Jays to Assign Lawire to AAA.

rtcaino · Post #1 » by **rtcaino** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:21 pm

Just saw it on The Score.

Will update with a link later.

RocLaFamilia · Post #2 » by **RocLaFamilia** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:59 pm

He will be called up soon, from the way you guys have been describing it. Sounds like some playing time to work out kinks and gets called up in May-June

mikero · Post #3 » by **mikero** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:02 pm

He should be up in a couple months.

J-Roc · Post #4 » by **J-Roc** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:25 pm

He sounds like he's taking it in stride.

blawrie13 Brett Lawrie
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And this might mean the Jays tried to move him before the media could make a story of it?

RGriffinStar Richard Griffin
Jays quietly slide Lawrie assignment to minor league camp into notes w/o availability after he has been the talk of the spring.
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evilRyu · Post #5 » by **evilRyu** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:43 pm

I think this is a good move. Let him work on his defense, and he should be back in no time.

evilRyu · Post #6 » by **evilRyu** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:44 pm

i never knew Lawrie tweets lol.. any other Jays regularly tweet?

Post #7 » by **OldNo7** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:11 am

evilRyu wrote:i never knew Lawrie tweets lol.. any other Jays regularly tweet?

Cecil and Romero sometimes, JPA and Snider have accounts too

MGD24 · Post #8 » by **MGD24** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:33 am

all 5 of them post fairly regularly...and they chat back and forth a lot

Romero and Vernon always talk to each other too

Skin Blues · Post #9 » by **Skin Blues** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:41 am

evilRyu wrote:I think this is a good move. Let him work on his defense, and he should be back in no time.

... and start his arb clock a year later. AA was on the Fan yesterday and when asked if they were avoiding Brett Lawrie's service time starting early, he said:

"I can answer this both ways. No GM will tell you the opposite, but - reading between the lines ... if we treat players the right way, and players know if they're not being treated the right way, agents know if they're not being treated the right way. So, if someone has a great spring, and the person they're competing with has had a terrible spring, and it's clear developmentally that they're ready, and it's very very obvious who should be on the team, we have to look ourselves in the mirror and ask if we're holding up our end of the bargain ... Brett's played well, and Rivera's swung the bat very well and obviously he's under contract for 5 million dollars"

Bottom line: we're leaving him in the minors until the summer no matter how good he hits in the spring.

baulderdash77 · Post #10 » by **baulderdash77** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:41 am

Here are the jays with accounts. I think this is an exhaustive list right now.

Joe Carter, Litsch, Cecil, Romero, JPA, Snider, Lawrie, Frank Gailey (minor leaguer), Deck McGuire (minor leaguer), Jake Marsinek (minor leaguer)

DonYon · Post #11 » by **DonYon** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:28 am

We probably won't see him again until september

SharoneWright · Post #12 » by **SharoneWright** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:36 am

Love the tweets from BL. Taking the long term view! He's gonna have a long and fine career, so no sense in going all HAM on management. He'll get his.

MGD24 · Post #13 » by **MGD24** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:38 am

baulderdash77 wrote:Here are the jays with accounts. I think this is an exhaustive list right now.

Joe Carter, Litsch, Cecil, Romero, JPA, Snider, Lawrie, Frank Gailey (minor leaguer), Deck McGuire (minor leaguer), Jake Marsinek (minor leaguer)

Gregg Zaun just joined recently too lol....oh and Ace (the Jays mascot) is also on there
and Joe hasn't really tweeted since the world series teams reunion last year.

former Jays who also have accounts include;
Carlos Delgado, Orlando Hudson, Vernon, Dirk Hayhurst, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens

WpgPage · Post #14 » by **WpgPage** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:11 pm

Zep pitching the 8th today with Rauch pitching the 9th interested to see what Zep will do with this new relief role hopefully he can be effective since Purcy has been awful most of the spring

satyr9 · Post #15 » by **satyr9** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:31 pm

I would've been scared if he'd broken with the big club, 'cause there are way too many solid reasons to start him in AAA. IMO if he'd started with the Jays I'd have to assume it was either 'cause some of the personality rumours were true and they were scared of pissing him off or as a Leafesque publicity move that does more damage than good. Didn't happen and it shouldn't have. Whether he's back in July or September is probably all up to him, and a maybe a little bit on Rivera, Bautista, and Encarnacion.