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  1. KingKat
    He is soooo not a fit there.
  2. KingKat
    The Jays and BoSox basically payed the same cost per win this year. This illustrates the biggest problem with the Jays, the team is operating as if it had the same budget as the top teams in the division and it's sacrificing a lot of potentially cost controlled talent to operate this way. The only way out is for the team to win big and use the results to finance a higher payroll.
  3. KingKat
    I wouldn't. AA seems more eager to acquire players close to free agency than to move them. In another organisation, he would be an obvious trade candidate. He's close to free agency, coming off a bounce back season and there's a replacement (sort of) at the ready. If the return justifies the downgrade to Gose, why not? It's not going to happen though. Jays are just going to ride it out with Rasmus and cross their fingers that they contend this year.
  4. KingKat
    Escobar was kind of a toxix asset at that point. The Marlins got Derek Dietrich from TB. He would have been a good fit for the Jays if they were willing to trade within the division.
  5. KingKat
    That trade started as a Josh Johnson trade actually. According to Davidi/Lott it was Marisnick/Hechavarria for Johnson which I think we all could have lived with.
  6. KingKat
    Yeah a lot of people are poo-pooing a potential acquisition of Hanigan but if the price is right this could be a great acquisition. If his framing and game-calling are as good as stated above than this could be a Jose Molina type situation where the impact on the pitching staff more than offsets the offensive limitations. It also seems like he's more than qualified to catch Dickey which would greatly reduce the team's dependance on Thole. Finally, another big positive about Hannigan is that the Reds are a motivated seller. AA doesn't need to overwhelm them because the Reds are probably just as eager to get a deal done soon as he is. This looks like something that could get done at a reasonable cost with just a minimal amount of haggling. There's merit in that.
  7. KingKat
    That may have been said but it makes no sense. Where else would it come from?
  8. KingKat
    If you break starting pitching into five tiers, there's big separation between 1st and 2nd and between 4th and 5th and not much separation otherwise so it's not really worth much to argue whether a guy is a 2 or a 3/4. It's basically like this: #1 (top 20% of starting pitchers) Middle rotation guys (60 %) #5 (bottom 20%)
  9. KingKat
    Well he's backed himself into a corner. He say the priority (again) is to acquire starting pitching. Who else does he have the means to acquire? Stroman doesn't land you an ace, he lands you a guy like Samaridzija.
  10. KingKat
    Because there's no point in targetting players that won't fit in the payroll (most free agents) or for which we don't have the necessary prospects (Price).
  11. KingKat
    To preserve the integrity of competition? No team would ever operate this way in any realistic scenario. This was collusion.
  12. KingKat
    ^^^this ^^^
  13. KingKat
    Their system had a terrible year but the Jays don't have that much either and because of payroll parameters they can less afford to give up young talent (although we saw last year that it won't stop them). That being said it suddenly occurs to me that the Yankees could game the system by simply offering ridiculously long deals that bring the AAV down. They also might be able to find reasonably good deals by willfully forfeitting their draft picks for the lesser comp players. I wonder what happens when they make deals like the A.J. Burnett deal with Pittsburgh? Did the money they gave Pittsburgh still count against the luxury tax? If not than flat out paying teams to take their players might be another way to game the system. Tanaka is the most above the table solution to their predicament but if push comes to shove they might tell Selig to screw it and exploit every dirty trick they can find.
  14. KingKat
    Pitches that don't generate swings unlikely to be on the table. Maybe swing/didn't swing on third strikes but even that seems iffy.
  15. KingKat
    The Jays just don't have that kind of money lying around.
  16. KingKat
    ...and he has plenty to eat at home.
  17. KingKat
    Not good. It would force the Yankees to shark around for pitchers to acquire in trades just like AA plans to do which will then drive up the costs. Better to have the Yankees blow their load on Tanaka like they planned all along.
  18. KingKat
    Didn't MLB openly conspire against the 'spos that year? Wasn't that the year where the team was denied the ability to make minor league callups under the pretext that it would increase some players salary and therefore increase payroll? If that isn't anti-competitive collusion than I don't know what is.
  19. KingKat
    That makes more sense than the initial proposal.
  20. KingKat
    Wow. So many instances of not being able to distinguish between an actual Wiand a pitcher's win in one text. It's painful to read something so idiotic.
  21. KingKat
    Lilly - Gibbons reunion? Yes please.
  22. KingKat
    I'd take Wolf on a Minor League in a hearbeat but obviously with the hopes that he's never needed for more than an emergency start.
  23. KingKat
    Decent place to pitch, decent playoff chance, not the worst option for Johnson but you have to figure he wants to face the pitcher again. He'll probably just use the Royals for leverage.
  24. KingKat
    Surface?
  25. KingKat
    As if Boras would ever admit to not having a relationship with a team, the more team he is supposedly talking to, the more leverage he has.
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