Blue Jays Discussion: No longer the off-season. It's time for real baseball

[CatchyTune]

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[theaub]

Yeah good point, it takes 2 to tango. Though more of it is on the owners for me. No one is forcing the owners to hire GMs to hand out these ridiculous contracts. Players cannot make ridiculous money if it isnt originally offered to them by the owners.

Realistically players arent going to refuse more money, but owners can adjust what they are willing to offer. Free market capitalism is how most owners got rich, and it is why owners lose more of "their" money to the players by the way of other owners outbidding each other.

Owners aren't exactly losing money, even with these contracts.

 

[Anthrax442]

Must be hard for MacGuire tonite

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

Must be hard for MacGuire tonite

Relation to Brusdar?

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

 

[canucksfan]

Makes sense, now Adams can be the starting catcher in AAA

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

A player who would fit in well with our prospect pool. Big 6'6 225lb righthander with easy, upper 90s fastball and a wipeout slider.

 

[Dr.Funk]

 

[The Nemesis]

How dare they discriminate against him for being awful at his job. Is there any justice in a world where you your employer has the right to exercise whatever meager amount of repercussions it has available to it in response to your habitual and repetitive inability to properly perform your job to a minimally acceptable standard?

Is this what society is coming to?

 

[Canada4Gold]

How dare they discriminate against him for being awful at his job. Is there any justice in a world where you your employer has the right to exercise whatever meager amount of repercussions it has available to it in response to your habitual and repetitive inability to properly perform your job to a minimally acceptable standard?

Is this what society is coming to?

It's definitely a clear example of Ineptisism. MLB should be ashamed of themselves for discriminating against the incompetent.

 

[The Nemesis]

It's definitely a clear example of Ineptisism. MLB should be ashamed of themselves for discriminating against the incompetent.

Stupid people are people too.

 

[canucksfan]

Glad they're playing it safe with Springer. With Grichuk as the 4th outfielder, and Rowdy/Jansen as your other botton end opening day lineup players(who are league average players) there's no reason to take the chance on him making the injury worse. Get back to 100%, we'll be fine for the short term. The pitching worries me more. Zeuch going in the 3rd game against the Yankees is an interesting call.

That's confirmed?

 

[Canada4Gold]

That's confirmed?

Not 100% confirmed no but the reported plan. Hopefully it's Zeuch for 3, followed by Thornton for 3

 

[hoc123]

Glad they're playing it safe with Springer. With Grichuk as the 4th outfielder, and Rowdy/Jansen as your other botton end opening day lineup players(who are league average players) there's no reason to take the chance on him making the injury worse. Get back to 100%, we'll be fine for the short term. The pitching worries me more. Zeuch going in the 3rd game against the Yankees is an interesting call.

My guess is they don’t want Matz and Roark with their home run issues pitching in Yankee Stadium, better to let the ground ball pitcher face the Yankees than let them face the Rangers.

 

[shaner8989]

Played the race card and lost. Guys a complete pos.... and a terrible umpire

 

[shaner8989]

So pumped for 1pm tomorrow

let’s go jays

 

[TheTotalPackage]

How dare they discriminate against him for being awful at his job. Is there any justice in a world where you your employer has the right to exercise whatever meager amount of repercussions it has available to it in response to your habitual and repetitive inability to properly perform your job to a minimally acceptable standard?

Is this what society is coming to?

Yes, yes it has.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

So pumped for 1pm tomorrow

let’s go jays

One benefit of work from home — work on one screen, the game on the other.

 

[Epictetus]

Heyman says Lindor and Mets have a deal.
10-year deal for about $340M.

 

[dredeye]

Lindor got a ten year deal from the Mets. I guess it wasn’t that much of an impass. 10yrs 341

 

[Canada4Gold]

Wise of Lindor to take it. He's a stud but I'm not sure he was getting much more if any on the open market in the offseason. I keep hearing about how the Mets have no room left under the Luxury Tax threshold and have a ton of guys to sign and then they just keep signing guys. I guess they plan to go over, because they're still loaded with guys who's contracts expire at the end of the year

 

[GreytWun]

Good player but too much. Happy Jays didn’t get him because we wouldn’t offer that kind of money.

 

[as Pure as Evil]

for that price id rather lock down our core for the next 8 years

 

[Eyedea]

I just took in that Lindor is with the same agency that dropped the ball on Ozzie Albies. Granted one was pre-arb vs expiring FA, but 10/341m vs 9/45m just seems absurd.

 

[canucksfan]

One thing I hate about opening day, the games are almost always early, and I have to avoid all news outlets to not see the score.