KingKat

Works for me too if it clears every day work for Rutledge.

Not really. He did a great job 2012 but that was the only year he was a positive fielder and he really looked out of place in CF this year. They probably would have been o.k. with Jay holding the job for Taveras but when your as deep as the Cardinals, you can afford to address whatever small question marks you have. This is a huge defensive upgrade over Jay and a more viable alternative to Taveras if needed. As Nox mentionned, it also opens up the possiblity of a Taveras trade (to the Rockies for a ss?).

I guess the Br or the Bl would make a nice browser tab logo. I took me a while to understand the 92 and 93. I was looking at the table of elements thinking there is no BL and the number is wrong for Br and then it finally hit me, those are the World Series years.

Even though there are a lot of Jays blogs out there, there's not a whole lot that's good which is why Breaking Blue could actually fill a niche. TaoOfStieb is a good blog but post have become too infrequent. As annoying as Stoeten can be, he's still pretty much the only game in time as far as a Jays blog that stays on top of current news and offers not horrible analysis.

It seems fine now. Maybe it's just unread stuff from last night that didn't get bolded.

Has the features that bolds unread threads been disabled? Is this only happening to me?

What do you know about De Paula?

You might be right and I'm probably over-reacting. I'm not versed enough in linguistics (especially English linguistics) to really know for sure what the conventions are when building words from an acronym. In any case, consistent spelling is a must and as you said the conventional spelling is probably better for SEO. If you go the other way, you'd always have to defend it to other nit-pickers like me which would get old.

I'm not sure if your being serious here or just pulling my leg but there's no such a thing as a Canadian spelling since is that nothing to do with the word sabre (or saber). It's from SABR (Society of American Baseball Research). Sorry for being so pedantic but I think it's important for the credibility of the article to show an understanding of where the term comes from. If you want to adopt a facetious Canadian spelling as a joke then it needs an asterisk and an explanation. Otherwise it just looks bad.

You have it spelled both ways in the article.

Noticed a pretty egregious mistake. Sabermetrics is mispelled right on the main page (and in the article as well).

Can you imagine if the CFL played with that big field, extra player and FOUR downs? Teams would put up basketball scores.

I can't believe people are watching that filth. What the hell is wrong with people?

Do you mean at the gate? The entire league plays less games (144) than one MLB team (162) so maybe the gate is better in dedicated CFL markets (like oh I dunno... Saskatechewan) because you're talking 18 games per market as opposed to the more saturated 162 but just because per game gate is good (in some places) doesn't mean the CFL generates more revenue overall.

I mean if you say so... but I seem to recall it was a good trade on paper. Of coruse, I could be wrong about how good a prospect Laporta was at the time since I didn't follow the minors as closely back then as I do now.

Laporta and Brantley were a good return for C.C. No one could have predicted Laporta would bust as badly as he did. The Lee trade is basically undefesensible. They got none of the Phillies good prospects. It turned out to be just as bad IRL as it was on paper.

The Jays don't have an owner, they have corporate ownership and that makes all the difference.

I don't see why. The total cost is going to exceed Darvish for an inferior player. He really only makes sense for the Yankees.

Meh. Just use this guy at 2B. Reyes will proabably have to shift to 2B at some point anyways.

I think you could keep the name and change the look of the site once the reference loses currency. I think the name would still work without the show. Kind of the way Tao of Stieb works even though hardly anyone has seen or remembers The Tao of Steve.

Whether you trade Lind for pitching or Bautista for pitching, you're essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul and either is problematic although the return you would get for Bautista is the kind of return that you would have a hard time getting otherwise (as opposed to the Lind return which is probably nothing special). In any case, it's not the trading Lind part of your scenario that's dumb it's the JPA at DH part that makes no sense. I don't know if you realize this but JPA's 2013 was one of the worst offensive season on record in the history of baseball. And you are seriously proposing to make him a DH? If you aren't trolling then please stop being so stubborn and willfully ignorant. I tried to hand hold you through where your arguments made no sense but no one will have any patience with you if you keep this up.

Not necessarily. A backup can be a just o.k. catcher with some pop. There's no definite mould unless you have an offense first guy as your starter, in which case it's preferable to have a defense guy behind him but even that's not set in stone. The fact is there aren't enough good catchers around to be too picky about backups. Moderately below average on both sides of the ball makes for a good backup catcher.

The only way JPA could (sort of) work at DH is as a platoon partner for Lind so replacing one with the other doesn't really work. That being said, a Lind/JPA platoon would have made more sense last-season than it does now. At that point Lind was coming off a season where his OPS against lefties was only 553 while JPA has a respectacle .774 against them. The rub is that last year, JPA's OBP against righties dropped to .588 about the same as what Lind put up .573. JPA didn't hit well against anyone. Every part of his game went backwards EXCEPT the catching where he showed improvement in his pitch framing. You make him a DH and you basically remove the only positive from his game. If you want to make an argument for JPA, I think the argument has to be that he might bounce back offensively in a more limited role (say in a time share with someone like Hanigan) and that his defense isn't quite so bad when you factor pitch framing. IF you thought he might accept a more limited role and IF you thought he might listen to Seitzer and develop a better approach THEN you could make an argument for keeping him around but I think a lot of people are seriously doubting whether JPA's ego would accept either of those conditions which is why concensus opinion is to say good riddance to him.

Are you kidding? Fish has a way better FAV (Flavour Above Average).

One good thing about them though is that they are almost guaranteed to turn down any qualifying offer. The Orioles are probably better off riding it out and going that route because it will be hard to get good value in trade for players that can't be extended.