Bluebird Links, Links, and More Links
by masterkembo on Apr 15, 2011 10:00 AM EDT
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Lots of links today after an off day so I'll just throw them all up and let everyone discuss. The Jays start a 4 game set in Boston tonight - how does everything think they'll do? The 'wishful thinking'part of me is getting ready for a sweep but I'd be happy with a series split. Happy Friday everyone!
Jays Links
Blue Jays reportedly promote Perez | bluejays.com: News
The Jays call up another pitcher. I guess they figure they need the extra arm more than an extra bat, but what's this - three pitchers in a week?
What Drabek has shown so far
The Hardball Times breaks down Drabek's pitch selection so far.
So, basically, Drabekis nasty with his ability to miss bats and get ground balls, though his control has been somewhat suspect. The curveball looks great so far, but the cutter keeps him around the zone more.
A Look At Ricky Romero’s Arsenal
Dave Gershman with a nice graphic showing Romero's stuff this year.
Blue Jays lose series to Seattle, season effectively over
Navinat Sports and the City with a great piece of fan fiction here. Really good stuff.
The Pains of Being Murph at Heart
Drew at Ghostrunner is wondering what happened to the opposite field homeruns. With a pretty graphic.
Developing the future stars
Shi Davidi has a good piece on the Jays new organizational plans for player development.
Carlos Delgado To Retire
Parkes with a photo journey of Delgado's career.
Delgado will be missed
Stephen Brunt with a nice piece on Carlos Delgado, who officially announced his (over-due) retirement this week.
Minor League Notes
51s lose in 11th on sacrifice fly
Brett Lawrie and Adam Loewen each had three hits, Mills pitched seven in a 51's loss.
John TolisanoDoubles In Ninth To Lift Fisher Cats Over Mets
The Fisher Cats won in the top of the 9th, propelled by a 3-4 showing by Mike McDade.
More Links after the Jump.
Around the League
Relating to tale of beating flesh-eating disease
Fox writer Joe McDonnell, and Padre's CEO, Jeff Moorad tell a story of surviving flesh-eating disease.
Why Have Power Hitters Stopped Striking Out?
Dave Cameron wonders what happened to the K's?
Being a Twins Fan: a Fate Worse than Death
Ron Gardenhire asked Twins ace, Francisco Liriano to 'pitch to contact'. Check out his Wednesday results to see how that worked out.
Marcum keeps Pirates guessing for 7 innings
Sounds like Marcum is off to a good start.
Pedro Martinez Was Really, Really Good
He was...and I hated it when he played for the Red Sox. Him and Garciaparra were probably my least favorite players in baseball for a few years. But he could be fun to watch when he was on (Nomar was never fun to watch - especially batting).
Red Sox, Gonzalez agree to deal
Sounds like the Sox finally managed to extend Gonzalez. He'll be making a cool $154 million for seven years.
Jackie Robinson Day
The Hardball Times has an article about the life and career of Jackie Robinson - good stuff.
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King Carlos!
I don’t think Carlos has or ever will get the credit he deserves outside of Toronto. He had a great career and put up some very loft numbers. The only problem is that he was a clean player playing in a dirty game.
In 10-15 years when people look back at the steroid era, they will remember the “users” Bonds, McGwire, Canseco, Palmero….. but not a man that had 473 career hr’s and never won a wolrd series.
I hope that if he wants to make the transition into coaching that it is with the Jays.
Keep Smiling Delgado!
by Al Bundy is my hero on Apr 15, 2011 10:52 AM EDT reply actions
we don't know that
I’m not accusing Carlos of using, but we have no idea who used and who didn’t.
that said, great career and great Blue Jay
His career did follow a much more natural process though
a slow, steady decline, and eventually he broke down physically like older athletes naturally do.
no I know
but maybe he was going to break down earlier (or later) and using caused the breakdown when it did?
