KingKat

Piss off. It's a good song.

Based on what? He's literally never been a good hitter. Gose isn't much of a hitter either but he can at least provide CF defense.

Slow clap.

Fair enough. I was actually half thinking of Tiger Woods when I wrote this. In any case, my point was that I feel like these athletes could very easily live the lifestyle they want without any deception. Some of them do but it seems like the exception.

No not cool. He cared about where he played. He cared about being close to home. He didn't care about what fans think beause that's just dumb. Players are not idiots. By the end of their career, they know that's just part of the game. Fans are fickle and vindicative. They are like that everywhere. I'm sorry but I just couldn't let you drudge up this foolishness whithout letting it go unchallenged.

I hate the way these athletes want to have it both ways. Why get fiancéd if you just want to be a babe hound? Or at least find someone whose into it which you probably can when you're a multi-million dollar athlete.

If Johnson didn't want to play here, wouldn't that be all the more reason to make the Q.O.? Not sure the point you're trying to make here.

No this isn't common sense at all. This is a huge misunderstanding of player's mercenary attitudes. It was dumb for you to say it then and it's dumb for you to say it now.

Is Roger out of options too? Sheesh...

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/tao-of-stieb-blue-jays-inspire-mixed-emotions/ "Elsewhere, there’s the dreaming on marginal players, like Todd Redmond and Ryan Goins. I find myself making passionate defenses to myself of their potential and their role on a winning club in 2014, even if I suspect that I’m torquing my thought process to find any small slivers of light in the darkness. But a few at bats later, I’m just as ready to write them off and look for small streaks of sunshine somewhere else." As someone who tried really hard (and utlimately failed) to talk himself into Moises Sierra earlier today, I can totally relate to this. I go from cautious moderate optimism to despair pretty quickly. The funny thing is that the cautious optimism only works when I don't look at things too hard. When I start to really analyze I get pretty discouraged which is why I rarely end up writing anything positive. Things like the overall roster management really nag at me and make me feel very pessimistic about this club. It just doesn't feel right. It's like the club itself is non-committal about its chances and is just in this nether-world where putting together a team with the upside of respectable and crossing a lot of fingers is some sort of plan.

By signing with San Diego, he went from the Roger's center to probably the best park (and division) to maximize his chances of a good season (by traditional stats anyways). This is the smart way to approach one year contracts. Ervin Santana should have done the same.

Well we'll probably never know since it's not going to happen. I don't think he's a DFA candidate in the team's eyes.

I'm really surprised that Lugo cracked their top 10. The board was pretty split on him. I was definitely in the pro camp. Edit: Never mind... I was thinking of Urena.

Well maybe the team is better off seeing it through with him but it's also pretty clear that he shouldn't have been on a Major League contract all this time. Players like Grady Sizemore, who have accomplished a lot more at the major league level, have been signed to Minor League deals and McGowan should have as well. Maybe you think teams will line up to give him a 25 man roster spot and 1.5 million dollars but I'm not so convinced. I don't think it's inconceivable he clears. No matter how much you try to hype him up, he's still just a project, one that most contenders probably wouldn't bother with.

Which as you stated earlier is all moot if there are serious medical issues.

Don't... Just don't... Even Gruber himself must be tired of him getting mad over this.

Bad inning? Where have you been? He's pitched 47 innings since 2008. If he translates the velocity reading and the human interest story into actual production this year, it will be the first time in six years. That matters a lot more than that one inning in Spring Training.

What's hard to understand is don't be a hypocrite. I'm not saying you have to agree with the people rooting against Goins just don't condemn them for it. It's a perfectly defensible position and it's one that's not unlike your position about Happ so when you condemn it, you're just being a hypcryte. Hate Happ and root for Goins. That's fine. You don't have to justify that. It's perfectly defensible Just don't lose your s*** when someone roots against Goins because that's also defensible. Capiche?

That logic only makes sense if you assumed all along that Santana could have had for the same money which would have been one hell of an expectation. There's a chance it works out but right now all the eggs are in that basket and the team is pretty close to winding up with nothing. I think East is probably right that the team probably isn't in on Drew or Morales. It just seems too weird to wait this long on them if you were actually interested whereas there is by all reports an actual offer to Santana.

In all honesty, if the Cards see something in him than I'm pretty much convinced the Jays should have signed him. The Cards just seem to recognize something in unsexy talent that other team's don't.

Yeah I think it was a risk worth taking but it would have taken a lot of stones. It's easier to justify now that the team is down to giving Santana the same money or bust.

I tried... I really wanted to explore any angle that might justify optimism. #despair

That's only true if you're the Tampa Bay Rays and you realize that the marginal cost of possibly losing the DH a few times in a season isn't worth sacrificing your roster composition. Even though that's true and even though Lawrie is probably a perfectly acceptable emergency catcher too, it ain't going to happen.

http://mlb.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l131&lid=131&t=l_bat [TABLE=width: 649] [TR=bgcolor: #CCCCCC] [TH=class: dg-obp sortable, bgcolor: #999999, align: center]OBP[/TH] [TH=class: dg-slg sortable, bgcolor: #999999, align: center]SLG[/TH] [TH=class: dg-avg sortable, bgcolor: #999999, align: center]AVG[/TH] [TH=class: dg-ops sortable, bgcolor: #999999, align: center]OPS[/TH] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 649] [TR=bgcolor: #CCCCCC] [TD=class: dg-obp, align: center].401[/TD] [TD=class: dg-slg, align: center].435[/TD] [TD=class: dg-avg, align: center].331[/TD] [TD=class: dg-ops active, bgcolor: #999999, align: center].836[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] This was over 154 ABs. Plate appearances aren't listed. It's not a lot to go on especially with no explanation for the sudden (and relatively modest) turnaround.

And Santana probably won't be either because Santana won't be amazing and the team will just get scared off of it like they did with Johnson.