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So yeah, Buck just suggested that "getting on base" was a bad thing... Dem Ribeyes.

Here's hoping Dickey doesn't shitball us all day...

Personally, JP. He's an "everyday player", so he has more opportunities to piss me off.

From what I have seen, I am about done with Bonifacio trying to bunt. For a speedy guy, he is really, really bad at getting bunts down. Also, death to bunts (unless it's the NL, and you're the pitcher.)

Lind (though my decision to take him every day until the ASB may have angered the baseball gods... I shall sacrifice a chicken to them later...)

In the new "Polls" subforum!

A very sweet 1-4... I'd prefer Rasmus 5th personally but there are other nits to pick...

Goddammit, I WANT ALL CAPS! DAT POWER!

I instinctively went to check b-r, but I didn't know they offered the ability to do that. +100 internets to you, good sir!

Yeah, that's a pretty pignorant comment. There's not a person alive (well, other than people who regularly call Jays Talk) that is framing this as a Kawasaki v/ Reyes issue, and to suggest otherwise is to create a straw-man so large that hippies instinctively want to light it on fire and dance around it while getting stoned off their faces.

While I appreciate the desire to be organized and have everything in it's place (I've got a touch of the OCD in that regard, might go so far as to say I'm ANAL retentive!) in practice, I often completely forget about the other two forums that are already here unless the main page has totally died. As to the sub forums you suggest, Around Baseball would have 800 threads with one or 2 posts in each. GDT and Postgame would have 2 threads per day with 800 pages, Player Discussion is a pretty central part of the Blue Jays sub forum that we already have and ditto Front Office... Personally, I'm quite fine with the current set-up.

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Kawasaki should be the starting 2B against RHP IMO, batting 9th. I never in a million years thought I'd say this about ANYONE, but I'd rather move Bonifacio over Davis (who has, admittedly, grown on me now that he's being used more effectively.) I don't think it would take that long for Kawasaki to adapt to 2B, the position is very similar, and it's not like he's just going to forget which bag to throw to or something. You're 100% correct that Kawasaki will be back in a few weeks. DeRosa is a right handed bat off the bench with some pop and (limited) positional flexibility. Bonifacio, Izturis and Kawasaki are all very similar players and the move should come from one of those 3 (and it did.) Yeah, Melky needs some time off, he's brutal in the field, and he's scuffling badly at the plate. Hopefully it's not 100 games (unless that lets AA out of his contract, wouldn't shock me of AA had a "get caught with PEDs again and the contract is void" clause in there...)

Man, we had Cito managing this team forFREAKINGever, so we've all seen washed up has beens get at bats they didn't deserve over say, Shawn Green, Carlos Delgado and even Travis Snider (rookies riding the pine FTW!). There's a difference between playing aging vets over young up-and-comers and this situation, in that Kawasaki is 31 years old and you're not "developing" him at all. Also, there is nothing hyperbolic in saying that "[AA] will (justifiably) be criticized." for this move. That's possible, even probable. When you say it's grounds for dismissal that's when we take the exaggeration train to hyperbole town.

It was hyperbole when you said: "Anything less including a wild card loss will be grounds to discuss his dismissal... ". If AA is going to be fired, I should hope demoting Munenori Kawasaki in late June is not the reason. Small issues with your grading. Firstly, the 20/80 scale (typically used to define "tools") doesn't account for position, so you can't say "he has power for a second baseman" or "he has a good arm for a second baseman" when using the generally accepted definition of "tools". And you'd have to work pretty damn hard to convince me that Kawasaki would have anything approaching a power tool, even for a second baseman. I will grant you that he had an excellent hit tool (.297 career average) while he was in Japan. I haven't seen it translate as of yet, but I'll accept that it might. That said, I would prefer Kawasaki to Bonifacio on this team and PROBABLY Izturis (though, Izturis has decent career numbers and a bit more positional flexibility), but without finding a trading partner, letting either of those assets walk for nothing (particularly when you'd be on the hook for all of Izzy's salary even if he signed with another team, which he would) is not the right move. I'd have put Melky on the DL, or optioned Loup if it were my call to make.

I couldn't find a site that let me pick a start date for stats (side note: Someone make a site that can do that and win all the internets! Might I suggest arbitrarystartdates.com?) but here are his numbers for May and June May: .208/.232/.375 June: .215/.268/.385 So, "Better than John Buck", if that's the standard by which things should be measured. It's really, really sad that JPA's stats are INFLATED by his .253/.267/.566 April.

Irrelevant to the issue at hand. He said 0 games, the number was 10 games. I am technically correct.... (This, but with I): http://swtor.gamingfeeds.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/HLIC/0ae172c4e5584507b72c3553af0340b7.jpg

This is pretty hyperbolic. From a baseball standpoint, the Kawasaki move was not the right move, but from an asset management it, arguably, was. (Edit: Man, that was a lot of commas...) Kawasaki is 31, he is what he is. They're not sending him down to learn how to walk less and hit for more power. By the standard definition, he's probably a 2 tool player (speed and fielding, lacking a true hit tool, power or an arm), however, I'd argue that his ability to work a count and draw walks at a rate much higher than most of his teammates could give him an unofficial 3rd tool.

It's not totally directed at you. I just really dislike when people spout off "well known facts" that are easily disproven.

I hate when people do this... Seriously, you're already on the internet, why not... y'know... CHECK YOUR FACTS before you make all the rest of your points weaker by spouting something that's simply wrong and easy to prove wrong. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kawasmu01.shtml Kawasaki played 10 games at second (39.2 innings) LAST YEAR. So if "popular belief" is that "Kawasaki has played at least a single game at second base" then popular belief is absof***inglutely correct. Takes 10 seconds to check these things before you post... Jeebus.

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Nobody will want him, given his lacklustre hitting and $6M salary... It's almost like sample sizes matter or something and Buck and Vernon Wells aren't actually world beaters (anymore).

f*** him, he signed it. Own that s*** Cashman.

The Toronto Kawasakis? I'm down!

Just clone that one guy from the last home game with the Japanese paper fan, 45,000 copies of him at the Dome for the next home game!