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Originally Posted by fleury
AA's highly intelligent. No chance in hell should he be dumped after showing the way he think from his crazy off-season. Too bad the team is stinking, but nobody could have seen this coming. Until he shows that he's incompetent, there is absolutely no reason I see for getting rid of him.
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I agree. I certainly wasn't expecting another Cy Young season from R.A. Dickey, or for Johnson to be pre- surgery good, but at least league average would be somewhat palatable. I don't think AA could foresee such awful pitching from what seemed like proven starting pitchers, nor could he foresee the Morrow injury. Beurhle has been pretty much exactly what I expected from him, and has been our most consistent starting pitcher. Then losing J.A. Happ just made things worse.
The Jays can hit, I don't see scoring runs as a major problem. Perhaps they could get some more production from the bottom of the line up, and there are a few too many free swinging hitters, but the glaring issue has been starting pitching and this needs to get sorted out somehow in the offseason.