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  1. Dick_Pole
    So when the Orioles return to their natural position of last place will Showalter be shown the door and tarred and feathered by the team's senile owner and boorish fan base, just like the scapegoating of Flanagan? We all know how that turned out.
  2. Dick_Pole
    Holy f*** we're not even in the post-season yet and there's already two whinos complaining about NEXT YEARS payroll and complaining that Rogers should sell the team to someone who cares. Who exactly would be lining up to buy in this city who has the will and the means? The Fords?
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    History with Shapiro suggests he won't do it. However, if there is one pitcher you would give a 7 year contract to, is it Price? What I'm confident about is under Shapiro if they do sign Price, they will be as sure as they possibly can be that this is a good move. They'll probably hire a team of actuaries to analyze his likelihood to get injured or decline with time. If it was a move made under Godfrey I think half of us fans would jump in front of a bus.
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    Hehe. Rural Canada = everything outside of Toronto. I get this craze across Canada. I have the same feeling when any Canadian team makes it deep into the playoffs. But still, it's pretty weird. In any other instance, whether it's the Leafs or just Toronto in general, we get a lot of scorn in other parts of Canada. But for some reason everyone loves our baseball team.
  5. Dick_Pole
    I thought about that, but then what crmr said. Also, going merely on my recollection of being a baseball fan for 20+ years, I don't think there was a huge variance in offensive output between 1993 and 2015. At least not enough to where any adjustment can show that the 1993 team has superior pitching/run prevention or offense. I could be wrong, but I'm too lazy to do the research myself.
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    I think it's a product of being use to our times than anything. 200+ IP was a pretty standard workload for pitchers in the 80's. We're talking about a time when some teams carried as few as 10 pitchers on their roster. Dave Stewart was good for his time. I'd hardly consider him an absolute monster. More like a solid #2
  7. Dick_Pole
    When comparing teams I think it's just easier to compare it at the team level then to try to do some sort of bottom up analysis by players. 1993 team: 847 runs for 742 runs against. 5.2 RFPG 4.6 RAPG 2015 team: 725 runs for 532 runs against. Through 132 games 5.5 RFPG 4.0 RAPG So there really is no comparison, the 2015 is pretty clearly better on both sides of the ball.
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    A deep FA market coming up for starters this off-season and next year's slogan is going to be: "Toronto, the place where you can rack up 30 wins just by showing up every 5 days. See Drew Hutchison" I don't think the Jays will have big problems filling out the rotation especially with the front office stability. I am 99% certain the team can get Estrada or an Estrada-like pitcher based on the above slogan. A solid #5/swingman type. Osuna will likely be promoted to the rotation. Price, we all know he is a rental. Buehrle, offer the QO and hope he at least doesn't retire if he doesn't re-sign. Hell, if he cares about winning maybe he will come back since the 2016 Jays have as good a chance as anyone with a steady rotation that he could contribute towards.
  9. Dick_Pole
    ...if only the Pirates didn't trade Jose Bautista for a no-name catcher they'd probably be the best team in baseball right now...
  10. Dick_Pole
    A good scenario would be Goins continuing this pace to the end of the season. Then he can be shopped in a thin MIF market in hopes of getting back a useful piece. If no such trade exists, you keep him and hope he continues to be a worthwhile depth player at a position that the Jays have struggled to fill. I think a good comparison to Goins for the older fans around is Manny Lee. Good glove, frustrating as hell with the bat. But at the time Manny got as much hate by casuals as the so called "advanced stat" crew has given Goins until recently.
  11. Dick_Pole
    Hmmmm...if this thread cursed the Jays AND the Yankees then maybe it's not so bad. Yankees loss was more demoralizing than the Jays loss.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Ugh. If GeorgiaPeach could cheer on a baseball team that only had fans that were up to his standard, he'd be the only one in the stands and talking to himself on a message board.
  13. Dick_Pole
    I'm assuming you have blocked the poster who started the 17 page thread where this has been discussed at length and don't see it.
