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Also, Hendriks for nothing is a pretty good deal. Hendriks for anything other than a salary dump....not so much. There are plenty of cheap options out there that can provide what he provides. Strange timing of the trade too. The Royals just got off losing the World Series barely 15 hours ago and they're already sending Hendriks out? Maybe this was pre-planned during the original trade once the season was over.

The Jays need better players, not graduating the mediocre ones to higher profile situations. Redmond is a good long reliever/mop up duty type of guy. Not so good anything-above-that type of guy

Valencia for 2 catchers now...how many catchers does this f***ing guy have to trade? Does AA always feel the need to have a shortage of catchers in the system?

Old thread....oh wait....WAIT...f***.

But...on the plus side we do not have to slot Ricky Romero and Brandon Morrow in as the #1 and #2 starters on this team. I think it's a given that the offense will be s***. Well, not s*** necessarily but extremely thin and imbalanced. Let's just hope: 1. Dickey returns to Cy Young form or something closer to that than a .500 pitcher 2. MB has a full year's worth of his 2014 May and September 3. Stroman is the second-coming of Pedro Martinez and that starts in 2015 4. Hutch throws 180 innings of injury-free K per inning ball with better luck and more consistency than in 2014 5. JA Happ puts up career numbers in hopes of a FA payout suitable for a #3 SP 6. The injury-free quintet puts up something close to a combined 1000 IP, allowing a well-rested bullpen to dominate the year Barring some miraculous moves from AA, this team's hopes all ride on the pitching staff next year. It's amazing how seamlessly this team can go from offensively dominant and pitching inept to offensively inept and pitching dominant but NEVER be dominant in both in the same year since 1996.

I'd rather he turn into a skinny Babe Ruth.

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I guess the days when he could flip someone off while driving are over....

If Lind gets traded it's going to be for a relief pitcher. Demand is very limited for an injury-prone platoon DH even if he can provide good value for that role.

Boxcar is clearly winning this argument.

Do I hope he does: Yes Do I think he will: No This may be his best chance to score something that will keep him in the life of luxury forever. It's risky on his part to take a one year deal even if it is for a higher per year salary.

Sad. Completely preventable event. Too early to tell for sure until the report comes out, but judging from the shape of that car above and what people are saying on Twitter, this was due to excessive speed. If you want to pay respect to this young man's death, then learn an important lesson from it. Don't speed excessively. Reminds me of the Dany Heatley crash a few years back that killed his friend the lesser-known hockey player.

Well...every baseball fan has a right to enjoy the game as how they see fit. JFAS hasn't been disrespectful to me even as I was one of the group who thoroughly disagreed with the Kratz $70M value thing, so I can't say anything bad about him. Refreshing compared to some people on this board who make a mountain out of a molehill once a disagreement starts.

Other than a few contrarians in here, most people realize that baseball is good for Montreal and Montreal is good for baseball. Baseball always returns to past markets. Every city that has lost their only team since 1901 has eventually gotten one back, with the exception of Brooklyn but that's in name only. Whether Montreal gets a team in 2016 or 2020 or 2040 the city will eventually get one. There's a reason why TB's owner is going to Wall Street bigwigs to try to put a deal through. Montreal has it's issues with the stadium, culture and corporate interest, but no market with an open territory can match the size and potential of Montreal. The upside is very high. I'm not saying they'll get on right away but within the lifetime of most people on this board there will be MLB in Montreal again.

Rename to the Expos. Then rename the Nationals to the Senators and have them switch leagues. Pretend Tampa Bay never happened. It's worked really well for the NFL, where you go onto Football Reference.com and you can't even tell that the Browns ever left Cleveland.

Well...Longoria for one because he'd be stuck there a while.

That reminds me of NL ball in the 1980's where everyone in the 7-8-9 spots were automatic outs.

Let's go for an extreme example. A team scores 162 runs and gave up zero won all 162 of their games 1-0. A team that scores 1162 runs and gives up 1000...who knows what they did that year. They probably won 100 games but they're still 62 back of that team that didn't give up a run all year. With all other things being equal, you take the good pitching team over the good hitting team because the same run differential is worth more percentage wise. I think that's what people are trying to get at when they say pitching is worth more than hitting.

I think you missed watching the team in 2008.

If they did it in September, it could be anywhere between 1.08 and 1.1. So if they hedged $100M, that's $8-$10M there. Last year they probably hedged at around 1.02, so the incremental cost on hedging from 2013 would be $6-8M per $100M.

Based on what I know from the industry, generally 100% of Q1's estimated USD needs are hedged and 25-50% for the rest of the year is hedged. This is for wireless/cable divisions though, not sure if the Jays have a more aggressive hedging policy. And the hedging would have most likely taken place in September, at the start of 2015 budgeting season.

People have f***ing problems man. It's not hockey's fault the Jays haven't been in the playoffs since 1993 and that management took a questionable turn in strategy with a neat mix of overbloated contracts, injury-prone or non-existent players at key defensive positions, inefficient roster management and a surprisingly stable starting rotation. It's not the Leafs fault, nor is it the Argos fault that the Jays can't win, can't sign players on concrete turf or in Canada etc etc etc. In the early 90's when the Leafs were good for a brief period of time and the Argos were winning at the Skydome, the Jays were setting attendance records and the shaky old knees of Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor practically tripped over themselves to come here. Stop blaming other sports that I enjoy for the Jays' problems.

That's a little extreme....if a city needs AN ENTIRE COUNTRY to support it to not have a slow death, perhaps a slow death is what needs to happen. 35M people and the second largest country by size. Certainly we can have two (or three) baseball teams without one pointing fingers at the other that its stealing its territory. Based on the posts I have read from you on here, it sounds like you are from the Montreal area (or at least closer to Montreal than Toronto) and just really hate the Jays but cheer for them and follow them because they share the same country as you. Perhaps you need to find another team to cheer for, because all you do is trash management and blame the Jays for your loss of the Expos. Sounds like no matter what they do, you would be negative towards them. Continuing to follow them is only going to give you ulcers if you hate them so much.

Unfortunately shareholders don't care, and the media division has been the worst performer profit-wise of them all so far this year. Jan-Jun revenues have increased from $811M to $842M from 2013 to 2014 but profit has declined from $57M to $30M. How that's split out between Jays and non-Jays activities isn't clear, but end result is that division has been run poorly.

Probably not...but at least one city is knocked off the list ahead of Vancouver and Montreal. You know eventually baseball is going to expand to 32 teams at some point in time. Man I can't wait for Canada to get another team because this ridiculous farce that the Jays are "Canada's team" can finally end. The Leafs are the most hated team across the country and Toronto is generally an object of derision for people outside the city in this country but for some reason our baseball and basketball teams are "Canada's teams". Also the team that does eventually come to Canada will be my second fav by default, a bit of an ironic twist there, except I like Montreal and can tolerate Vancouver.