TwistedLogic

No. I didn't follow yesterday's game closely, so I didn't remember who pitched, and I didn't check the date on the tweet, seeing as how it said "1 new tweet" at the top of my page, I clicked the button, and that lineup popped out.

Yeah, I fixed it, as you can see in the new tweet I posted though, the Blue Jays Official twitter fails. I have no idea why, but they've bumped yesterday's lineup and attached it to the tweet for today. Stupid. Also, why is Navarro in the middle of the order?

Deleted my previous post because Blue Jays official fails and for whatever reason, they bumped the lineup from yesterday. Here's today's lineup: Excited to see Reimold.

I'd post this in the GDT, but since there isn't one yet: Intangiburrs. We're gonna get swept by the Angels, aren't we?

The team should keep him on the roster. It will be the fans that start raging their heads off that he's terrible with the bat, but the team should continue to play him for his defense. He's basically in the same boat as Anthony Gose this year, with slightly more power and slightly fewer walks. Both guys have defense that is more than good enough to justify their sports on the roster, but weak enough bats to piss off all the reactionary Jays fans and get an undeserved demotion. The fact that Glenn, Mastroianni and Encarnacion all got reps in the outfield over Gose is a f***ing travesty.

@Moogtard, I just got a quote notification from you, but seeing as I put you back on my ignore list, I don't want to go to the effort of taking you back off just to read your post, so enjoy getting the last word in. I'm sure that means a great deal to you.

Off topic, but apparently Jose Bautista is friends with Trish Stratus. Lucky bastard.

Not sure if this guy has any credibility, but:

Lol. Reimold squatting 425 pounds:

Rays picked up more than a million dollars of international cap space off the Marlins, lol, their signing of Rondon isn't even over-slot anymore. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/07/rays-acquire-three-international-bonus-slots-from-marlins.html

It's not going to be easy to pull guys like Sean Rodriguez away from the Rays now that they've set themselves up so that two good weeks of baseball separate them from contention. I said it all along, not to discount the Rays, that team is always in it and is always a threat, and they've started showing it yet again.

No, they have crappy depth options. Guys like Kawasaki aren't going to give you consistent above-replacement production. My post was in response to there being no backup in case Headley goes down. Assuming that they do get Headley for 3B, they need to have better depth options than what they currently have. That was my point.

If the opportunity cost for bringing in Headley is a concern, then a billion dollar organization like the Blue Jays should have the wherewithal to mitigate that concern by amassing a bit of depth behind him. Sure, there's a plausible risk that all of Headley and Lawrie and Reyes can go down in the same week and be out for a long period of time, but a good ball club will be prepared for that and will have a guy in their own system that can provide above-replacement level value in a pinch. The A's are constantly grabbing guys off of the waiver wire and strengthening their depth, the Jays can do the same. When the Marlins had Stanton go down in 2012, Ruggiano stepped in and provided 2.6 fWAR in 90 games. That's an extreme example, but a less of an extreme example is right in front of us; the Athletics have Gentry playing exceptionally well in replacement for Reddick. Reimold is a very good example of the kind of moves they need to continue to make. Gillespie is a very good example of something they need to never ever do. Gose and Reimold in the OF, Kratz at C, Johnson at 1B, and Redmond in the bullpen (is he even still a Blue Jay?) are good to very good depth options at their respective positions. They just need a few more guys like that as options that can play the infield.

Great news, hope he comes back stronger than before and boosts his stock. Been high on this guy forever.

Even if the Jays don't fall out, I feel like they absolutely need to explore trading Dickey back to the NL. Any team that will take him, if he has any value left, they should try to squeeze that out. I mean, I know there's no f***ing chance in hell that they would, seeing as how the moron casuals and the Toronto writers would absolutely crucify them for trading the guy who they traded d'Arnaud, Syndergaard and Becerra to get, but I still think that would be their best option. He's been far away the worst of the five starting pitchers, would free up a bit of salary, and also, I f***ing hate him.

Such a stupid thread.

So it is your opinion that the Blue Jays are "*COUGH*" for undervaluing defense. It is also your opinion, in regards to Chase Headley, that "if the Jays are really pursuing him for this year they are dumb as f***". Makes sense.

What the f*** kind of trailer trash house do you live in? "Toaster in the tub"? You make your toast next to your tub? And your special needs kid has, on more than one occasion, dropped that plugged-in toaster into the tub, that we are to gather was filled with water at the time? I don't think anyone here will relate to that analogy in any way.

I love the Reimold pickup, but I'm surprised they haven't promoted Dan Johnson yet. They should.

For anyone wasting time arguing with Moogtard (thanks for making my ignore on him redundant by quoting everything he writes), keep in mind that this is the same guy who said that it was a stretch that Happ, Stroman, Hutchison and all of the other 5th SP options would combine for 1 WAR over the course of the season.

