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  1. KingKat
    Pretty different guys. Even in his younger days, Johnson was never more than an emergency CF. He was corner OF though and through but he had way better plate discipline than Pillar will ever have. I used to think Pillar could be a poor man's Johnson because he was an unheralded guy who would probably do well in a platoon but now that I'm more familiar with his game, I just think of Pillar as very much his own animal.
  2. KingKat
    Whether the Jays have been lucky is kind of besides the point. They are where they are and they have to deal with that. They can't just sit on their hands waiting for the W-L record to catch up to the run differential. They need to improve the likeliness of that happening by making the team even better lest an opportunity get wasted. Like you said, having a playoff team "in theory" means nothing.
  3. KingKat
    Fair enough. You do need a baseline of offensive competence to not completely give away the gains you're making on defense. A good versatile defender with a platoon split is a guy you can extract a lot of value out of if you use him properly. A guy who can't hit on either side of the ball not so much.
  4. KingKat
    There's a lot to be said for guys with defensive values. Establishes a nice floor, a nice baseline of value which reflects the fact that they are always contributing in at least one way even when they are struggling at the plate. Ideally, you'd prefer to play matchups a little more with him to maximize his value but he's never flat out useless out there.
  5. KingKat
    Not to mention it's only an audition for Doubront. He'll steal the job IF he's good and if that's the case no one should complain. If it doesn't work out, no big loss. He's still the logical call-up at this time.
  6. KingKat
    There are positives for all of them. Norris has gone through a rough patch but it's really his first one and probably a necessary one for him to harness his stuff. Sanchez seemed to be making strides before the DL stint and he probably will make an effective reliever if nothing else. Hoffman is the great unknown but the first step was coming back healthy and that's out of the way.
  7. KingKat
    Wouldn't they have to decide they are out of it BEFORE moving Cueto and Chapman?
  8. KingKat
    The observation was that they are all 22 (all three of them actually).
  9. KingKat
    The worst stadium and the worst located stadium in baseball are one and the same. Hard to imagine how that's ever going to work out.
  10. KingKat
    We all tend to experience eyesight deterioration, no reason for ball players not to do the same. BTW, apparently one of the best things you can do for your health is spend more time outdoors. You look at a greater variety of distances when you're outdoors, an added benefit to things like daily walks and/or jogs.
  11. KingKat
    He also pitched a ton of innings. Second only to Stieb in that category.
  12. KingKat
    I noticed the other day that Clancy if 5th all time in accumulated WAR as a Blue Jays pitchers though it should be said that 4th (Hentgen) and 5th combined accumulated less WAR combined than the numer one pitcher (Stieb).
  13. KingKat
    Aaron Sanchez and Jeff Hoffman are the same age. I'm not trying to make a point or anything with that. It's just an interesting fact.
  14. KingKat
    Texas is doing better than I realized. Over .500 and one game out of the wild card with Darvish and Holland on the shelf. Hamels and Holland will help them make a second half run and that rotation will be pretty sick when Darvish comes back next year.
  15. KingKat
    He's not as bad as he was with Toronto. That 6.8 BB/9 over 2.2 IP is not representative. It's not that much of a stretch to think he can be moderately effective. His overall stats aren't that far from off from his norm. The real issue is that even if and when he regresses to normal, he won't be anything special. He's kind of a fringy guy to begin but he's a fringy LHP which helps him find work.
  16. KingKat
    Dick_Pole's main point wasn't only about the nature of the joke itself but also the fact that it's being driven to the ground. There's a difference between making the one joke that might (or even is likely to) offend. I'd argue that's there's merit in a well timed "offensive' joke but there's difference between that and running a joke to the ground. Maybe someone, at some point, made a good tzatziki joke but now it's just a lazy cheap shot. He's fat and greek. We get it. Does it matter? No, it doesn't. Find better reasons to be dismissive of AA.
  17. KingKat
    King and OrgFiller got banned for complaining about a silly joke about chins in the phonebook o2. I think only OF was serious, King seemed to be egging 02 on. VDub got banned for saying the ban was stupid. Since then a bunch of people have been continuing to egg on o2 NJH style including, obviously, NJH himself. At this point getting yourself banned is a gesture of solidarity.
  18. KingKat
    Probably your best post.
  19. KingKat
    #FreeWilly
  20. KingKat
    Yeah but in the immortal words of Alex Rios, who giffs a fawk? The expected value of a single lineup card is microscopic.
  21. KingKat
    All the above plus really long, hot as balls game yesterday seems like enough rationale.
  22. KingKat
    Hard to say. Could simply mean the negative selection bias is waning.
  23. KingKat
    http://www.chicagopeaceandjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/but-what-does-it-mean.jpg
  24. KingKat
    From what I could see on television, it was hot as Hades at the game yesterday. Maybe that's the simple reason for so many day offs?
  25. KingKat
    Everything you write comes off sarcastic but I think that was a compliment so thanks for that. So assuming you're serious here, what's the idea? Plot BABIP along the z axis?
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