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GDT: White Sox @ Blue Jays 1:07 EST Game 2 of 3
Bobthe4th replied to Spanky99's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
It took a low bounce off the turf - JD can't have been expecting that. -
GDT: White Sox @ Blue Jays 1:07 EST Game 2 of 3
Bobthe4th replied to Spanky99's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
It's Maile behind the plate. -
GDT: White Sox @ Blue Jays 1:07 EST Game 2 of 3
Bobthe4th replied to Spanky99's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
No chance of .500 today = we should win! By the way this is the free game of the day on MLB.tv everyone. -
Yeah exactly. If we still had Hoffman and Norris now but had missed the playoffs the last two years we'd be half way through a rebuild as the new FO office would have torn it down completely.
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Those trades also turned us in to one of the best teams in baseball for 2 seasons, gave us the best Blue Jays season in 20 years, and has left us two years later in a position where we can still make the playoffs via the wildcard and have enough good young players and prospects that a full rebuild isn't necessary. It was a gamble - and you're right without AA's contract situation it would never had happened - but that gamble worked.
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I doubt it. I don't think you can separate the trades, we went all in. Once one trade was made, the other had to be. Reyes was a black hole on defense at SS and was going to cost us important games in the run in.
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That makes sense.
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General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Bobthe4th replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He's a lock for the 2018 rotation. Stroman, Sanchez, Biagini - that's the majority of a talented, young, controllable rotation for the next few years. -
Ahh I see. Well chances are he won't work out at the big league level anyway, but you never know maybe he can be Biagini Mark 2.
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Except as a rule 5 pick he has to stay on the 25 man all year once he's off the DL - no chance he does that as a starter. That's if we want to keep him of course. We could just send him back.
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Glenn Sparkman at double A for rehab. He's close to getting the next shot in the bullpen (because he's a rule 5 pick) though for some reason he's been starting.
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I wanted him as a relatively cheap signing with upside in the summer. So yeah why not?
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General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Bobthe4th replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah Gurriel's flexibility would be an asset right now. TBF this season would always have been a rush, but if he'd been fit and done OK we could have seen him. -
General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Bobthe4th replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Brett Laurie is still a free agent. That's about as good as you'll get without a trade, and there's no guarantee he'd be any better than a Goins/Barney tandem anyway. -
An important question for the Orioles - does Zach Britton come back from injury in time to prove his fitness and get a trade haul at the deadline?
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Yeah the Yankees are better earlier than expected and will prob fall back a bit this season, but get better in future years. Meanwhile we've been hit by injuries, Travis is a real kick in the teeth for us.
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No it isn't because paying over the odds would make it harder to fill out the rest of the roster while staying below the salary cap to allow new signings. This "super" contract has a non cap element which makes it different.
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No because crucially one "super" contract per team means more chance of the stars being distributed between the teams. If you've already got one star, you can't offer another a competitive contract versus a team without one.
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Tangentially related - Jay Bruce is actually doing OK this season - currently with the highest wRC+ of his career and a WAR of 1.5 which is already his best for 4 years. Trying to sign Bruce and the contract for Smoak are probably the 2 most criticised decisions this FO has made, but we really should just trust them from this point on!
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While the Yankees have obviously been better than us so far this season, I respectfully disagree that their lineup is "a lot better" than ours talent wise. They've had quite a few players doing better than expected, we've have quite a few either doing worse or being injured. Our rotation is better than theirs, and they've prob got a slight edge on relievers. Overall I don't think that there's a big gap between us.
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That actually sounds like it could work if the next CBA could include it. You'd still have the risk that players would group together to form a Miami / GSW superteam, but in theory every team could have a superstar. It wouldn't even need to be unlimited, for someone like LeBron winning is probably more important than doubling his salary. But if say Dallas could offer $10m more a year to a Chris Paul than another team who already has a star, and still have the cap space to build a team around him, then that could encourage competition.
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That's interesting. I don't think there is much talent difference between the Yankees, Red Sox and us. Injuries will probably have the biggest effect on the final positions, but our historic bad start means that a wildcard is likely the best we can realistically hope for.
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It feels that way because of the series that just finished, but they're 5-7 versus the Yankees overall.
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14 - 4 vs the Jays, White Sox, Reds and Pirates - who are all bottom of their divisions (except the Reds who are one loss above the Pirates). 17 - 27 against everyone else.
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There's a pretty good chance both wildcards will come from the AL East. Long way to go though as your previous post shows well!