He's a top-3 pitch framer in baseball. I wouldn't buy too much into that. Melky's back was atrocious last year, and he "got into grooves" every now and again as well. I have no idea how these guys do what they do; Headley has a f***ing herniated disc in his back. But I respect them a ton for it. Hopefully the Jays are able to get something sensible done in regards to Headley, and hopefully he sees a bit of success here, and hopefully the Jays have a higher-than-zero shot of bringing him back next year. We've got nothing in the minors on the infield front for 2015, and I would say that it's a very safe bet that Headley will be back to form after he gets rehab for that back.

lol, people think it will cost nothing to get Headley. If that was ever the case, why would the Padres not keep him and get guaranteed draft pick compensation instead. If the Jays are on the phone with the Padres, they should be talking about Kennedy first and foremost.

Despite flooding, River Bandits play on at Modern Woodmen Park http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/qctimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/ad/1ad4ff85-5491-5c43-928f-b22441db36a6/53b602ab7e148.preview-620.jpg That's f***ing awesome. Looks like a baseball park island.

Kiszla: Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez feel OK in trade winds By Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, POSTED: 07/04/2014 12:01:00 AM MDT http://i.gyazo.com/38c8eebfbf79d205eb71d2203b3eabf0.png Free falling from playoff contention toward rock bottom, if the Rockies make a big move in 2014 it will be to trade shortstop Troy Tulowitzki or outfielder Carlos Gonzalez. "If one of us gets traded, you never know what's going to happen. One of us might end up winning a World Series," Gonzalez told me as he sat in the Colorado clubhouse. Tulo and CarGo are the Rockies. But their team seems doomed to failure. It has left them frustra- ted and open to a change of uniform. The two Colorado stars, whose combined salaries total nearly $27 million this season, understand what immense value they could have on the trade market. In separate interviews Thursday, Tulo and CarGo talked frankly about the possibility of leaving Denver. "In Todd Helton, there's someone who's easy to look at his career here and how it played out. I have the utmost respect for Todd, but at the same time, I don't want to be the next in line as somebody who was here for a long time and didn't have a chance to win every single year," said Tulowitzki, reviewing the 17 years Helton spent as the face of a franchise that never won a division title. "He played in a couple postseason games and went to one World Series. But that's not me. I want to be somewhere where there's a chance to be in the playoffs every single year." By almost any metric, CarGo and Tulo rank among the most talented 25 players in the major leag- ues. Their highly competitive natures, however, have been severely tested by a sad stretch that saw Colorado lose 28 of 38 games, with a rash of bad-luck injuries and wretched starting pitching the ruination of a once-promising season. Combine his usual golden touch at shortstop with one of the NL's hottest bats, and Tulowitzki pro- files as the league's No. 1 candidate for most valuable player except for one glaring deficiency: His team stinks. "What people need to understand about me is: Winning's my main priority," Tulowitzki said. "I've been around the game a little bit now, and I understand those years where we did win, how much more fun I had. And then there are years such as this." Gonzalez, a former batting champ, has been limited to 52 games and a disappointing .255 batting average by a nagging knee injury and a finger growth that required surgery. "It has been terrible," said Gonzalez, who hopes to be back in the lineup before the all-star break. "I think the most important thing when I get back on the field is to just be me. Obviously, I was playing through a lot of pain and I wasn't playing the way I can play. ... I was playing bad." With summers of endless Colorado sunshine and a groovy party deck as distractions, the Rockies' ability to sell tickets seems remarkably bulletproof against chronic front-office mismanagement. http://i.gyazo.com/dbf51a0734be313a76cb8f61712f8c1c.png But Tulowitzki, whose nickname is chanted by the crowd when he steps to the plate, might be the one player Rockies owner Dick Monfort would have difficulty trading. "I don't see Tulo going away from here, unless he asks for it," Gonzalez said. "Tulo is a guy who got drafted here. He grew up in the farm system. He doesn't know anything except purple. ... It's easier for them to trade me than him." When St. Louis explored a trade for Tulowitzki late in 2013, with the names of Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller and first baseman Matt Adams, among others, prominently bandied about in rumors, I am convinced Colorado's reluctance to pull the trigger had as much to do with a genuine affection for Tulo and fear of an adverse impact on marketing as it did with a baseball evaluation of the deal's pros and cons. The terms of Tulowitzki's contract give him broad power to veto any trade, allowing the 29-year-old shortstop significant control of where he plays the remainder of his career. Nevertheless, Tulo is un- certain what the future holds through the July 31 trade deadline and beyond. "If you hear, let me know," Tulowitzki said. Gonzalez was also unsure. "I think it's easier for me to deal with than Tulo, because Tulo has been here for his entire baseball life. I've already been traded twice," said Gonzalez, a member of the Arizona and Oakland organiza- tions before making his Rockies debut in 2009. "The first time I got traded, it was hard. The second time, it was even harder. But I've learned. Once, I thought it was a team didn't love the way I play- ed. Now, I know baseball is a business, and anything can happen from one day to another."

Preferably Dickey. Probably Happ. Nobody cares if they "love Happ", they've been pursuing a starting pitcher for a long time, and nobody is dumn enough to move Hutch or Stroman out of the rotation right now. Happless is the odd man out.