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Yeah I don't particularly like either of them. Should trade for Tex after the Yankees bomb, lol. Carlos Santana only has 2016 + a team option left on his deal. Someone like John Jaso would have fit the team well. I don't see many trade fits on teams that will very likely be sellers. The Braves can have whatever they want for Freddie Freeman.

I think it's the type of thing that you can't really evaluate with eyeballs, at least not in a small sample (a few months). Colabello has made some diving plays but were his jumps bad? Smoak unquestionably has better hands around the bag. Both of them are better than Edwin though, probably. You're probably talking about marginal differences either way. They should just treat it like a straight offensive platoon for now and ignore defense.

Yeah he's definitely the worst hitter in any lineup without Goins. Baserunning value might make him a slightly better offensive player than Smoak though.

Maintained velocity all night too http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/speed.php?pitchSel=592717&game=gid_2016_04_05_tormlb_tbamlb_1/&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type=&league=mlb&pnf=&zlpo=

Well if we're being sensible, it probably didn't. Need a much larger sample

Pedro Martinez ‏@45PedroMartinez 45m45 minutes ago Aaron Sanchez has a tail to his fastball that is unique; the gap between it and his breaking ball and the spin it creates is special Pedro Martinez ‏@45PedroMartinez 50m50 minutes ago Aaron Sanchez has no ceiling. He has all the tools to become a number one starter. He is a special kid

I think we can all agree that this was the highlight of the night though http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/16285926/v574364583/tortb-dickersons-blast-gets-the-rays-on-the-board/?query=Dickerson

oh look who's alive you and jean segura zombies

Maybe he will be your Arrieta lmao no I couldn't even put the period on that sentence

If you want to go looking for bad things in Sanchez' start, a fair number of fastballs did completely get away from him. It's not like he had great command or anything. "Effectively wild" though.

Yeah I don't even think this was the new rule. The new rule is about banning the practice of a) starting slides late so that you physically take out a fielder's legs with force, and sliding away from the bag to take out a fielder. What Jose did was just plain old interference, right?

I actually thought the contact might have affected the throw. The timing seemed right, and the way Forsythe yanked the throw kind of made sense. I dunno.

MEMORIES OF MARK: The thought struck John Gibbons before the season-opener Sunday that the last time the Blue Jays were at Tropicana Field, they started Mark Buehrle on short rest with the aim of getting the veteran lefty the two innings he needed for a 15th straight season of 200. Buehrle didn’t make it out of the first, allowing eight unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning, to finish the season at 198.2 frames. The 37-year-old became a free agent at the end of last season and while he hasn’t officially retired, Gibbons said Buehrle planned to buy an RV and do some travelling with his family this summer. "I talked to him a couple times during spring training, we plugged him in on FaceTime when we had our orientation meeting on the first day of spring," said Gibbons. "They had him up on the board, he had one of those big stocking caps on, a big ole beard, he ripped into a few of his buddies real good. He’s got to miss it a little bit but he doesn’t let on. He’s having a great time." As for why Buehrle hasn’t filed retirement papers yet, Gibbons said, "He told me, ‘They keep writing stories about me, so I’m going to screw with them, man.’"

So who owns Aaron Sanchez, anyway? Just curious.

What the f*** is going on somebody hold me add Sanchez in all of your fantasy leagues

Spin rate + elevation + a secondary offering that the bottom drops out of. Exact same recipe as Estrada IIRC.

The 12-6 rainbow curve was a terrible pitch. It's much better as a tighter 1-7 or 2-8 slurve. I think last year he tried to tone it down a bit for command and it just didn't work. Didn't throw more strikes and got hammered more. Dude needs to pitch like a young stallion. Gas and sass. Biggest thing tonight is the changeup. I've seen like 6+ whiffs on it now.

He has an actual swing and miss curveball and a decent change now, according to the third inning.

Wow, was that a changeup strikeout? Lol

I understand that his development was interrupted by the impatient and lame-duck GM that AA was in hindsight. I agree that he should have been left to develop longer as a SP - for all of 2014 and probably all or most of 2015. But your first post stated that if he turned into a good SP it wouldn't be unexpected because his development was screwed with. That strikes me as backwards. I think it's pretty simple. 1) Most prospects fail 2) Sanchez had really bad MiLB numbers for a SP prospect 3) Sanchez' development as a SP was interrupted by an early call up If anything, him turning into a good SP should me MORE unexpected because of how his development was disjointed. They took a long-shot SP prospect and made the shot longer.

Well I didn't say he couldn't put it back in

Another thing that's worth mentioning about Sanchez: One part of the argument for leaving him in the pen is that a lot of us (me and my alternate accounts) think he has high risk mechanics. We don't think he'll hold up as a starting pitcher as well as cleaner arms tend to. Really, we care about the big awkward kid. Even if he has success as a SP, will it be fleeting for tragic reasons? Time will tell. Tune in this season on Blue Jays baseball!

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