Macsattack

The Jays fans at the twins games are from all over the prairies I'm from Saskatchewan and we met lots of jays fans from all 3 prairie provinces on past trips when we have gone to games in Minnesota. Passion for the Blue Jays and MLB makes a 12 hour car ride more than worth it.

Very unfortunate and sounds like avoidable condolences to the Marlins community and Jose's Family. The Player death that touched me the most was Darryl Kile heart attack and then Girardi heartfelt announcement to Wrigley field that the game was cancelled.

One of the interesting things as we get more data in all pro-sports on the advanced stats side is how do you integrate the eye test in with the numbers. Sinkerballers in baseball would be a really interesting study as part of them being successful is inducing contact(weak contact) which goes against statistical based models favoring maximizing strikeouts. When a strikeout guy is dealing half the guys they face might not even put it in play and on the other hand a groundball guy might generate 75% or more groundball's. There's no right answer as to what is the best and hence why we're 7 pages deep on these tangents.

Gone a little off topic from the two demotions. When the bullpen tosses 9IP there is going to be some collateral damage. Really the only option is to demote your most expendable assets and call up some fresh arms its a long season and the team needs to be put in the best position to win tomorrow. If a mistake were made with Boyd it was the call-up to begin with. Most AAA rosters are positioned with your Depth pieces to fill in for injuries and the jays have some AAA guys with MLB experience in Wolf, Francis, and Doubront. Make no mistake guys like these aren't going to dazzle if they can give you six innings with 3 or 4 runs allowed that might be considered success but they have enough experience to give you 5 innings without imploding which put the team as a whole in a more favorable position.

I hope your trolling the only "Gas" is the heat Sanchez throws. Jo-jo had much different stuff than Sanchez brings to the table. Can you point out some additional f***ing terrible pitchers and let AA know as we could use a few more.

Hey guys like you seem to know it all so if you say so. I'm glad baseball games are decided by who scores the most runs and not by hotly debated analytics carried out on an Internet message board.

After today among AL starters Aaron is 27th in ERA and 35th in IP if this is reality for our 5th starter I'm all in. Seems to be very comfortable pitching at home looking forward to see him pitch in person @ ninny next weekend

Dickey doing exactly what we need from him chewing up innings big time and letting our offense do what it does best!

Two nights in a row keeping the starter in there too long. 40 games into the year like to see a little better feel for the pitching staff.

Next your gonna argue that the sky isn't blue enough or there wasn't enough clouds to block out the sun. Argue until I'm right......

Because I always looked at having some top of the rotation talent is a little bit important in the playoffs

Elaborate how you see a Baseball team be a winner

Thanks I hadn't been insulted yet today. Now that we're moving on from that it takes 27 starts of 6 innings to qualify for the ERA title which isn't that big of task. That's about 40% of starters in the League that fit the 162 innings and 4.50 or less ERA. That's without carving up the list for things like Home park impact on ERA for the guys pitching in the AL west. The top teams win in a couple of ways 1. Having top shelf talent at the front end of the rotation that are well over .500 W/L records and 2. having the back end of the rotation give you innings and be competitive. The jays bigger problem is on the front end of the rotation.