TwistedLogic

DINNER!!!!! invisible cap filler

Siddall is so good. Even makes Muck better.

Blawrie Bomb, please

lol what? No runs scored, and he posted something positive? Well that's.. nice.

Burlay with the LOBster

^ Moogy approves.

Moogy doesn't mind that one. Just the "lil" fingers. He doesn't like little fingers. As he said, it was hard for him to get a grip on balls with his own stubby fingers, that's why he doesn't like Stroman's.

Why are you hooked on the length of his fingers? http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif I think I just figured out why Moogy is so insecure. Come out of the closet, buddy, nobody will like you any less for it. Though that's probably got more to do with the fact that everybody already hates you and you're pretty much already at rock bottom in that regard.

Stroman before yesterday's start: http://i.gyazo.com/eb7a32cf52106a9df02406617e3f5d27.png Stroman after yesterday's start: http://i.gyazo.com/1fcb6bf4fbba20932f2ea06f5d19d313.png

Again, you're trying way, way too hard. I'd tell you that you're just making yourself look pathetic at this point, but there's no way that you don't already know that by now.

It's kind of stupid to keep him only until he has a bad outing. Either send the guy down, or don't. Don't send him down immediately after a bad start... You can't forget that these players are actually human beings, and the fear of being demoted after a single poor start could be overwhelming for young players like Stroman, who have already been criticized and doubted for other uncontrollable factors, like his height. We already f***ed around enough with players in the past (like Snider) and even the Nolin thing was stupid. Stroman has good potential and he's been called "near-MLB-ready" since the day he was drafted. Show him that you're behind him and have confidence in him, and let him loose. If he f***s up one or twice, show him that you still have faith in him. Yeah if he starts to string together poor starts (3 in a row), you can say "you have to go back to triple-A to work on this" but demoting him after one bad start is just going to make him lose confidence and make him paranoid.

It's a possibility, but there's also a possibility that Nola slides a bit. This is going to be a really volatile draft and I don't think it's going to be easy to predict where everyone goes, which is why the mocks keep changing so much, so quickly. I feel like best case scenario is Gordon and Hoffman. I also don't mind Schwarber or Conforto there, but if the Jays decide that they don't want a bat, I want them to go after Nola if he's available. If he isn't, I think I do like Toussaint more than the other guys available at that spot. @ace, who's your ideal arm at 9, assuming the good players get picked where they're mostly expected to get picked? In other words, who's the guy you prefer alternative to Touki?

I agree on Touki, but what about Nola? And would you prefer Turner to Touki?

They can pick whatever the hell they want as long as they take Hoffman. If they draft him, they can take Turner, Toussaint, Conforto, don't care, I like them all. Though I'm hoping they don't reach for Howard. Stupid draft needs to come sooner >.<

The probability of Turner and Toussaint instead is bothering me :/ Would you be happy if Nola slid to 9 and the Jays took him? I don't really like Toussaint's delivery, he looks like an injury risk. I'm really worried that they might not even be in on Hoffman. AA very subtly implied that the Jays might go for a hitter or a college guy in the first round this year, and if it's true that they've already got a deal with Toussaint in place, that leaves Hoffman out.

Yeah I just read that article and I was going to say the same thing, that is some incredible confidence, and for some reason it doesn't even come off as cocky to me, I don't know, maybe that's just me. I'm begging for him to fall to the Jays and I'm begging for the Jays to pick him. It just scares me that teams are going to have smartened up and understood that TJS is barely a concern anymore; I mean just look at Giolito's stock right now.

http://i.gyazo.com/c3692a64f54124e8ec19f9408e364059.png Can anyone guess what the numbers in this table represent? It's actually pretty amazing once you figure it out. Highlight the following white font to get the answer: The above table lists the number of parks in which each of Edwin Encarnacion's home runs would have gone over the wall. Yes that's right, 15 of his 18 blasts so far this season would have been blasts in every other major league stadium as well. For comparison's sake, view major league leader, Nelson Cruz's home run tracker here (copy and paste the URL in your address bar): i.gyazo.com/23ecc6d4337fbf9e3720f93b2de0adef.png Despite leading the majors in total home runs, only three of his shots have been "No Doubters" and only 5 of his 19 home runs would have actually left the yard in all 30 parks, a far cry from the power that E-double has shown so far (Edwin also leads the majors in "no doubt" home runs with 10, the next closest being Stanton with 6)

FanGraphs introduced a new statistic a month ago called Expected Run Differentials (xRDiff), where they use their various metrics and weights to estimate how many runs a team should have actually scored and allowed, as to how many they really did. Here is the chart from last month. As you can see, the Blue Jays ranked 17th in the majors, and 8th in the American League at the conclusion of April. Yesterday they released the numbers for the month of May. Over the last month, the Blue Jays have played better than they should have, which has given them a run difference of +30 (14 more than their expected total). Despite this fact, the Jays have still improved enough to bump their rank by 6 places and finish the month in 3rd place among AL teams (9th overall), behind only the A's and the Angels. What we can take from this is that the NL teams seem to be doing a whole lot better as a league, the AL East is a shell of its former self (at least, thus far), and the Jays have shown some very welcome and long-awaited improvement in all facets of the game. It is also worth noting that, had FanGraphs published this on June 1st, as opposed to May 30th, like they should have, there would be another 10 runs in there for the Jays somewhere, thanks to today's blowout.

http://i.gyazo.com/f6ed0e09afa6173c52bfe4b31320353d.png Jays were 5th a few days ago. Have a feeling the rank is gonna move up a bit more after today's numbers are registered. Gonna be hard to dethrone the Angels though, especially when Hamilton comes back.

Yeah I'm jumping on Ace's Castellani bandwagon. Feels like a strong pick for where he's ranked.

It doesn't matter how many times anyone reads what you said, it won't stop it from being wrong... tomorrow is the 4th and concluding game of the Royals series, and the off-day is on Monday.

That was the pitch. Should have swung.

Redmond gets a save if he completes the 9th without giving up the lead. Tall order for Redmond, but I have faith.

Sportsnet milking the f*** out of the Sox/Rays drama to try and get ratings http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif

How are you guys raging? http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif