KingKat

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When would the suspensions take effect? You wouldn't want to lose him this season.

Kind of hard to know what to make of Sanchez. Is a move to the bullpen (albeit in the majors) progress? Not a wasted season by any stretch but not one that's brought much clarity either. No huge dissapointments overall though, Burns didn't show much for a player repeating AA and Jimenez doesn't look like he has much bat all but neither is a big deal. They have been overshadowed by higher upside talent and that's a good thing.

Did you throw your jersey in the laundry after the first plate appearance?

Don't see the point. If this was before the deadline maybe you free salary in order to take on a salaray via a trade but with a waiver situation, you'd have to let Ramsus go while also being able to simultaneously making a claim on someone you feel is just as valuable and doesn't make more more money and that someone would have to be so good that to justify taking a major blow to CF depth. I just don't see it. The team is in a playoff situation, their best move is to ride Rasmus until the end of the season and hope they get the most out of him.

What is this? A hypothetical scenario? An over-reaction to the Tony Rasmus piece? I don't even understand where you're coming from with this. If Rasmus is lost for some reason than yeah maybe Pillar is called up but if you're suggesting that the Jays are so fed up with Rasmus that they would kick him to the curb intentionally just to replace him with a player who has already alienated the manager, I think that's pretty ludicrous.

I really hate to be THAT guy but I wish I had throw my hat in the ring. I would like to consolidate some assetts.

That's what Gose is for. I thought I had made that pretty clear in my post.

Also, anyone else fail to grasp what's so different about what Mottola and Seitzer preach? I mean I'm sure they have different personalities but isn't the ultimate message to use the whole field in both cases?

Yeah I mean I'm sure he means well but he's putting Colby in a super awkward spot and Colby already seems pretty awkward without the help.

I really have no problem with Tony but I'd rather they didn't put a microphone in front of his face. I'm sure lots of parents have opinions about how their sons have been handled in the game and generally they're not given this platform. Ultimately, I highly doubt it's good for the players to have their parents fighting their battles in the media even if there's merit to some of what their saying. Colby was basically a marked man in St. Louis because in the mind of Larussa, management stole a job from Dave Duncan's kid (Chirs) by making Larusa play Colby. Colby got stuck in a power struggle and I have a lot of sympathy for him because I'm sure it sucked balls to start his career that way but after awhile, hearing dad continue to bring it up as well as other incidents that may have rattled his psyche gets really old and more than likely hurts more than it helps. We're well past the point where Colby should be answering for Colby.

With Reimold around to hit from the right-side and Gose providing better OF defense and speed to boot, there's really not much need for Pillar and we all know he's in the doghouse anyways. He really should have been traded by now.

I think robo-umps are about as likely as standardized park dimensions. Framing balls and strikes is just something that needs to be embraced as part of the game. When more pitchers understand the impact framing is having, they are going to put a ton of pressure on teams to employ good framers (which they should anyways).

You would think Boras would be all over this.

I think he was just being a dick actually.

All these players have minor league options and therefore won't get exposed to waivers unless the team want to put them there.

This just a day after the crazyness of the thread deadline... Short attention span much.

It's hard to put a number on it but I feel like there's a pretty significant loss of value when you have to use two roster spots to do one job. Flipping Francisco into an everyday player with defensive value like Headly makes a ton of sense to me intuitively and I feel like there's a great value gain there (it makes it easier to roster other good defensive players like Kratz or Gose for one thing). I feel like the Valencia/Francisco type platoon where neither player can provide defensive value is crappy roster construction. You have too many players like that and you end up fielding a poor defensive teams with little bench flexibility and your run prevention suffers to the point that it starts cancelling out the gains made through the platoon advantage.

Good question. I have to admit I threw that out pretty carelessly without thiking it through. McCarthy: Vidal Nuno + 1 million $ (Maybe Hendricks but more likely Nolin) Headley: Solarte + De Paula (An infielder, rumour mill says Francisco and I can believe that. Francisco and a hard thrower, maybe Tirado?)

Definitely agree that it's too early to call on Hutch. These recent starts don't mean much in and of themselves but they have served as a reminder of where this guy is coming from. He wasn't really pencilled in for anything in the offseason and now he's being ridden pretty hard. This is a guy who barely has 50 innings in the high minors for his career and he had pitched pretty much exactly the same amount of innings as that in the majors coming into this season. There really ins't any kind of track record here. It's a little bit scary but I agree that there's nothing much to be done about it at the moment except keep throwing him out there and crossing your fingers.

I think the two deals that made the most sense for the Jays were the two Yankees acquisitions that happened before the deadline, Headley and McCarthy. Neither of those brought back a return the Jays couldn't match comfortably. The fact that they missed out on those AND did the underwhelming Valencia trade instead AND did nothing else at the deadline, leads to the overal dissapointment more than the deadline deals themselves (Prado for instance wasn't cheap at all when you factor the salary the Yankees took on). Going back to the offseason, lots of opportunities seem to have beem missed. The deadline is just the cherry on the sunday.

He's been giving up a lot of walks latey and he really hasn't been in AA that long. Adding him to the 40 and burning an option year doesn't see worth it but it might happen if the team is deperate. Meanwhile, Nolin is coming around: http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140729&content_id=86942680&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

No and not necessarily ever. As crazy as it sounds I think it's more likely he becomes a closer then a starter this point. In the time it takes demote Sanchez, stretch him out and call him back, Nolin will be ready and synched up with Hutch so that will take of the need for another is a replacement is needed for Hutch. As for Sanches, the situation with him and Stroman reminds me a lot of when Jansen and Marcum came up. They were both starter prospects who were assigned to the bullpen at the same but Janssen found success and Marcum gave up a lot of homers. JPR was going to move Jansen back to the roation and Gibby told him he was too valuable in the bullpen and to move Marcum instead. Marcum established himself as a starter and Janssen never left the bullpen. Given AA's reliever fetish, I think history is going to repeat itself here. It's fail as a reliever (in a small non-representative sample) and become a valuable starter instead of the other way around. Sanchez may very well be the 2015 closer. Heck, he might even be the 2014 closer by the end of the season depending on how things play out.

At the very least, we should wait to hear Gibbon's statement is.

Desparing other GMs paying off. BTW, has Angrioter completed a DDL trade yet?