2011 Blue Jays/MLB Thread

[bustaheims]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/2011/08/08/jays_alvarez_jays/

I'm excited to see Alvarez. I hear can just smoke 'em.

Should be interesting. I don't imagine he'll be up for long - my guess this is one of those 'give the guy a couple starts against big leaguers so he knows what he has to work on' type deals - but, it could definitely be fun to watch.

 

[bustaheims]

Nothing concrete, but, rumblings around the twittersphere is that drift picks Daniel Norris and Matt Dean are close to signing contracts with the Jays. Both guys are considered tough signs with high ceilings, so, that's a good sign. Hopefully, Beede, Comer, Stilson and Smith will follow suit.

 

[maplesyrup]

Nothing concrete, but, rumblings around the twittersphere is that drift picks Daniel Norris and Matt Dean are close to signing contracts with the Jays. Both guys are considered tough signs with high ceilings, so, that's a good sign. Hopefully, Beede, Comer, Stilson and Smith will follow suit.

Here's hoping... Didn't we have a list of the signed/unsigned in the old place?

 

[bustaheims]

Here's hoping... Didn't we have a list of the signed/unsigned in the old place?

Don't believe so. There's one in the prosportsdaily.com forums, though.

 

[maplesyrup]

Here's hoping... Didn't we have a list of the signed/unsigned in the old place?

Don't believe so. There's one in the prosportsdaily.com forums, though.

Ah. Cheers.

 

[Darryl]

http://forum.okbluejays.com/index.php?topic=1931.0

Can follow alot of the signings there

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Don't recall if it was mentioned here?  McGowan finished his rehab in A and has moved up to AA and will start/have an increased pitch count.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Don't recall if it was mentioned here?  McGowan finished his rehab in A and has moved up to AA and will start/have an increased pitch count.

Awesome.  More detail:  http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110808&content_id=22934448&vkey=affililiate&c_id=tor

 

[hockeyfan1]

Jays' starter Ricky Romero chosen as A.L. player-of-the-week.

Source:  Sportsnet

 

[seahawk]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

 

[maplesyrup]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

Something wrong with stealing signs? Part of the came as far as I'm concerned. Furthermore, anyone else find it annoying that teams with 2/3 times the payroll the Jays have are complaining?

 

[bustaheims]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

Unnamed players on unnamed team claim to have seen mysterious man in white? Sounds like tabloid quality stuff to me.

 

[Derk]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

Unnamed players on unnamed team claim to have seen mysterious man in white? Sounds like tabloid quality stuff to me.

Apparently that unnamed team has been identified as the Chicago White Sox according to Prime Time Sports.

 

[Kin]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

It is something that's dogged the team for a while now. I hope they're not, as it's pretty dirty pool.

 

[maplesyrup]

Interesting article on ESPN.com about an accusation that the Jays are stealing signs at home.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre

It is something that's dogged the team for a while now. I hope they're not, as it's pretty dirty pool.

If signs are being stolen from outside the field of play as reports are now suggesting then yeah, shame on us if true. If it's from within, too fricken' bad... suck it up and change your signs.

 

[bustaheims]

If signs are being stolen from outside the field of play as reports are now suggesting then yeah, shame on us if true. If it's from within, too fricken' bad... suck it up and change your signs.

Yeah. As long as it's not someone sitting somewhere with binoculars or the like, then it's just part of the game and has been for more than 100 years. Also, considering the commissioner's office is saying they haven't actually received a complaint about it from anyone, I wouldn't put too much stock into this. I mean, if a team legitimately saw what this article claims they saw, a formal complaint would have been filed, without a doubt.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I like Arencibia's responses on twitter:

"I'm hitting 200 and we get signs at home, that makes sense #clowns"

"Teams/pitchers need to accept when we kick their [a--] in the rogers centre n not give excuses ? Looks like we had verlanders signs #nohitter"

Curtis Granderson says he couldn't see anything from the dugout, being too far away, but somehow the Jays are using some guy's signs 300-400 feet away in a crowd?

That story paints one sophisticated network of sign stealing.

Also found this slightly amusing, worth a wry smile:

FriedgeHNIC Elliotte Friedman
Interesting that White Sox at centre of sign-stealing allegations. One of their old coaches, Joe Nossek, was known as a master of that art.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

And Lawrie just hit a grand slam to put the Jays up 6-3.

 

[draeko17]

And Lawrie just hit a grand slam to put the Jays up 6-3.

Oh man, that is one excited young man.   

 

[bustaheims]

And Lawrie just hit a grand slam to put the Jays up 6-3.

The kid's got some pop in that bat, no doubt about it.