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  1. KingKat
    True. Creating hype through spending is easy. Winning without hype takes discipline. The Jays tried it with Ricciardi and although he wasn't flat out incompetent, he wasn't nearly good enough to pull it off. He bet heavily on questionable guys like Miguel Batista and Russ Adams and when that didn't work out very well he went the spend route. As maligned at it continues to be, he got a good return on his big go for it offseason (Glaus, Burnett, Ryan). If he had built a better core to begin with, the Jays would have made the post-season no problem instead of falling just short. The story of AA is similar except that he had a lot more in place when he decided to go the spend route but he bungled it pretty badly by giving up too much value in trades (Escobar, Alvarez, Aviles, Gomes, D'Arnaud, Syndergaard and a f*** load of payroll flexibility and prospect capital).
  2. KingKat
    I can understand why you say the media hype model isn't a good winning model especially given recent events but wouldn't the anti-hype, Raptors style model be a great model?
  3. KingKat
    OK Blue Jays sucks donkey dick. Nothing makes it look great by comparison.
  4. KingKat
    I'm really not sure what they should do. Happ to the rotation would seem the logical choice but his track record for providing innings isn't so hot. He's more of a five and dive guy and there's too much of that going around as it is. Can Stroman provide length? Can Nolin? Redmond seems to have been shifted into more of a short relief role so he will be hard to stretch out now and Rogers just isn't pitching well enough to deserve consideration. Aligning Stroman with McGowan at least give the Jays the option of giving him his spot. They could still go to Happ but the way things have gone lately, the rotation is looking like it needs more than Happ. It could really use a really good pitcher and Stroman at least potentially is that. If the rest of the rotation were doing better, there would be more luxury to wait on Stroman and that would be preferrable but you can't tank the season because of Super Two either.
  5. KingKat
    It sucks for McGowan that the entire rotation is struggling to provide innings. If others were picking up the slack, the team could easily give him those 2-3 starts but the team can't really afford to keep experimenting and it's way too early in the season to be putting McGowan's interest ahead of the team.
  6. KingKat
    If Nolin was a effective as Stroman, I think it would be a no brainer but the stats seem to suggest Stroman has already surpassed him while being two years younger.
  7. KingKat
    I use a lot of double negatives. In any case, would you concur?
  8. KingKat
    That strikes me as a not insignificant difference especially given that Nolin is older than Stroman.
  9. KingKat
    How does that compare to Nolin?
  10. KingKat
    I'm think I'm going to pull AGon from the market right now. There are very solid offers on the table but I'm not quite blown away. Already having an abundance of picks and prospects just makes it hard to make the trade worthwhile.
  11. KingKat
    When you put in Twitter messages, people complain that they can't read them on their TappaTalk app so you might as well copy and paste anyways.
  12. KingKat
    This really should be in the A Flat Baseball thread.
  13. KingKat
    I would still run with Kawasaki in the interim. Just because there's no ideal option doesn't mean the team shouldn't run with the best one it has.
  14. KingKat
    Kawasaki would add "a little more offence" and he demoted him. There really doesn't seem to be any urgency to act on these needs even in favour of internal options. What's the expiration date on the McGowan experiment? What's enough time to build stamina? How long does it usually take to stretch a guy out in the minors? What's the plan? It seems to me that there should be a certain point that's considered a reasonalbe amount of time and once that's passed you move on to plan B. Same thing with Goins. At what point are you forced to admit that Seitzer can't just waive a magic wand and him a hitter? It seems like the plan is to just stay the course with both of these guys and wait for something to change.
  15. KingKat
    It seems to me like there are far more latinos that make the majors as position players than as pitchers although I don't know the exact numbers. The pitching position just seem more white overall than other positions (again I don't know the numbers). That would explain why Tommy John surgery seems to mostly affect North American players.
  16. KingKat
    They can do it because the rule itself was never changed. This "interpretation" was created to provide replay officials with more precise criteria for their decisions. In an attempt to create clarity, someone misinterpreted the rule completely and provided an interpretation that was actually a contradiction of the way the rule had always been understood. That ended up having consequence beyond replay because it was in essence telling people "what you thought this rule meant all along was wrong" and that was never the original intent. Good on MLB for owning the mistake and telling people to ignore the new interpretation.
  17. KingKat
    Yep, and it's like you can scope these arms all the time and see how things are going. You find out once it's too late.
  18. KingKat
    Just to make matters worse, it's also a bit naive to think one approach would work for everyone. Genetics no doubt play a role in this.
  19. KingKat
    Is this a common misconception? I wasn't aware that anyone thought this.
  20. KingKat
    There's mistake in the spreadsheet. I had to drop Chris Okey when I took on Wilmer Flores. Otherwise, I would have been at 13 so I dropped Okey to make 12. I went down to 11 with the Owings activation and back up to 12 with the acquisition of Paulino. Long story short, Okey should be off the sheet. He also becomes draft ineligible because he did not sign with the team that drafted him (Padres).
  21. KingKat
    I guess with Sam Fuld in the mix, the Twins have less of a an immediate need for a 4h OF and Wilson is more of a project (the Jays have a bunch of those anyways). Since Wilson's upside is probably sub-Mastroianni, I much prefer the Jays side of this but I can see how it could make sense for the Twins as long as their OF stays healthy this year.
  22. KingKat
    I'm confused by this. If the Twins have an open 40 man spot they can use on Wilson why didn't they just use it on Mastroianni in the first place?
  23. KingKat
    Happ, Happ, something caught in my throat, Happ, Happ,
  24. KingKat
    ftfy
  25. KingKat
    I guess there lies the dillema. You can stretch him out in the minors so you either have to continue doing it at the Major League level or you cut your losses and move him to the bullpen. I'd rather just do the later myself. I think he has the potential to thrive there. This whole McGowan as a starter thing is a bit of a Hail Mary. The team has some more realistic alternatives for the rotation.
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