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The Jays better send him to Buffalo to work on his command to start the season, I think about a week or so should be just about perfect.
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I'd like to get a look at Borucki as well.
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
max silver replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Bro you ain't Rambo tough until you cauterize a wound with gunpowder. After scaling a cliff with your bare hands. -
He likely already received the intended message with his immediate demotion to first base upon the resumption of training camp. The club shaming him like you are proposing would have exactly zero value to the player or the organization.
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Nothing that would help inspire confidence and get a young players bat going faster than stapling him to the bench.
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Ryan Borucki and Patrick Murphy are two guys I'm going to cheer extra hard for given the hell they've each gone through injury wise through their young careers. I think both guys have solid mid rotation potential if everything clicks for them.
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Gurriel has truly massive potential. I love the fact that he was basically learning how to play left field for the first time in his career, and despite that he was still making gold glove quality plays out there on a regular basis. Once he's fully adjusted and doesn't have to play so shallow his defensive metrics are likely going to explode. I'm just hoping the barrage of leg injuries doesn't start robbing him of his speed too much.
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I take serious offence to the moustache comment in the tweet, my mother's moustache is something to be properly respected.
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Definitely doesn't sound like a guy you should sign for more than a year at a time, that would make for great motivation for him to actually put in some effort instead of just coasting on his natural talent.
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Thornton finished his 2019 season on a real nice roll all through September. At least some of that success was likely due to him being deployed as a bulk guy, that very well may be one of his most valuable roles due to his ability to soak up some innings while missing a good number of bats. You just don't want him seeing the top of the lineup three times due to his propensity to give up the long ball.
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Yeah Conine is a really intriguing prospect. He's one of the guys I was really disappointed to see losing a full season because he said he was working super hard in the off-season to reduce his strikeouts.
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When a player establishes a bad reputation over many years to the point an organization gives up on him it's a very hard thing to fix.
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Articles like the following outline why I don't think the Jays should go near a guy like Puig. https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2015/12/11/former-teammate-on-yasiel-puig-he-is-the-worst-person-ive-ever-seen-in-this-game-ever/
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
max silver replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Seeing as how Shulman lives in Toronto he is a perfectly obvious choice to call Jays games. Hopefully that won't just be a 2020 thing, Shulman and Buck is world's better than Buck and Pat. I suspect Shulman and Joe Siddal would make for a top notch broadcast team if they decided to go that route. -
Stroman really started to fly off the rails when Mark Buehrle left the Jays, the guy was able to keep Stroman's ego in check rather effectively.
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Yeah he'd likely be forced to accept a minor league invitation at best for next season if he doesn't prove he's bounced back this year.
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I use ublock origin adblocker on firefox and chrome desktop versions and have no issues with ads. I still get an annoying banner that loads at the top of the screen imploring me to subscribe on every page, but it's just a minor nuisance. Chrome on android seems fine too, there are some pretty big ads interspersed in between the stats but I don't find the ads to be intrusive.
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It's hard to see how a player could win a service time grievance under the current rules. Kris Bryant was the perfect textbook case of service time manipulation and he still lost his grievance. The real punishment for the Jays would be guys like Andrew Stoeten whinging incessantly about what a grand disservice has been done to the game of baseball for having Pearson miss one start during a pandemic shortened season.
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Sadly despite the outstanding physical tools Alford possesses he's at the point where I think that Jonathan Davis is his likely ceiling. And he's unlikely to even reach that ceiling now.
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For guys like Martin who just pulled in a $7 million bonus it seems doubtful that the small salary increase would really factor in much if at all to him signing with the Jays. For guys like the undrafted free agents and later round picks (in normal draft years) the extra wages would likely be more on an enticement.
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These moves are pretty to criticize in hindsight, but there was simply no way that the Jays were going to be trading Happ or Osuna when they were still trying to compete. When you add on the extenuating circumstances, especially in the case of Osuna the return was easier to justify. Let's say Osuna doesn't get accused of spousal abuse and suddenly the return is much better. All things considered getting back Giles was a reasonable return, it's too bad his elbow was acting up right before the deadline. The Happ trade though is pretty hard to justify the garbage return for a rebuilding team, some lottery ticket prospects at least would have had the opportunity to turn into something down the road.
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Those trades were largely acquiring decent value for players and prospects of minimal value. Really the only guy they traded away in those trades that has any value at all right now is Aledmys Diaz, so to expect to receive potential superstars in return for these trades is pretty wishful thinking. Once the farm system is fully ripened and stocked with prospects I think we are going to start seeing some actual impact trades, with the large stock of catching and infield prospects eventually there won't be enough spots on the diamond to go around for all of them, and this will setup some very interesting possible future trades for established major league players.
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The timing of the Happ trade wasn't necessarily the team's fault similar to the Osuna trade. The Jays had no control over Happ sucking balls leading up to the trade deadline, or Osuna beating up his girlfriend. Even the Donaldson situation was chock full of bad luck on the Jays part, you can't blame the team for him showing up to spring training with a dead arm or subsequently blowing up his calf and missing most of the season.
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I saw a hilarious suggestion for Marlins fans to sell cardboard cutouts of empty seats instead of cardboard cutouts of fans since nobody actually goes to their games.
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max silver replied to TheHurl's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I fully applaud this move. I actually lurked on this board for several years before joining because I didn't like the combative tone and constant fighting and bickering. Then when I finally joined years later I ventured into the off topic section of the forum and almost instantly found myself right in the middle of all of the fighting and bickering.