Blue Jays Discussion: It's here! it's here! it's here! it's here! Baseball season begins!(WARNING:post 728)

[Tony Romo]

Mookie is a CF for sure. Also dabbles at 2B, if I recall correctly. Regardless, when I made the statement on scarcity, I still believe there are more well rounded CF than there are well rounded 2B. Though things have improved over the last couple years around baseball.

what would your top ten be at each position?

 

[Tony Romo]

One of the crazier things I saw yesterday and wasn't sure about was that Bryce Harper is younger than Kris Bryant.....

 

[TF97]

Smoak in the lineup

 

[Muston Atthews]

Papi with a double and a dinger in his first game. Damn

 

[Muston Atthews]

And Hanley pimps a would be double into a single

 

[Canada4Gold]

Betances gives up 2 walks, 1 hit and 3 runs(none earned). Great start to the year for the Yankees pen

 

[Canada4Gold]

The runs were unearned because of a Betances throwing error. So basically they were all his fault anyway, even if they were unearned

 

[Tony Romo]

Betances gives up 2 walks, 1 hit and 3 runs(none earned). Great start to the year for the Yankees pen

I'm surprised his arm is still working.

 

[Muston Atthews]

The runs were unearned because of a Betances throwing error. So basically they were all his fault anyway, even if they were unearned

******** is what it is. Playing a guy in fantasy with Betances

 

[Discoverer]

Betances gives up 2 walks, 1 hit and 3 runs(none earned). Great start to the year for the Yankees pen

And this is why we don't use ERA.

 

[Diamond Joe Quimby]

what would your top ten be at each position?

In terms of value? i.e. expected production + cost
1. Kipnis
2. Altuve

3. Pedroia
4. Panik
5. The zombified corpse of Cano
6. Gordon
7. Forsythe
8. Travis
9. Kinsler
10. Odor
HM: Blanco (PHI), the Zombified corpse of Zobrist

1. No doubt
2. McCutchen
3. Lorenzo "Herman" Cain

4. Betts
5. Yelich
6. Pollock
7. Jones
8. Grichuk
9. Eaton
10. Kiermeier\Pillar\Herrera

 

[Tony Romo]

Cano was pretty good for the second half of the season last year.

Also anyone see the Hazel Mae and Barry Bonds interview?

 

[Muston Atthews]

Tim and Sid just made this point but I've been meaning to say this: Jays do well and it's all on the players, Jays do crappy this year it's all on Mark Shapiro and Ross Atkins

 

[RayzorIsDull]

In terms of value? i.e. expected production + cost
1. Kipnis
2. Altuve

3. Pedroia
4. Panik
5. The zombified corpse of Cano
6. Gordon
7. Forsythe
8. Travis
9. Kinsler
10. Odor
HM: Blanco (PHI), the Zombified corpse of Zobrist

1. No doubt
2. McCutchen
3. Lorenzo "Herman" Cain

4. Betts
5. Yelich
6. Pollock
7. Jones
8. Grichuk
9. Eaton
10. Kiermeier\Pillar\Herrera

Dozier?

 

[Diamond Joe Quimby]

Dozier?

If he's 2014 Dozier, he's somewhere in the muddy 7-10. If he's 2015 Dozier, he's maybe 12th or 13th.

 

[Discoverer]

Tim and Sid just made this point but I've been meaning to say this: Jays do well and it's all on the players, Jays do crappy this year it's all on Mark Shapiro and Ross Atkins

Pretty much. If they win it's because they inherited a great team. If they lose it's because they didn't add enough to it.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

This is a team that was in the ALCS last year...so I don't think that opinion is too crazy.

OTOH, I like they got Estrada and Happ. This team, right now, doesn't need a Price to win games.

 

[The Nemesis]

Pretty much. If they win it's because they inherited a great team. If they lose it's because they didn't add enough to it.

I think what you meant to say is that if they lose, it's because Shapiro engineered the lost season so that he could tear the roster down and rebuild it in his own mediocre Cleveland image.

 

[Eyedea]

In terms of value? i.e. expected production + cost
1. Kipnis
2. Altuve

3. Pedroia
4. Panik
5. The zombified corpse of Cano
6. Gordon
7. Forsythe
8. Travis
9. Kinsler
10. Odor
HM: Blanco (PHI), the Zombified corpse of Zobrist

Kinsler > Forsythe

 

[dredeye]

In 2015, we were 27th in team save %: http://www.sportingcharts.com/mlb/stats/team-save-percentage/2015/

It feels good to finally have a solid bullpen; we've got three "closer" caliber guys.

We had two of three of them last year. I'm not sure if that's blown saves or what but we likely had a lot less save opportunities last year. We were blowing out games regularly which removed a lot of opportunities.

 

[Tony Romo]

Barry Bonds speaking facts

 

[The Nemesis]

Gdt open

 

[trellaine201]

Cano was pretty good for the second half of the season last year.

Also anyone see the Hazel Mae and Barry Bonds interview?

Gosh bonds hasn't changed, he's so annoying and obnoxious. Hope he never makes the hall!

 

[Canada4Gold]

Wait, the Yankees played todays game under protest because the ump didn't think Correa was running inside the baseline on the Betances throwing error? Yeah he clearly was, but that's obviously a judgement call, which you can't protest. Why even bother? And why did the ump let them protest after last year in the playoffs the ump told Gibby it wasn't something we could protest(when I still think it was)

Most of these protests are screwed up calls where teams can legitimately argue that it wasn't a judgement call(and MLB will just say it was but whatever). Here it was obviously a judgement call. I don't even see how the Yankees could argue it wasn't

Yankees: "In the 8th there, you missed that judg..... I mean you messed up because you didn't know the rules or something"

 

[Muston Atthews]

Gosh bonds hasn't changed, he's so annoying and obnoxious. Hope he never makes the hall!

Lol.