The Toronto Blue Jays 2012 Thread

[MistaNova]

He's back. Great game for Joey Bats going 1-2 with 1 HR, 2 RBI & 2 R.

[Lunatic]

We need better than that Morrow

[Twentytwofifty]

I'm loving how bad of shape the Red Sox are in.  Before the season it was safe to assume that the division winners would be NYY/BOS/TB, DET & TEX/LAA.  Leaving the Jays to beat two of those three non-division winners.  I really think the Jays can finish ahead of the Red Sox now, just have to finish better than Tampa or LA now in my mind.

Lot of things will have to go right for the Jays but it's possible to sneak into the playoffs this year.

[Lunatic]

Sweet 4 game sweep 

[Lunatic]

What abysmal offensive performances in the first 2 games of this Orioles series.

We desperately need another big bat in the lineup right now.

I can't stand Thames, not a good hitter and horrible in the field.

We should package Snider & a relief pitcher for another bat.

[Twentytwofifty]

What can they do with Adam Lind now?  He's going on his third poor year in a row. I can't see getting much back via a trade, but that might be the only option this off season if keeps playing like this.  I can't see them having much more patience with him.

David Cooper would probably be slightly better but I don't know if he'll cut it. They might just have to pull off a big trade with all their minor league talent. 

[Twentytwofifty]

Atta boy Brett Lawrie!   
I love how he always SPRINTS out of the box EVERY TIME.  Not very many players do that.

[Lunatic]

Atta boy Brett Lawrie!   
I love how he always SPRINTS out of the box EVERY TIME.  Not very many players do that.

[Twentytwofifty]

Finally Lind is outta the 4th spot.  Enough of the madness.
How the Jays are doing fairly well overall with black holes in the 3/4 spots and horrific bullpen pitching is a miracle. 

[Lunatic]

Finally Lind is outta the 4th spot.  Enough of the madness.
How the Jays are doing fairly well overall with black holes in the 3/4 spots and horrific bullpen pitching is a miracle. 

Seriously. I'm so done with Lind, it's ridiculous.

And we need Santos back ASAP. Cordero can't close anything.

[MistaNova]

[Lunatic]

^ haha awesome.

I was at the Jays game tonight, was fun to smash the Yankees 8-1 

[Twentytwofifty]

Adam Lind down to AAA, Yan Gomes is up.
Good news, it's about time.  He's at -1.0 WAR since the beginning of the 2010 season, good to have this blackhole at 1B gone.

Lind's contact status:

4 years/$18M (2010-13), plus 2014-16 club options

    4 years/$18M (2010-13), plus 2014-16 club options
        signed extension with Toronto 4/3/10, replacing 1-year, $0.41M deal for 2010
        $0.6M signing bonus
        10:$0.4M, 11:$5M, 12:$5M, 13:$5M, 14:$7M club option ($2M buyout), 15:$7.5M club option ($1M buyout), 16:$8M club option ($0.5M buyout)
    1 year/$0.4118M (2009)
        re-signed by Toronto 2/25/09
    1 year/$0.3964M (2008)
        re-signed by Toronto 1/29/08 ($0.1157M in minors)
    1 year (2007)
        re-signed 3/07
    1 year (2006)
        contract purchased 9/06
    drafted 2004 (3-83)
    $0.44M signing bonus
    agent: John Courtright
    ML service: 4.085

[Twentytwofifty]

Hopefully by the all-star break Snider and Vlad can come up and this offence can really get going. 

Johnson 2B
Escobar 3B
Bautista RF
Encarnacion 1B
Guerrero DH
Lawrie 3B
Rasmus CF
Arencibia C
Snider LF

[Lunatic]

WOW, bold move to send Lind down, but I love it, had to be done. He's been an automatic out.

Let's see what Gomes has