Laika
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There are like 5 guys I would have chosen over Tepera. Frigging Delabar actually has a good K rate against lefties in his career. Plopping Chad Girodo or Colt Hynes on the roster could have had more utility than Tepera. He's useless against Texas!
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+1 I would fire Gibbons into the sun if he refused to use Price entirely.
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Also Jose likes to stretch constantly. 98% of his day is spent doing complicated stretches. He'd go all stiff and cramp up if he had to stand there like a statue and hold runners on, etc.
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The negative number for defense is from the positional adjustment. Fangraphs changed their dashboard last year and it's confusing. It used to show UZR, which is runs saved/lost relative to league average at the player's position, but now it rolls in the positional adjustment and displays total defensive runs. Right fielders get a negative adjustment. A league average RF would display a -7.5 in defense on the Fangraphs dashboard. A right fielder displaying a slight positive in the Fangraphs dashboard defensive value would hypothetically be a viable CF. I wish they'd go back to just showing UZR on the dashboard because I think it's the more important information.
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True, but when that position switch happened Special Ed was basically a role player. A below average regular with some big muscles.
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I dunno, I think Edwin is getting more comfortable at 1B. He's certainly looked competent there this season.
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I agree. Give him ~30 half days off next year while utilizing the 4th man in the Pompey/Saunders/Pillar/Bautista OF. Against RHP obviously, since you want Colabello in there against every LHP and the opposite might be true for Saunders.
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Bautista was an above average RF in each of the previous 3 seasons, and about 70% of his negative runs in the OF this year can be blamed on his bum shoulder. Talk of moving him to 1B is very premature
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Oh he definitely will stay in the OF. It's a point of pride for Bautista, I bet. He takes great care of his body and he probably has every intent to stay in RF until he retires. It's also the norm in baseball. Veteran outfielders like Marlon Byrd, Torri Hunter, Jayson Werth, and Carlos Beltran stay in the OF, even if their defense slips. Elite veteran players just don't typically switch positions, unless it's from C-->1B or maybe 3B-->1B mid career if they outgrow the hot corner. Taking a player and forcing a late career position switch is a good way to f*** him up (Hanley) or neuter all of his value (Mauer). The only positive precedent that I can think of from recent memory is Cruz shifting to partial DH duties this year with good results.
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Martinez ended the season going on the 60 day DL with a scary shoulder injury. Try someone else! I agree that trading EE for a young, controllable, good SP could make real sense. I disagree that he won't age well. He seems to have perfect "old man" skills, like Ortiz, VMart, etc.
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Yeah I think if you get them negotiating together, sort of, then the Jays could get a great deal. They are buddies and they probably want to stay together in Toronto, where everything came together for them and the team is finally good.
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oh f***
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The offseason plan should basically be to buy low on a couple of SP like Shark / Ian Kennedy, and then call it a day. Maybe try to do the much talked about Revere for a SP deal, but it might not be out there. Do these little things and then hope the team competes again in 2016 while the farm matures. They could also justify just trading Revere for whatever (cheap/good swing man like Zach McAllister?) mostly to save some payroll. I believe in Pompey and Saunders. Good Canadian boys. I guess they could explore trading Goins or Travis if the value is there... but I still don't believe in Goins.
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I wonder if they would just give Niese away to anyone who will take on the contract. A groundball guy like him could benefit from the slow turf + Blue Jays very good IF defense.
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Puig! He's made for LA
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Chris Carruthers - any insight on the Price decision? Was it all Gibbons? Were people mad?
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4.17million viewer on average watched Sunday Jays playoff game
Laika replied to Mikeleelop's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I think with baseball you get a lot of viewers that top watching when their team is out of it. It's not quite like football where people watch the Super Bowl no matter what. -
4.17million viewer on average watched Sunday Jays playoff game
Laika replied to Mikeleelop's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The Blue Jays national TV market would be bigger than any other team's TV market, so the necessarily really fair comparison would be the nationally televised games, if you want to point to the US' entire population size. This Wiki article (link) has all the World Series ratings. In recent years your looking at 10-16 million average viewers per game, and over 20 million average if it's a game 7. So Canada seems more than twice as baseball hungry right now as the US in general. Another decent comp would be the wild card games, because they were nationally televised and the Yankees were in one of them. I found this: -
4.17million viewer on average watched Sunday Jays playoff game
Laika replied to Mikeleelop's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Imagine a game 7 of the World Series... -
But what is the split for zone%?
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Well that changes quite a bit, lol.
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I guess Pillar for Salazar would be fair but man, I've grown to love KP. It's possible that he's at the zenith of his value right now though I suppose. Still, I don't like trading above average regulars up the middle.
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Miraculously, reliever Sanchez seems to be able to throw strikes, somehow. Maybe the added velocity = less movement = easier to hit the zone. Or maybe the added nastiness just = more swings. Or maybe it's just a small sample size!
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He's Sam Dyson! Funny how they are both Blue Jays products and essentially the same person, except Sanchez was an untouchable SP prospect and Dyson was DFA'd without being given a chance to even relieve.
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It's Cole Hamels. He could throw a CGSO against anyone. Pretty much a coin flip game. Maybe edge Toronto because Hamels is a lefty. If you're wondering about Stroman's splits vs. all of the Texas LHB, he doesn't really have a platoon split in his career. I don't know how much we'd have to regress that though.
