jays4life19

I will go with the Astros

We are also opening to moving JD Martinez if anyone wants to motorboat us with offers.

I'll get back to you. Have a few balls in the air right now.

Pendleton4life19 is looking for a CF this off season.

^^^

Who hit the HR for the Marlins?

Cubs

If you picked the Cubs/Marlins you can change your pick or make the pick up tomorrow

Going to change my pick to the Dodgers

I'm going Cubs with my Oct 1st pick.

Bump! Still time to get in on this.

This doesn't start until tomorrow so still time to get yo picks in.

Pretty smart Survivor strategy, tbh. Make up a team and take them....they can't lose.

Only 9 more people till 25!

I'll start this banger of a competition off. My first pick will be Cubs over Marlins.

Hello my best internet friendos. Due to the immense popularity of this contest last year; the powers of the BJMB have asked me to put on another contest this year. The contest is called Survivor and it's pretty simple and it takes little effort/time to participate in. What is BJMB Survivor? 1. Easy! All you need to do is post a team in this thread that you think will win. Example if there's 4 games on a day just pick who you think is most likely to win. If you get it wrong you get a strike and as we all know in baseball; 2 strikes and you're out. (aka after your second wrong pick you're eliminated). Up until the World Series round there must be two scheduled games in a day to have a contest that day. How do I win this magical game? 1. Not so easy! So as contestants pick games and get picks wrong they will be eliminated and the last man/women standing will be given the prestigious title of BJMB Survivor Champion 2020. What happens if I miss a day/pick? 1. It happens. You just get a strike. Miss twice and you will be given the death penalty (aka being eliminated from the contest) How much does it cost to enter and what do I win? 1. Free to play so there's no reason not to play. We had a great turn out last year and Survivor is copious amounts of fun. 2. Prizes are still TBD. A few options are being discussed including a romantic date with JFL or the option of having TheHurl take your Grandma out. There's probably going to be some sort of prize of cash value but stay tuned. EDIT: 75$ AMAZON GIFT CARD ANY QUESTIONS JUST POST IN THIS THREAD AND IN THE MEAN TIME GET YOUR f***ING PICKS IN BOYS AND GIRLS AND LETS f***ING DO THIS AND PLAY SOME SURVIVOR. ****Due to this being last minute the contest will start Wednesday September 30th*** Thus pick one game from ATL/CIN, CHI/MIA, CHI/OAK, HOU/MIN, ect ect **** Picks are due each day before the start of your picks scheduled start time. IE - if there's a game that is scheduled to start at 2pm and you don't log in time you can just pick a game from that day that has not started. **** Games which are cancelled due to weather shall remain as a pick on the day the game is scheduled for. Example. Marlins and Cubs Oct 1 game is rained out, even if played on October 2nd it remain an October 1st pick. ***** Spreadsheet for picks https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyXiWJjVs1_6sIt_WWVB5RWvzlwfd63UU6UUVWA8DB8/edit#gid=0

Can't see anyone caring since this will be a dud of a draft.

DK is working fine for me tonight, just a couple of games in FT not updating.

Just a few games that are not updating. NYY/TOR being one of them.

It's very fitting that Pendleton4life19 will be facing Brad Keller to open up the playoffs. This match will be easy to win.

How do the playoffs work in BORED?

