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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. -
I've also seen it suggested that the long term slog and financial sacrifice required for many players to even make the majors is a factor as well. For the elite black athletes they can step straight out of college onto an NFL football field or NBA basketball court, so for the poor inner city athlete the idea of toiling in the minor leagues as a career choice to be paid below poverty level wages isn't much of a way to raise themselves and by association their families out of poverty.
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I see you've decided to go by the "if you can't beat them join them" motto. 😁
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If all the old fat out of shape baseball umpires were told to stay home I don't think there wouldn't be anybody left to call the games.
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Stay classy Connor.
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I would guess the 0.341% describes the Jays total playoff chance this year given the difficulty of their schedule.
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The Jays have plenty to offer a young draftee as well, the organization is emerging as leaders in innovative training and coaching techniques, have a lot of very high end young talent, and are getting closer and closer to contention. The Jays have finally started to thaw out the frosty relationship with Boras after years of doing no business together, so it seems like it would be short sighted for Boras to throw all of this away over a few hundred thousand dollars.
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
max silver replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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The Jays system is flush with really interesting pitching prospects right now, the current front office has done an awesome job stockpiling high ceiling young arms. What are your thoughts on Kendall Williams?
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How would you compare him with Eric Pardinho in terms of raw stuff and pitchability?
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Fair enough good sir, I shall attempt to keep the partisan sniping to appropriate venues.
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It's a pretty weird insult considering the western provinces are basically the countries most conservative regions politically.
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That's a pretty cool study, for those that haven't read the results it found that: -when contacting the sweet spot metal exit velocity outperformed wood by 8.3% -When missing the sweet spot, the bats performed similarly with metal outperforming wood by only 1.4%. -Batters were able to contact the sweet spot 57% of the time with the metal bats. This value for wood was over 10% lower at 45%. This correlates to the metal bats having a larger sweet spot as it is easier to hit.
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How do the modern aluminum bats being used by college players tend to compare with wooden bats for exit velocities? I'm just wondering if this is an apples to apples comparison.
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I can totally see the Jays getting screwed over by scheduling this year. They will have to play the majority of their games against Boston, Tampa Bay and New York, then they'll likely end up getting screwed over and having to play a bunch of games against the Braves and Phillies as well.
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Think of the massive surge of excitement the old school dinosaurs would get to experience with the upswing in small ball tactics. If there's anything that can be counted on to bring new fans to the sport it's absolutely the unparalleled excitement of bunts and sacrifice flies.
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This shows how tenuous the situation is with having baseball at all this season, both spring training states of Florida and Arizona are having sharp increases in coronavirus cases recently.
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I think expanding playoffs would likely be good for the overall health of baseball as it would provide incentive for more teams to actually attempt to compete instead of tanking.
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We could maybe wait until Martin has even a single professional at bat before we start directly comparing him to a hall of famer.