The_DH

April Fools!!

Totally agree, he made things happen.

Actions speak a lot louder than words: when we actually acquire something decent I'll believe it but for now I'm not convinced that we're doing anything. When it comes to offseason, I think there are several choices of what to do, being: 1. Actually go for the player and make a significant $$ offer that is highest or next to it. The $$ challenge with a Canadian team is higher taxes and requires a higher bid than some US teams such as Florida and Texas based teams. 2. Make a smaller offer for a player so that you can say you were in it, but not meaningfully so. The benefit is that people think you're doing something when you're really not. It's all about image. 3. Make a smaller offer hoping the top team is not a good place for the player. 4. Pivot to a trade for the type of player you need. 5. Stay out of bids that you have no chance on. I still think we're doing a lot of #2. My expectation is that we'll get Joc Pederson and some Grichuk type and that will be it. We will probably stay under any of the tax brackets but if we start off really well, we may acquire somebody.

The Old Cardinals from the White Rat days used to have top notch defense, but they backed it up with great speed to make up for their slap and go hitters. We can't make that claim.

Brownie, have you ever been involved in a real bidding war? When you bid a much smaller amount, you're not competing, you're only hoping that the top candidate has to drop out for some reason.

That's just the start: look at our posters who claimed to have inside knowledge that we were seriously in on Soto, Ohtani, etc. All because they probably heard from a friend of a friend who heard the Rogers crew say they would. Actions are more relevant than empty words. The teams actions were again about increasing the defense and F the offense.

Downtown Toronto is a bit of a hellhole these days. Lots of schizophrenics and street people around. The traffic is terrible. I can understand why some people wouldn't want to come to Toronto.

I got it from a reliable source that 90% or more of the rumours are pure BS.

I'm going to hold off on any further criticism until I know the rest of the moves. Maybe Bo gets traded for a stopper and Burnes gets signed. Could be a few different moves.

So is Orelvis moving to LF now?

I wondered how they would re-sign KK from last year and this is it. Gimenez' bat is basically KK returned to the roster. I don't mind the guy on his own but holy f***: ROSTER CONSTRUCTION, NOT DESTRUCTION.

I honestly don't think Vladdy is too bright and that he likes shiny objects. He probably saw a picture of himself and automatically liked it. Never thought of the "big picture" of liking it. So in short, it means nothing.

I saw a boy who looked like Pugsley Addams with his hair dyed pink and wearing a tutu. No bs. As long as that s*** goes on, and kids are being raised to think that's great then woke won't go away.

I like your attitude, let Rogers spend the big bucks they get from us.

I'd only go for Alonso on a real small one time show me contract. Otherwise, no thank you.

Keep in mind how Rogers assesses this team. How are ratings, how are commercial sales doing? They can assess those things and I'm sure they do.

could also be useful to send New York over the budgetary top.

I was thinking about Hague too as hitting coach but I still think it will be somebody from outside. I would totally keep Hague and as for Mense, I don't have any idea of his impact. I always saw Hague talking to somebody about their at-bat. I never saw Martinez. He seemed invisible to me.

My mistake: I somehow missed it but Mattingly out as "Offensive coordinator"

The only thing that was really said was expect to have similar budget for next year. The rest was fluff.

So he can fit in as a $2mm arm, I agree he's not an $8 mm pitcher.

why would you cut Genesis Cabrera? But the others yes with some kind of invite offer.

Faster than I thought. More should follow.

True, I don't know for a fact what screwed up all of the hitters. But we clearly had an entire roster of below average hitting. Somehow has to be addressed.

I totally expect the management to stay but lots of tweaking in development. The pitching had a lot of problems with injuries which happens and I don't have any problem with that. But the hitting was a s*** show. Only one hitter really did well and that was after he found his answers somewhere else (maybe from Encarnacion, I'd really like to know). It seems whenever we called somebody up, they did really well at first and then something happened and they deflated big time. Schneider being a good example of that, even Horwitz declined a bit. Seems like the hitting coaches hurt, not helped. Would like to see that addressed.