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Chris7711 wrote:Sir Anthony is a royal beast..future closer material
Randle McMurphy wrote:I can only conclude they’re giving Varsho a full day off because pinch hitting him there for Straw was an incredibly obvious move
Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
vaff87 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
5th percentile in sprint speed; Kirk is in the 2nd.
Odd thing about France is he’s in the 95th percentile in range.
mdenny wrote:In anycase....Masai is probably gonna make Fred the first active player/head coach in franchise history now that Nurse is out of the way. That's been the plan all along.
SharoneWright wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
SharoneWright wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
vaff87 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:I can only conclude they’re giving Varsho a full day off because pinch hitting him there for Straw was an incredibly obvious move
Yeah, they mentioned earlier that was the plan.
JN wrote:Very good start by Scherzer.
A clean 1-2-3 for Hoffman to finish it off.
We needed a win this way.
JN wrote:SharoneWright wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
France has a $1.0 million dollar contract... essentially $200,000 over a minimum player, or an extra $75,000 or so for the rest of the year. If it was a dump. it was a really cheap one.
I'm guessing in the end, when the Jays met the Twins price for Verland, the Jays said something like "we went a little extra here to get Verland to get it done, can you throw in France". And to get the deal done the Twins said yes, its not like he had any trade value on his own.
JN wrote:SharoneWright wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:France is approaching Kirk levels of slowness
Very strange addition
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
France has a $1.0 million dollar contract... essentially $200,000 over a minimum player, or an extra $75,000 or so for the rest of the year. If it was a dump. it was a really cheap one.
I'm guessing in the end, when the Jays met the Twins price for Verland, the Jays said something like "we went a little extra here to get Verland to get it done, can you throw in France". And to get the deal done the Twins said yes, its not like he had any trade value on his own.
COY0607 wrote:JN wrote:SharoneWright wrote:
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
France has a $1.0 million dollar contract... essentially $200,000 over a minimum player, or an extra $75,000 or so for the rest of the year. If it was a dump. it was a really cheap one.
I'm guessing in the end, when the Jays met the Twins price for Verland, the Jays said something like "we went a little extra here to get Verland to get it done, can you throw in France". And to get the deal done the Twins said yes, its not like he had any trade value on his own.
If Jays didn’t take France, he’d probably be DFA’d. He has no standalone value. I don’t think he made any difference on the structure of the deal - one way or another
COY0607 wrote:JN wrote:SharoneWright wrote:
Minnesota shedding salary to facilitate the sale of the team…
We might’ve accepted a bit of a salary dump on their part to help keep the price on Varland (and his years of control) down? Hope he provides a spark, and if not, he’s off the roster before the playoffs?
France has a $1.0 million dollar contract... essentially $200,000 over a minimum player, or an extra $75,000 or so for the rest of the year. If it was a dump. it was a really cheap one.
I'm guessing in the end, when the Jays met the Twins price for Verland, the Jays said something like "we went a little extra here to get Verland to get it done, can you throw in France". And to get the deal done the Twins said yes, its not like he had any trade value on his own.
If Jays didn’t take France, he’d probably be DFA’d. He has no standalone value. I don’t think he made any difference on the structure of the deal - one way or another
TORONTO — A quick Max Scherzer story, courtesy of Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider:
Back in spring training, the veteran right-hander was talking to Schneider about the Boston Red Sox lineup and proceeded to go down the order, listing exactly how he would attack each hitter. This wasn't just anecdotal, though. Scherzer backed up his thoughts with an array of numbers.
Schneider wondered if Scherzer had actually memorized those stats and so he looked it up himself.
"He was right," Schneider recalled with a grin. "He's really, really prepared."
Just another cool page to add to the book on the future Hall-of-Famer.
Scherzer carries his own binder and conducts extensive research — “He knows exactly what every hitter's slugging percentage is in a certain spot on a certain velo in a certain count,” says Schneider — and that’s among the ways the 41-year-old has impressed teammates and coaches all season.
On Saturday against the Kansas City Royals, Scherzer also impressed them on the mound as he authored arguably his finest start in a Blue Jays uniform to lift the club to a 4-2 win over the Royals in front of 41,842 at Rogers Centre.
Scherzer was in control for most of his six innings, but when he ran into trouble in the third, it offered a closer look at his preparation and how it can manifest in a game.
