John_Havok
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The top end is nice, but there's a lot of chaffe to get rid of too, like Tolleson, Valencia, Hague, Thole etc. Right now, it appears a Dirks/Mayberry platoon is the LF plan with Pillar as the odd man out an injury. It would be my guess that they want Travis to be the 2B but we'll likely see Izturis start the year there with Goins on the bench and Travis in AAA, OR Travis starting with Izturis on the bench and Goins in AAA. Smoak DHing with Navarro as the backup catcher. My guess is that they Jays would want the following to happen: C - Martin 1b - Edwin 2b - Travis SS - Reyes 3b - Donaldson LF - Dirks/Mayberry Jr CF - Pompey RF - Bautista DH - Smoak Bench: Navarro Mayberry Jr/Dirks Izturis Pillar/Goins Just a guess on the bench there as I don't know if they would carry a 5th outfielder or another IF backup. With Pillar you'd have your CF back and pinch runner, Izturis can back up any IF position as can Goins defensively though I'd really hate to see Izzy at SS for any length of time... Tolleson is basically DFA fodder at this point IMO. Could also just use Pillar as the other half of the platoon in LF and just use Mayberry as a power-off-the-bench option.
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No ... they really wouldn't. Sure some teams prospects are better than other teams prospects, but that's why teams have their own people to evaluate them prior to a trade. If 2 years from now, the Marlins were in the midst of trade talks with Stanton to the Jays ( just using as an example) and the Jays had 3 top 50 prospects that they were willing to give up (again, pure hypothetical) and the Marlins evaluators loved them more than any other package of prospects being offered to them, do you really think they would think to themselves "gee last time we traded with these guys the prospects just didn't work out, so maybe we should re-think this and take a different package of prospects that our own evaluators don't think are as good?" Just... no.
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Yes, but the back end of the pen is still questionable. Who are they going to use as their main guys? Cecil and Loup are really the only consistent relievers from last year. Delabar was all over the map, Jenkins and Redmond are long men, Rasmussen was nothing special, who knows what Drabek would do... after that, your names are Hynes, Hendriks, Burns, Estrada, Schultz, Tepera and Sanchez, though having him out of the pen again would probably be a waste. There's really no standout strikeout guys in that list and that's what this pen is in dire need of.
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Main needs fore the club now... Front of the rotation SP, LF, and pen help. I think between Izturis, Travis and Goins, the Jays really aren't focusing on 2b right now.
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Never would any GM trade an MVP calibre talent because of Twitter. /thread -
No GM in the world would stop doing business with a team just because they traded once and the prospects didn't pan out. It's not like their team didn't get to see the prospects beforehand and basically choose the ones they wanted, and they also usually have them for their final minor league development years. if they did t think the prospects were good enough, they wouldn't have agreed to the trade.
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I only saw a few minutes of the game... Was it a good effort but just came up short or just Dallas clearly being the better Team?
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Looking for some left handed-ness in the starting lineup now, right now there's Reyes, Navarro, Pompey and Navarro likely to be traded.
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Popular opinion amongst A's fan is pretty much outrage that one of Pompey, Norris or Sanchez was not in the deal with Lawrie.
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And there was literally no heads up on this until it happened.... No rumours about Donaldson being in play... Nothing about LAwrie being shopped....
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Just saw this scrolling along the ticker on SN west.... Kinda hard to wrap your head around but getting Donaldson is huge. The package we gave up.... I'm pretty okay with it.
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Blow a few saves, inflate ERA over small sample = you play for the Rays next year for peanuts while likely providing outstanding value.
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MLBTR: Scherzer, Lester, Shields and Career Pitch Counts
John_Havok replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Boras always slow plays his big free agents. -
Major sin by a writer.... Using words like "vicissitudes" in an article. It's like day 1 in Journalism school, you don't use words that 90% of your target audience don't know the meaning of. all it proves is how arrogant the writer is.
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This just in, Kevin Barker on Tim and Sid, when speaking about the chances of Xander Bogaerts being traded says he's a good young, player, lots up upside at short stop, but he's a lot like Ryan Goins in then uncertainty of the bat. Yip, you heard it from Barker. Bogaerts is comparable to Ryan Goins. How is this guy employed?
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Hi Kevin Durant. reasons why this will happen? 1. He grew up liking the Raptors. 2. Masai Ujiri 3. Want to go down in history? Be the centrepiece of the first Canadian NBA team to win a championship. Play to that ego. 4-10. MASAI f***ING UJIRI
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And good god the west is stacked. 8th place team is 10-6 and every top 8 team is on a winning streak
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Loving watching this team right now though. Seems that no matter what's going on in the game, they just shrug it off and know they have control over the situation. In seasons past, you could see it on the court that when something went wrong, they were beat. Now, no big deal, we got this.
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I'm as on board with the Raps as anyone, but before I go over the deep end, I really want to see how they play against Dallas. Yes they beat Memphis, but their whole team was sick and had no depth that night, so while they still won a game thye should have one, I don't quite have the Raptors at the top of the heap yet. Play a good game against Dallas, Portalnd, Houston, Golden State.... and I'll be fully drinking the Kool-Aid
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Will we ever see a 300 K season again from a starter?
John_Havok replied to jaysblue's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
A fair point but we'd also need to see starting pitchers throw more innings each year. That's the part I don't see happening with any consistency anytime soon. -
Red Sox close to signing Lester, 120-140
John_Havok replied to HERPDERP's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The Martin signing went enough on its own before any of the Boston signings. If all the Jays do is sign Martin on this offseason, it will be a failure. -
Will we ever see a 300 K season again from a starter?
John_Havok replied to jaysblue's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Possible but highly highly unlikely -
Nothing wrong with either of them in LF. Either of them there would probably be 25+ runs saved over the butchery of Melky.
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Not sure what the price tag would be but it's definitely worth looking into.
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If that's the case then yes, definitely. That was a steal of a trade and the worst part is the AZ front office doesn't even realize it.
