Dick_Pole

Huh? If your team has 79 wins after 127 games, it went 17-18 the rest of the way to finish with 96 wins.

Autoban to everyone who predicted 81 or less.

Go Orioles...though realistically speaking....

http://www.fangraphs.com/coolstandings.aspx Jays projected win total: 90.1 Royals projected win total: 96.3 O's projected win total: 79.6 So I'd say the Jays have at least twice as good of a chance to catch the Royals than the O's to the Jays.

As a baseball fan, I want the Twins to win, as a good story. But from a Blue Jays fan's perspective, the Angels are the team that the Jays have the best run differential against. http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/head2head.cgi?teams=TOR&from=2015&to=2015&submit=Submit

I get what you mean and balked at it at first too. But Ted Rogers was a good business man who built and maintained a company from scratch. One of the few people in Canada who have done that without sticking a pitchfork in a patch of land somewhere. It's his offspring and successors who have turned Rogers into the directionless mess it is today. If Ted wants to rename the stadium he picked up for a song after himself...meh...it's in his power.

Wait, where's the option "Yes, I like him because he sounds like he's drunk"?

I can appreciate the fact that they can be a really good team with that pitching staff, especially in the playoffs, and that they won't be a factor against the Jays' playoff hopes this year, outside of the three games they have left against them. The Indians next year will be everyone's favorite darkhorse team.

I want Minnesota to take the final WC spot, assuming the Royals, Jays, Yankees and Astros fill out the other 4 spots.

Considering how much s*** you post on this board, you're being a pretty big douche to Rajai. I think he did an ok job for a quick analysis.

5-2 against the Yankees in August when it could easily have been the other way around. Thanks guys. Hope you stink it up against the Jays next week though.

If I were the Jays I'd offer him one year at $30M+ and see if he bites. He might say yes because: 1. The 2016 team with him as an ace would have a very good chance to win. 2. With this offense he has a chance to pad his stats for a year then take that into free agency. 3. Any long-term contract he signs would likely be back loaded, he gets a huge pay day for 2016 under this scenario. 4. A one year delay on free agency shouldn't impact his ability to get a huge contract after that too much, unless he gets injured.

You forgot one you bastard

I always thought it was Brian Tallet Sucks.

http://www.milb.com/standings/index.jsp?lid=117&sid=t422 Outskirts of contention. Maybe a 5% chance of making it.

If in the next two Buffalo starts he's limited to 60 pitches, works out some kinks in his mechanics and comes back strong I am a big fan of this. I don't think we can attribute Hutchison's struggles to a tired arm but it couldn't hurt. I really don't see the situation as some others do. If a shift worker gets laid off for two weeks but his employer tells him he has a job after that just that there's some temporary downtime...well it sucks for him during those two weeks he doesn't get a paycheck but he's not gonna be panicking like he doesn't have a job. This is just like Hutchison's situation - we all know he's going to be back. It's not like they will suddenly replace him with Sanchez in the rotation.

Said the guy who's a fan of the team that has Colabello, Smoak, Pillar and Travis perform quite adequately compared to expectations at the start of the year.

This is an example of good roster management, at least from the perspective of demoting Hutchison, and people still yap about it. As far as handling the situation so that Hutchison doesn't feel slighted or hurt...it takes a few minutes of conversation. He knows he's not going to bump Dickey, Price or Buehlre so it comes down to him or Estrada and Estrada's been pitching well. They just need to explain to him that they want to keep him ready for the rotation for the September playoff drive so they don't want to put him in the pen. Meanwhile he can rest his arm a bit with strict pitch limits while working on some mechanics.

Is this a conversation people are actually having? Deadpool is one of the few active posters with thousands of posts over many years without any biases or clique affiliations. Even when he was slobbering all over Obama's knob in one of the off topic threads and I correctly bitched at him for it we settled it without the thread devolving into pages of crap. If he can handle a situation with a volatile individual such as myself talking politics he can handle it against anyone. And some of you guys want to say he's not a good choice just because he posted nude photos of a girl online without her permission? Bah...that's on the bucket list of 90% of you perverts who post on this forum, myself included. Hell, I'm pretty sure a few of you lost their virginity in that Verlander-Upton naked pic thread.

Alex, at least in the last year or so, has shown he's not f***ing stupid. They wouldn't drop Valencia then pick up Pennington a few moments later without good reason. We're talking about a guy who might be able to bring you 1-2 WAR in a platoon role over the course of a season. If he was that much of a pain in the ass to deal with, for whatever reason, then give him his walking papers for the final third of the year.

f*** these choices. I'm boycotting this vote until Spanky's on the list. Also I'd vote for Deadpool we need some east side GTA representation to reign in all the downtown elitists.

In a way the Jays rise is kind of like how the Seahawks rose a couple of years ago in the NFL. A long time loser/underdog/darkhorse that rises quickly and becomes a very hated team all of a sudden with a rabid fan base with a home field that opposing teams don't really want to go into.

KC: 39-20 at home 29-26 on the road Jays: 39-21 at home 25-31 on the road Cheering for the Jays to take the number 1 seed is a very valid concern. If these two teams meet in the ALCS that one extra home game could be the deciding factor.

That makes no sense. A bandwagon jumper is someone who pays no attention to the team until it's good. Not someone who is willing to spend the time on an online forum contemplating the best strategy for the team going forward so that it might have a chance to win three years down the road. There is literally an infinite amount of more productive things to do in life than to peruse a baseball message board. Those who do it do it out of passion.

I would lean to cheering for LA....but it's a close one. If this series happened after the Jays played the Yankees and they swept them and put a bit of distance between them it'd be a lot easier to cheer for LA. If the unthinkable opposite sweep happened I think we'd concede KC as the #1 seed and just focus on keeping LA down. But for now I'd rather look up than look down. There's a lot of interesting match-ups this weekend that are up for debate who to root for. It's a slam dunk we're all cheering for Oakland. I'd put the Cubs pretty high up too only because the White Sox are on the fringes of contention and we want to keep them there against an NL team. Fangraphs gives the Sox an 8% chance to make it which is as good as the Twins. Detroit over Houston. Texas over TB, though maybe not a sweep. Cleveland/Minnesota is a hard one. The standings suggest we root for Cleveland but if they sweep the Twins they're essentially tied and I'm a lot more worried about the indians coming on strong in the playoffs than the Twins.