Statman

I agree with your sentiment.

Beane has gone full derp. First the Cespedes trade for a rental pitcher. Signing Billy Butler and then shipping out Donaldson for an injury prone 3rd baseman who is nowhere near as good as and a bunch of meh prospects.

Uhhhh yeah!

This trade is surreal. In what world do you get a premier, top 5 player overall in baseball who is still young, has a cheap contract, stays healthy and is under control for 4 years without having to give up a an elite player/prospect(s) in return. The only thing elite about Lawries game is his defense. The Jays are getting a superstar. Unbelievable! AA for executive of the year!

Not only is AA winning dat WAR, he is improving dat team chemistry without having Lind, Gose and Lawrie in the clubhouse.

Alex is back baby! This is one of the greatest moves by a GM in the history of the sport and the irony is IMO AA fleeced Beane. It's a ballsy trade on AA's part too because of the negative reaction it can have with the casual fanbase (Canadian, Merchandise etc).

This is a sign that Alex Anthopolous is executing my off season plan to almost my exact standards. Bwahahahahah! I called these sets of moves a while back. Make it happen AA!

Why do you only disclose his last two years? What his injury history discloses even up to this year is CHRONIC lower back problems even as a part time player which has reduced his workload at least 50% over the last two years. That is a major red flag. Chronic back problems makes Lind very high risk for injury EVERY YEAR especially if he is playing 1st base on a part time basis. His injury history throughout his career supports that too.

Not really. Lind is a back ache away from going on an extended DL stint who hinders payroll and roster flexibility in favour of hitting for afridge against RHP the last two years.

If this is AA's way of blowing his load on his bullpen fetish for 2014 I'm ok with that.

I willing to bet that GM's around the league viewed Lind's salary as another major deterrent that killed return for him

Agree.Shedding Lind, Rasmus, Morrow, McGowan, Janssen and Santos is actually a sign to me that AA knows what he is doing. I also expect some surprising moves that will greatly improve this team.

We don't know it was the first offer. What is the market for an injury prone platoon player, that plays the least valuable defensive position, that is on the wrong side of 30 anyways?

I'm betting we won't.

Lind - Gone Santos - Gone Morrow - Gone Janssen - Gone McGowan - Gone I like all these moves from AA thus far and it would be the same moves I would have made, but my rational for clearing this dead weight off the current roster and who I would add in return will probably end up being very different than what AA has in mind.

