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  1. KingKat
    This
  2. KingKat
    The problem starts at the top with Beaston. He was hired as a head hunter and he ends up hiring himself and turning himself from legend to laughing stock. These comeback tours from the glory years (Cito, Beaston) have done nothing but make the organization look bad.
  3. KingKat
    s***... Shipley already has two games under this belt while the Jays are still dry humping their prospects. What a depressing draft and overall season.
  4. KingKat
    Is that really all that different then the risk you take on all prospects especially those out of high school?
  5. KingKat
    Yes there are success stories but the Jays drafted a lot of guys to achieve that success. They are not hitting on a higher percentage of high school pitchers than other teams. They just drafted a s*** ton of them is all. The fact that they have had more success with high school pitchers than with other players is more a reflection of a complete inability to develop anyone else than a vindication of this attrition heavy strategy.
  6. KingKat
    Josh Sale is a jerk and he's certainly no Chris Sale but I'd still trade Deck for him.
  7. KingKat
    It's possible that they didn't expect everyone to be willing to accept their money and to have to make a decision between Bickford and the other guys. If it's a choice between signing one or two players who are probably just as good and getting a pick next year and just signing Bickford, than it's probably an easy decision. They can leave an offer of slot on the table just in case Bickford caves at the last minute and otherwise just turn the page. I have a lot of frustration with AA but I do like the way he's willing to game the draft system and doesn't care about the optics of not signing a pick.
  8. KingKat
    And then taking that pool of pitching prospects and reducing it to just two guys by trading everyone not named Osuna or Sanchez. Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket and then punching a hole in the basket.
  9. KingKat
    Yeah hopefully. The farm system is so barren right now, the team can hardly afford another bust.
  10. KingKat
    Wasn't sure if it had been posted. Also, I can never remember the tag for embedding tweets.
  11. KingKat
    https://twitter.com/ZachMort/status/354637923347468288
  12. KingKat
    Same here! This is great.
  13. KingKat
    Never mind. I pulled the offer. I'm trying to swing a larger trade using the player I offered.
  14. KingKat
    I made you a wise offer.
  15. KingKat
    It's not like Baseball Reference made much of an argument for him either. Other than an obvious outlier he's been a garbage hitter his whole career. Not as putrid as this year mind you but still essentially useless when you combine it with the terrible defense.
  16. KingKat
    Not every day. Kawasaki has been getting more starts lately.
  17. KingKat
    It was a terrible idea. Has been steadily declining to the point of being barely above average and his conditioning (cough) is terrible.
  18. KingKat
    Who's this guy with Pat in the broadcast booth? Is it the Cleveland guy? Is this some sort of hybrid broadcast?
  19. KingKat
    Are you implying that without Bickford, they won't have money to sign other guys? That would only be true if they expected to save a little money by signing him under slot. It's commonly believed that Bickford wants considerably more than slot so not signing would actually save money not cost money. They need the money they saved from other picks to get him. Otherwise they will probably give that extra money to some late draftee with a college commitment. Those guys are basically Bickford insurance conditional on Bickford not being signed rather than the other way around.
  20. KingKat
    No one from the organization would ever come out and say this but you have to wonder if that factored into it. I'm not saying that they don't genuinely like him. You can't draft a guy just to get a pick next year or you could get badly burned if the player changes his mind. No doubt the Jays felt that in a shallow draft, Bickford was worth a top 10 pick but part of the upside of the pick is that you could get the pick back in a deeper year. If this didn't factor into the selection than it certainly should have.
  21. KingKat
    I filled out fifteen. I find the system very thin. Stroman, Osuna and Jimenez are the only prospects with upside in the high minors. Burns and Pillar could be role players. In the A levels, you have Sanchez who is a major prospects and maybe a few other guys if you squint. Aside from Osuna, the teenagers with the most upside seem to be Barreto, Smoral and DeJong.
  22. KingKat
    Now you can have him for a bag of balls or one of your own busts.
  23. KingKat
    Vogelbach for me. The white Prince Fielder goes from low A to high A and loses nearly 300 points of OPS. Mike O' Neill is very drop worthy as well. His insane 2012 is looking like a total outlier and he's really old for AA.
  24. KingKat
    Not really we're still waiting on pick 116. Edit: Never mind the last pick was just made.
  25. KingKat
    That's who I should have picked when I moved up the draft last night. Ed Rodriguez would have still been there with my next pick. I got a little panicky when I saw that people's individual boards were starting to converge. The beginning followed a pretty clear consensus then there was a lot of variance and now the top performing minor leaguers are getting picked off one by one with only the odd 2013 draftee here and there.
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