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Originally Posted by JayP
Take Pujols off the Cards...
Take Moreanu off the Twins...
It's an exercise in stupidity. It doesn't matter because those players are on those teams.
The Jays pay the guy big money to be an elite player. They get what they pay for. Why should the Jays feel guilty for building their team around having a bonifide ace?
And, yes, if the Jays didn't have Doc they likely would be a few games below .500. They're 5 games over right now so you're looking at an 8 game swing. That's about what stats like win shares would suggest (amount of wins that replacing a player with a replacement level player (ie; John McDonald for batters) would cost his team). But, of course, if Doc wasn't on the team there's a $15 million gap in the payroll and Burnett almost certainly is still on the team. If that's the case, you'd be very hard pressed to argue that the Jays would be below .500.
But still, I don't see how the Jays having an offense in the top quartile of the league and a defense that is easily in top 3 doesn't give this team a shot at winning.
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Doc is not making big money by mlb standards, so I have to take exception to that, they are getting an excellent value for him. AJ is a good pitcher but he has too many games where hes not good, doc rarely ever gets lit up. They better be willing to shell out Arod type money or this guy when his contract is up or he will be in a pin stripe uniform.
The offence is dropping look at the run production the last 18 games.
1,3,1,0,3,2,1,2,10,6,5,2,6,1,5,9,2,4 = 3.5Run Average. That is not good enough because they don't have 5 docs on this team. The pitching isn't as good as last year.
The offence better just hope they were in a funk and things are starting to turn around or this team will finish only 5 - 10 games above 500 and the playoffs will only have been a dream.