Dick_Pole

There's not going to be anyone else in this deal. The team was competing with three others, including the Rays. I knew right away this was going to be an overpay.

The Jays are basically in their 1983 season and apparently gloom exists. Even if this team is out of it by end of August, plenty of things to be excited about. But I remain optimistic. Fourth best run differential in the AL, indicating a playoff team. The team just lacks a long winning streak. 11 game home stand against mostly mediocre teams and the first time playing a true home game in nearly two years is a perfect recipe for that winning streak to occur.

Raptors go with a formula that works reasonably well with this team. Draft rock solid defenders, hope for continued 50+ win seasons, strike when you can with a big star trade. Suggs might have been the better player, but I can see where the FO is coming from. He's not a guy to lead a team to a championship so you have to go with the player you think is the best fit for your formula. I think Raptors fans are mostly just annoyed they couldn't trade down one spot. But the problem with trading down one spot is that there is only one team you can deal with. If the Magic are fine drafting either player, you have no leverage.

I thought it was already up, but there was some sort of clause in there for temporary extension based on a delayed offseason. Not sure if that was added in there later, or if MLSE has a fortune teller on payroll who predicted the pandemic messing the season schedule.

I can't see anyone having a strong opinion over this at least until he starts pitching. First s***** outing = the trade sucks. Nothing but good outings = the trade was worth it. To this point, it doesn't register as anything but neutral to me. Riley Adams is not a prospect and Hand's salary doesn't remotely alter the team's ability to spend in the future. In a way you could see this as good news. There is no way the FO would do this deal if they were anywhere near a budget constraint right now.

Rogers probably figured they could give it a try and if they got backlash, bring the radio broadcasts back under pretense of pandemic protocols. If there was no backlash, it would be a permanent money saving move.

And my Siakam for Simmons idea was laughed out of the building lol.

If the pick is any good, that prospect can then be traded as early as July 2023 for players who do make that window. Also, I'm optimistic that the Blue Jays are set up reasonably well for a perpetual window. Current roster is young and pretty strong. The farm, front office, size of market and payroll expectations should all land comfortably in the top half of the league. That's a recipe for extended contention.

Guess it's time to cancel Giannis now for supporting that place.

The only way they should be sellers is if a trade for Semien or Ray is an overpay. The only way they should be buyers is if it's a good deal for someone not on an expiring contract. Otherwise they should stand pat. I don't need to hear whining in 2025 about how the team should have traded Semien based on some nonsense rumour like we still hear people whining about Donaldson trade rumours back in 2017.

Physically distanced seats sound like a dream come true. Not because I'm worried about the virus, but because I'd love to take up 5 seats. One for my body and one for each limb. I hope this virus never ends.

I wasn't exactly suggesting that far. Just maybe removing the gamesmanship where teams get 100 IP of 110 K/2.50 ERA performance over five different pitchers. If you want that performance, you're going to have to get it out of one guy AND pay for it. Either through player development or the free agent market. Otherwise, stick with 250 IP of replacement level relief over three pitchers if you want league minimum contracts.

Here's an idea. Instead of having all of these workarounds like phantom runners and minimum batters faced, get to the heart of the problem. Put roster limitations on pitchers. The 1993 team had 16 pitchers on the roster all year. Just past half way through the year, the Jays have already had 31 pitchers. I know it's a bit of an outlier with injuries. But 2016, which was the absolute poster child of starting pitcher health, had 27. All of these problems that are in baseball right now revolve around teams manipulating dozens of jobber relievers who might be released by the time they hit arbitration, but can average 10K/9 at max effort in short bursts and minimal workload. Put a hard cap of 20 pitchers on each roster for the year. A team hits that cap and gets an injury? Too bad, you're putting your shortstop on the mound. Should have planned things out better. This will incentivize teams to balance velocity and performance with longevity. Every reliever in the pen should be reasonably expected to carry 70-100 innings in a year. Forcing every team (except the ones with ACTUAL good pens, not just manipulating garbage) to carry 3 relievers that average a 4.50 ERA over 250 combined innings will help end extra inning games faster.

Dan Schulman in the booth is like a classical orchestra while Buck and Pat together are like Dillinger Escape Plan. Now there's a time and place for Dillinger Escape Plan, just maybe not a baseball broadcast.

Precedent has already been established in Germany that consent doesn't exonerate criminal behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes Let's see how it is in CA. Yes readers of this thread deserve to know of this story, if they aren't familiar with it already.

Nah, I'd prefer a complete implosion. The difference between 68 and 78 wins is probably 6th versus 10th in the draft. Totally worth it.

Yeah but I'd love to see the Yankees make a Raptors-like tank from this. It's been so long to see a 68-94 beside a Yankees logo.

As much as I hate Trudeau and despite his tendency to sit like a woman, that boxing match he won does suggest to me that he has just enough testosterone to throw a baseball sixty feet accurately and with gusto. It will go well for him.

Don't forget, Trump takes back the White House on August 13 so that should cause a stir if the aliens thing doesn't.

Is #learntocode still a thing? I feel like it should be a thing when pieces like this come out. As a bonus I managed to find the Trevor Bauer arrest monitoring Twitter account: One follower, lol.

Re: Year 15 comment. Guess he forgot about Bill Buckner lol

If they are THAT desperate to stop games after 12-13 innings, just end the games with ties. The NFL seems to survive just fine with the occasional tie.

Jays will be approved. The people who would be upset about that would vote NDP/super-left/anti-conservative anyways. The people who would be happy about it would tend to lean between CPC and LPC, in key battleground areas in the GTA. This is an easy slam dunk win for the LPC right before a proposed fall election. Don't pretend that it has to do with absolutely anything else.

I liked Hutchison. I think he pitched pretty good in the season before that one. A K an inning as a starter back when not everyone was doing that. Too bad it never panned out for him. As for Morris, he was 38 years old in 1993 when he got lit up.

A little bit off-topic but I think the decline in respect for the pitcher win has correlated to the rise of stupid s*** in the game I don't like. Like the opener and starting pitchers being taken out after the 5th. In favour of an army of completely interchangeable K an inning relievers with no real long term future in the game because they can't do anything beyond max effort for 20 pitches. I miss the 80's when decent pitchers could get up to 20 CGs a year and even the 5th starter would sprinkle a couple here and there. Now a baseball team's annual roster resembles something like an NFL team. Yuck. Give me stupid, exciting baseball with lots of stolen bases, lots of starting pitchers going deep, a decline in the three outcome trend, a BP where I could actually name the 5-7 guys there and lots of pitchers chasing 20 wins a season.