TwistedLogic

It will still be protected as a compensation pick in 2015 if we don't sign the guy we get in 2014. The new CBA changed it so that a pick is protected for two years instead of one. Prior to AA getting the job, our system was ranked 28 overall out of 30. Less than two years later it was consensus top 3. People just need something to bitch about. That had little to do with drafting and scouting? So you think they read d'Arnaud and Gose's names on a baseball america list and said "We have to have them"? The Jays had absolutely no leverage in the Phillies trade. That was completely to AA's credit. He didn't even get Gose in the Phillies trade either. He wanted Gose, but Gose had been traded to the Astros. He got d'Arnaud, Taylor, and Drabek who was a top 10 prospect in baseball at the time. He turned Taylor into Brett Wallace and Wallace into Gose. Not only did he get two guys he really wanted with the Phillies, he used the third chip, which was useless, and turned it into Gose through shrewd trades. Every single team in the majors had the ability to acquire Type-A and Type-B free agents at the trade deadline and turn them into compensation picks, thus resulting in "significantly boosting" their farm. Yet nobody outside of the Jays and Rays did it to the extent that Anthopoulos did. So if not boosting the system from bottom 3 to top 3 in a year was a profound failure, it looks like more than 25 teams failed "profoundly", given that no team did what the Jays did while having all the same resources and ability to do so. The Jays weren't the only ones to pass on Sale, two teams (Diamondbacks and Padres, both known for good farm systems) picked players prior the Sale pick that didn't even sign. The Jays offered 3M to Beede and he refused. The Yankees failed to sign Gerrit Cole in the 2008 draft, the Pirates failed to sign Appel in the 2011 draft, it happens to every single team. When the guy doesn't want to sign, he won't sign. The Jays gave Bickford an offer of 2.9M, a guy who was ranked in the 40s coming into the draft. His price tag was 4.2M, it's ridiculous to look at this as a failure. The Jays did exactly what they should have done, they got a better pick next year. It's gotten to a hilarious point how many of you think you know how to do AA's job better than he does.

http://i.imgur.com/EunFes6.png The Jays have signed 9 of the 10 players they picked in the first ten rounds. This means that all of their remaining draft budget ($4,694,520) along with the 5% overage ($319,910) is available for their first and final pick, Phil Bickford. Any amount of money that is left in that pool after the Bickford signing will be available as overslot bonus that can be used to sign any player picked after the first ten rounds, of which the four most notable names are Tellez, Brentz, Lauer and Tewes, in that order. If the Jays sign Bickford for his exact slot, they will have exactly $2,093,430 (overage included), along with a base $100,000 assigned to each of their slots, to pursue these players. If the Jays choose not to sign Bickford, they will receive a compensatory pick in the following draft (likely to be pick 1.11 in 2014) and will forfeit the budget space allocated to their first round pick (along with the corresponding difference in the 5% overage) in 2013.

The Tigers broadcasters were saying that Infante had no business being on the bag the way he was and that he should never have tried to turn two on that play. They said that he should have got the out and got off the bag and that Rasmus made a clean slide.

SWING AND A DRIVE LEFT FIELD AND JOSE BAUTISTA HAS JUSTfouled it off and the count is "o" and two.

How the f*** did Buck read that as a homer? It was like 20 feet away from the wall.

Another one bites the dust.

He jumped out of his car and bludgeoned him to death? Oh, are you talking about sliding with his spikes up?

I noticed that the draft table I made has some formatting issues depending on what browser you use and what your monitor's resolution is so I removed the text version and will paste an image version here: http://i.imgur.com/ohjgmYB.png Legend: - A Grey dollar amount next to a player's name is the recommended bonus for that slot determined by Major League Baseball. - A Purple dollar amount next to a player's name is the amount of money the Toronto Blue Jays signed him for. - $x,xxx,xxx : The player has signed, or is in the process of signing, but his signing bonus is currently unknown. - ------------- : It has been confirmed that the player will not be signing.

I think it's a fantastic signing. I don't care about Hollon but it freed up 700K slot dollars.

I never would have thought they'd get him for this little, this was a massive move by the Jays. Makes the entire draft look a lot better.

Yeah I just saw that Hollon was signed, wow what a great sign.

I've sort of lost interest in following the GDTs when I realized that there's more vermin in these threads than there were over at PSD. A 4 year old can change his IP anytime he wants. It's obvious as s*** that that is Metallijay.

LOL The mods are letting banned people use duplicate accounts. This is funny.

What AA told Arencibia prior to the season, and that too prior to the Dickey trade, is almost completely irrelevant now. Romero was our guy in the offseason too, while Happ would start in the minors. Instead, Happ was extended and Romero never even made the opening day roster. If people are looking to complain about Arencibia being the "catcher of the future" you're really just trying way too hard to find something to complain about. There's no reason to think that this organization (still) sees Arencibia as a franchise cornerstone.

Torres (2), Devers (3), Diplan (6), Yrizarri (7) have all signed. BA just hasn't updated their list yet.

LOL Metallijay just got banned. f***ing celebration time came early, now a loss today won't be as bad. Still would like a win though.

He is still doing a hitting coach job, they just gave him another title so that they could essentially have two hitting coaches.

Leave me out of that "ALL". I'm not thick-minded and shallow enough to change my opinion on a player with every plate appearance and every outing. I never called Rogers s*****, just because he had the insanely dumb luck of allowing three home runs in a row. Of course you can't say the same for everybody else here as there are plenty of idiots that were even calling Bautista s*** over the last two weeks.

That f***er ain't my friend anymore, I can't be friends with a JPA lover http://i.imgur.com/Ya6K7Jl.gif

They all know that I'm not a woman, I'm a guy. And no I didn't make a typo or a grammatical error when I wrote that. There is an off-topic forum, but this is the main Blue Jays forum. This thread itself is off-topic but it isn't in an off-topic forum. And nobody here lynches each other over grammar. The only people who get s*** for their grammar are the grammar Nazis that correct other people while making mistakes of their own.

People don't hate you because they disagree with you, they hate you because you're an obnoxious f***ing punk. They hate you because you admitted that you troll them and provoke them into doing so. Because you're the only one low enough here to tell a guy "no wonder your girl left you". That's why it's so hilarious to see you make so many "beware" posts to other posters in every single game thread, warning them that people here will hate on them for being negative. No dude. We won't hate on them for creating posts that contain constructive criticism. We hate YOU. Not them. Stop making "beware" posts because none of those guys that you're trying to warn is going to be hated the way you are. You might like to warn people because you think they'll get treated with the same shaft that you get treated with but most of the people you are "warning" are just frustrated Jays fans that are actually venting, they aren't lowlife f***ing trolls like you.

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Don't waste your time.