John_Havok
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Blue Jays seeking replacement for Beeston
John_Havok replied to jerb's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Nobody of consequence would be going back. it never happens in FO personnel moves. -
Blue Jays seeking replacement for Beeston
John_Havok replied to jerb's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Do they not understand that this happens at every level of baseball regarding managers, hitting coaches, pitching coaches, gm's .... It's an accepted practice to get permission to talk to other teams employees of the position you want them for is a promotion from their current role. It's also accepted that if the job isn't a promotion, you don't get permission to talk to them. There's nothing shady, silly or anything even remotely resembling tampering whosoever. Be mad that you're losing a great FO man, but don't blame the team willing to advance the man's career. Also, don't blame the man for advancing his career. Fans are dumb. -
But again, it's highly unlikely that the directives are coming from the ownership. They don't tell the GM who to go get, they just approve the expenditures when it comes down to money.
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Update your offseason thread please. I need to just stare at the awesome every time I login.
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Why would you assume Beeston or anyone at rogers has anyone to do with what individual players to sign? Like some muckity muck at rogers is like... " ALex, go get Saunders.." Unless your general point was more that he needs to get legit pieces and quit f***ing around with waivers in trying to find diamonds in the rough whe trying to compete. But again, I doubt that's anything that would come as a directive from the top, more likely it's guys like Tinnish and his people finally getting through to him about guys who are undervalued and highly attainable.
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Love this. Just that top of the rotation SP, find a pen arm or two that know what strikeouts are and we're in business. Relevant: http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/michael-saunders-is-a-box-of-chocolates/
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I felt that throughout the game the raps were far too focusedn what Kobe was doing and gave him way to much respect. They basically let him do what he wanted the whole game without getting in his face. There were stretches where they did press him and that's when they were successful.
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Kobe isnt overrated. He's just cocky, arrogant and one of the NBA players of all time.
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I wish someone would slap that smirk off Nick Young's face.
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58-49 at half for the lakers. So far it's cringeworthy bad IMO
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A turd by any other name smells just as s*****.
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Terrible option.
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Quite possible. Graveman was intriguing though with his amazing ground all rates
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A combined 50 innings of AAA ball and they're both ready for 2015? Slow down
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Beane is great at finding pitchers who succeed in his ballpark where balls don't carry. then he trades them for a premium to GM's who don't have a good analytics department.
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They don't need rotation spots for Norris or Sanchez in 2015. They both have options and would greatly benefit from working in AAA for more than 22.2 and 34.1 innings respectively.
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I misspoke slightly when I say that's "the plan", but moreso that's what the current situation is if no other moves are made.
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I haven't checked the list of who specifically might be available, but there's always a possibility for that to happen.
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Exactly, which is why there's generally always more than 1 top level prospects going in any trade of top talent. The team taking the risks by bringing in prospects wants as many as possible to at least and get 1 to turn out. Statistically speaking, the team getting the prospects usually doesn't get the good end of the stick. Then of course there's always the Bartolo Colon trade ...
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Not to mention Nver knowing when Lind's back was going to keep him out of the lineup for 2 weeks, then play 5 games, then gone for 2 weeks, then play for 5, then gone for a month etc
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I don't hink anyone has said they are "fine" with the LF and 2b positions as they are, more so they realize that aside from further gutting of the farm, there not a lot of options out there via trade, and free agency is never a guarantee you get who you target, and you can't just target a guy and just blindly throw money at them until they sign. Lowrie would likely be a better option at 2b than anyone on house, but where's the guarantee that he even want to to play here? Sure trading for Upton for LF would be wonderful, but are you gonna give up 2 top end prospects for 1 year of the guy when he's all but guaranteed yo go to FA for 2016? It's highly unlikely you are able to put star calibre talent at every spot on the diamond. You also didn't mention Devon Travis as part of the 2b puzzle.
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I think Hochever would be a savvy addition. Sure he's coming off TJ, but in a pen role he was dominant in 2013. Pretty insane strand rates but still would likely be very good.
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I don't imagine too many are familiar with the Alpha Flight series.
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Name your targets for cheap that are available right now that can actually reliably strike out batters when you need it. And no, I'm not trying to be obtuse or cheeky, I'm just looking at the list of FA relievers and aside from the very top end, not seeing a lot.
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I agree he could be, but the rest of pen is really short on strikeout potential don't ya think?
