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you... you're good you.

is that all we do now? just give players leg kicks? well i guess it simplifies things. any way we can incorporate the leg kick into a pitchers delivery? maybe get delabar to test it out.

managing without a doubt, which is really saying something.

My grandmother looks just like Jeff Blair.

first thought that came to my mind too

hmm thats interesting. i cant really afford the $190 price tag + shipping from the west coast to toronto for that large frame. first google search found this terrible canvas one which is amazing that it even exists #4) s*** CANVAS http://fineartamerica.com/products/jose-bautistas-famous-bat-flip-nina-silver-canvas-print.html but further down I found this one. that is probably at the top of my price range. i'm curious about the picture quality though. u think it would look good? #5) NICE CANVAS https://www.proamsports.ca/products/catalog/profile/Toronto-Blue-Jays/Jose-Bautista-Toronto-Blue-Jays-2015-ALDS-Home-Run-Bat-Flip-16x20-Canvas/f9c98433b7a14d4f2988480115027b9f/ also found these doozies http://mindlessdoodle.ca/product/jose-bautistas-bat-flip

So I came to the decision that I must buy a Bat Flip framed photo or poster. So far I found #1 which is the 8x10 one you can get everywhere (which I will probably end up getting) but I am at least looking to see if I can get a larger one or maybe a different one. I have found 2 other candidates so far. I just started looking so I wanted to see if anybody else had any other info/advice. Sadly I dont think I can afford that #3 big one at the bottom. #1) MAIN PIC http://www.amazon.ca/Frameworth-69-459-Bautista-8x10-Inch-Frame-Bat/dp/B016Y7336A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455805504&sr=8-1&keywords=jose+bautista#productDetails #2) BLACK & WHITE BACKGROUND http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Jose-Bautista-Toronto-Blue-Jays-Bat-Flip-Home-Run-2015-AL-Finals-8x10-frame-/181998119230?hash=item2a5feee93e:g:bFkAAOSwf-VWZOZm #3) BIG BOY LARGE FRAME http://dglsports.ca/product/jose-bautista-the-bat-flip/

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and yet, nobody seems to worry about jose or edwin tailing off.

seems bigger than i thought. just curious, are they doing the warning track too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9T8UVY6TDI

it was more about continuing the Bautista comp and showing that Bautista still had a good eye even before he came to the Jays and transformed his swing. Pillar has a bad eye and I dont see that changing anytime soon, if at all. Prove me wrong Pillar!

Bautista's O-Swing% has been pretty stable since day 1 and close to his career average of 22.3%. It was actually lower before he joined the Jays (18%) but seeing the results we will all take a few more strikes. Main thing is it didn't change much at all a midst a large swing chance. Kevin Pillars O-Swing% has been pretty stable since day 1 and close to his career average of 41.3%. That number is basically double Bautista's and Pillar's has never been under 40%. Pillar had the 29th lowest Z-Swing% and the 6th highest O-swing% among qualified batters. He might literally have the worst combination of swinging at bad pitches and taking good pitches in the league. Check the leader board for yourself: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=5&season=2015&month=0&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=4,a&page=1_30 As long as Pillar still likes swinging at certain pitches (i.e., junk pitches in the dirt) it wont matter what his swing looks like getting there. The end result will be the same. I hope I am wrong. I am hard on him cuz I love him. If he can learn to manage even the first pitch of an at bat better I would be really interested to see how he could react when he is ahead of the pitcher. I believe your batting eye never changes for the most part though.

APPROACH APPROACH APPROCH APPRACH APROACH APROH APRAC APPROACH APROACH APPRACH APPROH APPROA APROAC APROCH ... when kevin pillar gets one let me know. otherwise a new swing will mean diddly poo.

well i want him to DH first and foremost. if he is bleeding runs i would feel slightly more comfortable with him bleeding runs at OF at this point, yes.

train of thought seems kind of contradictory. how much more can he do with the glove when he's DHing or learning a new position? he has played 26 games at 1B his entire career (1300+ games total). he is not providing positive value with his glove at this point. u maximize him by using him at DH but you don't really maximize the roster by locking him in there. is it trully better to hide him at 1B than his more comfortable RF at this point? i dunno. i'd lean toward keeping him at his more natural RF position though (if he's not DHing of course).

better shape or not, its unlikely he ages as gracefully as ortiz has. i am using ortiz as an example because he seems like a best case scenario.

man thats tough. david ortiz has earned about $15m annually for the last 4-5 seasons (give or take). ortiz is 5 years older than bautista so those are basically the bautista years we are paying for. taking into account 3 things in bautistas favor... 1) bautista plays an actual position 2) ortiz probably left money on the table 3) inflation + baseball revenue increase... do you think that is enough to bump that $15m salary up by 33%? he's also got negatives too. the obvious one being age. say what you will but he's 35 now and 36 next offseason. i am curious to see how many active 35 year old players make $20m and over. does anyone know how to easily find that out?

I think the best most realistic chance for the Jays to keep Jose is to do one of those deferred deals that are all the rage right now. If we can sign him to something like a 4 year $70m deal with, say, $14m deferred I think thats a deal everyone can be happy with. I could even see pushing for $80m if management could defer the difference. I dont know if he could get $20m per season in 2017 dollars but the market is kind of messed up. Sluggers have been severely devalued and pitchers have been cashing in. I think the market will stay that way but it could/should correct itself eventually though.

Was he Chinese? I dont see race. ... seriously though he was Japanese

Kawasaki was not a good baseball player... but I liked having him around. Like mentioned above, he was more cheerleader/mascot than ballplayer though.

Yeah but... How could he be in the best shape of his life if it WASN'T muscle?

you would think so

all of his, and other teams' too! like kluber, carrasco and bauer to name a few. AA liked scouting, there he had a clue, but more to team winning than picking teenagers who arent poo. development shapiro says, thats the key to success. soon u will come around when we are better than the rest.

just looking back and they were both solid deals. maybe beane can still do this gm thing afterall. john jaso + daniel robertson + boog powell for ben zobrist + yunel escobar is good. although quick flipping escobar for clippard was very bad. zobrist for manea + brooks at the deadline is real good