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  1. KingKat
    I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Booting wrestling was non-sensical.
  2. KingKat
    Yeah that's right. He was still a catcher back then.
  3. KingKat
    The Major League players were never a part of it but lots of future stars played in them before they were major leaguers , Roy Oswalt, Dice-K, R.A. Dickey, Troy Glaus, Alexei Ramirez, Stephen Strasburg, Dexter Fowler and that's just since it's been official. The USA teams of the eighties thwhen it was a demonstration team were stacked especially the 1984 team had Will Clark, Mark McGwire and Barry Larkin. It's not a huge loss especially now that there's the WBC but it's certainly a shame for Japan where it would have been popular.
  4. KingKat
    No you don't need an all star at every position. What you do need is to not have s***** players. A big problem with the Jays this year was that their s***** players canceled out their good players. This article written by Drew Fairservice of Getting Blanked back in August shows how some teams can succeed without stars by merely not having any s***** players and how teams like the Jays sunk themselves by having way too many of them. http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2013/08/06/great-players-average-players-bad-players-it-takes-all-kinds/
  5. KingKat
    This year practically the same, 358 for Jones and 354 for Rasmus. Career Jones is 340 and Rasmus is 325. The big difference between the two is that Rasmus has two sub 300 wOBA seasons out of the past three. That's probably what Gibbers was getting at when he talked about their consistency. Both are very streaky hitters in-season but season to season, Jones's numbers have averaged out more consistently. That's probably a big reason why Rasmus doesn't have much trade value. Any eagerness to trade him after his one good Toronto season will be seen with a suspicious eye by any potential trading partner. Teams will prefer to see how he finishes his Toronto career and open the purse strings if he still looks good when he hits free agency.
  6. KingKat
    Yeah but it was a choice between Wrestling and Baseball and Wrestling has been an Olympic sport since Greek times. It's a shame that both were on the bubble. Wrestling should never have needed to be reinstated in the first place and Baseball was more than worth bringing back for Tokyo.
  7. KingKat
    That pretty much applies to both of them. Neither is consistent offensively but they get a huge boost in value from playing CF.
  8. KingKat
    I think he would have been much better than Bonifacio in the pinch/runner backup infielder role.
  9. KingKat
    They have been burned by not spending enough. They really like Chapman but they didn't pursue him aggressively enough. They liked Darvish but they felt it was too much of a risk. Teams who have been bold (Dodgers with Puig, Reds with Chapman, Rangers with Darvish, A's with Cespedes) have been rewarded. Even Hech wasn't a bad signing. He didn't live up to the most optimistic projections but he's a good player and he could have been very useful to the Jays this year and next if they had kept him.
  10. KingKat
    Not only is aging not kinder on late bloomers, they actually tend to flame out more quickly. I'm not saying this to be a debby downer but just to point out that any assumption that he will last longer because he took a long time to get good is faulty. This also holds true for Encarnacion.
  11. KingKat
    Said in Dennis Green voice.
  12. KingKat
    The thing that irritates the f*** out of me is that it's only now that Melky has told the team about his back pains and he's said it's actually been bothering him for four months. This could have been diagnosed much sooner. Not only did this cost the team but it's very fortunate for him that it's benign. This could have had life altering consequences for him. Players seriously need to stop doing this. Hiding injuries is not only counter-productive and dishonest but it's potentially very dangerous for their health.
  13. KingKat
    Murphy is a like a younger Izturis. Lousy fielder, used to get on base but everything is trending the wrong way. If you're going to bet on a dead cat bounce from a guy like that, it might as well be the one you already have signed for two years. I realize you weren't actually making a pitch for him just throwing him out as a guy who at least theoretically is better than Goins but I used your post as a starting point to talk about him.
  14. KingKat
    I can't see the ship being righted but I could see a dead cat bounce good season. If the offensive core stays healthy, the run prevention is improved and with some all around good health and good fortune, things could work out. I'm not saying it's likely, in fact that's quite a lot of ifs but not every team winning is put together impeccably. In some ways, the fact that AA has less money to work with might be a blessing in disguise. Give him a payroll and some prospect capital and he's basically a drunken sailor. Less wiggle room may force him to get smarter. Heck maybe he even makes a vintage AA kind of trade.
  15. KingKat
    He went back to catching after awhile and stuck around as a backup. He was a lot like Arrencibia, not really good enough at the position but not enough bat to play anywhere else.
  16. KingKat
    Coupled with Hill's replacement providing not great but still way better than what Toronto got production for the Rays.
  17. KingKat
    He had some success as a Jay too. He was nearly a 4 win player in 2009 before everything went to hell. Got concussed and forgot how to hit.
  18. KingKat
    Conventional wisdom say that Michael Lewis got scouts wrong when he wrote Moneyball, that he exagerated their flaws for dramatic effect but I often wonder if he was really that far off the mark.
  19. KingKat
    Lawrie is exhibit A for why defensive scouting reports are worthless.
  20. KingKat
    Nope he wasn't but at least he still had 10 pts of wRC+ on Goins. Look we're debatting crappy options here but having someone a slightly better floor between Goins and playing time is in the team's interest. I'm not saying anything outrageous here so I don't really get the attitude.
  21. KingKat
    I'll take the guy who is a safer bet to provide replacement level production. Goins may be a better option for wish-casting purposes but he's not that young and he's already established that he's a worse hitter. He might have a better glove and that's it. They both kinda suck but sloting a replacement level player ahead of Goins and keeping the latter as depth in AAA is far preferable option than just going with Goins.
  22. KingKat
    The team needs players who do SOMETHING. This year the team got basically zero production offensively or defensively from three positions, 2B, C and LF.
  23. KingKat
    Given that outlook, re-signing Kawasaki isn't the worst thing the Blue Jays can do. At least he pushes Goins to the minors and he is a much safer bet for replacement level production. I'm not sure the org would see it that way though given that they have the roles reversed at the moment.
  24. KingKat
    Arenado could have helped your playoff push. He has a 100 point OBP advantage over Alvarez over the last month. Everytime I'd look at the free agent pool, I'd wonder why he wasn't active.
  25. KingKat
    Isn't the deadline past?
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