My thoughts exactly. Ross is huge, and Griffin is just a pleasure to watch anytime for the Clippers. I really doubt the Raptors win this because I think down the stretch the more elite talent will win out, but this game is phenomenal. This is the video you show people when you showcase the nba
It's the same type of team as Oakland has been running out for the past few years. Couple of stars, and the rest of the team is built of guys who may not have bigtime skills and talent, but they don't have weaknesses.
At the start of the offseason...
Bogaerts, Sano, Springer, R. Montero, Alcantara, Soler, Mason Willams, and wherever Danny Salazar and Zunino would be if they were was still prospects.
The Jays need to decide what they are going to be about. Either be a draft/development system like St Louis - where you still have the ability to retain key pieces if you choose, or;
Become big spenders and actually make yourselves players in the free agent game
Don't start one way, then go half-assed into another and stand pat at the first sign of adversity
did you look at the leaderboards? Cuz 10-15 would put him as one the top 2-4 qualified defensive second basemen in all of baseball in pretty much any given year, sometimes the #1.
That's lofty expectations.
Read this:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fangraphs-uzr-primer/
then this:
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=9807&position=2B
Scroll down to advanced fielding. See his UZR and UZR 150
Now, looks at leaderboards at 2B over the past any number of years and arrive at the conclusion that Goins playing at last year's level of defense is not going to happen. If you come to any other conclusion, then the force is not strong with you.
Canucks and Edmonton about to start.
If I was Edmonton, I'd start the game with my goons just to piss off Vancouver after that whole mess with Calgary a few nights ago.
Wait.. you mean 300+ pound lineman aren't supposed to be able to run a 4.65 40 yard dash?
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/2/23/4021176/2013-nfl-combine-results-top-offensive-lineman-40-yard-dash-times
The announcement probably will come in the next 24 hours, the team will need time to cross all the t's and dot the lower case j's. PLus, he'll have to finalize a physical (unless the team is prepared to take the results of the physical he took on January 9th, without their own doctor's having any access to him) before anything is official. They can't write anything in their about what would happen to the contract after the Friday deadline if he failed a physical or something on Saturday.
It's either 100% final by Friday's deadline, or he's back in Japan.
Could you imagine the shitshow that this board(not to mention the old board) would erupt into if AA actually put his balls out there and signed Tanaka?