TwistedLogic

lol @ Dombrowski's comments that he's open to dealing more prospects if the opportunities present themselves. I should be enjoying seeing him flush the Red Sox future down the gutters Anthopoulos-style and yet as a fan of baseball in general, the sheer unapologetic recklessness still infuriates me.

Well to be fair, I don't think there's any chance Robles and Giolito are both on the table for Cutch. Maybe one or the other, maybe neither. That looks to be around the most they were offering for Sale; Cutch shouldn't cost anywhere near as much.

I want both Cutch and Fowler

Red Sox taking on Moncada's entire contract.

Every thread is the hottest Jays thread.

Baseball Prospectus Blue Jays Top 10: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=30791

Colabello elects free agency.

It's obviously possible but the only time "Jay Bruce" and "ideal" should be used in the same breath is to say "Jay Bruce is not ideal". Even though he's only 29, he's already become a bat-only DH type with terrible defense. Darwin Barney was more valuable in 2016 in 43 fewer games. You don't want him in left field, and you definitely don't want him on a roster that's already carrying Smoak, Morales and Pearce. The last time Jay Bruce played well enough with the bat to deserve being rostered as a position player was 2013. That's a long time ago when you're talking about a declining offense-only type player. I know the homers are shiny, but if you really like that sort of thing, just release Smoak and sign Chris Carter for the league min or something.

I'm still hanging on to the (delusional?) hope that the Bruce rumors were just ******** filler from reporters who had nothing better to do during a slow-news cycle. Easy to throw it out there knowing the Jays have been tied to him in the past. Heyman said yesterday that they were still interested but that they were "offerin' lil doe" so maybe it was only ever with the expectation that he would be a super low cost reclamation/backup guy? I don't know, I really don't want to consider that this team believes there is real value in Jay Bruce. Whatever, hopefully doesn't matter anymore. #StevePearce<3

I don't really like the Kendrys Morales signing. I don't have anything against the specific player but I struggle with the way he fits into this ball club. I think this move has been the most questionable made by the revamped front office to this date. Having ridiculed the Athletics for their signing of Billy Butler, it's hard not to see the parallels here on the surface. That being said, I don't believe that there are no redeemable qualities in Kendrys Morales. In fact, if the front office signed him with these qualities specifically in mind (and there's no reason to believe that they didn't), it's easy to see why they feel he will fit into his new environment; why he can realistically surprise the world of baseball with a very good year. Let's touch on a few of them now: 1) Kendrys Morales hits the ball very, very hard. If we establish an arbitrary cut off of 200+ events, only eight players in baseball had a higher exit velocity than Kendrys Morales in 2016. All eight of these players are either past (Zimmerman, Holliday) or present (Ortiz, Cabrera, Stanton, Pederson) superstars, or among the strongest power hitters in the game (Cruz, Trumbo). Once again, we see Morales' strength displayed in FanGraphs' hard contact leaderboards, where only five players in all of baseball posted higher marks in 2016 (Ortiz, Freeman, Carpenter, Trout, Cabrera). Jose Bautista tied with Morales at 41.1% but unlike Bautista, Morales also made a load of medium strength contact at 46.1%. 2) Kendrys Morales is leaving Kauffman Stadium This one doesn't require a whole lot of explanation but I will try to expand on it as much as I can. While Kauffman stadium is actually a pretty good park for padding your batting average, it is an absolute graveyard for the home run ball. ESPN's park factors ranked Kauffman as the fourth worse stadium in this regard in 2016, 227 points below the Rogers Centre. Yankee Stadium, Fenway and OPaCY were also miles ahead of Kauffman, with even Tropicana receiving a significantly better rating. Despite the dead-ball nature of Kauffman Stadium, in 2016 Kendrys Morales became the first Royals hitter to hit 30 home runs since Jermaine Dye knocked out 33 in 2000. Over the last fifteen seasons, Billy Butler (29) is the only other hitter to approach that mark. Lastly, Kendrys Morales is a switch-hitter, making him the first power hitter employed with the Bautista-era Blue Jays that can take advantage of the gimmicks in both Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Fans have every reason to believe that the transition from Kauffman and the AL Central to the Rogers Centre and the AL East should see Morales receive a considerable boost to his home run numbers. 3) Kendrys Morales' lack of mobility may not actually hurt the Blue Jays as much as you think Kendrys Morales was never a fast guy, but ever since he fractured his left leg in what has to be the most hilariously depressing celebration of a walk-off grand slam in the history of baseball, he has been less fast than not fast. By far the most criticized aspect of Morales' game is his speed (the lack of it). Many Blue Jays fans are concerned about how much value the team will lose under Morales' feet and whether or not the signing will even be worth it because of this one major issue. While a lack of mobility should always be a concern for any professional athlete, there is reason to believe that the Blue Jays will not be hurt by Morales' non-existent foot-speed nearly as much as a team like the Royals. As we've already established, Kendrys Morales hits the ball extremely hard. For a guy making so much hard contact and so little soft contact, a lack of speed isn't really going to stop him from getting on base. This isn't exactly a guy who has to regularly beat out grounders to first. The bigger issue with Morales isn't whether or not he can get on base, it's how much will his speed impede the baserunners behind him once he's gotten on. In terms that our favorite troglodyte redneck Gregg Zaun would be proud of, will Kendrys Morales clog the bases? In 2016, the Kansas City Royals (.139) ranked 28th out of 30 teams in isolated slugging percentage. The Blue Jays (.178) ranked 6th. Even with the loss of Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, the Blue Jays will never be a ball club that tries to stab you to death with soul-crushing single after soul-crushing single. The Jays don't steal much, don't bunt much and don't hit and run very often. Having Bowser on the basepaths may be the kryptonite of a s***** organization like the Kansas City Royals but for a ball club where guys standing on first base are often in scoring position, Kendrys Morales' Ortizian pace shouldn't be nearly as much of a factor. Finally, according to FanGraphs' baserunning metric, Jose Bautista (-5.2) was actually worth less than Kendrys Morales (-5.0) in 2016. This signing was really all about the speed upgrade all along.

