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Don't warm Osuna up, Gibbons. It's still a 7 run lead.

Talk is that the player the Mets are after is Carlos Gomez. Would probably require them to trade one of their big time arms, though.

The Twins are predictably falling apart, but now we have to worry about dem damn Orioles.

I like how the Blue Jays Twitter account retweeted something that is the Jays weakness. At least Tulo didn't say "you win by developing your own players".

Doubront has been DFA for Tulo. Wonder who takes the fifth starter spot the next time it comes up.

Seriously, if it costs nothing, get James Shields. AA clearly has no problems paying someone $20m for what they did in the past, so at least with Shields he wouldn't have to give up much.

Chris Archer is having a pretty good day after 6 innings so far. Perfect game with 10 K's and 69 pitches through six. Since the Rays are somehow ahead of the Jays now, I feel it was only appropriate I throw the jinx out there.

I like Tulo, but the problem with adding him now (at the expense of the team's top prospect) is that you are paying him $100m over five years for what he did in the past, not necessarily what you can reasonably expect from him in his 30's going forward. So right off the bat that should have been a warning flag, especially since we saw Reyes erode before our eyes in a similar fashion. Secondly, look what happened the past couple of seasons with ownership. Made a big splash and then refused to spend more to put the team over the top. What's the point of having Tulo, Donaldson, Bautista, Martin, etc, if ownership is going to cut spending from there? That leads to the final point, and that's the rotation after this season. Buehrle's gone. Estrada's gone. Dickey might have to be brought back just for lack of options but he could be gone. Sanchez is in the pen and likely better off over there. Osuna will hit his career high in IP this season and it will be as a reliever, so there's no way he'll be ready for a SP workoad next season. Stroman will have missed an entire year. Norris took a step backwards. Boyd is a #5 starter or a reliever depending on who you ask. There's just so many question marks on this team, and so little in the way of affordable young SP talent that help will need to come from outside the organization. That costs money and/or more prospects. If you play for 1 or 2 years, that's all you'll get in a best case scenario. The Jays should be trying to build a sustainable winner. That won't happen if they keep trading top pitching prospects for $100m contracts attached to 30-somethings. This deal is not as bad as the Marlins/Dickey trade, but shouldn't be grouped with Donaldson either. It's somewhere in between. Much like the Jays over the past 20 years. Not bad, not great, but somewhere in between. The treadmill keeps rolling.

This was an AA special, but closer to the Miami/Dickey kind than the Donaldson/Martin kind. My initial excitement to see Reyes gone and Tulo brought in turned around 180 the moment the prospects names were mentioned (Hoffman, mostly). I would have rather traded Reyes and eat up a portion of his salary than trade Hoffman to get Tulo. Strike out rates be damned, he was still an unfinished product, and I was looking forward to seeing a new regime (minus AA/Gibby/Walker) get their hands on him and see what they could do with his raw talent. Now we'll see that....but only in Colorado. Plus, Rogers letting AA absorb a $100m contract likely means he is staying, which would be horrendous after the year we are having (plus it means Gibby stays). I'm happy to see Tulo in a Jays uni, but horrible trade. Jays should have stood pat or sold, not added by subtracting from the farm. The "trade for expensive 30-somethings on free agent contracts" thing didn't work three years ago. Why go to that well again?

Baltimore and Tampa are about to go ahead of the Jays, the surging White Sox are half game behind the Jays, and the Yankees/Twins are going to improve their lead by 8 and 4 games respectively on the Jays playoff hopes. The Tulo trade was right out of Ruben Amaro's playbook the moment Hoffman's name was announced as part of the deal.

Score two runs agains the f***ing Phillies: blame the umpire for a mistake that only cost them one baserunner in the game. Nevermind that Doubront couldn't get an out after that happened and the team could get barely get a baserunner for most of the game.

The Jays will lose tonight, and then AA will trade Pompey and Norris for a 32-year old with six years left on his $20m AAV deal.

Why is Goins always up with runners on base? f***.

If the one game wild card counts as the playoffs, then Dickey is right. The Jays should make it and there's no excuse not to. Everyone vying for the 2WC is mediocre.

Wild Card this year and division next, I'm assuming. Well, I'm sure he thinks they still have a shot at the division this year, and maybe they do with all the H2H games against the Yankees, but that's the mother of all long shots at this point.

I think you just put Tulo at lead-off, and go from there. Tulo Donaldson Bautista Edwin Smoak Martin Travis Pillar Pompey Offense, defense, home runs, obp.....damn. If only Stroman were healthy for the pitching staff (which still needs some help).

Who are the minor leaguers?

I doubt Travis is included. Reyes has to be going the other way. Can't have two SS's on the same team. Who else the Jays add is the question. I guess if you can't add wins via pitching, get more offense/defense is AA's logic.

Me too, but Reyes has to be going the other way, so addition by subtraction in that case. Still, holy s***!!

I just don't see what the Jays could offer Cleveland w/o Stroman involved that would entice them to trade Carrasco. If the Jays had a blue chip hitting prospect, then I could see it, but they don't, unless the Indians love Pompey. I think Davidi is full of s*** when he says it was close.

If the Jays are going to make a run, it will be now. 25 of their next 36 games are at home, and then September is almost entirely the AL East. Go on a run with all the upcoming home games and try to break even the rest of the way. They can at least have a shot at one of the Wild Card's in that scenario. However, if they falter in the next week or so, then forget it. Too much ground to make up.

The Orioles, who "should be sellers", are now .500. Tied with the Blue Jays, who should "go for it" by trading prospects for vets.

By "everyone", do you mean jaysfan2014?

AA won't mortgage the future because he likely can't take on much salary. There's not much he can do that would require gutting the system and getting a cheap rotation piece, unless the Carrasco rumor has any legs. It's going to end up being Fiers, someone like him (cheap), or standing pat.

The only way acquiring Shields makes sense is if they can get him for nothing, or take a huge contract (Reyes) in return. Giving up prospects for him at a bloated FA salary would be the definition of insanity.