John_Havok

90+ or GTFO of the lineup

Sure, he wants to be on the field competing, as any athlete would, but I promise you, a near 36 year old career catcher in a lost season doesn't mind getting time off to rest those knees. He also spent a few days on the Paternity list

The swing change probably accounts for some of it, and the difference in balls accounts for the rest

Regardless of whether they see him as an upgrade (however slight that upgrade might be), you have to realize that giving up decent prospects for a slight upgrade, especially at catcher... doesn't happen

It's getting to be an epidemic

Nobody is paying decent prospects for Martin regardless if how much money you eat

Is this real life? People still look at batting average as a thing that matters?

Jays are gonna ditch Pillar, sign Harper and have Grichuk in CF. Book it

Vlad also thrown out twice trying to stretch 2 of the 3 hits into doubles. Clearly not ready

If all you see is Morales, Giles and Merryweather, you're not looking very hard

Will be some very good CSs Sox vs Dodgers would be great for ratings in the World Series if it happens.

Crazy ending but it's all over. On to the LCSs

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/38198/prospectus-feature-draft-value-calculator/

Exactly. There are always examples of guys who get picked in the 70-80 range that will end up being outliers and actually become good players. The odds of that though are really low. The odds of Merryweather outperforming whomever the Jays hypothetically picked in that range next year is quite a bit higher.

That's the thing with National broadcasts for any sport, but especially baseball. They have to be aware that the vast majority if their audience are people who think speedy slap hitters, wins for pitchers, and stuff like RBIs are important so they have to hire people that are capable of dumbing everything down to the lowest common denominator Side Story, was at family's house for Thanksgiving dinner last night and we started playing this game Anomia, basic gist of the game is that people flip over cards with symbols and a random category on them and when 2 people's symbols match, the first person to name something in the other persons category wins their card. So, I flip a card, it matches someone else, and my caRd said "a unit of weight" and their card said "German city" so they said 'kilogram' just before I said "Berlin"... and they took my card. I said hang on, a kilogram isnt a unit of weight and they all looked at me like I had 4 heads. It wasn't until they actually agreed to Google it that they realized I wasn't the idiot. Apparantly there's a lot of people out there that think mass and weight are the same thing.

Cleveland has been revitalized a lot in recent years. It's not really that much of a dumpster anymore. Baltimore has that title hands down. Maybe Detroit

Doesn't really help your case

Probably the most anticipated list since the 10 Commandments. And probably about as useful

How many teams not in the playoffs have ex me members of the Jays or the playoff teams? Then tell me why it's relevant

At least he got his major league hit. Was a classy move by the Jays to bring him up for those games after he toiled in the minors for 3400 PA, 99% of which were with the Jays

You definitely missed the subtlety of the joke.

There is no way that Jazz Chisholm guy's nickname isn't Jizz. There's just no alternative that makes sense.

Without a doubt there will be many FOs ringing the Rockies GM pretty regularly. It's really just a hope that the Jays will be able to convince the Rockies that what they offer will be more enticing, due to said GM's idiocy. Remember, in a trade it's only partially about how a team values their own asset(s), it's more so about how your potential trade partners values what you offer them in return

Hardest hit HR in the postseason since Statcast started tracking exit velo in 2015. 116.1 MPH

No GM could succeed there while being forbidden from exploring a major avenue of asset accumultaion, ie the international market. That, coupled with the lack of investment in any forward thinking prospect development and analytics (squarely on Angelos' shoulders), you're seeing the inevitable results, regardless of who was at the helm. Duquette will get work, and probably very soon. Maybe not as a GM right away, but some position like Cherington's with the Jays.