The Hater's Guide To Derek Jeter I missed the All-Jeter Game last night but I'm told it was an emotional Jeterball game in which Derek Jeter jetered a few hits and saved 12 babies that fell from the stands and mowed the outfield so that you could see a crucifix pattern in the grass. There was also a small Jeterversy in which Adam Jeterwright laid down for Derek Jeter (who hasn't?!) and let him get off an extra Jeter for old Jeter's sake. And with that, I think I've had enough Derek Jeter for the next 80 lifetimes. You don't need to be from Boston to feel the primal urge to run up to your rooftop and cry out f*** DEREK JETER as loudly as possible. Not anymore. Derek Jeter can eat a bag of dicks, and here are a few reasons why. 1. Only an ******* gives himself a one-year retirement tour. Jeter's all-star appearance last night was treated like a simultaneous memorial for eight cancer kids, even though he still has three more months of baseball to play and people give precisely zero f***s about the all-star game. OH MY GOD IT'S HIS LAST MEANINGLESS LONG WEEKEND VACATION EXHIBITION TELL YOUR GRANDKIDS. If Jeter really were Mr. Classy, he would have just up and left at the end of last season. Instead, we get a full season of breathless Jeter farewell coverage, like a retirement party for an insufferable brown-nosing co-worker, only the party lasts half a year and they've barred the exits to Ballroom C at the Best Western so you can't leave. If you wanna retire, retire. 2. Derek Jeter is a living incarnation of New York City's worst ideas about itself. I lived in New York for six years and living in New York means you get to treat the rest of the country like it's the kiddie table at cocktail party. "Oh, Chicago? Go have a seat with Dallas and Denver over in the corner." Jeter is the perfect delivery vessel for that very specific brand of provincial arrogance. If he had played in Houston, he would have been Craig Biggio Jr. and we would have been spared all this s***. In New York, only New York matters, and so Derek Jeter gets treated as the only baseball player who matters by a cadre of slobbering New York writers who still wish athletes would get shitfaced with newspapermen at Toots Shor's. You people from outside of New York should pay proper reverence to Jeter, but NEVER forget that he's not yours. You are meant to worship New York's prize possession from afar. I'm surprised you can't buy pieces of him at the 9/11 museum. There's this old theory that making it in New York is still a more authoritative kind of success than making it somewhere else (even though people can now work from basically anywhere). Not every athlete can cut it in NEW YORK. Oooh, the papers there are mean and stuff! It takes real backbone not to pick up a copy of the New York Post. And so Jeter is a living embodiment of New York's self-proclaimed higher standards. Jeter made it in New York, therefore he is better and stronger and braver than everyone else. It's grade inflation. 3. He's a useful front for all the horrible s*** the Yankees do. The Yankees can strong-arm fans who have to piss during "God Bless America," and they can bully the city into ponying up a billion for a new stadium, and they can do this in part because they can just roll out Jeter anytime they like as an ambassador of some kind of fabled Yankee Way. Look at those eyes and tell me Hank Steinbrenner doesn't deserve an extra hundred million in cable fees. For all the supposed tenacity of the New York media and fans, they'll gladly give a free pass to any Yankee ******* who wins them a few ballgames. 4. He embodies every horrible stereotype about what an athlete is supposed to be. Athletes who go from one team to another are disloyal. And they're not supposed to talk, or get caught showing their dick on Instagram, or test positive for 'roids, or any of that. Athletes are supposed to be magical unicorns who materialize from a f***ing cornfield and cause sportswriters to burst into uncontrollable epileptic fits of purple prose. Jeter gets a world of credit simply for not being anything. He is a blank canvas on which you get to fingerpaint all your stupid armchair analysis and expectations. That guy … that guy I barely know … he does it the RIGHT WAY. The worst, most childish thing about sports is the undying notion that the games are an apparatus of moral justice, that Jeter wins because he does things the right way. This overlooks not only the entire history of organized sports, but also the facts of Jeter's own career, which has featured the sort of pettiness and groupie-banging that would typically consign a ballplayer to the media shitlist. 5. ESPN. Once ESPN finds a pet monkey like Jeter or Tim Tebow to work the street organ, they'll make that f***er grind until it's just a pile of hair on the sidewalk. Derek Jeter could invent the hoverboard and I'd still hate his guts because ESPN forces him on me every half second. As with Tebow and LeBron, Derek Jeter now serves as a perpetual talking point. "Did anything happen today? Let's just say the name JETER for an hour." Jeter is just like any football team that becomes insufferable to you merely for its consistent run of attention. This isn't really Jeter's fault. He didn't build the s***-eating machine around him. But hey, tough f***ing titty. He's Derek Jeter. He should be able to handle it. So f*** him and f*** the Yankees. http://deadspin.com/the-hater-s-guide-to-derek-jeter-1605937020

That thread was gold in hindsight.

Well it took 2/3 of an inning for that deleted Jose Reyes thread to come to fruition.

Tony LaRusa, John Farrell, living in a big city, firing Motolla, playing on turf. It's not his fault.

This is what happens Colby when you are a high strikeout, dead pull hitter. The whole purpose of the shift is to take away hard hit balls to the pull side. So it's not the fact that you are unlucky, you are just not very good.

The Stro Show of course. Pecking order in the playoffs would be: Stroman, Buerhle, Hutch, Dickey

d`Arnaud is garbage. Navarro on the other hand can be an everyday player as a serviceable DH and 2nd catcher. The Jays need Russell Martin BAD!

The last thing the Toronto Blue Jays organization should worry about is catering to their opponents.

The Cardinals message board has a huge hard on for Tony and Colby Rasmus.

Russell Martin is a FA correct? This would be my plan. Take that 7.5 mill from Lind and make it a priority to sign Russell Martin. Thole is DFA'd and Navarro becomes the DH and backup catcher.