I've shitposted here like fifteen times since I left, how did I get votes for best comeback poster? lmao

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/7417714/v1214574783/live-mlb-network-simulcast These streams usually expire the day after so I'm not sure if it'll still be working tomorrow but you'll get the broadcast here for today. If they change the link as the meetings go on, I'll update the OP.

The Jays should grant him the gift of unconditional release.

I've been having a lot of Burger King lately. That 2 for 5 deal is pree goo.

Starting to like Boxy.

Nah, I like all of you. My real triggers are sunlight and exercise.

http://i.imgur.com/SKt5uKW.png

Definitely. Was wearing tights when I saw the porno. Tore open my own anus as a tribute. Stay Triggered Man.

Drunk, disheveled dude. Made a porno, tore his anus, part of a group called the "Kliq", least liked member.

Haven't been around enough to make an accurate list. Instead: BJMB's Danny McBride: BTS BJMB's Jay Baruchel: fatcow BJMB's Rob Riggle: kcjaysfan BJMB's Shia LaBeouf: GD BJMB's Dakota Fanning: King BJMB's Lindsay Loham: o2 BJMB's Seth Rogen: NJH BJMB's Chris Owen: Governator BJMB's Lilly Wachowski: Boxcar BJMB's X-Pac: Spanky BJMB's Nick Nolte: TheHurl BJMB's RJ Mitte: Orgfiller BJMB's John Cusack: Gruber BJMB's Joan Cusack: RealAccountant BJMB's Elden Henson: G-Snarls BJMB's Jennifer Coolidge: Dr. Dinger BJMB's Jason Mantzoukas: Twistedlogic BJMB's David Arquette: Nox BJMB's Dean Norris: KingKat BJMB's James Franco: Deadpool BJMB's Héctor Jiménez: Angrioter

It's actually got a pretty vast multiplayer feature as well. You can join leagues and play with others and so on. The last baseball forum I frequented had a sub-forum dedicated entirely to a massive OOTP dynasty league. I personally never played it until I bought it yesterday but it seems amazing so far.

https://www.humblebundle.com/tycoon-simulator-bundle Thought people here might want to know. Kind of a crazy deal, with OOTP 17* ordinarily being $21 on Steam. Also comes with Train Simulator 2016 and Roller Coaster Tycoon: Deluxe. You can essentially get all three games for a penny but it requires a minimum $1.00 donation to get the Steam keys. You can also pay a penny right now to save the deal in your library forever and upgrade to $1.00 at any time in the future to receive the keys. There are 13 days until this deal expires. *For those that don't know, OOTP (Out of the Park Baseball) is widely regarded as the #1 baseball simulation game of all time.