KingKat

It's something worth monitoring. The blog hasn't been active in months so there's no way people are going to just go to the home page. It needs to come up in feeds.

Didn't come up in my feedly... Maybe there's an RSS issue.

He's also been supportive of the blog for the most part.

Lesser pitchers with more control.

I could see two contenders swapping impending free agents (if the needs lined up) but one contender selling off years of control on a guy for two months of a guy seems less likely, especially when the team acquiring the two month rental is lower in the standings. I could also see a three way deal where Rasmus nets prospects and payroll flexibility and the Jays use that payroll flexibility + prospects to obtain a rental of their own but I think it's way more likely that Rasmus just plays out the season as a Jay.

As far as I know he's the first player yet to come forward with anything like this even if it's well after the fact. It has to start somewhere and yeah it probably starts with someone like Dirk who has no more bridges to burn.

Guys are trading waiver picks left and right so it looks like we can do this if you still want to.

I don't thinks any sarcasm was aimed at Parkes and Fairservice, the guys who were let go. The sarcasm was aimed at Stoeten, a far inferior (and pretty douchy) writer who is likely staying.

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Lol. I would love to see the suplus value calculation for Boston on that deal.

What did KLAW say that was so bad?

Moogy doesn't really defend the organization at all costs. He's very argumentative but to his credit, he doesn't really seem to have any set targets. He just very stubbornly defends whatever side of a particular argument he's on.

Jays don't seem to have a lot of payroll room now but they have a lot of money coming off the books so those future commitments to Hamels might be quite workeable actually. It really depends what kind of break the Phillies want to give the Jays on the upfront cost.

Wouldn't Price be a better comparable? Both Price and Shark have the same amount of control. Hamels is actually under contract until 2018.

Once he became editor of Getting Blanked, he didn't really post that much on DJF. During that time, he also, as you noted, lost interest in the Jays. It wasn't a calculated move to become a Giants fan, it just sort of happened.

http://cdn.25stanley.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ron-maclean-party-drunk.png

Correct. You have to play a one season with the the team for it to get comp (I'm not sure what the exact threshold of roster time constitutes one season, probably similar to extra 2). That's why Morales and Drew waited so long. If they weren't going to get long term deals, they wanted to at least get out from the compensation system.

Which, it should be noted, Parkes helped build.

Holly s***! I stand corrected. I guess I can understand better why Dirk uses Bleacher Report as his platform. Not a lot of sites would touch something like that.

Is there evidence of this? Is it any more credible than Shi Davidi saying they didn't have the money for Santana?

Jee-zus. I guess it doesn't pay to write well. Stoeten is garbage but his s***** blog probably gets enough page hits to survive while vastly superior writers get the axe.

Don't want to give Bleacher Report the click but unless there's something from the article I don't know, promiscuity does not equal rape. Some people have loads of consentual sex without ever crossing the line.

LoftOn was highly disliked by the media. If he was a player they like as a person, like Dale Murphy, he would have at least stayed on the ballot and maybe built some steam over time.

Kratz and Pillar to the Indians for some scrub. Yan Gomes trade 2.0.

Pretty legit brawl especially for baseball, lots of punching, guys genuinely trying to hurt each other.