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2011 Blue Jays/MLB Thread

Seems most (if not all) of the relevant baseball writers are calling the Rasmus trade a big win for the Jays;

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/07/trade-reaction-rasmus-jackson-white-sox.html
 
Floyd said:
Seems most (if not all) of the relevant baseball writers are calling the Rasmus trade a big win for the Jays;

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/07/trade-reaction-rasmus-jackson-white-sox.html
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I don't even think that's debatable. Outside of Rzepo, maybe, none of those guys figured to be Jays next year. The risk to the Jays has nothing to do with the Rasmus trade but is all about the Jackson trade.
 
Saint Nik said:
Floyd said:
Seems most (if not all) of the relevant baseball writers are calling the Rasmus trade a big win for the Jays;

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/07/trade-reaction-rasmus-jackson-white-sox.html
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I don't even think that's debatable. Outside of Rzepo, maybe, none of those guys figured to be Jays next year. The risk to the Jays has nothing to do with the Rasmus trade but is all about the Jackson trade.
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I'm not convinced these guys aren't factoring Stewart in to their assessments.

edit: Though I'm not a subscriber to some of these links so I'll leave that to someone who is.
 
Floyd said:
I'm not convinced these guys aren't factoring Stewart in to their assessments.
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It's pretty clear Law is looking at the thing as a whole but the rest of them are pretty specific about the single trade.
 
Floyd said:
As a spin-off, I really hope we keep Davis as our 4th outfielder/ bench player. I don't want to lose that speed.
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I'm with that so long as they limit his AB's. If you've got a .279 OBP you could be Jesse Owens and you won't be scoring a lot of runs.
 
Saint Nik said:
Floyd said:
As a spin-off, I really hope we keep Davis as our 4th outfielder/ bench player. I don't want to lose that speed.
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I'm with that so long as they limit his AB's. If you've got a .279 OBP you could be Jesse Owens and you won't be scoring a lot of runs.
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For sure. I want him in as many games as possible with the least amount of ABs as possible... However that works.  ???
 
Wow, Romero comes out to pitch the 9th after throwing 113 pitches already. They REALLY must want to keep it out of the hands of the bullpen, even with a 3-0 lead.

Oops, Guerrero struck out but reached on a wild pitch. And Lee hit by a pitch. The tension mounts!!!
 
Really like this trade.

Creates more competition when Lawrie inevitably comes up.  Assuming he performs well enough, you have Bautista back in RF.  Then you have Snider, Thames, Encarnacion and Davis for the LF/DH spot.
 
I like it also...AA really seems to want to build this ship the smart way, not like our buddy JP, by throwing stuff at the wall to se if it will stick...
 
Think I saw that Snider struck out 4 times last night?  Is he doing that thing again where he's crazy hot long enough for us to get our hopes up, then goes utterly ice cold until we have to send him down?  Because I'd rather have him, y'know, keep on with being really good.
 
Hideki Irabu was found dead in his LA home, apparant suicide.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/wires/07/28/2010.ap.bbo.hideki.irabu.5th.ld.writethru.0905/
 
Who's this guy?

funny-sports-pictures-have-you-ever-been-so-happy-you-fountaind-baseball-mlb-fountain.gif
 
Deebo said:
Hideki Irabu was found dead in his LA home, apparant suicide.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/wires/07/28/2010.ap.bbo.hideki.irabu.5th.ld.writethru.0905/
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Almost forgot about him.  I remember him best as a member of the Yankees.  No doubt, as they say,  he definitely was a pioneer for future Japanese baseball players to play in the major leagues.  Too bad his life ended this way.
 
Oh, Rasmus 0-5 in his first game - probably wanting to impress a little too much in his first game. :)

Hopefully things are uphill from here.
 
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