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  1. Dick_Pole
    Ok, I'm not a huge tech nerd into a whole bunch of new gadgets and stuff, but between VPN and Kodi I get unlimited access to the four major North American sports leagues. Neither of which I pay a penny for, assuming I stay under my monthly data usage (got the Kodi hardware as a gift). I don't understand how 99% of the relatively tech savvy people here haven't already stumbled upon this solution.
  2. Dick_Pole
    http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/feda/datasets/expectedruns.html 63.6% of the time according to these stats gathered 20+ years ago. These stats are skewed upward given that there are a lot of early inning data in here that won't be subject to strategic pitching changes.
  3. Dick_Pole
    Zack Britton says otherwise.
  4. Dick_Pole
    Yup! I'm optimistic that it'll become the biggest board meme since the 5000 word essay on Bautista and Encarnacion's 50-50 chance of returning to Toronto.
  5. Dick_Pole
    I have a suggestion: http://www.hovding.com/how_hovding_works
  6. Dick_Pole
    The d stands for dominant.
  7. Dick_Pole
    Also, who hasn't been on Lind's case for being a lazy f***? The three stooges Rasmus, Lind and Lawrie are all gone. If you bring just one of them back it shouldn't be that damaging to the clubhouse.
  8. Dick_Pole
    Good thing there are coaches and a manager to do all the thinking for him. Base running is the only time where he might have to do some solo brain thinking and that's one area of his game which hasn't declined over the last two years.
  9. Dick_Pole
    Yes of course. For clarity I'm saying if Barney is #23 on this roster and Smoak, Goins and Carrera are #24/25, Lawrie is thrown into the mix at #24/25 not #23. Well, unless he proves otherwise which he is completely capable of doing so.
  10. Dick_Pole
    Lawrie reminds me of a gifted athlete, an upstanding citizen and a perfect role model for children. I'm saying Lawrie might remind others of their bully in their youth.
  11. Dick_Pole
    Every one of these people trashing Lawrie over the past two pages would run over their grandmother to have a life like his. A bunch of salty motherf***ers who can't stand Lawrie because he reminds of them all of the guys who bullied the s*** out of them at school while they were poindexters (or still are in some cases). Absolutely nothing wrong with having Lawrie on this team. The comparison to Barney is laughably inadequate. Goins or Smoak are the ones he would battle on the depth chart.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Yes to this x 1000 For anyone saying no and this Donaldson injury ends up being more serious, you are going to look back at this missed opportunity and regret it. Travis and Tulowitzki are also not the type of players you say no to depth to. Lawrie may be a douche but he is *our* douche. The story from AA was that he didn't want to give him up but he had to give up something for Donaldson. It wasn't like he was shown the door like Escobar or Valencia. I wouldn't consider the clubhouse issue to be a problem, especially if he is in a limited role like he would be if all goes well with this team.
  13. Dick_Pole
    Smoak: .370 BA 50 HR Book it.
  14. Dick_Pole
    I see some good karma being built up in this thread. Hope Sanchez or Stroman don't have to go shopping for second opinions any time soon.
  15. Dick_Pole
    Pillar is going to OPS .900 in 2017 after this thread. You guys all said Goins would never stick. Gruber said he would. He has hung around for 900+ PA and counting. He's put up 3.6 bWAR in that time while earning the league minimum salary. This includes a very valuable 2.7 bWAR in two-thirds of a season in 2015 when the Jays desperately needed him for the playoff run. He's even pitched a shutout inning. You all hate on Gruber so much because deep down, you know he was right.
  16. Dick_Pole
    Man you guys are gonna look so silly when Smoak hits .370 with 50 home runs this year...
  17. Dick_Pole
    I'm going to take one for the team here and provide a little balance. Remember what happened to Stroman the instant everyone on here was converted into believing he was an Ace?
  18. Dick_Pole
    This is only helpful if you compare this to Seattle for context. Maybe San Diego too. 8 extra years but a lifetime of hot garbage outside of Gwynn and a closer.
  19. Dick_Pole
    So good he was worth mentioning twice.
  20. Dick_Pole
    This is a really, really stupid idea. All feelings from the 2 respectable posters who actually like it aside. I'd rather they just implement ties after 12 innings than this. If they really want to improve the pace of the game then allow a team to roster a 5-man bullpen, 6 max. That will reduce pitching changes and also increase late-inning scoring that reduces the chance of long games. A team's BP guys are either able to get hitters out regardless of the arm they pitch with, or they're not. Rich Gossage or Mark Eichhorn type of pitchers would be needed in the pen.
  21. Dick_Pole
    Uhhhhh...I voted "better", did I not?
  22. Dick_Pole
    Better. Cecil went 1-7 and he's gone. Dickey went 10-15 and he's gone. So all the Jays have to do is replace their 11-22 with .500 pitchers and they are 5.5 games better. In fact, Liriano went 2-2 last year in 8 starts so he'll probably go something like 12-12 over 33 starts so the Jays already have most of that covered. Subtract 3.5 for the WAR difference on Edwin versus Morales and the Jays are still 2 games better. 91 wins for 2017.
  23. Dick_Pole
    So was he left to die by robbers after he crashed? Or were the robbers the ones chasing him, caused him to crash and then robbed him? The police are going to have to investigate this one carefully. The latter makes a lot more sense to me. A bunch of criminals after him and succeeded. Rather than a bunch of random opportunists who decided to loot rather than help. That would actually leave me with more faith in humanity if that turned out to be the case.
  24. Dick_Pole
    True...I just couldn't resist the bait.
  25. Dick_Pole
    Michael Saunders enabled JA Happ to get the coaching he needed to turn himself from a #5/6 starter to a decent #3 at a very reasonable price for the Jays. So there's that.
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