AdamGreenwood

"IBB and pitching around players is dumb!" Depends on the situation. How many outs? How good is the hitter up to bat vs the pitcher? How good is the next hitter coming up vs the pitcher? Obviously, there are times when an intentional walk is absolutely the right call. Runners on second and third. Two out. Pitcher on deck.

Boo Hoo. It must be so tough to be Adam Jones, and wait five minutes to keep playing his little game.

We'd have to give up a king's ransom to get Escobar. A talented, cheap controllable healthy shortstop that produces 4 war a season? It's not like a GM is just going to give one of those away.

Jeter just got pulled in a blowout to Baltimore. It's the last time Jeter will ever be pulled in the second game of a home opening series. This is a sad day for baseball.

I'm so glad that all 30 MLB teams are participating in the Derek Jeter farewell tour. My only complaint is that there isn't enough coverage. This should be the top headline every day until October. Today will be the last time that Derek Jeter will play the second game of a home opening series. It's a sad day for baseball.

This is what happens when you agree to take on $40 million in salary for an oft injured shortstop and a mediocre pitcher.

Come on guys. Don't you know that Fangraph says that a pitcher only has control of strikeouts, walks and home runs? Those four consecutive hits were just bad luck.

Kind of ironic how some of the mods here were some of the worst offenders of newbie-bashing but now that it's 'their' forum, quantity is now more important than quality.

I like to watch everything on my TV through my Playstation which has MLBTV. Is there a way to use a proxy to watch it through the PS3?

I was actually surprised that they kept Goins instead of Kawasaki. I have to think that some of the more reserved players (read: Bautista) secretly complained to management that Kawasaki made things feel like a gong show.

Generally, if everyone else undervalues a player on your roster, that's probably a guy that you hold on to, as oppose to try and trade away.

That's why I put it here in the forums for you guys to proofread before I send it in.

Dear Mr. Anthopolous, I am applying for the position of Director of Scouting with the Blue Jays organization. You may find my application unusual given that I have no experience in playing or coaching baseball, and have no organizational experience either. In fact, I can not tell the difference between a slider and a curve ball nor can I recognize a good swing from one filled with holes. However, there is one thing that I am very good at, and that is recognizing political correctness. When I saw you discard a four WAR shortstop for next to nothing in order to appease the voices that called for his elimination due to his alleged childish prank (which eternally wounded my soul, I recognized that yours in an organization I want to work for, nay need to work for. It made me so proud to know that you would completely dismantle this team's chance of winning anything so that we can stand proud and unblemished in character. If you employ me as the Director of Scouting, I will assure you that each member of the Blue Jays will conform to all political correctness. They will not be homophobic, racist, transphobic, sexist, anti-semitic or possess any other forms of bigotry. Additionally, I will ensure that they treat women with respect, and regard their whole person, not just their physical features. They will talk to their wives and girlfriends about their aspirations, their doubts and fears, and will never place their own little baseball career above the much more important job of being a mother. While I have restricted my initial plans to 'easy wins', in the second phase of my transformative blueprint, I intend to make the Blue Jays team more properly represent the demographics of Canada. You can be no stranger to the concerns that the Blue Jays are severely underrepresented in First Nations as well as Arab peoples. Additionally, a greater attempt to encourage female, transgendered individuals and the handicapped to become Blue Jays would go along way to redeeming the Blue Jays in the eyes of Toronto's most progressive citizens. In closing, I can not promise you a winning team, but I can promise you that the product you place on the field, will be one that we can all take great pride in, for choosing equality and love over the childishness of 'one team being better than another'. Sincerely, Adam Greenwood Applicant

At times like these, we should all try not to lose track of what's really important. Sure, we have an injury prone shortstop that we're paying $18 million a season too and sure we gave up a ton of cheap, controllable talent to get him, and the other mediocre players with giant-sized contracts, assuring no payroll flexibility for the next four years. But, at least we can take pride in the fact that our current shortstop hasn't said anything homophobic. That's whats really important here.

The most telling post in that Rogers/Gomes/Aviles trade was this from a Cleveland fan, the day after the trade: "The Indians seem to love him defensively and believe he has upside with the bat" If the Indian scouts could recognize that, why could the team that had him in their organization for four years not see it? Why was he a throw in to a trade that was already weighted towards Cleveland? When is AA going to end his experiment of collecting relievers with higher than a k per inning, and try to convert them into starters?

Agreed on Lind. I have never enjoyed an interview so much.

I don't know how you guys can hate Jo-Jo Reyes or Laffey. These guys know they don't have a lot of talent, don't get paid a lot, but they come out and give it everything they have to try and help the team. Sadly, those were the best pitchers we had available after being hit by injury. Why do you blame them? My pick is Ted Lilly. August 21, 2006. The Jays build up an 8-0 lead after two innings. Lilly precedes to surrender seven runs in the third inning, and then has a tantrum because Gibbons wants to remove him from the game. He felt he was entitled to continue, because he remained in line for the win. He didn't care that he was single-handedly blowing an 8 run lead.

Not to take away anything from previous Jays catchers, but... It's fun to know that the pitch is usually going to be blocked. It's exciting to think our catchers have a greater than 25% chance of getting on base. I have fun knowing that if a ball thrown home skips, it's no longer an insurmountable task to catch it and apply the tag. I've missed that the past couple of years, and it's exciting to get back to that.

"So I just time-traveled back six minutes to respond to this post. No big deal. " No big deal? If you f*** up the space-time continuum, we're all going to phase out of existence. It's very dangerous and should only be used in dire emergencies, not to show off on internet baseball forums. FFS. People like you really piss me off. They need to raise the IQ standards on who should be allowed to time travel.

Alright, let's see if anyone can get the roster exactly right. Dickey Morrow Buehrle Hutchison Happ Cecil Delabar Janssen Mcgowan Santos Loup Rogers Navarro Thole Encarnacion Lind Reyes Izturis Reyes Kawasaki Bautista Cabrera Rasmus Gose Sierra

The title of this report is misleading. This is a combination of the most improved teams, and the teams with the most underperforming players of 2013. For instance, the way this report works, if Izturis has a -2 WAR in 2013, and then is projected to get 0.5 WAR in 2014, they're calling that an improvement of 2.5 WAR

We all (except me) questioned his pitch framing after one allegedly irrefutable report, at least until the next report came out. Given that so many were mired in the position that JPA had terrible defense, the only tactic left to support that was to attack the one area of the game not currently quantified (game calling).

I agree with Zaun. If you can't handle getting hit, you can't handle baseball. In fact, baseball took a downturn in 1877, when some cowards started wearing masks. Prior to that, the padded glove was the mark of the coward. If Zaun and I had our way, catchers would be catching the ball barehanded with no protective equipment. That's what real men do.

"I'd invent a time machine, go back in time and prevent your conception. " Cockblocker

He only started six games at second. It's not as if any determination can be made as the success or failure of that experiment. He's an awesome third baseman, and his quickness, his jump and his off-balance throws should translate well to second. Plus it's harder to find a stairwell at second base. And his bat at 2nd is worth a lot more than his bat at 3rd with the current market.