Brownie19

What an embarrassment for baseball. I wonder how much of an impact this has on their inability to attract a younger audience.

That doesn't mean Matt Boyd is good or anything to lose sleep over. As for Tulo - I mean we got 4.1 WAR out of him over his first 172 games with the Jays - for what - say $25M? That's not bad value at all. I must have missed where everyone knew he'd go from a 2.9 WAR season to a 0 WAR season (missing 100 games) to missing all of 2018.

Did people really flag the Tulo trade as a bad move the second it happened? That's not exactly what I remember. I mean s*** luck that Tulo's been hurt so much and truly seems to have regressed a lot, but we also unloaded Jose Reyes at the expense of Jeff Hoffman - who looks like a bust anyway. I suspect there was just as many people questioning the David Price trade and to date, we haven't missed anyone from that trade.

roid rage

I mean that's a great slide - but let's be honest...that's an incredible stupid decision by Baez. I know he put pressure on the defense, but I would guess that 8 times out of 10, he's thrown out at home. With runners on 1st and 3rd and nobody out - you don't take that kind of risk. Reminds me of when I used to cringe when Vince Carter would take a 22 foot fade away...and then make it.

I believe AA used those relievers to secure a f***ton of compensation draft picks.

You know - WAY HIGHER than the guy who's 10th in the majors in WAR right now (for positional players). f*** me.

But didn't payroll drop under AA between 2009 and 2013?

You're right - he's probably too stupid and stubborn to look at stats and accept that he's now s*** at shortstop.

My memory probably isn't that good, but didn't JPR have a decent salary to work with? I mean he wasn't the Yanks or Red Sox, who were spending like crazy at that time, but once JPR left, didn't AA come in, clean house, reduce payroll significantly, rebuild the farm system and produce similar results to JPR? Perhaps by that time, baseball had chance some and teams couldn't just spend to buy talent in the draft. I really hated JPR.

Who the f*** listens to interviews?

For every Rajai Davis who's speed doesn't abandon him, there's 10 more guys like Ben Revere (done at age 28) and Michael Bourn (done at age 30) who fall off the proverbial cliff around age 30.

Sorry, but you're not getting the point. There's also very little proof that lineup protection is real. You may have been drinking the Buck & Tabby tonic too long.

The theory is that his defensive is going to continue to decline has he ages. As soon as that goes, he's a 4th OFer or back in AAA because his bat is simply not improving. He's a 2 WAR player right now who probably won't be by the time Vlad, Bo and the boys are ready to make this team competitive again. You trade him now if you can get anything of value before he turns back into a pumpkin.

We've released Al Alburquerque. He'd limited his walks in AAA this year (as he did for the Royals AAA team last year). A tad surprised we didn't at least give him a look. Perhaps a cost saving measure?

Big assumption that he'd accept a qualifying offer isn't it?

You could probably write a similar story about the Jays, but the Twins have been a mess this year. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-twins-2018-has-been-a-mess/

All in all, I think that would be a pretty good haul for Happ and JD. I'd rather acquire position players than pitchers, but our pitching prospect are definitely a weakness and Burnes, Alzolay and Lange would should help. This also gives us an opportunity to discuss Brett Phillips....when he came over from Houston, he was striking out in the mid to high teens (in A and AA). As soon as he got to Milwaukee, he started striking out 30% of the time. Reminds me a lot of what Teoscar did as soon as he came to the Jays. Coincidence? or is there something to it?

I'm glad I don't follow twitter

Can anyone think of a more baffling demotion? Did the Rockies hire Dave Stewart?

I have no idea what was said - and don't really care, but I could see "spider monkey" being a name that the coaching staff refers to Stumpf by. That doesn't it's a nickname that Stumpf goes by on a regular basis. The example would be I work with a guy who's notoriously cheap. Co-worker may refer to him as "the cheapskate"....like "hey, get cheapskate to find you a deal on shoes - he gets a deal on EVERYTHING" or "cheapskate is going to review that plan".......but nobody calls him that to his face, nor is that a regular nickname for him - so he may have no idea that people refer to him as that. I've worked with a guy who co-workers and even Town staff referred to as "Tomato" because he was a red head who's face when red in the sun. I've also worked with a guy who's initials were M.C. and he was known to be super anal about everything so people called him MC Hammer, which morphed into "the Hammer". But they didn't know people called them that. I don't think there's a major issue with this type of behavior. Maybe it's a little insensitive. Christ - my nickname is "Brownie" and I remember being in LIDS with friends one day. It was just us, plus the LIDS employee, who was middle eastern. My buddy called from across the store to me "hey Brownie - what's that Jays hat cost" and the employee was like "are you talking to me?" I mean we all just burst into laughter and then explained to the guy that my nickname is Brownie. The oddest part is that Bosio refused to apologize. You'd think if it was a misunderstanding that he'd simply apologize, explain who he was talking about and they'd all move on.

1. Vlad 3. Bo 16. Jansen I hope to f*** his justification for such crazy rankings is that he's just returned from the future in his hot tub time machine...

Harris with a nice debut in AAA.