I’m just saying it’s just as unfair to assume certain players are clean as it is to assume players (with no evidence of course) aren’t clean
Agreed
But I still think it’s more fair to use an ‘innocent until proven guilty’ philosophy, rather than ‘guilty until proven innocent’ … The reality is it’s impossible to know for certain (unless you’re very close to them) that someone is 100% clean.
It may seem naive, but I’ll always believe a player is clean until proven otherwise.
i agree with that philosophy
it just irritates me when people (including sportswriters) assume players are guilty with no evidence besides rumours, yet are 100% convinced other players are clean.
He shoulda had one last horrah here.
Tha last couple years he was unemployed and we floundered around with guys like Millar, Dellucci and the rest of those scrubs. Was Carlos going to win us more games? Maybe, maybe not, but it would have been great to see…and a great way to get butts in the seats.
by craig in calgary on Apr 15, 2011 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions
But…Millar was great for team chemistry!
I agree though, Delgado should have retired as a Jay, and not playing in the Red Sox minor league system. Ugh.
by masterkembo on Apr 15, 2011 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually I heard afterwards that Millar wasn’t so great for chemistry here.
Apparently he was that guy who always talks about how good it was where he was before (i.e Boston)
I think you'll find I'm universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult.
Twitter is the thing with all the tweets...
Well, it’s official. Millar has no redeeming qualities.
by masterkembo on Apr 15, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
That would have been nice
like Griffey going back to Seattle the last couple years.
Even if he didn’t play with the Jays again, one more appearance at Rogers Centre would have been nice.
by Al Bundy is my hero on Apr 16, 2011 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions
I read or heard something somewhere that it seems unlikely that Delgado returns to the Jays, he has a lot of stuff going on back home with his local stuff.
I think you'll find I'm universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult.
Twitter is the thing with all the tweets...
Iteresting piece on the flesh eating disease
On a serious note, the Yankees starting rotation were recently disagnosed with it. They were given 50 years to live. Yeyyy-oohhhhh
by craig in calgary on Apr 15, 2011 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
Navin's piece at Sports and the City is absolutely brilliant.
So educational that it should be cumpolsory reading material to every fan the post a comment on any blog…
"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." (D. Letterman)
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." (T. Leary)
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." (L. Hellman)
Best piece of Blue Jays blogging of the season (BBB aside, of course).
Hence, the season’s over! Looking forward to 2012 blogging.
Calling up Luis Perez is very confusing
He has appeared in a grand total of 1 game,7.20 ERA, 5 IP, 4 hits, 4 ER, 3 BB,6 SO.For the lfe of me I can’t think of a reason.
My guess is that they wanted Mills to start in the game yesterday in Vegas
they couldn’t recall McCoy. They didn’t want to put Wise or Woodward on the 40-man yet. So they wanted to pick a pitcher that hadn’t worked much lately in case they need someone to pitch several innings in a game this weekend.
Add to that that 5IP is a bit of a smaller size to base confusion upon
while those who call him have a bit more of data to go with…
"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." (D. Letterman)
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." (T. Leary)
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." (L. Hellman)
yeah they know more than we do.
just seems like they wanted to keep Mills on rotation and not move anyone on or off the 40-man. I don’t see the point in an 8 man bullpen. Having just 3 men on the bench worries me.
Faced 3 LH batters and struck them all out
Boston has lots of lefty hitters, Gonzalez, crawford, Ellsbury, Drew and Ortiz. Need a LOOGY to help Zep. IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO FIND PREVIOUS YEARS SPLITS, PLEASE POST HERE. thanks. Someone posted this at MLB.com re: Perez vs LH last year
Perez between Vegas and NH
41.3 IP
37 hits
1 HR (7 XBH)
31 K
13BB
However Perez had a 70% Ground ball rate vs. lefties which is pretty similar throughout his career.
Sorry for yelling in the above post
The only place i know where to find minor league splits is at MiLB.com. However, previous years disappear, so early in a season I’m looking at massively small sample sizes, hence my request above. What jumps out with Perez #’s is the GB rate, which seems to keep the ball in the yard.
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