Grant77

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Bring back Gord Ash!!

I was making fun of some Keith Law scouting reports that I don't agree with. I still believe that Tellez can be a starting 1B.

Another HR for Tellez, up to a .300 avg. It's too bad he will never hit advanced pitching, I had high hopes for him.

Goodbye Gord. Thanks for all of the great times, you will be missed.

Last song

Same. Tears of joy though for all of the years of great Canadian music.

You knew they were holding back nautical disaster lol. What a performance...

s***, I should have been watching!!

Have they played born in the water yet by any chance? I doubt they play it, but would be cool.

They have my total attention for the rest of the night.

The last concert I went to (Thorogood) donated the proceeds to fight leukemia, which is what my dad has right now. I was touched.

I saw them twice for less than $100. Wouldn't want to pay those prices.

CLEVELAND – The continuing internal reorganization of the Toronto Blue Jays led to the firing of three scouting and player development employees this week, says general manager Ross Atkins. Amateur scouting director Brian Parker, who oversaw the club’s last four drafts, and national crosschecker Blake Davis were dismissed Wednesday, while minor-league field co-ordinator Doug Davis, who joined the team in 2006, was let go Thursday. “Anytime there’s leadership change/shift, you’re going to experience in some way, subtraction or someone’s role or responsibility is going to be shifted. Sometimes that means they’re relieved of their responsibilities altogether,” says Atkins. “In this case, with each of these guys, it’s not about fault, it wasn’t about something they didn’t do, it wasn’t about anything other than a different vision, structural change and alignment being different from what was in place before. They’re all very good people, they’re all people that I would like to help in any way I can, but unfortunately, in these cases, it meant change.” The Blue Jays plan to hire a new scouting director, ideally within the next month although they won’t put an artificial timeline on the process, as well as “someone in a similar capacity to Blake,” according to Atkins. Additionally, “there will be a structural shift in what the reporting structure is, and how we’re aligned from a leadership standpoint will be different than what it was,” he says. The changes, Atkins says, had nothing to do with the club’s 2016 draft. “Before we made changes we wanted to understand the strengths, we wanted to understand the experience, the vision and the philosophy of each of the individuals that was here,” says Atkins. “It’s definitely not about having a relationship or a person in mind. We will open this up to the entire industry, and this is more about a different vision for the role, our alignment altogether as baseball operations exists entirely, not scouting specific.” According to multiple industry sources, some possibilities include Oakland Athletics assistant scouting director Michael Holmes, a college teammate of Atkins at Wake Forest; New York Mets assistant scouting director Marc Tramuta, a former Blue Jays national crosschecker; Pittsburgh Pirates assistant scouting director Mike Mangan, another former Blue Jays crosschecker; MLB Scouting Bureau crosschecker Tom Burns, a former Blue Jays scout; and Cleveland Indians assistant scouting director Scott Barnsby. Assistant general manager Andrew Tinnish will continue to oversee the Blue Jays’ international scouting. As for Doug Davis, Atkins says the decision there was “more about the alignment and vision of leadership.” In January, the Blue Jays added Gil Kim as the club’s director, player development, a position atop Davis and Charlie Wilson, the team’s director, minor league operations. Since 2009, Davis and Wilson had run the farm system together under assistant GM Tony LaCava. “When we came into the fold, our goal was to work with all the pieces that were here. We only added initially in the baseball operations side … and then high performance,” says Atkins. “At some point, we had to make adjustments to properly align and fill our vision for those roles the best way that we can.”

And put Zeke in CF? No thanks

Pretty sexy lineup.

Getting back on topic, 6 errors for GCL Jays, ouch.

No replacements were announced, but one name circulating among industry sources is Michael Holmes, the assistant scouting director for the Oakland Athletics who was Atkins’ college teammate at Wake Forest.

It was still the same kind of place when I was there last year. It's just snobby big city people thinking they are too good for a place like Regina.

Manfred is trying too hard to make his legacy move.

Their opinion isn't worth anything unless the scouting director listens to them. That was Andrew Tinnish for those guys, he's now the assistant GM.

I'm pretty sure, unless we find evidence that Shapiro interfered.

I don't know how they could make that conclusion already. Some of the picks like Bichette and Palacios already look like nice gets.

Hechavarria, Marisnick, and Barreto were all high on lists in the last 5 years.