Thursday Bantering and Game Thread for March 18, Orioles and Jays
by Tom Dakers on Mar 18, 2010 11:03 AM EDT
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PrintI'm busy this morning so just a quick game thread post. Should be back for some of the game, it is on Gameday Audio.
A couple of quick notes. Zech Zinicola has been returned to the Nationals. Had to figure that would happen, we have too many bullpen arms to keep a rule five guy.
Zack Jackson and Lance Broadway have been sent to the minor league camp. Down to 47 players in the major league camp.
The lineup today is Bautista 3B, Hill 2B, Lind DH, Wells CF, Overbay 1B, Buck C, Reed RF, Snider LF, McDonald SS. So Mac is back in camp, must be tough on him.
Ricky Romero is to pitch 5 innings and Dana Eveland 4.
The National Post has a story on Adam Loewen. He really does have to show something this year, but he has a nice looking swing.
Tao of Stieb has a post about Cito Gaston's first 'final season' with the Jays, back in 1997. He remembers things much the way I do. The reluctance to use Shawn Green, Carlos Delgado and Shannon Stewart. Joe Carter batting cleanup even though he was long past his overdue date. Otis Nixon, Orlando Merced, Carlos Garcia and Rueben Sierra seeing way too much playing time.
Enjoy your morning.
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Lubanski looking kinda evil there
and what’s with Buck in 6th in the line-up?
Oh. Right.
The Manager.
Ball.
Lyle Overbay to Marlins?
Check out todays post in Blue Jay Junction for thoughts about rebuilding the Jays, a potential Overbay trade and information on the 2010 draft.
His blog it seems...
He always adds a link to it.
I think Overbay isn’t getting moved till July though.
Ball.
clicked on it
the overbay rumour is speculation. the miami herald says the marlins are looking for a 1Bman, but mention Lowell.
overbay will be moved as soon as somebody offers a faint-hope prospect. there’s no reason to wait until july.
Overbay may be a B free agent..
So that gives a little bit of reason
Draft
Well, at least we know they won’t be taking James Paxton…
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
I still have a feeling
that the Jays are going to pick him again….
I think he’s going to drop to the second round and AA always says he likes players he’s familiar with
Different crew with negotiations now as well, so it isn’t necessarily a slam dunk that it wouldn’t work
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
beeston handled them last year
has Boras been fired?
My vaguest understanding is the team can only draft him again if he allows it.
A player that doesn’t sign can refuse to be drafted by the same team.
Beeston's comments is the reason why Paxton got rejected from college.
It isn’t necessarily Beeston’s fault. But Paxton would never have been audited if Beeston did not make the comment about Boras. Technically, Boras is to blame.
So I don’t know if Paxton would want to come to the Jays after that fiasco.
I’m a bit confused, why was Zinicola returned to the Nationals? Were the Jays just borrowing him or something?
He was a rule 5 pickup.
Meaning he had to stay on the Jays Roster or else he was returned to the Nationals.
Since there was no way Zinicola was going to break camp with the Jays given the number of bullpen arms we have they figured just send him back now rather then wait.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Tallet/Eveland
What are the chances one of them gets dealt prior to April?
I can’t see how a contending team wouldn’t value that sort of rotation-bullpen-lefty versatility.
Anyone else trying to listen on Gameday Audio?
Because it sounds like the mike is on, but no one showed up to call the game.
if youre thinking thats because lind is gonna drive them home, then i'm more than fine with
vernon getting less rbis if it means the guys are getting home anyway…
Lind walks quite a bit so he should have some runners to get home
but yeah I think judging him on RBI is silly
Our radio guys are much better than average
but they’re not exactly Moneyball types. Nothing against them, but I doubt they know stuff like wOBA well.
I like them because you know what is going on.
they tell you every pitch and where the ball has gone.
That said Vernon's performance with RISP was really poor
Same was true for Medium and High Leverage situations according to Fangraphs
I don't think Vernon's quite that bad yet
When healty he was quite good in ’06 and ’08. And at his age should have at least a couple decent years left.
Really shouldn’t be playing center and holding down clean-up, though.
Actually, with Cito yeah
unless he’s terrible like last year…Cito won’t move him unless it’s painfully obvious he has to move
romero again with the groundballs
4 gb outs, two strikeouts…if i remember correctly, didn’t he get 10-1 gb/fb ratio last game?
i dont think anyone would be complaining
about 0 homers on the year if he batted .500 and had an obp of .737
You grow bad habits writing here...
