07-30-2015, 12:12 PM
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#1461
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Uncle Chester
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from Deadspin:
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This is not how .500 teams that are seven games back of the division lead are supposed to act, but the Blue Jays clearly don’t consider themselves to be a normal 51-51 team. GM Alex Anthopoulos is buying in, and clearly believes that Price and Tulowitzki are going to help carry the Jays through a huge second half and into the playoffs.
He has good reason to feel that way, too, because the Blue Jays aren’t a normal .500 team. Their run differential—the statistic that is most telling of a team’s true talent level—is sitting at +100, the best mark in baseball. Baseball Reference puts their Pythagorean record at 60-42, which would put them three games up on the first-place Yankees. Even before these trades happened, the Jays would have been a good pick to surge into the playoffs. Now that they’ve added the best shortstop in baseball to the league’s best offense and a top-tier starter to what was previously a middling rotation, they look like legitimate juggernauts. They Jays have everything they need to go out and #### #### up and hunt down the Yankees, and watching them try to do it is going to be fun as hell.
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http://deadspin.com/blue-jays-trade-...-al-1721106144
Last edited by SportsJunky; 07-30-2015 at 12:26 PM.
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07-30-2015, 12:15 PM
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#1462
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SportsJunky
from Deadspin:
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Awesome!
I was just in a 2.5 hour meeting and came out to my phone absolutely exploding.
Such a great day!
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07-30-2015, 12:23 PM
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#1463
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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07-30-2015, 12:27 PM
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#1464
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
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David Price @DAVIDprice14
My niece is already ready!! #tigers thanks for everything...#bluejays lets ride!! Entire country rooting for us! #Wow
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07-30-2015, 12:37 PM
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#1465
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
David Price @DAVIDprice14
My niece is already ready!! #tigers thanks for everything...#bluejays lets ride!! Entire country rooting for us! #Wow
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Come on it's not hard to put a kid in a car seat properly!!! Sorry end pet peeve
Gotta time the WC game so prices pitches though cause I don't see us catching the Yankees.
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07-30-2015, 12:48 PM
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#1466
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Reminds me of the David Cone trade. Hopefully we get the same result.
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07-30-2015, 12:58 PM
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#1467
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Franchise Player
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David Price @DAVIDprice14 27m27 minutes ago
#jays on my feet!! See what I did there?! I'll just stay with @drake drizzy rogers...t o r o n t o so high up I got birds in my condo
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07-30-2015, 01:04 PM
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#1468
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
David Price @DAVIDprice14 27m27 minutes ago
#jays on my feet!! See what I did there?! I'll just stay with @drake drizzy rogers...t o r o n t o so high up I got birds in my condo
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Uh oh. Sounds like he's ethn...I mean he's got attitude problems. Better ship him out with Bautista. 
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07-30-2015, 01:16 PM
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#1469
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Franchise Player
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wait and see...I remember people going crazy a couple years ago about big time jays acquisitions and the team did worse the following year
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07-30-2015, 01:24 PM
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#1470
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I believe in the Pony Power
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I don't care at all about the future. it has been over 20 years. Jays fans deserve more.
I'm not as knowledgeable about baseball as many on this site, but my half-ass view is that for the most part, the teams that compete, are those that go out and 'get' good players.
The teams that are constantly focused on the future rarely break out of that cycle.
There are exceptions, but that's what they are.
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07-30-2015, 01:30 PM
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#1471
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As a non-Jays fan, Tulo and Price are great additions but they still need to find another reliable starter and another arm for the pen. Land those things and they are a legit threat to do some damage.
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07-30-2015, 01:37 PM
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#1472
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
As a non-Jays fan, Tulo and Price are great additions but they still need to find another reliable starter and another arm for the pen. Land those things and they are a legit threat to do some damage.
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I would think the Jays pen with the addition of Sanchez and Hawkins are fine.... Especially since they have added David Price, which will instantly reduce the innings for the pen.
Starting pitching with Hutchison is a concern.... he is very inconsistent to put in mildly.
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07-30-2015, 01:44 PM
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#1473
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Apparently a bit of chatter that Anthopolus is not done yet?
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07-30-2015, 01:50 PM
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#1474
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Franchise Player
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Have to remember that even if Price walks
the Comp pick they would get has more value than Boyd and Labourt its basically a 1st round pick
so the trade essentially turns in to
Price going forward for Norris/Boyd/Labourt or rental Price + a 1st round pick, so they didnt exactly empty the system here
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07-30-2015, 01:53 PM
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#1476
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
Have to remember that even if Price walks
the Comp pick they would get has more value than Boyd and Labourt its basically a 1st round pick
so the trade essentially turns in to
Price going forward for Norris/Boyd/Labourt or rental Price + a 1st round pick, so they didnt exactly empty the system here
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I heard there is no comp pick. Can't recall who said that. Mike Wilner maybe?
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07-30-2015, 02:01 PM
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#1477
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Powerplay Quarterback
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(gasp) OMG, just read the news. Price is a Jay. Yipppeee Kai yay!!
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07-30-2015, 02:03 PM
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#1478
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
I heard there is no comp pick. Can't recall who said that. Mike Wilner maybe?
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Yeah, there's no comp. pick involved in a mid-season acquisition unfortunately.
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07-30-2015, 02:04 PM
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#1479
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Franchise Player
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I heard there is no comp pick. Can't recall who said that. Mike Wilner maybe?
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They changed the rule with last CBA on comp picks for players acquired mid season.
I do not know exactly how it changed though
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07-30-2015, 02:08 PM
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#1480
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Franchise Player
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ah my bad
still like the trade but if they dont re-sign (and I dont think it would come down to $$$$) would have been nice to have
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