Brownie19

Jays sign Chris Coglan to a minor league deal. He will report to AAA. Coglan and Upton make a pretty nice platoon in LF

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/fangraphs-2017-staff-predictions/ fangraphs picks

WBC injury! As a fan - this is too bad. He seemed to be throwing as good as he ever had. Big loss for the M's in a tight division.

But how can you put a price on the leadership and intangibles he brings to the diamond? Maybe he doesn't pee on people either. That's worth a lot to some people.

Meh - I'm just a little sensitive to how sensitive people are. Pranks are inappropriate behavior. That's the fundamental premise behind a good prank. Society seems destine to outlaw everything because some small % of the population gets offended - and then expects someone else to police that activity. To then go on about how you'd get fired or arrested if you did those things at work? c'mon. There's a laundry list of things which are perfectly normal and part of the locker room culture, which you obviously can't do at work (or outside the locker room). We've banned all pink backpacks from MLB. What a f***ing joke. What if you actually like the colour pink (it was my wedding colour FWIW)? Like seriously, we ban pink backpacks from baseball - yet we allow religion to remain? Stupid. FWIW - I do think s***ing in the chili is crossing the line. But you guys are assuming a lot. Nobody said he s*** in the chili, nor did they say anyone actually ate the chili. They said he s*** on a cake once (which is super gross, but obviously everyone sees the s*** and doesn't eat the cake) and thus someone assumed that might be what he did to the chili. For all we know, he told someone not to eat the chili with a smirk on his face and that blew up into an urban legend. Baseball is a super long season. I'm all for guys having a little fun with each other throughout the year.

The best is how they now offer the 59fifty low crown hats....

I take offense to that BTS. That's unacceptable behavior. If you said that to me at work, you could be fired or charged/arrested for mocking my sexual fetishes.

Sorry man, but you sound like you're the guy leading the petition to have initiation pranks banned from high school and university. Is the Jays tradition of having a rookie reliever carry around a pink knapsack all year bullying too? Noting the pranks are unacceptable behavior and comparing them to a real life job came off as SJW work to me. boys + men on sports teams have been pranking each other since the dawn of time. If you don't like it, or think the guy crossed the line, you punch him in the face and move on - or you prank him back.

Did you miss the part where he was a serial liar who would make things up just to get a rise out of people? I don't doubt he tainted the chili, but with pranksters - you never know. Pissing on people in the shower has been a locker room antic since the dawn of time man. Don't get all SJW.

That's awesome. I loved this comment: Bacon, I had a buddy I played ball with who went to high school with his daughter. He met Greg for the first time at pictures before a dance, and asked him for some baseball advice. Greg told him “Throwing a change-up is a lot like fingering a girl. You’ve gotta try a bunch of different grips and angles, but once you get it right, it’s lethal.” That’s a helluva piece of knowledge

LOL - that's amazing.

Napoli for $8.5M? Barf.

Probably not. You have to be able to throw to play in the CFL. He might have been able to turn himself into a decent TE if he committed to that.

Really?

I don't know how you describe LF and 1st base as horrible situations without acknowledging that Pearce should fill one of those spots - and he's not horrible, he's really good. If you're ignoring Pearce because you're concerned he can't play a full season - then you should add 2nd base into the list of "horrible situations".

Maybe it's a check swing...

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/taijuan-walker-springs-most-improved-starter/ There's a picture of the 10 bone spurs they removed from Walker's ankle this offseason. That's kinda nasty.

Remember when he was a sure-fire HOFer? Unfortunately it's been hard to watch over the past 3 years.

or Dallas Keuchel

easy there SJW.

If you're in a league where Bird is either a sleeper, or on the FA list. You need to find a new league.

Profar seems like a decent lottery ticket too...

This is what Mike Podhorzer has to say about A-a-ron Sanchez... On the other hand, Aaron Sanchez has become the 2017 version of 2016 Dallas Keuchel. The extreme groundballer with a low BABIP that everyone is falling all over themselves to try justifying as sustainable because he just looks so darn good on the mound. Except that he doesn’t induce pop-ups, and allowed a Soft% and Hard% barely better than the league average. If he was such a weak contact king, it should appear in some stat that isn’t BABIP. So I’m not believing it, and paired with his average strikeout rate, expect his ERA to rise toward his 4.00+ SIERA.

I suspect Grant would disagree.

No matter how you put it - 50+ career WAR!