KingKat

And to everyone... Please don't try to pick fights. Today of all days we should be able to keep it positive.

Making cracks about people's disabilities will not be tolerated. I will not accept feigning concern as an excuse either. Do this again and I will ban you on the spot.

No. It's a very straightforward resource light app. Pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from Rogers. At least that's how it was last time I used it. Hopefully it hasn't changed.

Rangers will have a good rotation next year when Darvish is back and Holland is more himself but this year they suck so bad! Can't believe a playoff team is starting Gallardo in game 1 especially a team that didn't even have to go through the wild card game.

I haven't heard your side of the story of course.

I liked North's suggestion of doing it as a grid followed by the explanations.

ROFL. This reads like something from A Confederacy of Dunces.

I edited mine to include the World Series (not that I care much for predicting what will happen in a short series).

Yeah I was given a bit of a breakdown and it sounds like Spanks just needed a little time out.

I'm never around when s*** goes down.

All the majors sports have a "code" about what constitutes acceptable or non-acceptable celebration. I'm not so sure that baseball is really all that different. I don't really watch football anymore but the NFL used to be a lot worse than baseball on this by actually enforcing unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and the like. At least baseball has the sense to just let this between the players and doesn't hand out sanctioned reprimands for it.

Yeah that might give it more personality.

I think it's mostly a generational thing though I'm with the youngins on this one.

BP needs a new investor or something. Spruce up the site and dump writers like this.

Yeah he wasn't as good as Sale but he's damn good all the same.

Darvish > Greg Bird > Rodon

The Jays had nothing to do with this. This is just a band trying to get on the bandwagon and getting a pretty lukewarm reaction judging from this board (and no, I don't like it either).

My brain hurts. This is from Baseball Prospectus? WTF?

Holy s***! It just came to my attention that Yu Darvish had an even higher K rate in 2013 than Sale did in 2015. His career rate would crack the top 20 best seasons.

Baseball Reference has it all in one place: http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/strikeouts_per_nine_season.shtml Darvish just edges out Sale for 9th all time. Six of the other top 10 seasons are by Randy Johnson!

Bringing back the song from the Coca-Cola Blue Jays song from the nineties is one of those ideas that seems painfully obvious until it actually happens at which point you realize that once you remove the nostalgia factor, there's nothing to actually like about it.

Anyone who does not appreciate chicken hot dogs clearly does not appreciate Colby Rasmus either.

AL MVP: Josh Donaldson This is probably Jays’ fan bias speaking but I feel that Donaldson was the story of the season. The fact that someone of his calibre was even traded was a huge story in and of itself but then he went to prove emphatically that there was really absolutely no reason for it to happen, delivering a MVP calibre season and leading the Jays to their first post-season berth. Not everyone agrees about the purpose of this award and how much stats should factor into the decision but this race is a statistical dead heat anyways so you practically have to consider other factors. NL MVP: Bryce Harper Prospects, as a general rule, do much less of their development in the majors than they used to but that doesn't mean that all prospects arrive fully formed. Yes Harper was good enough to be an above average major leaguer at 19 but that doesn't mean that he had fully arrived just yet. Harper just made anyone who thought differently look incredibly foolish adding a whopping 255 points of OPS to his career high and serving notice that he's know the game's premium hitter. AL Cy Young: Chris Sale These days we have so many advanced performance metrics that it seems ridiculous to use a voting process to determine the best performances so I feel like the awards really have no choice but to consider good narrative lest they become completely obsolete by merely repeating what we already know. For this reason, I was tempted to go Keuchel for his breakout season but upon further inspection that breakout is a bit of a false narrative (he was really good last year too!). Chris Sale's season on the other hand is pretty historically significant for one that's somewhat under the radar. Chris Sale's 11.8 K9 (6.52 K/BB) season would be elite coming from a reliever but Sale just did it from the rotation. That's enough to just crack the top 10 starters K/9s of all time and puts him in a leaderboard that's 60% populated by Randy Johnson's peek season. Elite company to say the least. NL Cy Young: Clayton Kershaw Improbably, Clayton may have set the bar even higher for himself in 2015. Much like Sale, Kershaw put up the kind of numbers that you just don't expect pitchers not named Randy Johnson to put up. AL Manager of the Year: A.J. Hinch This is such an impossible award. Though I don't want to rely 100% on stats when determining the other awards, it does help to narrow the debate a bit. With the managers, it's all guess work. I'll go with Hinch for two reasons, I like that he's not as rigid as some others managers when it comes to bullpen assignments and I'll give him some credit for winning with a young (albeit very talented) team. NL Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon I'll probably always give it Joe Maddon when given an opportunity to do so. I love someone who has shows openness to new ideas and I love someone who makes being bespectacled and silver-haired look cool. AL Rookie of the Year: Carlos Correa When faced with multiple worthy candidates, I prefer for the player who I expect to have the best career and to be rewarded and that would be Correa who I think will be the franchise over in Houston. NL Rookie of the Year: Noah Syndergaard I guess I'm being a big contrarian here by not going with Bryant but in a season dominated by beastly rookie performances, no one seems more beastly to me than Syndergaard and since comparing hitters to pitchers is apples and oranges anyways, I'll just go with who, my gut tells me, will be the best player for years to come. World Series: Blue Jays over Mets

Holy s*** he looks like Brett Hart's love child in that.

I was just researching this and Darvish actually had a higher K rate in 2013.