John_Havok

I'm really glad I was in the pool when my phone started blowing up with all the notifications of this trade. I had to s*** my pants

That's the worst part about the deadline for fans like us. We want to know exactly what cincinatti was demanding and what AA was offering. Obviously when a return like this happens and u can clearly see the Jays could have topped it, the unknown makes u crazy. If jocketty didn't budge off Stroman, then of course u don't do that deal.

Soccer doesn't have 7 levels of minor league talent that kids have togo through to develop. It makes sense to give GM'S 5+ years to see how they work unless they do egregiously baffling s*** *cough** davestewart** cough**

Why does not blindly supporting a GM mean you're a hater?

True, but there's trades out there for more than just rentals. He just has to pull the trigger even if it means giving up someone he doesn't want to.

Agree with the offense problems, but the defense was better than fine. Rookie mistakes happen. Pillar has made more than his share of bone head decisions on defense too. And no im not saying Pillar is worse than Pompey. Just that the kinds of mistakes Pompey was making are easily correctable and his overall defense game is just fine for CF

I'm in the disapprove camp, though admittedly the needle has swung from strongly approve to disapprove over the past 3 seasons. The brilliant trade to unload wells was the high water mark for me. Then it started to go backwards 24 hours later when he traded Napoli for a bad closer. Right there it started to become apparantthat his player valuation system was flawed. He did well to exploit the comp picks before mlb closed that loophole. But then he traded for overpriced talent and gave away way too much for a f***ing 37 year knuckleballer because he'd won a Cy Young....and the Florida trade was further proof that his valuations were suspect. He completely ignored the free agent market when it could help the club. Starting pitching has been the biggest need for 3 years and there's been nothing done about it except trying to catch lightning in a bottle year after year for rotations spots 4 through 8, when he should have been focusing on improving spots 1 through 3. Too many spots in the past 3 years have gone to replacement level or lower players when they're supposedly trying to contend. From year 3 on, it's been basically knowing what needs to be done, but never getting it done. Theres been good moves since then, Ala Donaldosn, Martin and Travis. But complete failure in addressing the teams pitching needs is once again the anchor weighing down the team. For me, if he doesn't swing something before deadline that improves the teams pitching in a meaningful way, it's probably time to cut ties.

Probab,y a good idea for Navarro to call a bunch of breaking balls early then. That way Hutch can fall behind early and get that pitch count up.

No excuse for batting Navarro 5th...

Doubront is the "in case of emergency" arm for tonight if it gets ugly.

He should have every right to protest. The rule book has the exact example from last nights game specifically regarding replay on plays at the plate, and they got it 100% wrong.

Listening to Anthony Gose on Brady and Walker... he is clearly just not a smart dude.

Wow, ump bailed him out bigtime. Don't think that was anywhere close to a swing

I wouldn't even take a bat to the box right now

Look at the pitch selection... majority changeups. If your fastball isn't established yor change is useless

Meh, estrada and Navarro are both very replacable. The fact bth are currently starter's on a club with aspirations of contention is laughable. Recent events do not change that

When did he go hot?

Cmon, it's not like we have another catcher who is superior in every aspect of the game....

Fcking Navarro catching again.... Gibby is full fking derp right now

First ting I hear on rangers broadcast, some really hard hit balls luckily find gloves have really boosted Gallardo today, and a questionable strike zone going his way.

I've gotta switch to the Rangers broadcast, buck is full derp today.

Who is this ump today? His strike zone is embarrassing

Tht ones on the ump. Moreland saw 4 strikes, 3 of them called balls

Wow, this ump is on the Rangers payroll for sure today

Hard to blame him when the ump f***ed him in his last AB