lol

With their team in a playoff spot, the Blue Jays front office headed into this year’s trade deadline with a careful plan to make roster improvements. They had needs — starting pitching, infield reinforcements, a bench bat — and following Monday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline, they had addressed each of them, adding a pair of starters in Robbie Ray and Ross Stripling and versatile infielder Jonathan Villar before the clock expired. But perhaps more crucially, the Blue Jays did the majority of their shopping via the rental market, buying pieces for modest prices, while not subtracting from their major-league roster or their collection of top-ranked prospects. In essence, the front office was opportunistic in making their current team better, beefing up areas of need, while not seriously jeopardizing the club’s future. Because as much as a playoff appearance is beginning to seem likely this season for the Blue Jays, who still have a hold of the final American League playoff spot after Monday’s 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, a deep run may be less likely. The young squad could gain a lot of valuable experience from October baseball, hence making moves to improve their current roster, but the Blue Jays’ serious window of contention will surely open wider starting next season and beyond. “We had two main goals,” Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said on a Zoom call with reporters Monday evening. “One eye on now and one eye on the future and making sure we balance that. And we feel like we balance the future by not parting ways with our upper-echelon prospects and we balance the present by bolstering our major-league roster.” And for now, the Blue Jays still have the payroll flexibility and prospect capital to spend at a later date, should a better opportunity to really go for a World Series run arise in the future. “There were other things we could have done,” Atkins added. “It’s thinking about wanting that opportunity to continue for us, so it doesn’t mean just holding on to prospects, it means continuing to acquire and develop them, but we are confident that into this offseason and hopefully next deadline that we will have plenty of access to continue to acquire talent.” In a sign that shows what a difference a year can make, the Blue Jays were among the busiest buyers during this deadline period. While no team was as active as the San Diego Padres over the last 48 hours, the Blue Jays made five separate deals over the last week. Blue Jays 2020 trades Daniel Vogelbach Cash Mariners Taijuan Walker PTBNL Mariners Robbie Ray Travis Bergen Diamondbacks Jonathan Villar PTBNL Marlins Ross Stripling 2 PTBNL Dodgers On Monday, the Blue Jays made three of those moves, acquiring Ray and cash from the Arizona Diamondbacks, Stripling from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Villar from the Miami Marlins. Combine that haul with the earlier deals with the Seattle Mariners to pick up designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach and starter Taijuan Walker, and the Blue Jays have bolstered the depth of their battered rotation with three starters, gained a versatile infielder in Villar who can play shortstop while Bo Bichette continues to heal from a right knee sprain and added a low-risk bat in Vogelbach. And in stark contrast to last year’s deadline selloff that was summed up in the unforgettable soundbite of turning “14 years of control into 42 years of control,” of all the players the Blue Jays acquired this year, only two are controllable: Vogelbach, who is in his pre-arbitration years, and Stripling, who is arbitration-eligible this winter. Walker, Ray and Villar, meanwhile, are free agents after the season. As such, the trades only cost the Blue Jays one 40-man roster player, with lefty reliever Travis Bergen going to Arizona in the Ray deal. The remainder were completed with either cash or players to be named later, which is the workaround to the restrictions in place of trading players only from the 60-player pool this year. It was reported by The Athletic’s Jim Bowden that the Mariners will receive a top-30 prospect for Walker, while Marlins reporter Craig Mish reported outfielder Griffin Conine, who MLB Pipeline rates as the Blue Jays No. 16 prospect, is the player in the Villar deal. All in all, it’s a tidy few days of work for the Blue Jays, who hope some of the low-cost moves equal a high reward. The primary bounce-back candidate is Ray, who was an All-Star pitcher in 2017 but is off to a poor start this season. Through seven starts, the 28-year-old left-hander has a 7.84 ERA. More concerning, however, are his league-leading 31 walks in 31 innings pitched, along with 2.6 home runs per nine. Walks have been an ongoing issue for Ray, who has a career average of 4.2 walks per nine innings. But, on the bright side, he still can strike out batters at a high clip. In fact, he’s done so to 43 batters this year and sports an above average strikeout rate of 27.9 percent. Colleague Zach Buchanan pointed out that from 2017 through 2019, Ray struck out 32 percent of batters faced, a higher rate than all but four starters in baseball over the same span. Underlying numbers suggest his fastball, which sits 94 mph, has a high spin rate, too. Ray, who is often tinkering with his delivery, is certainly a project for the Blue Jays coaching staff. While being respectful of the time and effort the Diamondbacks have invested in Ray, Atkins was “optimistic” that the Blue Jays could get Ray throwing more strikes. “This is a guy that has been dominant and has electric stuff, so, he’s going to get people out, and if we can help him walk less people than we’re going to have something really special, but we’ll take it a day at a time,” the GM said. In Stripling, the Blue Jays also pick up a pitcher who is in the midst of a down season. The 30-year-old right-hander has a 5.61 ERA in seven starts with the Dodgers this year. He’s also allowed a league-leading 12 home runs. Right-handed batters have done particular damage, hitting .338/.386/.677 against him. However, Stripling is also throwing harder this year than last, with his fastball up to nearly 92 mph after sitting 90.6 mph in 2019. Again, Atkins pointed to Stripling’s track record of success — he has a 3.68 career ERA over five seasons — as well as his ability to work as a starter or as a long reliever, which gives the Blue Jays pitching staff options. “Ross Stripling’s been a guy who’s been very reliable, really good weapons, incredible secondary options and he’s throwing harder this year,” Atkins said. “He’s struggled a little bit against right-handed hitting so hopefully we can help him there.” Atkins didn’t divulge the exact roles he saw for either pitcher, but with an open spot in Toronto’s rotation, presumably one of them will slot in there. Although with the potential for either Matt Shoemaker and/or Nate Pearson to return from injury this season, Stripling could move to the bullpen. “Adding those arms that could stabilize us a bit from a starting point was important to us,” Atkins said of Ray and Stripling. Manager Charlie Montoyo didn’t close the door on the chance Ray could start on Tuesday for the Blue Jays, who otherwise have a scheduled bullpen day against the Miami Marlins. On the position player side, Villar gives the Blue Jays a speedy versatile infielder who offers a more potent bat than Joe Panik has been providing this season. In 30 games this season, Villar is hitting .259/.315/.345 with nine stolen bases. While Villar has experience playing all over the infield and some outfield, too, the most likely scenario is for him to slot in at shortstop while Bichette remains out. And when the 22-year-old Bichette returns, Villar can move around. “The versatility was very attractive, the switch-hitting ability is attractive, the ability to steal a base is very attractive,” Atkins said. “Very exciting piece to think about adding to the current group and really exciting to think about how he complements Bo Bichette when he’s healthy as well.” “You look at the Dodgers, they’ve never made the big splashy, huge (move), I mean, Mookie Betts is a great player, but it’s never all-in at one time,” Atkins said. “It’s a steady growth that they continue to build up their system. They continued to make their 40-man more efficient and obviously very effective. I think it’s important to be measured and there isn’t one juncture where, in our view, that you put all the cards on the table. For us it will be, hopefully, continuing to be able to build and have a system that continues to also be providing talent for us and not just trade pieces. “That’s our goal, we’ll hope to continue to be measured. At the same time, it’s not without making really significant deals that mean very high prices, but it’s too hard to say on when exactly that time will be when those bigger deals occur.” While none of the Blue Jays deadlines moves made a huge splash, they at least took care of some immediate concerns, while keeping one eye on the future of their franchise, which they hope is morphing into a consistent contender. Because, as much fun as a playoff appearance could be this year in this wacky shortened season, the overarching goal is for postseason games to be a yearly occurrence. In that way, they’re looking to emulate another pretty successful club, who have deployed the slow build strategy to great success.

Donny Van De Beek is an excellent little player and 40 million is pretty reasonable for a player of his quality. Not sure where he fits in on ManU with Poga and Fernendez still there but i guess when you can get a class player for a reasonable fee you do it.

Mitch Keller is probably going to get moved by the deadline so get dem offers in.