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  1. KingKat
    Maybe he played hockey growing up.
  2. KingKat
    Also there seems to be a limbo time. The blue button never takes me to posts that were done between when I go to bed (usually around 11 pm ET) and when I get up (usually around 6 am ET). Those are always treated as if read and I have to look at the time stamp to see if anything's new. I've seen other posters allude to this as well. It's probably not fixable but I thought I'd bring it up all the same.
  3. KingKat
    I would be nice if Passan's books provided some answers but judging by this it seems more likely that he'll provide anecdotes, dance around the subject for awhile and reveal nothing. He's not really the writer I'd trust with this subject in the first place.
  4. KingKat
    No, not the end of the world. I mean he's got to be on the 40 man roster for a reason right? If you can't use him and a speed and defense role, he shouldn't even be there.
  5. KingKat
    There was a lot of gripping (from myself amongst others) about last year's bench. If I remember correctly both Izturis (3B) and Bonifacio (2B) were in the starting lineup so the bench was as follows: H. Blanco R. Davis M. Derosa One thing that was interesting about that bench is that it had three right-handed hitter whereas the current one only has Kratz. Derosa for all the flack he took turned out to be a decent right-handed bat and Davis was always a valuable player in a bench role so It was a pretty solid bench other than Blanco. The biggest problem was that at that point both Izturis and Bonifacio were starting and JPA and Melky turned out to be black holes for the whole season. With JPA gone and Melky bouncing back, this lineup will have less holes but the bench options are for the most part weaker.
  6. KingKat
    I like Wilson more than Gose as a bench option. Gose is theoretically the starting CF for 2015. Even if I'm not terribly optimistic that he can improve offensively, I still prefer him to get starts than rot on the bench and possibly regress even further. In a limited role, it seems like Wilson can provide some of the defense and speed that Gose would provide.
  7. KingKat
    I wonder what's up with Pillar? Nobody ever thought he was more than a platoon OF, backup type but he's coming up really small in his opportunities to be even that. Is it just a SSS anomaly or is something wrong?
  8. KingKat
    I say no. The whole logic for giving him a job was basically "he's what's around" and that logic still holds and as much validity today as it did during the off-season.
  9. KingKat
    What do I win?
  10. KingKat
    What are we betting?
  11. KingKat
    Ugh.
  12. KingKat
    Thirty-eight.
  13. KingKat
    Sounds like the whole thing is just a scheme so that they can wait 6 days before demoting Jeffres. Jays just can't quit on that guy.
  14. KingKat
    See this kind of a man up talk is exactly what I'm talking about when I say you're talking out both sides of your mouth. You get all aggressive until you move the goal posts and suddenly decide that you're a victim and everyone's being unfair to you and that all you ever did was emit an opinion. I feel like the idea that you have to put your money where your mouth is to have an opinion rather childish. I'd rather judge an opinion based on its factual basis. That being said I like my odds on under 1 WAR. If there's no playing time clause, I'd take you up on that.
  15. KingKat
    Well that makes perfect sense actually although you have to wonder at the legitimacy of an injury that only prevents you from pitching to Major Leaguers.
  16. KingKat
    The best thing for him would be to let another organization have a crack at him. I keep thinking there must be a deal out there where he can be swapped for an overpaid 2B like Weeks or Phillips.
  17. KingKat
    Again, I don't understand what's going on. If he can throw why was he taken out of the regular pitching schedule? What's the benefit of giving him lesser competition? Are they trying to despair him so he'll opt for free agency? It's all a bit strange.
  18. KingKat
    Whoever got flack for saying Pineda was better than Morrow isn't looking so dumb.
  19. KingKat
    Like I said in another thread. Redmond is practically in the dictionnary under 5th starter. People don't really like him because he doens't really have the ceiling to be anything more but all the other candidates have flours that are like trap doors. I really don't know what's going on with Happ himself but the situation certainly is a mess. The team is holding him back but it seems to be against Happ's wishes. Without truly knowing what's wrong with him, it's hard to see the benefit of holding him back. Just like Morrow, he should be out there trying to take advantage of the remaining spring training time. He's fickle at the best of time and this can't be helping but we don't really have the full picture.
  20. KingKat
    You can state whatever opinion you want but don't rage when people bring you evidence to the contrary. You're the source of 90% of the antagonism ITT but you talk as if you're being crussified. You want out of your hole? Stop digging.
  21. KingKat
    It's for the best. Redmond and Happ were the best non-Hutch options all along.
  22. KingKat
    Stoeten with the truth bombs. "Thing is, if he went out and pitched four great innings, Romero would have been no closer to "fixed" than this current blip means he isn't."
  23. KingKat
    Yep. That off-season was a lot like this one. Very little activity. The big move that year was Santos and he blew the first save for Alvarez. This was actually my first time at the Rogers Center. It was brutal to watch Santos struggle to find the plate and give the game away (of course, we didn't know at the time that he was injured).
  24. KingKat
    I see the benefit in seperating Buehrle and Dickey but Morrow could theoretically do that just as well as Hutch and that's what everyone would have expected going into spring training. There's a couple of scenarios at play to explain Hutch over Morrow in the 2 spot. 1. The official explanation is that this will provide Morrow more time to get ready and that he needs it. This seems perfectly sensible given that Hutch looks all the way back and has emerged as a viable alternative to Morrow as the sandwich between Dickey an Buehrle. 2. They are essentially flipping Morrow and Hutch so that Morrow can start the home opener. If that was the reason, I feel like they would be upfront about it and not honour a guy while simultaneously raising a bunch of question marks. I don't think the Jays would have any problem going with Hutch in the home opener if they weren't holding back Morrow. The Jays have gone with young pitcher in the home opener before. They had Henderson Alvarez do it a couple of years ago.
  25. KingKat
    If they are holding him back for the home opener, why don't they just say so? If the idea is to honour him with that distinction then why be so backhanded about it and let all this injury and readiness talk float? At best, there seems to be mixed motives at work.
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