43211234

You have to wonder if the Blue Jays are trying to go with the super-front-office thing that the Dodgers and Cubs did, or if they are going with a more traditional role for the President/CEO. If it's the former, Kenny Williams coming up is terrifying.

If the Blue Jays sign Robertson do they give up the pick they'll get for Melky or their secound rounder?

AA making in-roads to the chocolate industry.

Edwin is going to be DHing probably 70% of the time and I think Smoak gets about the same proportion of starts over at 1B. I'm perfectly fine with giving Smoak a shot at first everyday for such a bargain price. You'd be hard pressed to find a meaningful upgrade at first base that would be worth the cost.

In this case you'd also have to consider the in-house replacements for exiting players. Pompey (1), Norris (1) are also conservative expectations. This team is clearly better right now, and as you said, they aren't done yet.

I agree that depth is a potential issue and I think they should look at adding a starter to their rotation or re-building the depth at SP after the last two trades. I was just saying that I see their depth pieces are better than the Joel Carrenos of the league and are more likely to be able to fill in long term if needed. Of course nothing is a given, I just like Norris' and even Sanchez's chance of sticking over many of the past options. And it can't be ignored that Dickey and Buehrle are in the rotation. Any pitcher can break at any time but they might be the two starters in the league with the lowest probability of injury, if such a thing could reasonably be calculated. 2014's health compared to other years wasn't complete happenstance.

I strongly agree. But I wonder if he would be able to learn a cutter, given his extreme natural sink. I'm just wondering though, I don't know much about those things. Maybe it doesn't make a difference at all.

I like the idea of this thread but I think the numbers are skewed a bit by how s***** the rotations have been in the past. Presumably Estrada, Sanchez and Norris will be able to fill in the rotation as long as needed, barring injury. In the past you had some really crappy pitchers getting starts and were removed for another piece of crap because, even as depth, they just weren't cutting it. Guys who have made starts since 2010 include: Ramon Ortiz, Zach Stewart, Brad Mills, Luis Perez, Chien-Ming Wang, Bruce Tallet, Dana Eveland, Joel Carreno, Jesse Chavez (he sucked then), Shawn Hill, Aaron Laffey, Kyle Drabek, Jo-Jo Reyes, Marc Rzepczynski, Esmil Rogers, Jesse Litsch. Those names have made 162 starts over the last five years. Every fifth day since 2010 somebody from the above melting pot of hot garbage has pitched for the Blue Jays. And this doesn't even consider the bad years of Ricky Romero, Josh Johnson's disastrous year, McGowan in the rotation, Henderson Alvarez's bad year, Cecil's bad years in the rotation and others. Their rotation seems to be better this year. I don't think 12 starts will have to come from outside the 8 guys you mentioned. And if they do and I'm sure they could do worse than Roberto Osuna, Miguel Castro and maybe even Jeff Hoffman late in the year.

Haha, no problem. I'm always willing to learn something. However, I still think induction was correct lol But there seems to be many different meanings for these words and they seem to mean different things in different fields or conditions. I guess I was thinking of induction/deduction in terms of how they're used in science.

I think induction is actually correct here. I think in general, deduction is knowing the conclusion and guessing the details, while induction is knowing the details and guessing the conclusion.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ Using my powers of induction, it looks like the Blue Jays BP top 10 is set to be released tomorrow.

That's because TSN radio is a thing now. ESPN guys don't go on Sportsnet

Did anyone post keith law's article on the trade + Markakis signing? http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/keith-law/post?id=3007&ex_cid=InsiderTwitter_Law_MarkakisReaction

The 76ers are 45 seconds away from their first victory of the season, up by 6 against the Timberwolves.

The ninja is back. Excellent moves today and last night (in light of this trade)

Like $2M at most.

Yes but it's not going to happen.

A John Paul Morosi rumour about the Blue Jays? I'm sure it will come to fruition.

There was nothing wrong with what Lawrie said, that's just s***-mongering by sportsnet. Here's the audio of some of the conference call, including that quote: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/40172882/v37013263/lawrie-ready-to-contribute-excited-to-join-as

He was also on TSN, here's the link: http://www.tsn.ca/radio/tsn-drive-hour-3-1.149273 AA joins around 24:25. Just starting to listen to it now. fan590 audio can be found here: http://www.sportsnet.ca/590/prime-time-sports/anthopoulos-donaldson-wasnt-in-the-conversation-back-in-october/

I can't take too much credit. I simply edited what was already the potential GOAT gif. http://i.imgur.com/GZUKvFD.gif

As an interesting piece of trivia is that Donaldson's father spent 15 years in prison for drug and domestic violence charges. This article is a good read about his life growing up: http://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/A-s-Donaldson-takes-nothing-for-granted-4544891.php His father saw him play live professionally for the first time in 2013: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/a-s-josh-donaldson-shows-father-what-he-missed-000357225.html

Did you see that on Reddit? I actually made it lol

Nah put Pompey at 9th in the order. You need someone that can get on base in the 2 hole. Don't want to be like the cincinnati reds and shoot yourself in the foot by giving him nothing to drive in. I like Donaldson there.

Didn't know where to post this but Wilner doesn't even know what a cutter is. He thought it was the same thing as a two-seamer. http://pmd.fan590.com/podcasts/blue_jays_this_week/bjtw_20141129_133604--Blue-Jays-This-Week---November-29---Saturday.mp3 At around the 11:25 mark. A minute or two before that he says that Nolin and Graveman were below Tirado and "Foley-Reid" on the starting pitching depth chart.