Laika
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Yeah I agree. They already have Donaldson's best years under control. There shouldn't really be a huge push to get the tail end of his career under control too. Teams do this all the time with in-house stars and then regret it. They don't seem to realize that there might be a correct time to just say goodbye to a star player. Even if you do want to keep Donaldson until he gets arthritis, this is also the WORST possible time to buy in. He's about to win the f***ing MVP award! Just be patient and wait for a slightly better time to purchase six old years of JD
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If Alex wants to be the GM of a baseball team and run every single aspect of its baseball side from top to bottom.... well, I hear OOTP16 is pretty good.
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This is a good, fair, well thought out, and non-speculative post. Nice job.
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Hard to say without knowing whether or not he'll show up to spring training with that top knot in 2016
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I understand him wanting full control of baseball decisions because he had a unique situation with Beeston and essentially did have full control, but there are only 30 (or so) of these jobs in the game and the majority of them do not grant the GM the final say on everything baseball. He had the opportunity to work with and learn from a great baseball guy in Shapiro - he could have seen that as a positive and not an impediment. I think his ego just got in the way, more than anything. Five year offer to remain the GM of the only pro baseball team in his home country, where he has grown as a professional, where the fans generally love him and he just built a team that went to the ALCS, and he turns it down because Mark Shapiro wants to bounce ideas with his GM and Alex wants to be the big cheese. smh Could have accepted but placed something in the contract stating that if a GM offer involving full control of an organization comes up then he is free from his contract with Toronto and able to accept.
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so like Uber, but for baseball
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The amount of young controllable pitching that has moved through Toronto's system is kind of crazy. Obviously trading some of these guys was fine, or more than fine. Syndergaard Stroman Norris Hutchison Hoffman Boyd DeSclafani Osuna Nicolino Sanchez Castro De Jong <--- don't forget about him, traded for a couple of international bonus slots Wojiechowski Musgrove Dyson Nolin Graveman (probably more)
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I find much of this post to be absurd
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They already had this. Single game tickets against the Yankees/Red Sox are priced as "premium" and cost more money than a weekday game against the White Sox.
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This Griffin article could have been written by Grant:
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That report is almost certainly ********. From some random TSN guy who said in his article that the Blue Jays don't have dynamic ticket pricing...
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It's hard to wrap my head around how this could be a good career move for AA... still trying to see the angle here.
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John Lott asking two perfect, pro reporter questions. AA has trouble dodging them but still manages to - refuses to "get into specifics" and says simply that based on "general discussions" the fit wasn't right. Says that he never asked for anything and was never told that anything would be different.
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Here is a baseball job posting, too bad AA isn't qualified: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/job-postings-houston-astros-baseball-research-and-development-analyst/
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this link might work http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/anthopoulos-leaving-1.3293773
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He would probably get his s*** pushed in in the DDL. Team chemistry is irrelevant here!
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The track record proves that they would have a great draft this year? lol. The track record says that they would probably whiff on several high schoolers with high picks, fail to sign a very high pick, hit on one or two HS selections, and maybe hit on a college guy.
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"tear-down" would likely just mean trading EE for young, controllable arms. The Blue Jays don't have a terrible burden of long term contracts so really, Law's point about a tear down coming is rather silly and stupid.
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Tearing down the roster would be egregious. An opinion that Toronto needs to make big changes to compete long-term is fine. That opinion could be reasonably held. But the roster as currently constructed should have more than enough talent to compete in 2016. They really need to keep the core together and go for it again in 2016, at least. I'm not even sure what a "tear down" would look like. I guess you could trade Tulowitzki, Bautista, and/or Encarnacion for young talent... Tulo doesn't have immense value though.
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I demand that you instantly burn all Rays gear
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Also, from all reports it seems like the Angels actually came to AA and all he really had to do was slide his booger filled Dell mouse over and click the 'accept' button in his IE browser.
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Why did you have to add these last five words? That's why people don't like you.
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All that Rogers and Shapiro can reasonably be expected to do is offer AA a fair contract. It sounds like they did that. Maybe the Marlins are moving to Montreal and we just don't know about it yet? It seems insane for a guy with AA's relatively small amount of experience to walk away over not getting full and complete control over everything baseball related.
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Reactionary bad playoff thread dumping site
Laika replied to 500LevelSTH's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Alcides Escobar was the worst qualified hitter in baseball after the all star break. Soooo let's just give him to most PA on the team and win every game regardless. #Yosted -
Effect Buehrle has had on the youngsters = priceless
