KingKat

+ 1 to all of this. I'd also add that Escobar should take the high road here, accept the damn apology and move on. Don't retro-actively vindicate Lawrie by being petty and childish.

He was talking about Bautista and Lee. Not sure where you got Halladay.

KingKat's key to victory: less walks from R.A. Dickey.

This might be a terrible idea but.... If the board needs more mods, I'll throw my hat in the ring.

It makes for a way more exciting play when the umps are lenient about this.

Geez calm down Luis Rivera.

It's really pathetic that a non-hitter like Goins can't drop the bunt but at least Callaspo bailed him out.

Take that whiners! cf

f*** yeah! (again) cf

So who do we want to see called up if Reyes does go on the DL? Matt West?

f*** yeah! cf

Took his eyes off the ball.

I like having wOBA in the league. I refer to it a lot now and have a way better idea of how it scales as a direct consequence of being in the LOD.

How about Mike Aviles and Yan Gomes and the Esmil Rogers era never happens?

Not to mention that Izturis isn't really a shortstop anymore. Probably worse there than Tolleson.

The team's overall comfort level with Navarro as a nearly full time DH is disconcerting.

It mimics real life baseball but in in a slightly skewed way. If I have a MLB ready-ish player, I can't just force his real life team to call him up and play him because I have an immediate need but on the other hand, I do have the luxury of an empty spot which MLB teams do not. Identifying marginal players who could produce at the league replacement level is a challenge that some will embrace and some will opt more often than not for the empty spot. Desire and interest in deeper scouting as well as aversion to risk will dictate a lot of strategy and make the league either more interesting or more boring for different types of owners. There should be a lot of trade and waiver activity but a lot of it will be of the type that would draw snickers from sarcastic types in a 20 teamer.

The lack of enthusiasm for this league gives me the sads. I just love it so much. The waiver wire activity is pretty much exactly like the Major League waiver. It's been years since I found fantasy baseball this interesting and stimulating.

Well part of it may have been that the backup SS was in AAA so you could blame it as much on bad roster construction as bad coaching. The irony is that AA talked a good game about giving Reyes more time off this season but then didn't construct a roster to favour it.

One or both of Boyd and Cole emerging as reliable rotation options would help a lot.

Jeter says he doesn't miss baseball and I believe him. Walking around just being Derek Jeter is no doubt a lot more fun than playing baseball. http://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/746823

Tolly is still a better hitter than Goins. Navarro didn't need to pinch hit for Smoak.

Goins can't hit. This isn't news. Why he was batting is the issue. This is the guy you save your pinch hitter for.

Sanchez’s youth, however, has seldom been talked about, perhaps because it’s not the average American upbringing. When his mother, Lynn Gesky, was pregnant with Aaron, she decided to pack up and leave his father, Frank Sanchez, taking her first son, Andrew, with her. They moved in with her family and shortly thereafter she met a building inspector and former baseball player named Mike Shipley. Shipley, a tall, left-handed pitcher, played a couple of seasons at Barstow Community College before moving to the University of Tulsa for his junior season, finishing fifth in the NCAA in strikeouts. The California Angels drafted him in the 10th round of the 1976 draft and let him go back to Tulsa for his senior year, where a rotator cuff injury ended his baseball career. With six-month-old Sanchez’s biological father out of the picture, Shipley took over, providing bottle feedings and diaper changes. Sanchez would sometimes see his father on weekends, but he can’t remember anything about their relationship. What he does remember is being in Grade 5 and finding out there would be no more weekends away from his mom’s place because his father had died. Sanchez says he doesn’t know how Frank died—he’s never asked and never will. He just knows he made a decision when he was young to carry on the Sanchez name, primarily for his grandparents’ sake.

The Aaron Sanchez story: http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/aaron-sanchez-gets-shot-blue-jays-starter/