaldo 4/58 all day, every day. Too bad the Jays are so bass ackwards that they probably like Santana more and will end up giving him something approaching an Anibal Sanchez contract if they don't land Tanaka.

If Jimenez goes 2.5, 2.0, 1.5, and 1, he'd be worth $58.18MM over the next four years. Steamer projects 2.5 WAR for him in 2014. He's essentially asking for his market value here.

Depends how you define depth. The Blue Jays have a lot of names, but they don't have a lot of projectable production. Lots of names, not a lot of WARz. Dickey Buehrle Morrow Stroman Happ Hutch Drabek Redmond Rogers McGowan Nolin Dickey should be a SP2/3 and Buehrle should be a SP3/4. You can't count on Morrow for 20, let alone 32 starts. And then everybody from Stroman down probably projects to be somewhere between replacement level and a 1 WAR talent in 2014. It's a lot of junk and a few prospects. Ideally, Stroman+Drabek+Hutch+Nolin can all start in the minors AND the Jays can avoid gifting rotation spots to two of Happ, Rogers, McGowan...

wtf, announcement isn't til 11? f*** off

Olympic roster announcement in 2 minutes. I'm anticipating it a wee bit too much.

There shouldn't even be any compensation systems. Misinformed socialism failures. Well, the implemented ones surely have been. The old system: Better teams had better players, so they ended up having more free agents ranked as Type A or B. The richer/better teams got even richer. The only way for mid/small market teams to benefit from the old system was to "game" it heavily. The new system: The qualifying offer system kind of defeats the whole purpose of aiding team that can't afford to keep good free agents. The richer teams can more comfortably offer free agents an expensive QO - smaller market teams can't take the risk to the same degree, especially with borderline players. We also have the same problem as the old system in that better teams have more QO worthy players, so we end up with the better teams getting more compensation picks. Rich still get richer. Solution: Get rid of the qualifying offer system. Tie free agent compensation to what the players end up signing for, and scale the value of the compensation by several factors including: The price the free agent ends up getting, the losing team's payroll last year, the losing team's record last year, the signing team's record last year, the signing team's payroll last year. So if free agent John Doe gets a contract above or equal to X total dollars, then the signing team gives up a pick according to those ^ criteria, and the losing team gets a pick according to those ^ criteria. If the free agent gets a higher contract, then the surrendered/compensatory picks should both be of higher value. If the losing team's payroll and record were lower last season, then the compensatory picks should be of higher value. If the signing team's payroll and record were higher last year, then the surrendered picks should be of higher value. I don't really think it's that complicated. A scaled and more thoughtful compensation system would help all parties. You wouldn't get the market freeze on fringe comp guys like Morales, Cruz, Santana, etc. because the scaled compensation for them would be pretty small, assuming they don't get large contracts. There's also an effort in here to help a s*** poor team that can't afford to keep a star more than help a good rich team that chooses to let a star walk.

I mean, read this steaming pile of s*** and tell me that you think this guy has one actual source: http://www.bluejaysplus.com/racial-divide-blue-jays-clubhouse/#sthash.estM5oGt.dpbs Worse than bleacher report.

Yes they are.

The best part of this sentence is that it kind of seems like you called your hotel flexing selfy slutty. You're such a slut Connor!

Take more selfies in hotel bathrooms, foreign chicks love those.

How many 40+ surrendered home run seasons have there even been since the steroid era "ended"? How many ever? In 2002 Ramon Ortiz game up 40 bombs and still had an ERA of 3.77. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE, RAMON?

All pitchers are time bombs. Even if his bow looks weird as f***, that might just be an opportunity to get Garza on a 1-2 year steal of a contract. I mean, Napoli's knees looked like garbage before 2013 and it worked out handsomely for Boston.

Yeah seems weird. There's no obvious reason for him to still be out there aside from bad medicals or ludicrous contract demands, and the media hasn't got even a whiff of the latter.