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With a 1.5 month remaining to play in this year's campaign, the Bue Jays are on a current path that could very well see them finish the season with a record under the .500 mark.

With every baseball year, there's lows and highs each and every team must experience through the course of the regular season, as well as in the playoffs if they are fortunate to get there.

There's no question the lows have outdrawn the highs this year when it comes to the Blue Jays, but there's also a lot of positives that occurred this year for us to reminiscence about that inevitably will inspire us to look forward to next year..

ARON HILL, is having the best year of his major league career, after nearly suffering a career ending injury last season.  In my account, he is this year's  Blue Jay MVP and American League coming back player of the year. It's safe to say he is going to stick around for awhile...

Just when many people thought Marco Scutaro was only utility material, he raised his game to a level very few could ever imagine. If there's such a thing as a "pitcher's pest" well, I think Marco fits that bill quite nicely. Drawing 3-2 counts on a regular basis,  getting on base via walks, hitting for average, hitting homeruns and of course watching him play his position with authority, has been a blast  to see so far  this year. There's a real good chance, the Jays are going to make a strong pitch to sign him in the off season.

Coming into this year, Cito Gaston was very high on Adam Lind and now I can fully interpret why. Adam is truly the definition of cool, calm and collective for a young player. How can anybody not love his approach at the plate, especially with his ability to hit pitches with success to the opposite field. Glad this guy is all over our future..

Ricky Romero, Brad Cecil, Mark Rzepczynski, Shaun Marcum, Dustin McGowan, Jesse Litsch

Depth, depth and depth....  what a nice surprise Romero has been for this team along with Brad Cecil who up until the time he got hurt ,was also pitching very well.  Rzepcyzynski if he can work on improving his control, wow! Look out!

Marcum, McGowan are still very young and very much a big part of this team going into next year. Litsch who was solid with a 13-9 record and 3.58 era in 2008, is also a huge part of this team's immediate future.

So what, Travis Snyder's first major leagfue stint hasn't been what we had hoped it would be. However,  I'm confident after this year under his belt, he will be a big part of this team next year. Smoking the ball with regularity, is something he is going to do at the major league level for a long time.

World series Championship in 2010? In 1997, the Florida Marlns became one of the youngest teams to win a World Series. This is the same club who would win another title in 2003 with one of the lowest payrolls in the major leagues..Pehaps there is  hope after all for us in 2010......

 


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Yep this year sucks, but at least there are some good positives coming out

Although I am having a hard time trying to connect the title of your post to the actual article… they don’t seem to be connected.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 20, 2009 7:47 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Marcum we still dont know if he will be as good as he was

and McGowan’s carreer could be over… He wont be back until August next season anyways.
and Litch is a #4 starter really.

Onions Baby Onions

by ohmybosh on Aug 20, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Romero

Is probably a 3 or 4 as well…

by T.Haynes on Aug 20, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Whenever scouts talk about a pitcher as being a 3 or 4

I assume they’re picturing Drysdale and Koufax as 1 and 2.

They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.

by Torgen on Aug 20, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

No I mean his ERA in his minor league career is 4.34 so he shouldn’t be seen as a top end guy right now.

by T.Haynes on Aug 30, 2009 2:45 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

For sure....

It’s very difficult to predict whether or not Marcum can overcome his serious injury problems and pitch at the same level he did before he go injured. However, according to the television & radio reports, he is supposed to make some starts before the end of this year. As for Dustin McGowan, yeah it doesn’t look good right now, but he is young and it’s important they give him all the time he requires to recuperate….as I mentioned above, there’s been a lot of positive things happening on the field this year and it’s only going to carry over to next year…

"Sports is something you know, not something you should preach.'

by valter on Aug 20, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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