OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

[LeafOfFaith]

ahahaha and I only thought I was mentally dangling you.. But clearly I'm physically dangling you too! I control your life bitch! AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Get yourself over to that pharmacy quick.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Well, that was a crappy way to drive home a run and not even get an RBI.

 

[mbow30]

Pillar really is a great defender. Reads the ball so well and so quick.

 

[Preston_Mizzi]

The A's got two serviceable but low ceiling guys and a guy who is 6 years from the majors, if he ever gets there.

The Jays got an MVP caliber gold glover with 4 years of controllability.

Oakland was totally fleeced.

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/sto...billy-beane-franklin-barreto-kendall-graveman

 

[mbow30]

"it's not hard to imagine graveman and nolin being part of oakland's rotation when they're contending again"

and

"brett lawrie is 25 and could pan out"

are not such compelling arguments.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

Jays win 12-4.

Simply amazing. And are now two up on the Yankees. epper

 

[MindzEye]

"it's not hard to imagine graveman and nolin being part of oakland's rotation when they're contending again"

and

"brett lawrie is 25 and could pan out"

are not such compelling arguments.

They didn't get terrible "value" so to speak, but it's definitely a 4 quarters for a buck type of a trade. Billy Beane is forced into playing chess in a checkers tourney, so he ends up more concerned in Dollar per WAR than he is in raw WAR.

Also didn't help that Josh and Billy had some famous shouting matches I guess.

 

[axlsalinger]

2 games up on the Yankees, 8 on Baltimore. 6.5 games up on the second wild card.

 

[Metalleaf]

19-17 the rest of the way will take them to 90 wins. I think they'll do better than that.

 

[MindzEye]

I'm going to go on record and predict 24-12

95 wins

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

I feel like AA is going to badger the White Sox into giving us Chris Sale, within 2 years.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

I'm going to go on record and predict 24-12

95 wins

29-7

100 win season

 

[Matrim]

I've noticed Goins taking a lot of BB's lately but didn't realize how much it's been during August.

He has taken 16 BB's in 19 games in August for a ridiculous 24.6% walk rate which helped him to have an .875 OPS for August so far. Why the hell are teams pitching him like this, he's had a good eye of course to take so many but it's just insane, you'd think with the lineup the Jays have pitchers would be throwing it down the middle to the worst hitter in the lineup.

 

[Aberdeen]

Good question. If Goins can maintain good discipline and hit just a little is value goes up immensely.

It has to be good for all of our lesser hitters to be surrounded by guys like Bats, Donaldson and Tulo. These guys are not just good hitters, but are cerebral hitters, and should have lots of wisdom to share.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Goins hasn't been the black hole he once was.

Big credit to the kid for getting on base in August

Would not have predicted this: #BlueJays' Ryan Goins has 16 walks this month, tied with Mike Trout & Ben Zobrist for 6th in #MLB
BNS

 

[vermettefan]

I've had a pretty shitty time finding good quality Jays streams - if anyone else is interested you can get an MLB subscription + At Bat (Mobile App) for $2.99 for the rest of the season.

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[worm]

can we get to first in the AL?

 

[Killer93]

6 games back of KC and we hold the tie break, I say why not. BTW anyone look at the upcoming pitchers were facing in the Tigers series? Should be a fun weekend for the bats

 

[worm]

give the jays two weeks....

looks like jays vs astros in the first round though

 

[Kritter]

Wasnt Houston supposed to be a sh!t team this year?

and not too long ago the Yankees were ahead of the Jays in the standings with 3 games in hand.

Last 24 games:

Jays 20-4
Yankes 11-13