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Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Mr. Fix It posted:

P sure it was a joke

Alternative explanation: Cubs fans are fascism.

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Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

The Berzerker posted:

I don't see it happening and don't even think it is worth the price necessarily but it would be cool to me personally if Coco Crisp became a Blue Jay.

In Jays news, they didn't send a QO to Michael Saunders (good) and picked up their option to keep Grilli for $3M (good)

I am really excited to see who ends up stepping on the Michael Saunders land mine.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Patrick Spens posted:

I'm so bummed about how he fell of a cliff this year. I want him to be good, even if he winds up being good for someone else.

The best part was Wilner made a prop bet with Joe Siddall that Saunders would hit 25 home runs. Wilner was tapdancing about how smart he was for the first two thirds of the season, and then Saunders finished with 24.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Bob Saget IRL posted:

Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

Baackbackbackbackback andtotheleft

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Julio Cruz posted:

Yes another corner outfielder is just what we need.

Jose Bautista is many things, but I am confident that a corner outfielder is no longer one of them.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Lourdes Gurriel, Jr., is a Blue Jay. Cool, I guess.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
https://twitter.com/carcelmousineau/status/797169626719420416
https://twitter.com/DfineNrmLC/status/797165268736897024

I don't feel particularly optimistic about this move. It will probably take another fairly significant addition (on top of Edwin) to keep the Jays a contender next season.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

They can afford to and should have given Edwin the 5years and 20-25 million per he wants.

I think the odds of the Jays bringing back Jose went way up though.

Isn't Morales DH-only? I'm not so sure how I feel about Bautista coming back to RF. I guess he's probably better than the alternatives they have before them.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Gobias Ind. posted:

Yes.

Brett Cecil is good and I would happily welcome him back.

Brett Cecil is really unfairly shat upon. But such is the life of non-closer bullpen pitchers, I guess.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

I see Pat Tabler did have a vote after all.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Dale Ouise posted:

The only lefty in the Jays bullpen is Aaron Loup lol.

Yeah. Atkins/Shapiro gonna have to find a solution here.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

shadok posted:

The WS window has closed, but 2017 should be an interesting season if only to answer the question "how far can Donaldson carry the team single-handedly?"

They have a good chance to have one of if not the best rotation in baseball next year. The WS window shouldn't be closing this year, but if Atkins/Shapiro aren't going to replace Bats/Edwin/Cecil they should go ahead and trade Happ/Estrada.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

Ya that's fine but bye bye Edwin.

I guess he's nominally a platoon bat?

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Chexoid posted:

Also the Rockies apparently want to trade Stroman for Blackmon which... man... gently caress...

Well, they're allowed to dream I guess.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Glenn Sparkman's got some name tool at least.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Cleveland didn't even have the unanimous MVP.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

All is forgiven of the Jays get Cutch and don't trade Stroman or Sanchez or Vlad Jr.

I think if they trade for McCutcheon then the whole Edwin/Bautista/Morales/Pearce mess is even worse.

This is also making me think that trading for McCutcheon would be a totally Anthopoulos move here.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Some letters are silent, others are invisible.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

tadashi posted:

Also: Thank God I am not a Blue Jays fan. How the hell do you assemble one of the most dangerous lineups and probably the best left-side of the infield in baseball and then decide to just take a back seat? The Orioles have not really had the kind of setup the Jays have had for the last couple seasons and they just keep coming.

Imagine some equivalent of Lakers Guy but he's saying "Rogers. Rrrrrrrrogers."

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

The hitting is ya. Pitching might actually be better.

Given how good Happ and Estrada were last year, pitching could easily be worse, too.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

I believe in Estrada being one of those dudes that breaks fip because it doesn't account for flyball pitchers that can induce lovely contact at an elite rate.

The worry with Estrada wouldn't be "regression will get him" but rather he'll get caught by some combination of him not being as good, teams getting better at doing stuff like sitting on his change, and the league generally getting better at dealing with shitballers who work high in the zone.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Greg Maddux has one of my favourite quotations, which I added to my facebook back when those things were prominently displayed.

"I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention."

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

I have memories of Vernon wells being kinda chunky but after looking through some pics I must have been imagining things or catching him at weird angles

He got chunky after a point. That's why his hamstrings got all hosed up.

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Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

ego symphonic posted:

I suppose Lind might also spell Werth in left from time to time too if his outfield defense is anything better than horrid.

Unless something has drastically changed in the last two years... no.

e: Does Adam Lind still run like an octopus running across the bottom of the ocean?

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