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Originally Posted by Ziggy Lidstrom
The highlighted areas are what I contend. The white sox, with their moribund offensive start are still a decent team that gave us fits. When their offense clicks, their pitching carries them quite far. They have a good BP, rotation and Rios is playing like a man on fire there 
Tampa's 5-9 are quite interesting if you know about their prospect profiles. Jaso is a very good prospect from a very deep farm system. Aybar is talented, not 300 talented but talented. Upton is enigmatic, with surprising speed and power. Brignac was too ballyhooed a prospect to give up for halladay. They offered Wade davis but no brignac. He's going to be a stud. Rodriguez is another guy with upside at C. They all come from a deep system. So, really, I;m wary of similar trend with what happened last series, 8 runs in one inning. The jays have to be ready. And GArza although sporadic, seems to get it together against the good guys. 
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But they're still prospects, nothing to be scared of yet.
Blue Jays 5-9 are Bautista, Gonzalez, Overbay, Buck, Encarnacion who are all on fire. Sure they can and will cool down but I'd take them over prospects right now. Only thing that really scares me about the Rays are their speed. Can steal 5+ bases in a game and drive you crazy.