Prepare to be raped on hotels if you're headed down for this series. I went last year and hotels were much much cheaper, not sure if it's because of a weekend series or not. We stayed at the Sheraton in Pike Place for about $180 something a night last year. I'm going to this series as well and had been looking at hotels for 6 months. I typically bid on priceline for 4 stars when I go to major cities but I couldn't get anything remotely close to price or quality of last year. The same class of hotels i booked last year was in the neighbourhood of $300 US + a night. We ended up booking the Residence Inn Lake Union ... all in on my visa it came to $740 CAD for 3 nights. This hotel is in the space needle area which is outside of the area of downtown covered by the Link light rail which brings you right to the stadium.
Smoak should be the regular 1B. If he's playing 1b in the first there's a much greater likelihood the lead off hitter is out and that big inning never happens.
This list is hilariously bad. Half the prospects on that list will prob fizzle out and be nothing but average. Yet you'd rather take that shot than have much more assured 4 or 5 MVP calibre seasons from someone like Donaldson? Shelby Miller at 30 ..... Good god.
"Positively, Encarnacion could be sold as a first baseman, left fielder or right fielder (the same as Bautista, when healthy) and he would be the best hitter available."
ummmm ....what?
My Teksavvy cap is 400 gb and it's really not an issue. You'll never use close to that much just for mlb.tv. If you're downloading a bunch of stuff schedule it for between 2 and 8 AM when it doesn't count against the cap.
You're forgetting about Robinson Travis.
But yes I agree. This lineup needs to be rebuilt to match the projected peak of the Stroman, Norris, Hoffman. By the time the pitching is good enough to contend Bautista and Encarnacion will be on the way out or gone.
I know it's a bit early but say a month from now they're still spinning their tires like they are now. The pitching appears to be coming. I'm thinking the Jays should start considering trading both of these guys with the target of good young position players. What teams would be a match?