KingKat

Dear FTD, I don't think I made this clear enough. I literally have no recollection of what you offered and I can't find it in any of my inboxes. PM me please. If you made your offer as a trade proposal in Yahoo! and I didn't accept, I would have deleted the message a long time ago. I don't hold on to those. I will however backtrack on PMs to see who expressed interest in whom. Your pal, KingKat

This Jays made their bed when they committed to him in the off-season and then committed to him again as a starter again when they put him on the DL. From the get go, they should have never told him that he was nothing more than one of many rotation candidates and that he would have to earn his way to the rotation. It's important to remember that all of Happ's gripes are just him reminding the Jays of the public commitments they have made to him.

Sure it's normal but what difference does that make? What can you do to fix it? Pretty much nothing at this point.

What is there to judge? By his own admission he doesn't have the stamina. Shouldn't that be case closed?

Yeah I have no problem with it. He was healthy for once so there was no harm in seeing if he could finally provide some innings. Happ clearly wasn't ready anyways and Redmond provided good insurance from the bullpen.

McGowan is out of options so it's more practical to swap him with someone already in the bullpen than to call someone up. The bullpen makes more sense with a hard thrower like McGowan replacing one of the long men anyways. No one really likes Happ or his gripping about the rotation but when the guy who essentially took his job flat out states that he doesn't have the stamina to be a starter, his gripes start to sound pretty legitimate. If Happ is here then it should mean he's healthy because as many have pointed out, he still had rehab time to work with (which by the way a team should not use for any reason other than rehab unless they like attracting legitimate union grievances). A healthy Happ in all likelihood isn't the 20 ERA gas can we saw in the spring and more like a 4.5 ERA 5th starter. If he's less than that well the team might as well find out what's it's paying for regardless. The team has enough depth at the moment that it doesn't have to feel tied to one option in the 5th starter. Might as well hold try outs until you find someone who can eat some innings whether that's Happ, Redmond, Rogers or whoever.

It really kind of blows my mind that Super 2 wasn't addressed in the last CBA. Almost everyone would agree that the system isn't good for baseball.

s*** dude... I actually forgot what you offered. So possibly two acceptable offers depending on what it was.

Middlebrooks available for basically anything. He should be activated over the weekend.

If it was the Jays, they would have demoted Bradley Jr. You can't have a hitter steal a job from another hitter. That's just not fair.

There's not real reason to ever feel confident about a guy who barely ever pitches but let's cross our fingers that this is his year (finally).

Taking offers on Gonzalez. Have a very acceptable one already on the table.

You've probably have never had a beer worthy of the name.

Someone needs to have a serious talk with Mister Speilbergh.

It worked for Larry Bernandez.

I would have taken a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances for Gibbons' decision to go with Redmond rather than Happ in the first game to come back and haunt the Blue Jays but that's exactly what happened.

Hack to be sure. He's actually discribing Goldie Locks not the three bears. I think Goldie Locks will be my new nickname for him.

Dead arm? On Opening Day? WTF?

At 2B it might not be, there would definitely be a difference at short although even there Kawa is still solid.

And yet... other GMs found value in that crowded market.

Lind knows his back bether than aybody. It's been a lingering issue. If he's not willing to dismiss the injury, we probably shouldn't either.

lol

He doesn't get on base as well as Bautista does. When Reyes first went down, Gibbons just moved everybody else down a spot which was the right way to handle it. I don't know why he didn't just keep doing that instead of trying to find this elusive number 2 hitter.

Nope. Seems like they should have just made a roster move to flat out add Gose and used Jenkins or somebody as the 26th man for the 2nd game.

The best way to offset that would be to use defensive replacements. I can't see the team doing that with a core player like Reyes but they might do it with Kawasaki.