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  1. Dick_Pole
    For a regular, run of the mill mid-sized American town, Seattle is actually known for quite a few things. Not like that useless Portland. Bunch of hippies.
  2. Dick_Pole
    LOL we can only hope this is the case.
  3. Dick_Pole
    trollolol
  4. Dick_Pole
    A good defense could hurt a pitchers K rate and the associated advanced stats. Let's say you're a pitcher who always strikes out 2 out of every 10 batters. If you have a good defense behind you, let's say 6 of those 8 other instances are outs. That means you're striking out 2 batters per 2 2/3 innings or 6.8 per 9 and have a WHIP of 0.75 With a bad defense let's say only 4 out of 8 of those other instances are outs. That means you're striking out 2 batters per 2 innings or 9 per 9 and have a WHIP of 2. This is the exact same pitcher, but in the latter case the pitcher is getting punished in real life by his bad defense and praised by the advanced stat crowd for the artificially high K rate. The opposite in the former scenario. Conversing with Olerud in the way he understands best....compartmentalized rants and thought experiments.
  5. Dick_Pole
    Old-timers still sore that Dave Stieb's rival so easily accomplished the one thing Stieb couldn't do in 14 seasons with the Jays.
  6. Dick_Pole
    Bob Welch going 27-6 in 1990 is the one that takes the prize for baseball fandom career. EDIT: Yup, just double checked BR and Welch's 27 is the high water mark (along with Steve Carlton in 1972) since McLain's 31 wins.
  7. Dick_Pole
    Well, the Jays are up 9-7 so anything other than being swept by Baltimore and the Jays win it. And if the Jays are somehow swept by Baltimore, chances are a tiebreaker won't be needed. So yeah the Jays own the tiebreaker if it's necessary.
  8. Dick_Pole
    So this guy got what he wanted (sort of) according to his username, and he's still unhappy and trolling. Salty Expos fan upset that he lost his team and he has to "cheer" for the other Canadian team by default.
  9. Dick_Pole
    I think there's much ado about nothing here. Osuna, Grilli, Biagini and a lefty (hopefully Liriano) will pick up 90% of the relief innings in the playoffs with Benoit another 8%. The rest of the dumpster fire will get 2 innings the whole playoffs if they're lucky unless one of the starters goes 3 innings and in that scenario that game is probably a lost cause anyways. I think people are forgetting that the team will be going from 6.5 games a week to 3.5 games a week. The top guys will be sufficiently rested. Just because Ryan Tepera is physically on the roster won't mean he will be anything more than an overpaid cheerleader. Talking about Gavin Floyd is just pure overkill.
  10. Dick_Pole
    Strange that you completely miss the point about the Liriano/Hutchison trade as others have already mentioned. That was by far this regime's best trade so far and deserving of an A.
  11. Dick_Pole
    What part of Canada's secular liberal belief system has you believing that Tebow would just love to be a part of that? I have him pegged to go to a MLB team in the reddest state he can find. Or whoever forks up a contract.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Ok, so if this was the point of doing this, I assume that this does not impact Travis' eligibility at all? If so, this creative move has no downside, but it was still not a move worth doing.
  13. Dick_Pole
    This thread is stupid. Tebow doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would love to expose himself to Canada, and we've already seen evidence of that by his lack of desire to play in the CFL.
  14. Dick_Pole
    Blue jays, the birds, are the dicks of the bird world. My neighbour has a bird feeder with all the little birds eating off there and I've seen several times a blue jay landing on it and making the rest of those little f***ers scatter lol. So yeah, that gif is pretty realistic. Also, if you've ever heard a blue jay call, it does sound a lot like Bautista chirping about balls and strikes. So he's on the right team.
  15. Dick_Pole
    I would love it if Boston did that. Dead weight on their roster. In fact, the Jays should be encouraging Thole's agent to give them a call.
  16. Dick_Pole
    Because it's incredibly stupid roster management. An extra starter means one less BP arm or bench player. You're paying $10M for an extra Dickey-like #5/6 starter instead of less than $1M for the aforementioned bench piece which leaves you with $9M less to allocate to other needs to your team. The only reason the Jays are doing/did this is: -They have (had) two pre-arb arms in the rotation -Signed two other SP to very reasonable deals in the off-season -Have a geriatric ready to pitch 200 mediocre innings -Lucked into an opportunistic trade mid-season -Have been injury free in their rotation Without all of these factors aligning, the Jays do not have a 6-man rotation.
  17. Dick_Pole
    As long as he is up by the playoff roster deadline, which I assume is part of the plan, I am ok with this.
  18. Dick_Pole
    Interesting timing. Can we infer from this that internally the team is not all that happy with how this year's draft went?
  19. Dick_Pole
    I didn't even notice that. I was too busy noticing how his side profile looks a lot like Zaun..
  20. Dick_Pole
    Board consensus IIRC: 2014-15: Stroman is ace. The second that people admit he's been disappointing this year, he pitches better. 2014-15: Sanchez is dogshit. Reliever or back end starter at best. (Yeah ok JimCanuck, we know) Early 2016: Tulowitzki is done, what an albatross of a contract Early 2016: Martin - see above Several year ago: Travis Snider is a future HOFer, it's all Cito's fault he sucks right now. Mid-May after Rays beating and before heading to Minnesota: This team is s***, time to think about selling off everything they can. June: Smoak's been a useful contributor, I wonder if the Jays are able to extend him at a reasonable contract. The opinion expressed here over the past few pages gives me hope that everything will be just fine going forward with Smoak
  21. Dick_Pole
    I wouldn't call it humour but it shouldn't be taken 100% seriously.
  22. Dick_Pole
    f*** all these advanced stat nerds trying not to be homers and take away from Happ's 2016. He leads the league in wins with 16 in 23 starts which means he's kept the team in games, puts up respectable stats in every other category and has been killing it lately. Also this whole poll is flawed because Verlander isn't on it. You'd think a past winner who is leading the league in IP and K is going to get some serious consideration too.
  23. Dick_Pole
    Six years of control for Travis? No way. Not factoring in that AA signed Escobar to that team friendly deal afterwards.
  24. Dick_Pole
    This was a legit bump. Now it's clearly AA's second best trade of his tenure here.
  25. Dick_Pole
    Surprised that no one has brought this up yet, but this is poor use of a roster spot. Unless they intend to give the starters a bit of a longer leash as opposed to Gibbons' auto-pull after 7 innings. Good thing September is coming up soon so this won't make a difference by then.
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