Holy fuck it's snowing outside!! Well, I guess it makes sense... it is December after all, but for a starved baseball fan things just got a lot worse.
UNLESS!
Baseball's Annual Winter Meetings have arrived and they usually create a reprive for fanatics like myself.
For great coverage, check out MLB Trade Rumors here.
What will Alex Anthopoulous have in store for Jays fans? I'm still waiting for the hype.
Will Halladay finally be on the move?? PLEASE.. enough is enough already.
Philadelphia. Give me Drabek, Brown and and Taylor. We'll throw in James Paxton and Jake Eliopoulous!!! Tough to give up those two amazingly talented young Canadians.. oh wait, what's that?
Fuck you're right. We signed Johnny Mac to a multi-year deal the day before signing another ho-hum SS to be our starter. USE THE CASH ON THE YOUNG PROSPECTS YOU IDIOTS!!!!!
Isn't that all part of the plan??
Wow, I got sidetracked.
In all seriousness, the Winter Meetings kick off today, and it should only be a matter of time before a few pieces start falling.
Whether the Roy Halladay trade will occur before they wrap up on Thursday, only time will tell.
Showing posts with label Alex Anthopoulous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Anthopoulous. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
O-Dog Shown The Door in LA LA Land
According to the L.A. Times, The Los Angeles Dodgers decided not to offer arbitration to potential Type-A free agent, and former Blue Jay, Orlando Hudson. Hudson was among the Dodgers' seven ranked free agents who were not offered arbitration on Tuesday, MLB's deadline day for teams to do so.
Quite the puzzling scenario obviously. As Jays fans we have all read about and understood the reasoning behind offer arbitration to ranked free agents (ie. Marco Scutaro, Rod Bajaras) and receiving potential draft pick compensation should they decide to decline arbitration and sign elsewhere.
Suddenly, Hudson appears a lot more attractive to potential suitors as a free agent who no longer would cost draft pick compensation to sign.
The Toronto Blue Jays should take a page out of the Red Sox book, and consider switching Aaron Hill back to his natural position of SS and bringing Hudson back to man 2B.
Oh wait, I forgot for a sec that we already solved our SS problem.
Oh wait, I thought for a sec we were a contender... well never mind, sorry A.A. it seemed like a good idea.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Bleacher Report shares our faith!
Read an interesting article over at Bleacher Report and it sounds like the writer (Mark Dewdney) shares some of my optimism for the future of our team.
The general concept of the article is that with Bud Selig's pending retirement (before the 2012 season), Baseball will appoint a new commissioner to "fix" the little things wrong with our sport, such as the absence of a meaningful salary cap. Couple that with the idea that the Jays package of prospects received in an inevitable Roy Halladay deal will blossom around the same time (2012) and the Jays will be right in the mix for contention.
A couple things I don't necessarily agree with in the article:
1. "Players came here because of Pat Gillick, and they will come because of Alex Anthopoulous."
- Any kind of evidence to support this statement??
2. "Would you have signed with the Blue Jays in the last decade? You'd have to have been blind, which, incidentally, is what Halladay, Wells, and others are thinking when they look in the mirror."
- I guess A.J. Burnett, B.J. Ryan, Frank Thomas and everyone else were just blinded by the money J.P. threw at them. Last time I checked, the Blue Jays were a promising contender in 2006/2007 and if things broke the right way, they would have enjoyed a lot more success (thanks TJ surgery!).
- What the hell does Vernon Wells care?? He's getting paid to the tune of $126 million over 7 years. With the way he's been playing lately, he's lucky to be a starting CF on any major league team, let alone making the kind of money he's making. If he had signed that deal with the Yanks as a free agent and was putting up the kind of performance he is now, the Yanks wouldn't stand for it. He'd be DFA'd and released (only the Yanks have the ability to eat a contract THAT BAD).
3. "Roy Halladay is going to either the Yankees or Red Sox"
- As much as I HOPE this isn't true, Dewdney might eventually be right about this one, but for what it's worth it's like predicting Team Canada to win gold in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Real tough call there bud.
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Like I said yesterday, let's make this damn Halladay deal already and start getting excited about the future.
The general concept of the article is that with Bud Selig's pending retirement (before the 2012 season), Baseball will appoint a new commissioner to "fix" the little things wrong with our sport, such as the absence of a meaningful salary cap. Couple that with the idea that the Jays package of prospects received in an inevitable Roy Halladay deal will blossom around the same time (2012) and the Jays will be right in the mix for contention.
A couple things I don't necessarily agree with in the article:
1. "Players came here because of Pat Gillick, and they will come because of Alex Anthopoulous."
- Any kind of evidence to support this statement??
2. "Would you have signed with the Blue Jays in the last decade? You'd have to have been blind, which, incidentally, is what Halladay, Wells, and others are thinking when they look in the mirror."
- I guess A.J. Burnett, B.J. Ryan, Frank Thomas and everyone else were just blinded by the money J.P. threw at them. Last time I checked, the Blue Jays were a promising contender in 2006/2007 and if things broke the right way, they would have enjoyed a lot more success (thanks TJ surgery!).
- What the hell does Vernon Wells care?? He's getting paid to the tune of $126 million over 7 years. With the way he's been playing lately, he's lucky to be a starting CF on any major league team, let alone making the kind of money he's making. If he had signed that deal with the Yanks as a free agent and was putting up the kind of performance he is now, the Yanks wouldn't stand for it. He'd be DFA'd and released (only the Yanks have the ability to eat a contract THAT BAD).
3. "Roy Halladay is going to either the Yankees or Red Sox"
- As much as I HOPE this isn't true, Dewdney might eventually be right about this one, but for what it's worth it's like predicting Team Canada to win gold in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Real tough call there bud.
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Like I said yesterday, let's make this damn Halladay deal already and start getting excited about the future.
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