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  16. Dick_Pole
    LOL Beeston will give him a detailed map of the Rogers Center and the keys to the whiskey drawer and that'll be pretty much all Shapiro needs from him.
  17. Dick_Pole
    There's so much to like about this. Outside of the obvious salient points already made, this takes care of what could have been a huge burden this off-season. Imagine having no President and a free agent GM going into an off-season where two of your top members of the rotation are going into free agency, and the FA pool for starting pitchers is vast. The last thing the Jays needed was to be behind the ball on the off-season because of FO nonsense. Whether or not AA sticks around, at least Shapiro can sub in as GM if necessary until a replacement has been found.
  18. Dick_Pole
    1. The farm system isn't bottom 10. 2. 2015 may give the Jays a 90 win season and a playoff spot is pretty much locked up now. But the way this roster is constructed, this historically elite offense is locked in for 2016 plus or minus a Colabello with only two players being paid at market rates. This team is a contending team next year as well. So it would be 2 contending seasons out of 6, not one out of 5, whether or not he is actually here in 2016. 3. Yapping about his mistakes is a little like yapping about Bautista not being an elite player because he stunk it up in the mid-2000's. For whatever his mistakes were between 2012-13, he has demonstrated that he has learned from them over the last year. Dumping a guy who is finally productive at his job is not the best idea.
  19. Dick_Pole
    ??? Wikipedia is your friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland#Climate The lake effect also causes a relative differential in geographical snowfall totals across the city: while Hopkins Airport, on the city's far West Side, has only reached 100 inches (254 cm) of snowfall in a season three times since record-keeping for snow began in 1893,[58] seasonal totals approaching or exceeding 100 inches (254 cm) are not uncommon as the city ascends into the Heights on the east, where the region known as the 'Snow Belt' begins. Extending from the city's East Side and its suburbs, the Snow Belt reaches up the Lake Erie shore as far as Buffalo Plus moving from Cleveland to Toronto has added benefits like enjoying a city where on some days there are no gun-related deaths and there is an economy...and buildings...and life.
  20. Dick_Pole
    Amazing camera work they caught the one guy in the whole building who was smiling after this.
  21. Dick_Pole
    Davis is a free agent after this season, so of absolutely no use to any team not in contention. There are only a handful of teams where he might fit who are below the Yankees in the standings. Maybe the Twins, Angels and Nationals. So I wouldn't take that risk so lightly. Of course him being traded to the Angels and Twins would also be negative for the Jays, though far less than if he were to join the Yankees. I don't know why you say he can't be traded. He can be traded to the team that claims him.
  22. Dick_Pole
    We gotta be cheering for the O's this weekend. If they take the series against the Rangers the illusion of being in contention is still alive. If they get swept they'll know they're out of it and might be willing to sell off assets. Last thing we need is Chris Davis is a Yankees uniform. After August 31, who gives a s***. Anyone that gets traded won't be eligible for the playoffs.
  23. Dick_Pole
    Why would he need rest though? His injury wasn't arm related so I would think if anyone is fresh it's him. In a way this injury has been a blessing in disguise. If he had pitched all year people would be yapping about inning limits. There's no such problem now right when the team needs him the most.
  24. Dick_Pole
    Even if the Yankees were to go on an unexpected hot streak, the Jays would have WC #1 pretty much to themselves while 5 teams are crawling all over each other to come up with #2. If the Yankees were to pull away and the Jays were 3 games behind them in the standings and 3 games up on WC #2 in the last few days of the regular season, they can set up their rotation so that Price pitches at home against one of 5 teams where the Jays have gone a combined 26-19 against them, 15-9 at home, and who likely would not have the chance to set up their rotation optimally. Take away the Rays and O's from the equation as the two least likely teams to make it and that record gets even better. The Jays are in a very good position right now, whether they take the division or not. Of course we would rather have them just take the division so the team can set its rotation optimally for the ALDS and have home field advantage.
  25. Dick_Pole
    No, the Jays haven't pulled away, they only come back from 7 GB....
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