Tuesday Bantering: A few links
by Tom Dakers on Feb 9, 2010 1:47 PM EST
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PrintAbout a week away from pitchers and catchers reporting there isn't all that much for Jays news. Still waiting to see who is coming off the 40-man roster to make room for Kevin Gregg.
The Jays have added a couple of former GMs to their scouting staff: Jim Beattie who GMed the Expos and Orioles and Ed Lynch who was GM for the Cubs. Nice to see Anthopoulos continues to pick up experienced baseball people.
Former Jay outfielder Bobby Kielty is trying to make it back to the majors as a pitcher and apparently the Jays are one of the teams that are taking a look at him.
In the same piece MLB Trade Rumors says the Jays are 'interested' in Cuban first baseman Jose Julio Ruiz. Ruiz is 25, 6'2", 195 lb. He hit .305/.408/.467 in the Cuban league with 11 homers in 52 games. Pretty hard to tell how those numbers would translate to the majors, but collecting talent is never a bad thing.
This is a nice story in the Star about Ricky Romero's off season workout program.
If you think the second-year southpaw starter feels entitled to the top spot in the Jays' rotation with Roy Halladay gone, think again. Instead of waiting to be acclaimed the team's ace, Romero spent his off-season training hard to cement his spot among Toronto's starting pitchers.
"I'm humbled and hungry, man," Romero said. "I've never gotten complacent and I'm not about to start now. ... There's about 15 other guys that want my job and every one of them is hungry.
Tao of Stieb wonders what would be wrong with playing Snider in RF. Don't ask me. Ask Cito.
And if you are bored this afternoon, the nice people from Hotstove.com are going to talk to me about the Jay's off-season at 3:00 Eastern. So if you are tired of the work of reading my opinions and would rather just listen to them, that's the place to be. Since they are talking to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times and John Weisman of the LA Times before and after me, I almost feel like I'm in the big leagues. Until I trip over my tongue 52 times.
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do us proud, Tom
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that was a great trade by J.P.
getting Lilly for Kielty
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Regarding Jose Juilio Ruiz, seems odd to go after another 1st basemen doesn't it?
Recent Cuban defector Leslie Anderson seems more of a fit for the organization:
http://cubanballplayers.blogspot.com/2009/10/leslie-anderson-is-my-fifth-best.html
Tom - on your tongue
Don’t worry about tripping over it – before you go on air have 6 double scotches (single malt – natch) and trust me you won’t give a fiddlers f*ck what your tongue does. Not to mention having very little concern what your legs, arms, feet and arms are doing for that matter.
Snider should be the starting RF
Yes, you would have a bad defensive OF, but the main problem is keeping Vernon in CF, not putting Snider in RF.
Snider (by all accounts) has the arm for RF. So just develop him there. I’d be all for a Damon-Wells-Snider OF with Lind DH’ing, or if you don’t want (or can’t) get Damon, put Lind there. See what you have. The difference is what, a loss or two? Even 5? Who cares? The fanbase has accepted this is a rebuilding year. Let’s see what we actually have.
Tao hits it on the button as far as I’m concerned. Cito is being obstinate again, already, which is a very concerning sign. I wish GMAA would step up and make the decision for him.
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
YAY
i asked about Cito being right manager or not for this team!
thanks Tom.
thanks....I recognized your name, was the right question.
It was great fun. Though….they pronounced my name wrong…I started to correct them once but the questions started coming. It was funny because before they started they had the name right but doesn’t matter.
Isn't it?
That’s how I’ve been saying it in my head all these year.
"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror" - Sid Vicious.
by craig in calgary on Feb 9, 2010 5:16 PM EST up reply actions
i really dont understand why the jays
would take a flyer on a former outfielder who is trying to become a pitcher now it worked for Anikel but that was the other way around he was a pitcher who flamed out and became succesful outfielder
Plus the Jays have their own pitcher turned fielder reclamation project in Loewen.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
supposedly his slider is pretty good
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Interesting
These kinds of player conversion stories are always interesting, and usually low-risk for the team taking a flyer on them. Kielty seems a bit old to start trying to be a pitcher. But you never know, I suppose there is less wear on his arm as an outfielder than if he’d been pitching the past decade. Wonder if there’s any precedent – what’s the oldest player to start pitching and reach the majors that way.
Ichiro says he wants to start pitching
when he’s 40.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Don't know about switching from OF to pitcher
but Lefty O’Doul wasn’t young when he became a fulltime outfielder http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o%27doule01.shtml . . . on a side note, if he hadn’t pitched when he was young, he’d almost certainly have been an Hall of Famer
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