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meh, scouts would probably hear the sound of his bat once and instantly take him off the mound. 99.9% Livan Hernandezes. The odd Walter Johnson / Christy Mathewson or whatever.

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The Jays right now would pick 12th overall, but they aren't very many games ahead of a lot of the teams picking in the back half of the top 10: 4 Chicago Cubs 53 70 .431 National League 11 - 19 473 522 -49 5 Milwaukee Brewers 54 70 .435 National League 16 - 14 485 540 -55 6 Philadelphia Phillies 54 69 .439 National League 8 - 22 459 563 -104 7 Minnesota Twins 54 68 .443 American League 15 - 15 487 555 -68 8 San Francisco Giants 55 68 .447 National League 12 - 18 474 540 -66 9 Los Angeles Angels 55 68 .447 American League 11 - 19 561 597 -36 10 San Diego Padres 56 68 .452 National League 15 - 15 484 561 -77 11 New York Mets 56 66 .459 National League 15 - 15 492 522 -30 12 Toronto Blue Jays 57 67 .460 American League 12 - 18 562 599 -37 13 Seattle Mariners 57 66 .463 American League 16 - 14 493 579 -86 14 Colorado Rockies 58 67 .464 National League 13 - 17 544 560 -16

A-Rod's scumbagness exists independent of his PED use though. He's not a scumbag because he doped. Anybody who didn't dope was basically a teetotalling moron under the old framework - they had hundreds of millions of dollars to gain, and almost nothing to lose. His slimy ass looks good in pinstripes. It would be a shame to not see him for 200 games.

Agreed. Also, I'm on ARod's side because I don't want the Yankees to essentially get a ~35 million dollar check from MLB.

Man, Ricky's plateau was an interesting thing though. - Minor league shitbag bust for several years. - Makes the bigs and is instantly an above average major league starter for three full seasons. - In one offseason, loses it all and is back to being a minor league shitbag. There has never been an in between for the guy. It's like he sold his soul to the devil for a taste of success or something, but his chubby MexiMerican soul was only worth 3 seasons.

And he's in 7th / 12

Disagree. Most of those guys have no value, but Ricky has even less than that right now. If he gets traded it's probably for another negative asset. Maybe Adam Dunn (if he still even likes baseball), or Rickie Weeks (Toronto has to throw in a prospect).

Farm review: Bust Bust Pseudo-bust Almost bust Traded bust Not a bust + Soon to be a bust x 7

Well, seeing as he just turned 22, it's not that crazy at all. Bryce Harper, eat your heart out.

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I haven't even opened this thread all year, but this looks pretty neat. Are you guys doing prizes? Kudos to Dylan for running the whole thing and adding something interesting to the board. OT, but new board membership seems to have hit a wall. Flatlined at around ~500 members. I blame thehurl and his terrible twitter job.

News to me. I thought he was considered nothing but a passable SS by scouts, and shown to be a complete, rangeless butcher by the metrics.

thehurl should be a pro scout. He called the fact that Bonifacio couldn't handle the infield before the season even started. Clearly he's a better MLB scout than whoever the Blue Jays employ. Once this fact become apparent, it was fairly obvious that Bonifacio was nothing more than a poor man's Rajai Davis (yuck!).

I have no clue. Nox probably knows. I bet they don't spend any more on their FO human capital than the rest of baseball, but they probably hire the right people and get 100x more value than any other team (just like on the field).

I didn't even know who Dr. Taylor was before your post, but +1. A bottom-up diagnosis of the Blue Jays pitching injury history would tell any empiricist that whatever medical care the team is currently getting *probably* isn't working well enough, relative to the rest of baseball. Get a new go-to Doctor guy, but on top of that, hire a savvy Kinesiologist/Physics/Biomechanics guy to analyze mechanics, diagnosis deviations from the norm in the major league talent, and suggest mechanical tweaks in the young prospect arms. I can't for the f***ing life of me understand why some sports teams will gladly give a mediocre player several millions of dollars, but remain so apprehensive to establishing a plethora of innovative off-field positions such as the above ^ at a fraction of the cost of that 'meh' athlete. The Blue Jays think Maicer Izturis is worth 10 million dollars. For that money, you could probably get almost 10 difference making PhD level nerds on 10 year contracts. And if this human capital resulted in a little more than ONE f***ING WIN ON THE FIELD (not each year - in total), they would be worth their entire 10 year cumulative salaries. ~$75k analysts in the Rays FO are probably earning that team millions upon millions of dollars in surplus value.... every. f***ing. year.

Pretty much. He'll be a Padre, Giant, or a Pirate for 2014. Only way I could see Johnson coming back is if he has some kind of weird, twisted sense of loyalty and feels like he owes the Jays something.

I can understand why someone with an audience would want to avoid a completely indicting position (such as "AA sucks" or "Fire AA/Beeston"). There's a lot of downside for someone like Stoeten to wear a position like that on their sleeve, and really, what's the upside? A few of us nerds read his s*** more often? Whoop-dee-f***ing-doo. Putting the flurry of moves back in context, anyone with half a brain realized that they were terribly inefficient moves at the time. Most wise fans were still excited though, since the team should have finally been good. And, believe in the reasons or not, there were/are some fairly legitimate sounding defenses of the moves, mostly surrounding the Blue Jays weird situation of not being able to attract free agents, and having a corporate owner that was pushing for timely success/growth.

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Which situation would you rather inherit? The Angels, with all of those terrible bloated contracts but also Mike fcking Fish, Or the Blue Jays, without nearly as much crippling financial commitment, and a better farm system, but also no Mike Fish or anything that could even sniff his musk.

nvm

Errrrrybody looking for pitching. Seller's market.

Fundraiser? Like a bake sale or something?

This team should have won close to ninety games. The Blue Jays have been remarkably unlucky this year. But just because the team, in this one particular season, should have won a lot of games doesn't mean that the process was good. Actually, it all kind of seems like Karmic Justice, that everything blew up in their faces after so much bad process. That's where some of the smug team bashing comes from, I suppose.

Stupid to say that they *should* have traded him when we don't even know what would be offered. Sure, they could possibly have made a profit trading Janssen. Was the right deal out there? We have no idea. This article is a great example of absolute base level blog analytics. A 50 grade point surrounded by 30 grade writing. There's no substance here.