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He's a substantial asset. I don't see why they would deal him, but if they did for some reason, it should cost a lot. Like, Brett Lawrie straight up. Or Aaron Sanchez + another decent piece.

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Agreed. Great point. A lot of people complain about Bautista being whiny, and some of that leaks into intellectually fraudulent opinions about him being some kind of bad clubhouse presence. But from what we can see, he seems to me like exactly the type of person that you'd want as a leadership presence on a sports team. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Bautista actually had anything to do with Encarnacion's emergence, but if you believe in the power of clubhouse leadership/chemistry, and if you like to build neat little stories out of unprovable narrative linkages, then it's not that hard to connect the dots there. Same nationality, good friends, Bautista is hyper-competitive and pushy, Encarnacion has always been talented but maybe was kind of lackadaisical or lazy.... etc.etc., Bautista as part of the influence that leads to Special Ed finally getting the most out of his skills. Roy Halladay might be another example. By all accounts, he didn't exactly make the clubhouse more comfortable or more friendly, and he didn't exactly keep things "loose" throughout the year.... but he was probably a very good influence influence on almost every pitcher that came through the org. He's the type of guy that would lead by example, and the type of guy that you really wouldn't want to let down if he was one of your teammates.

Yeah, I wasn't being serious. DeRosa is literally worth less than zero dollars. If somebody wants him and AA doesn't let them have him, then he's made yet another (small) mistake, and it would be even further evidence of a flawed FO and fundamentally flawed process (as if we needed more evidence).

DeRosa was the glue that held this 2013 team together. Can't just cast him off for nothing. If 750k is all it takes to have a plus clubhouse in 2014, then it's a no-brainer. Keep the vet around.

They're just clunkier than in Yahoo. i.e. Drag and drop DL management is much better than having to click "manage DL" and move stuff around.

The only reason we'd ever switch to ESPN would be if they had a system where we could track all of our prospects and picks, season over season, and essentially consolidate our league home and proboards. Assuming that isn't feasible and it never will be, I just can't see it being worth the hassle of switching over. I'm in my first ESPN league this year, and I don't see it as necessarily better than Yahoo. It has some advantages but also some disadvantages. I really don't like the league home on ESPN, I don't like the DL management process or the trade offering process as much as I do in Yahoo, among other things. It's better than Yahoo as displaying certain information without having to click for it. For example, on your team page, every player has their status, daily pitcher matchup, recent statistics, and research statistics all displayed without having to click anything. In Yahoo you just get status, game time and team matchup (not pitcher), and % started (useless). Much more info at your immediate disposal in ESPN, and that goes for the FA listings too.

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.