TwistedLogic

I didn't read any "books" but I know that Lucchino and Henry were/are notorious for sticking their stupid noses where they don't belong. Like I always say in defense of Anthopoulos, unless you know what's going on behind the curtain in these certain situations, it's best to reserve your judgement until you do learn more. The Red Sox ownership always had a large presence in their baseball operations, and if I'm not mistaken, the Gonzalez and Crawford deals were heavily influenced by them. There are situations like this all around the sport. Moreno had a massive influence in the Pujols/Wilson signings, Ilitch was the drive behind the Fielder signing, Kasten is heavily involved in the Dodgers operations, and Loria has a large hand in the Marlins decisions. GMs forever have been and forever will be judged for everything their ball club does, from the draft (something GMs have almost nothing to do with, and is almost exclusively handled by the scouting department/crosscheckers) to free agency (another area of baseball where GMs play a very small role, and the owners have a monumental presence). Just like field mangers and coaches can only work with what they're dealt, GMs are in a very similar position themselves. As long as you have a s***** franchise that is headed by s***** owners and s***** executives, it doesn't matter how good or bad the GM is, he won't be able to make enough of an impact to turn the team around.

The Rays that are 11 games under .500 can be "back in this thing in a week", but the Jays are done for the season http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif

I've been saying this for three years. I f***ing love Ruggiano. I thought they lost their chance when the Marlins traded him away, but now he's on the s***** Cubs, so it's still possible.

I would love if we got Prado, he's a guy I've liked for a long time, I was really shocked when the Braves traded him away. Headley normally would be my preferred option, but the herniated disk is a legitimate concern, seeing as how we'd only have him for the rest of the season. We've seen Dickey and Melky play with s***** backs and they looked like garbage out there. Has NOBODY on this forum read the millions of articles quoting Jon Daniels in saying that he's not going to trade Beltre? He's said it over and over again, Beltre and Darvish are untouchable. He sees Beltre as a hall of famer and wants to keep him in Texas.

People overrate the Rays as much as they underrate every other front office. The Cubs will trade-rape you five times harder than the Rays ever would.

Haven't felt as good for a Jays prospect as I do for Hoffman since Lawrie. Would be so great to have him pan out. Just feels like there's something special about him.

I was about to red rep this post until I realized that this forum doesn't have a red rep option. Admin pls. This thread is worse than my OTT#2.

It's all good, I hope you don't let the morons in this thread turn you away from the board, not everyone here is a prick. Great job on the promo, you've got a good skill for video editing.

That cap space was for the previous year's IFA budget, meaning it was only useable prior to this IFA period. Like JFaS said, it was used to sign Hansel Rodriguez.

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Yunel has been atrocious. That's probably why he, someone who's name constantly came up by the people who love to bitch at AA, has barely been mentioned at all on this forum this year.

That's ******** and you know it. You can't possibly believe that.

"I'm sorry that I'm a f***tard with zero credibility, that probably just lost all of my future clients the ability to make any semblance of a trustworthy arrangement prior to any and all future drafts" You know... if they did backtrack on a deal, which, in the event that he doesn't sign, is probably what happened.

No it's not. You're evading the point. It's seems more frequent at BR because there are more s***** non-writers at BR. I'm talking about legitimate writers, like what Hayhurst can be considered. In that group of guys, it's no more common for garbage to be written at BR than it is anywhere else, whether it's ESPN, The Sun, 590, or anywhere else. Granted, there still might be a high frequency of garbage, but that isn't an exception to the rule, it's just on par with the majority of news outlets.

"Supposedly legit" writers write ******** year 'round for every website, that isn't limited to Bleacher Report.

The hate for Bleacher Report is so overdone at this point, that the people who dismiss articles off the bat just because they're posted on BR are stupider than the morons that gave BR a bad rep in the first place. The portion of articles written by fans and bloggers are what is ridiculous about Bleacher Report, not the articles submitted by legitimate writers. Some of the best pieces you see year in and year out come from Bleacher Report. Great story by the way, I'm always a supporter of technology that will reduce injuries and keep more guys on the field. It's already been proven by the Brewers, who were known for their biomechanical research long before this stuff was posted.

There are five big guys that are pretty much impossible signs at this point; Weisenberg, Latz, Pop, Papierski and Lugbauer. Then there are three good ones that already have signed, or are looking like they will be signing, in Dusty and Todd Isaacs (no relation), and Gunnar Heidt. And then there's Tanner Houck. Houck is one of the best prospects we drafted, and he is open to signing, so I would think he's the Jays best bet (basically seems to be in the exact same boat as Tellez was last year; quite hard to sign, but open to the possibility). If the Jays do end up with some savings, look for most of those dollars to be used on locking up Houck and Heidt, and probably also go towards guys like Dusty and Todd. Not sure they'll have enough left over to get Winemiller, don't have any idea what his signability is like, but he's another guy I would like to see signed.

"11/22/2014","COL said they wouldn't do Harrell alone but asked if we would add. When JL began to press they backed off on Harrell and didn't seem to have real interest. COL said they have multiple offers for Fowler. JL asked if they would be interested in any of our other pitchers." This stuff makes Jeff Luhnow sound more and more like the turds that fail at trade-raping in fantasy ball. Makes him lose a lot of the luster I thought he had, and makes me wonder how much credit he really deserves for the recent Astros moves. Based on these records, there are clearly other people outside of Luhnow that are constantly in communication with other clubs about their players.

Yep, Bautista wants Abreu to be one of the guys. Abreu might turn it down as well though, lots of guys seem to think the wear and tear of all those swings is not worth the risk. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140626&content_id=81772840&notebook_id=81789480&vkey=notebook_cws&c_id=cws

I had to mention it like 40 times last year as well. Though that's a bit more understandable, since the change had just been introduced. Still pretty bad when someone like Mayo doesn't know the rule. Use the "tweet" tag:

There's no reason that he has to pick a Twin. Cano didn't take Butler, and yeah he got booed but who cares? There's so many amazing power hitters right now. I assume Jose, Edwin and Papi are the first three; I feel like he'll probably take one of Cruz, Cano, Cespedes or Abreu, and I bet he probably thinks he has to pick at least one white guy to put the xenophobes at ease. On that front though, there's a good chance that it won't be Trout. Even if Joey invites him, he's probably going to turn it down: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140527&content_id=77063186&notebook_id=77079788&c_id=ana

Kawasaki on Intentional Talk, LOL http://m.mlb.com/video/v34063457/munenori-kawasaki-joins-intentional-talk-from-toronto

I can't contain all these feels

Anyone up for this when the game starts? http://i.imgur.com/QgZ2y6E.jpg