TwistedLogic

Buehrle's FIP is practically irrelevant.

I'm just going to leave these here... http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2015&month=13&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=16,d http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2015&month=13&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=4,a

Yost talking about how he used statistical analysis to determine his roster, yet he brought Boxberger over Osuna. f***ing idiot.

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Its hard to respect you when you say things like that. Often you make sense, but then you go ahead and post up the same type of non sensicle fantasy land scenerios like the rest of the people here. Quoted for.... science.

When the Blue Jays let Melky walk, they were compensated with a first round draft pick, which they used this past June to draft promising college righty Jon Harris out of Missouri State.

And the Jays being aggressive on Shark is not really a rumor. Nightengale very nonchalantly mentioned it once in his article without any elaboration and the Toronto sports media scavengers all predictably jumped on it without a second thought. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2015/07/05/white-sox-trade-deadline-buy-sell-jeff-samardzija-rick-hahn-ken-williams/29738873/ http://i.gyazo.com/1278e8e81df648fce43f95b99a7d2863.png

I don't see the Jays ever taking on a reliever with Robertson's contract.

It is. If a guy pulls out willingly (like an SP that pitched on the last day before the break), the managers and commish office decide who to replace him with, but if a guy can't compete due to injury, the next leading vote-getter at that position gets the nod. At least that's how it was defined in an article written today on MLB.com.

And I would hope the team doesn't expect it going forward either.

For some reason, he's gotten equal opportunities against LHP and RHP (exactly 60 PA vs each), and for some reason, he's done well against both Why would it be "sudden"? The Red Sox have always been a threat, but because of their slow start, people quickly began to I've been reasoning all along that the Red Sox are probably not as bad as they have been. They are still the team that was projected to rape the division prior to the beginning of the season, and for some reason, nobody expects their pitching to positively regress. Being 6 or 7 games back of the division lead with half the season still left to be played is by no means enough to write a team off.

How exactly do you guys define the closing of the proverbial "window"? Two years ago, we were to assume that the window was closing, due to an "aging Bautista". If an aging Bautista is giving you a 149 wRC+ at 34 years old, then Martin at 31 and Reyes and Edwin at 32 should all continue to be valuable for several more years, shouldn't they? 2014 was a "last chance" year before the books began to close on Edwin and Jose. To offset that, we now have Jesus Donaldson for four more years, and Russell Martin for five. We've replaced the wildly unpredictable Rasmus with Pillar, who at worst will give you defense you can count on, and we've replaced four half-seasons of control over Lawrie with six years of Devon Travis. Marcus Stroman will be back at some point, Daniel Norris is knocking on the door again, several people on this forum swear that Aaron Sanchez was showing signs of improvement, Roberto Osuna has shown a clear ability to K major league bats at just 20 years old, and this franchise is finally showing some signs of life in their bats in the minor leagues. Why the hell is the window expected to be closing again?

I get that you guys probably had a bit of a meltdown yesterday, but you're completely tunneled in on a single game. This team's defense is not a problem. Regardless of how many of you want to rage about it, the Jays are an above average defensive team (6th in Def WAR, 11th in UZR, 11th in UZR/150, 18th in DRS). The defense behind the plate (Martin), at third (Donaldson), and in center (Pillar) has been excellent. The defense at short (Reyes) and second (Travis) has been a plus, and the defense in right (Bautista) and on the mound (Dickey, Buehrle, Estrada) has been bearable. The two areas where there are major defensive problems are at first (Edwin and Smoak) and in left (Colabello, Valencia, Carrera). Any of you that are actually stupid enough to actually propose benching Smoak or Edwin for a better defender at first shouldn't be debating baseball in the first place. That leaves left field. So what exactly do you propose? That they should trade assets to acquire a better defender in left? They can't do anything other than letting it sort itself out whenever one of Saunders or Pompey returns, both of whom are plus defenders.

From what I gathered, I don't think anybody was saying Pillar is a true talent .400 BABIP guy, because nobody said that Pillar is a true talent 153 wRC+ guy (his number in June). If anybody claimed that Pillar was close to a .400 BABIP player, they'd be claiming he was the best CF in the game. What many people here have said (and what I agree with) is that he is not far from being worth of an everday spot in CF, because he's got a league average bat, and brilliant defense. To be a league average bat going forward, he doesn't need a .400 BABIP like he had in June, he only needs the .318 BABIP that he's carried throughout the season thus far.

Why does one single week weigh more than any other week? The Rays have the same record as the Jays, the Orioles have only been one game better, and the Yankees are only ahead by two games. If they've all produced virtually the same results, should all four teams just hang it up and phone it in for the rest of the year? Or are you saying one bad week by the Jays is supposed to be more concerning than any one poor week by the Yankees or the Orioles that happened earlier in the year? No offense, but it's a good thing that it's not your job to make decisions for the team, since you're clearly very influenced by recency bias. Let's hope the front office is capable of looking at a bigger picture.

Mark Buerhle says, "Hi!" *sarcasm detected* Drew Hutchison says "Howdy?" I'd say they're equal at worst, but Buehrle always outperforms his FIP, and RA9 has him at 2.1 wins so far, ahead of Hutch at 1.5 FIP WAR. I think he was always close to replacement level; he's had an elite wRC+, but his defense has been near-worst in the league (4th worst in the majors with -12.6 Def WAR).

So BTS was to Hech as Gruber is to Goins? http://i.imgur.com/9Jti2Z2.png

Colabello was brought in as a pinch runner. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img35/2260/1ei.gif

lmao, Marco Gonzales got carded when buying tickets for Ted 2.

"Sandy Alderson recently stated he was willing to “overpay” for the right hitter to help his lineup. When he said that, he had one player in mind — Ben Zobrist, The Post has learned. Alderson had expressed his interest to Oakland officials about Zobrist, but has seen the switch-hitter, at least temporarily, pulled from the market." http://nypost.com/2015/07/03/ben-zobrist-is-the-mystery-hitter-mets-would-overpay-to-get/

Link to the Bauer at-bat video: http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2015/07/04/mlbtv_clepit_224032983_1200K.mp4

LOL, Trevor Bauer had an at-bat today where he impersonated a different Indians hitter's batting stance on every pitch (Aviles, Rayburn, Kipnis) until he drew a walk.

Dude, what are you talking about? His dad was an 84 year old playwright that died five years ago, when Zack Hample was 32 years old. Neither of them were young when he died. The father published at least 40 literary works and children books and from the looks of it, he was quite accomplished and made a lot of money. Zack Hample himself is a writer, and having a well-known author for a father couldn't have hurt him there. I don't care about Hample's personality and I don't have an opinion on how he chooses to play with his balls, but his father was rich, and Zack is not an entirely self-made man the way you keep implying he is.

Wut? http://i.gyazo.com/91e2bc7b2f257d0c8875d0d11cfdeb65.png "His youngest son, Zack Hample, is the world record holder for balls caught as a fan at Major League Baseball games.[2]"

I know earlier in this thread you said he didn't have rich parents. If that were true, then who is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoo_Hample