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Oh I don't disagree one bit, but lets not forget Pearce was more valuable in only 383 PA's in 2014 than EE was in any single season of his career. Last year his wRC+ essentially matched EE's, while his BsR and DEF were all better than EE's. It's a MASSIVE 'if', but if you can get 600 PA's out of him, there's a real chance he's as valuable as EE is in 2017. There is a pile of risk involved in relying on that to happen this year, but if the $ we saved on EE is used to fill other holes and add depth to this team, there will be a point where I think it's worth it.

Pedroia seems like a decent candidate to rapidly decline like so many 2nd basemen do in their early to mid 30's. He's been a warrior - beat up so much throughout his career...He's a great player, but you have to start wondering how much longer can he do it...

I'm amazed at how bad of a base runner Pedroia's become. Is the "Travis" listed Sam Travis? Is that who we're talking about?

It's funny how people forget Pearce's wRC+ was the same as EE's last year.

Neither will the charity money... Losing everything in a house fire is an incredible horrible thing - no matter how much money you have. Nobody is debating that...it's whether a pro athletes should be looking for charity $.

We'll that's releasing.

I'm having a pooh. My son just ran up and said Jose is signing with Texas. Is he full of s***? Surely I'm not breaking this story from the john

This new 'thing' you guys are doing pisses me off. Just sayin'

I don't know - but I enjoyed the read

JPA 2.0 Pass

Pretty sure the distance from RF to home is the same as the distance from LF to home (except in fenway)... How many throws to 3rd does a RF unleash a year?

Don't we think guys like Michael Saunders are oblivious to how s***** they are defensively?

I'm with you Term. Never thought about it that way but it makes sense. Strongest arm in RF was the strategy for years. I wonder if your better to put the better defender in LF regardless of arm strength. Now many times do you get to make the throw to 3rd anyway

Did you miss when the FO jumped to sign Morales and Pearce? (For which the media and some fans are grilling them for) It's also evident they went hard after Fowler

How so?

I've always had the same opinion. That said, my best friend just got engaged. He wants a very small wedding with close friends/family only. I'm older now and much more financially stable and for the first time in my life I thought to myself the other day that I'd be all for a destination wedding. He's the last one from our friends group to get married, so maybe it's like the turning of an era and I want to go all out or something. Don't know. To be honest - I'm hoping someone says lets jump on a plane and go somewhere for the bachelor party too. We've done the bach parties in Toronto and Niagara Falls so much now that I'd like a change. New strippers to fondle I guess I skipped out on a couple of my friends weddings now (one destination, one out in Alberta) that would require me to pay a lot of money to attend. If I've perfectly honest, conversations arise about their weddings when the boys all get together and I feel super cheap for not going. Just something to be aware of if you're against destination weddings and are invited by good friends.

#trannylove

Long run from the dugout to first base though!

This is spot on. Valbuena would be a top 5 hitter in the Jays (as things sit today). Valbuena/Pearce + Morales would go a long way to replacing what EE & Jose gave us last year. Valbuena's a poor mans Carlos Santana.

If EE can, Morales can I suspect.

Holy f***.

I know you're just trolling, but DD is not a top 5 player.

The whole premise of the argument was that they shouldn't have signed Morales to DH because JD, Tulo and Martin are going to need time at DH to keep them healthy. You're not going to avoid Morales simply because you want Martin to DH from time to time. If you want to keep Martin fresh, you sign a competent backup catcher and sit Martin more. Heck you could argue there's no reason to "keep" Tulo's bat in the lineup as a DH the way he's hit the past 2 years.

Did David Price actually say positive things about Detroit? That would be sign number 1 that he's full of s***.

Sorry, for some reason your posts have really stood out to me over the past 2-3 weeks and after careful consideration, I've simply come to that conclusion and stated my opinion. You state random opinions all the time, so I trust you understand.