Or I do I guess, when I started I wrote slow and I’d spend too much time editing. But I find it is more important to get it written and get it posted.
My first month was awful...
I was just filling in for Hugo, I thought, and I didn’t have any idea how much writing was expected. I’d wrote way too long on a post, and then would get a note from the powers that be that they like a post in the morning and the afternoon.
if he shows he'll take walks he'll get homers too
pitchers will start putting things down the middle
i know it would never happen
i’m just saying that as fans, it would be silly to judge a guy based only on his home run total…a guy that gets on base every time he’s up is just as valuable…
well if he were to get to one of those milestone numbers
like batting .400 or obp at .500 they’d talk about it…
I'm wondering if Reed is winning the 4th outfield job anyway
He’s been starting most games and is hitting, Gathright has been going in late and not hitting.
All someone has to do is steal Cito's commodore 64
and find out the final roster. It is already written
the stone tablet thing is likely right
that’s why it is so hard to change once it is set. Written in stone.
With Mac...his dad has liver cancer
sounds very bad. He’s just back to the team after leaving on the weekend.
just saying
that’s what I want nothing more than
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
I don't mind either way
Though writing about the Yankees doesn’t sound like my idea of a good time, either
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
Writing about the Yankees is the one thing that will always get me emails
Normally ones telling me no one reads me and I know nothing, and by the way I miss spelled something in the 3 paragraph,
Dennis Eckersley hasn't figured out
how to set up an email account
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
I got a lot of bad comments from Yankee fans on the Scott Downs piece
that they put up on Pinstripe Alley. A guy I used to play in a band with read it (without knowing that I wrote for here) . . . needless to say, he was surprised to see my name up there
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
That seems to be the way it goes
Yankee fans think if you aren’t a Yankee fan you know nothing about baseball.
That said, the bloggers from both the Red Sox and Yankee sites seem like very nice people.
someone has to provide the world with petroleum
but that doesn’t mean I love OPEC
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
if there were no oil tanks
there wouldn’t need to be any oil tank inspectors, so I’d be out of a job, too
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
You should move here
but to get back to the point…I’ll do the Yankee post, you’ll do the keys posts?
works for me
i’m thinking of doing an introductory post for a series, which will eventually have a separate post to flesh out each key
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
At least it'll ease up on the brains of those creative hecklers at games
OVER-PAID! Yuk yuk yuk
Ball.
I'm so tired of people thinking saying Overpaid is wit....
I think it should be a banable offense around here
I guess....is one of those things
where I keep thinking the folks on here ought to be brighter than the drunken fans at games
At least it wasn't in bold too
Also there’s no stupid wave here. They did that a looot during Halladay’s last home game. Terrible.
Ball.
The Wave
If everyone could creatively reply and create new topics, then we could create a wave
the only time creative has been mentioned in reference to the wave
in history
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
This is as big a March18 message as I've ever seen
Jays throw the 4th place gauntlet down!
i thought he was reassigned to AAA camp last week
was he taking up a 40-man spot?
He was assigned to AAA
and he wasn’t on our 40 man….there must be something about him that clubs don’t like
romero's line
5.0 innings, 5 hits, 2 ers, 2 walks, 5 ks, 10-0 gb/fb
assuming of course that they put in eveland now?
great line
just keep getting ’em to pound it into the ground, ricky . . . let your defensive specialist shortstops take care of the rest
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
It is nice to see Romero's game got better as the game went along
And he faced the Orioles starting lineup for the most of the day
He's out of options, he makes the team or is offered up on waivers
I’d think someone would pick him up
Strikeout to end the inning....
but he’s not in the spot where he can have a bad outing and still make the team
I think he´ll be the second long guy in the BP...
… with Purcey send down to AAA
by jaysfanfromeurope on Mar 18, 2010 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
unless Purcey dazzles and Eveland pitches poorly
I think you’re right
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
He would be more interesting
Won’t make it out of spring obviously, but hopefully he’ll mash so much we can’t keep him down and move Buck to a back up.
Ball.
Well maybe
Barajas was a master streaker, so if Buck can be average and consistant, he’d be better. Has he been that so far…? I’m not sure.
Ball.
master streaker
sounds like an interesting skill. probably more useful for a drunken fan than a starting catcher, though
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
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