Laika

Nobody babips .370 true talent in the big leagues. Is he exceptionally "on", or is your perception of him perturbed by the batted ball luck? You can believe whatever you want, I don't know what's right, but i think an objective, regressed, and less narrative laden view of Colby has him as a player who hits for a much lower average, true talent. It's beside the point anyway. Regardless of his true babip skills, buying right now would be buying wayyyyy high, and needlessly so since he has another year of control. My hope, eventually, would be for a team friendly good will extension like the one Yunel signed.... And then hopefully Alex won't punt him away for nothing at the first down swing.

They have over a year to work something out. No sense in buying high on the .371 BABIP right now. If there's anything that Anthopoulos has been consistently good at, it's extensions. Yeesh.

In the game of baseball, "inconsistent" tends to just be a euphemism for "bad".

Miniscule. Almost non-existent. There would have to be a couple of injuries above him.

Dude is tearing it up. Earning himself a legit chance to start games in the big leagues.

It just seems kind of ironic. You'd think that the best entity to own a baseball team in this era would be a large corporation with no baseball background. They would be outside of all of the traditional misconceptions that plague baseball from the inside out. They would be solely concerned with the bottom line, which should lead to an intense constant top-down audit of the entire team and budget management process. .... but instead, they just hire Beeston and seem to be content in evaluating his performance and expertise by examining the bottom line quarterly. It's Fukudome'd, I tell ya.

Offseason plan: - Trade way too much for package of Rickie Weeks, John Axford, and Yovani Gallardo / Kyle Lohse. - Photoshop terrible Sportsnet Magazine cover - Put more red maple leafs on Jerseys - Get a T Hip song for all advertisements

Funny how they are probably completely oblivious to the amount of money they are throwing away thanks to extremely inefficient baseball ops thinking

Pretty sure Ervin Santana 2012 was as bad as JJ (worse, actually). Then the Royals willingly traded for the right to pay him 13 million. And he's been great for them! Go figure.

Is offseason/waiver trading illegal in the new CBA or something? If the right deal wasn't out there, then it wasn't out there. Can't really blame AA for not wanting to part with his top BP arms. He'll want them next year. It sucks that Oliver has been so crummy this year, he could've been a chip. Juan Perez has pitched well but you can totally see why nobody would want to trade for him. Nobody is going to rot in AAA. The team has cycled through like, 20 f***ing relievers already this year. Guys will get their chances.

You guys need to relax. Think about it this way, if you were a team trying to win a World Series, would you really want Johnson, Oliver, Bonifacio, DeRosa, Melky, Juan Perez, etc? No, you probably wouldn't. Sure, you might want a quality reliever like Janssen, Delabar, Loup, or Cecil, but the Jays are certainly going to try to win in 2014, and those guys are under control and will probably still be good next year. There's only one guy that I could see competitive teams really wanting that Toronto should trade, and that's Rajai Davis. But so f***ing what. You might get a PTBNL for him. If you want to get upset that they're trying to compete with this core, then that's warranted I guess. But it's nonsensical to get upset that the Blue Jays aren't making a deadline trade, given the context. Blame AA for making the context, not for acting appropriately within it.

A - Kennedy B - Peavy

Pitcher A rest of season ZIPS: 4.06 FIP, 0.7 WAR, 7.93 K/9, 2.81 BB/9, 1.15 HR/9 Pitcher B rest of season ZIPS: 3.90 FIP, 0.8 WAR, 7.98 K/9, 2.10 BB/9, 1.26 HR/9 Name the pitchers

Delabar + Stilson for Kennedy, flip him for Kendrick if possible. Shoulda coulda, I woulda

Well, at least Kennedy to San Diego helps my Premier League team.

Everyone else is taking the ~50 game suspension deals with MLB. ARod is saying he's going to fight any imposed suspensions, so MLB is just trying to threaten and strong-arm him into taking a deal like everyone else. It's all part of the "making it up as they go" game. MLB is trying to scare him into accepting a deal like everyone else. They're also going harder after people who have lied to and mislead them in the past, like Braun and him.

Just 2 arbitration years left for Kennedy. He has a 5.25 ERA and a mediocre 2.25 K/BB. They can't ask for that much for him. They also stand to benefit in both the short and long term by clearing Kennedy's salary and his roster spot. There is a financial cost tied to him, as well as an opportunity cost.

Owings is fairly legit and his stock is on the rise. They probably don't move him. I could see them moving Kennedy for a guy like Janssen. They're only a few games back in the division, and 2nd in baseball in blown saves.

Really thinking that going after Ian Kennedy could be a good move. It's a buy low, his salary isn't prohibitive, he comes with some control, he has some upside, and Towers seems really motivated to move him (which is justifiable given their depth). He also fits "the timeline". Arb 2 and 3 in 2014/15, and then he's off the books for the next pseudo-rebuild.

Analysis The White Sox didn't do terribly. Avisail Garcia is a big upside player, lots of scouts like his toolset. Can't comment on the lower minors guys, but they're probably worth some change. The Tigers lose value in a vacuum, but they don't exist in a vacuum. Losing Peralta to suspension for the rest of the year creates a massive black hole, and they did what they had to do to plug said hole and go for a championship. Iglesias is all glove, sure, but it's quite a f***ing glove. Fantasy guys, now might be a decent time to buy on Rick Porcello. The Red Sox profit. It's basically arbitrage (by the White Sox, but it favors Boston). Iglesias is worth way more to Detroit right now than he would normally be worth, in a more typical context. Kudos to Ben Cherington for pulling it off, but at the same time, let's temper expectations for Jake Peavy. Even if he was the best arm on the market, he's still a guy that carries some risk, comes with some significant salary, and probably projects for something like a 4.00 FIP/ERA in the future.

The Cubs got more and traded way less to do so, but Avisail Garcia could very well be better than any player that Chicago got for Garza (even if the total package was better).

Because his shoulder is hamburger meat and staples, and he's not exactly cheap.

Fat and fidgety?

Yan Gomes is making JP Arencibia look even more like JP Arencibia

I don't think pitchers ever really get completely past major injuries like that. I always view guys like Peavy as extra time-bomby (all pitchers are ticking time bombs). Basically, we have no idea. You can either assume he's normal or assume he's a bit more risky. I know what I'd be doing if it was my 30+ million dollars on the line.