John_Havok

That doesn't start until the world series is over

It's still a giant dick move to say you'd rather be managing somewhere else while you're under contract with a team to be their manager.

Lol, hope he busts that out in the majors one day.

God f***ing dammit! unless he retains catcher eligibility....then yay!

So is every playoff game taking 5 hours or does it just seem that way?

Not that it couldn't be true, but there's not really a smoking gun in a person being reassigned to the NHL from the Jays when baseball is over and hockey begins. Plus... this website has the credibility of belly button lint.

Yeah but the LF has to get that ball, it looks like he was barely moving

I think Houston vs LA would be my ideal WS that I might actually watch.

You feeling okay? Even for you that 3 paragraph reply to my post was overly verbose.

Speaking of Prince, it appears the Rangers have negotiated a settlement with their insurance company regarding Fielder's contract so they could actually release him, recover that roster spot and still get money to pay a bunch of his salary.... which is still on the books for another 3 seasons through 2020.

Feels like Arizona should take this

Could have....

I guess it depends... he was negative WAR this year while hitting 28 HR.... that's not good. With his negative value on. .. everything that isn't hitting, he'd basically have to have a wrc+ of 115 to even be worth 1 WAR.

Lol that would be hilarious

He's young, so probably still subject to pools.

True, but the injury risk goes up with age whether you're healthy while younger or not. That's true for everyone let alone athletes

Their arms compare (Barfield's was better but his was otherworldly, Bautista's was merely great) but beyond that I agree. Barfield could actually run down balls. Bautista has been a fairly bad outfielder for the majority of his career but gets a pass from the casual observer because of his arm.

I really hesitate to resign Donaldson when the goal to try and setup the team for a constand run of contention in the future, and you've got 2 potential blue chippers coming along within 2 seasons, and adding potentially 2 more to that as a trade return from a Donaldson move just makes all kinds of sense. Multiple young guys who come up together as stars and basically take over the team, ala the Cubs. His value is at it's peak, is only going to go down unless he's the next Beltre, and if he's signed he will represent 1 of 3 mid 30s players with monster deals on the team, which is exactly what doomed every other team like that in recent memory before they fell off the rails and ended up having to go through multi-year bottom dwelling suckage, with the exception of Boston and NY who had the foresight to get out before the crash, but they also have financial freedoms the Jays don't have (rightly or wrongly, thats just how it is). Thing is... I also get the argument to retain him... he's a frigging beast when he's on the field and the fact that he's there helps Rogers sell the team to all the casuals, which is who they need to convince to watch them on TV and buy tickets. It's a delicate balancing act that Shatkins has to navigate this upcoming offseason.

Dem rbiz R speshul.... Negative value in every aspect of the game this season. Yup, career year

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/is-there-hope-for-brett-lawrie/

Lawrie couldn't make the adjustments that he needed to make after the pitchers adjusted to him. That's what separates the guys who are good enough to make if to MLB, from those that are good enough to stay

True, but it's also not insurmountable. People tend to forget that there's incredible amounts of luck(both bad and good), sequencing(both bad and good) and random s*** that happens every season. Key injuries, players emerging out of nowhere... As long as you have a solid core in place and under control and don't put yourself in a position that you need a complete top to bottom overhaul, your team is likely in the cusp of at least the wildcard conversation. Add in some well thought out additions and not get injury f***ed... this team is not that far out.

There's a thread for this already

Still a long way from the record, but yeah, seeing 60 again would be pretty cool

Whats GS at? Can't imagine it's anything other than even or worse