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Ross out here looking like this:

How are the Keith Law articles?

Soto's a freak.

I'd say Villar will be SS mostly until Bo's back and sometimes OF. I can't see him at 3b too often with Shaw still around.

I think you mean sac bunt.

The whole 100 pitch count max pisses me off. They will let a SP throw 70-90 pitches, put a reliever in there that will go 1-2 innings possibly throwing 40 pitches and go back out there in a day or 2. If the Jays didn't have a great pen the team would be f***ed.

That's true.. If he sticks.

Stripling is the only player that has control past this year.

Someone should start a thread...

Wow was this guy on anyone's radar? That's a sweet pickup!

Fixed.

Hopefully Montoyo has that conversation with Drury telling him to go home.

Montoyo: We're going to put Biggio 7th to help turn the lineup around.

I don't mind this deal at all. Ray got s*** loads of talent and is a K monster. He just needs to figure out his control issues.

Poor Trout is never going to get a WS with that mess of a team.

Please make a trade so we never see Panik again! Or fire Charlie! That would probably work as well.

Man Keith Law is a f***ing tool.

Well TFB! Once he plays for the Bisons he will never want to leave.

The Jays are in on Bauer?

"The Blue Jays have agreed to acquire right-hander Taijuan Walker from the Mariners, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (Twitter links). Seattle will receive a player to be named later who is not currently in the Blue Jays’ 60-man player pool. GM Jerry Dipoto confirmed the report in a radio appearance on 710 ESPN Seattle (Twitter link via Jessamyn McIntyre), adding that he hopes to eventually bring Walker back to the Mariner as a free agent. Walker, who turned 28 earlier this month, was the No. 43 overall draft pick by the Mariners back in 2010 and spent six years in the organization before being traded to the D-backs in the 2016-17 offseason. He returned to Seattle on a one-year, $2MM deal this season after missing the vast majority of the 2018-19 seasons in Arizona due to injury. That figure is prorated to about $720K in the shortened season, with about $344K of that sum remains to be paid out. Presumably, the Jays are on the hook for that portion of the deal. Though the reunion was short-lived, Walker looked plenty healthy in his five starts to begin the season. He’s pitched to an even 4.00 ERA with a 25-to-8 K/BB ratio, five homers allowed and a 36.8 percent ground-ball rate. Walker’s most recent outing saw him hold a tough Dodgers lineup to three runs — all solo homers — on four hits and a walk with eight punchouts over seven frames. Walker has averaged 93 mph on his heater thus far in 2020, and that number has crept upward of late; he sat at 92.6 mph as recently as July 31 but averaged 93.3 mph in his two most recent outings. The Jays will add Walker to a rotation that recently lost Nate Pearson to an elbow injury and has generally struggled beyond top starter Hyun Jin Ryu. Veterans Matt Shoemaker and Tanner Roark have matching 4.91 ERAs — each with an FIP greater than 6.00. Righty Chase Anderson has been solid in a tiny sample, but he only just returned from an oblique injury and has yet to top five innings in a single appearance this year. The Jays have ridden an unexpectedly strong bullpen into the AL Wild Card mix, but it’s been clear that rotation upgrades would be needed for the team to hang onto that opportunity. General manager Ross Atkins made that much clear a week ago when he acknowledged his plans to focus on win-now moves — specifically those that would reinforce his team’s starting pitching. The Jays were also recently linked to Pirates righties Trevor Williams and Chad Kuhl, and it stands to reason that they could yet look into acquiring another starter. For now, Walker represents an affordable rotation upgrade who could conceivably make six or seven starts over the final 32 days of the regular season. He’d likely factor into the club’s playoff rotation as well, should the Jays ultimately qualify. More to come." https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/08/mariners-trade-taijuan-walker-blue-jays.html

I wanted him to start when he got here.

I played the game and didn't get it.

I agree. I have nothing against Font.. he's been decent so far (numbers might not show that) but maybe not throw him into a high leverage situation when you have better options at the moment. Or you know... LEAVE ANDERSON IN!

What the f*** is up with Montoyo pulling SP early from games?