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  1. jimmer
    yeah, it's pretty hard to fault the Blue jays offensively. Far and away the most runs scored in the AL (by 130 runs or so), 4th lowest K% in the AL,, a team wRC+ 10 points higher than the #2 team in the AL in wRC+, and the best OBP in AL (12 points over #2). All while having an average BABIP. But going strictly by 'clutch' number, we're 2nd in the AL in clutch hitting while Toronto ranks 7th. Meaning we are getting the most out of the talent on our offense while the Blue Jays could be even more of a dominate offensive force :-)
  2. jimmer
    Some thought the rotation would be really good this year because of 2015. Used the same kind of argument. Anyway, to answer the question, for me, that's a yes. It really is tough to envision a combo of those pitchers being a decent rotation. -May is very likely going to stay a reliever. Even if that changes, it's going to take time to get him ready for the rotation again. -Berrios doesn't look close, not sure he'll be really ready next year. -Santiago? No. -Gibson? No. -Duffey? No. -Santana? Yes And without know what Dozier would get back, that part is incomplete. That's a very shaky list of options to roll with. There's a whole lot of no's in there and the look back to rotation 2015 as a hope it might be good in 2017 is flawed. The same rotation that was decent for part of 2015 was almost the same rotation that was horrible in 2014. So while keeping the one pitcher we should be able to reasonably count on can seem appealing, when looking at the talent on this team and remembering we're likely going to lose 100 games this year even with him on the roster (and performing well), might as well trade him and hope to get younger guys in that will help in the future.
  3. jimmer
    Exactly. I'm trying to figure out how it'd be bad to trade Dozier and Santana because it'd be seen as giving up on next season (as if having them is preventing us from losing 100 games this year anyway), but then doing things like trading prospects for established quality players, which might hasten our return to contention, would also be bad. It's not like option three, go crazy in FA, is going to be the route taken.
  4. jimmer
    Now Mauer is clogging the bases? Really? Wow. Does this guy even deserve to be on a MLB team at this point? Mauer is not a negative on the basepads. He's right at average for a MLB baserunner (because it's more than just speed that makes a baserunner good).. On our current roster, Kepler, Rosario, Dozier, Escobar and Grossman are rated better base-runners. That's five guys. Of those five guys, Escobar and Grossman aren't really regulars. Of those five only Grossman, gets on base at a higher clip (and again, not really a regular any more). None of the other four are within even 30 OBP points of Mauer (most not even close). Two of those guys have sub .300 OBP. Do we want the guy with a .376 OBP getting less PAs? This guy doesn't.
  5. jimmer
    Gisbon may have been a solid starter last year (mostly for one month), but there were signs he was trending down (like his ERA of 5.22 in the 2nd half). It's why I kept saying towards the end of last season and early offseason that we should trade him while he was still looking decent because this year we were likely to see him perform quite a bit worse. Admittedly, I didn't expect him to be THIS bad (yet he is somehow still our second best starter in a rotation that was so talented it didn't have room for May)
  6. jimmer
    Yes, A thousand times yes!
  7. jimmer
    For what a team gets out of Santana, he is under-paid. There's value in getting a pitcher of that quality for two years at 28M (two years at 13.5 plus 1M buyout). In the last 6 seasons, he's missed out on being worth at least 18M once, and that was last year when he was suspended.
  8. jimmer
    I should have given the link when I stated what I did. My bad.
  9. jimmer
    Exactly. Doing a rebuild often hurts. And it's not like having Dozier and Santana has stopped us from the very real possibility of having 100+ loses. Some seem so committed to trading off vets for prospects, except the good vets that might actually net us prospects worthwhile. The fact that we are a ways off and guys like Dozier and Santana are really good is exactly why you trade them. Need to trade for more youngsters that will hopefully be good whenever the time comes when we are actually relevant again.
  10. jimmer
    Dozier has done really well batting first, but even better batting 4th and 5th (though batting 5th has a pretty small sample size).
  11. jimmer
    Ah, the rotation built so well, Trevor May couldn't crack into the rotation this year even after his performance last year :-)
  12. jimmer
    I'd be right with you on a majority of those listed.
  13. jimmer
    The last 11 games kind of shows maybe the lousy start wasn't quite as out of line as one might have originally thought :-)
  14. jimmer
    raises hand
  15. jimmer
    do you mean the other 12? :-)
  16. jimmer
    Defense isnt the only factor that effects the difference between FIP and ERA
  17. jimmer
    Good thing we know better than to judge defense by errors. Kepler has 3 DRS. He is not a detriment Out there.
  18. jimmer
    One more problem: Horrific defense.
  19. jimmer
    There were like 3 whole threads created for the sole purpose of slamming 'negative posters'. Maybe that'd be a good place to do that instead of hijacking a thread where Nick wrote some things about this team to discuss?
  20. jimmer
    but he still managed to boost his OPS by 140 points while playing in the minors?
  21. jimmer
    Well, he did quote the great philosopher, Obi-Wan (lines written by the well known writer of dialogue, George Lucas, to prove a point :-) Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Nietzsche and Obi Wan Kenobe.
  22. jimmer
    Yeah, Hughes had one outlier season and TR jumped all over it. His fall back to reality in 2015 was predictable. In fact it was predicted. And the Sano decision was horrible from the on-set and it failed for all the reasons given before he ever stepped foot out there for a game.
  23. jimmer
    I'm curious why everyone is rushing to say Park's problem in the majors was his injury. Did he not have the same injury while posting an OPS in the .820s in the minors?
  24. jimmer
    not only that, but your articles are most often very much on the optimistic side as well. So once in awhile, your articles are less than optimistic and you get slammed for it? Some people on here don't want to face reality.
  25. jimmer
    Um, er, ummmmmmm.
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