Thames Called up

[CapeCrusader]

Very curious to see how he plays.

[Hoopstarr]

Yaaaaaay

[Macho]

Last week things were bleak but now there is excitement and things to look forward to once again, gotta love professional sports.

[Wally West]

Thank god, please let this be the end of Rivera.

Maybe we could trade him back to the Angels... they could use a left-fielder.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !

[sonn]

Hopefully Thames will be the one good thing to come out of the 2008 draft.

[StringerBell]

Finally! This is long overdue. He should have been called up before Cooper.

[Schad]

Hopefully Thames will be the one good thing to come out of the 2008 draft.

AJ Jimenez looks like a keeper, and Danny Farquhar could be a nice find in the tenth round. Plus, Pastor Nicky helped to get us Yuni. But yeah, it's an odd draft when your 7th, 8th and 10th round picks outperform your 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounders.


I'm not expecting Thames to come up here and mash 30 home runs a year, but he should be pretty productive. Plenty of doubles power and a decent knack for getting on base...an above-average platoon player, likely, and an average everyday LF if he can learn to hit big-league lefties.

[Avenger]

Thames reminds me of Matt Joyce, a guy who has done nothing but mash the ball buts gets unfairly slapped with the platoon player tag, hopefully we show more patience with THames than Joe Maddon did with Joyce.

[baulderdash77]

I would give Thames an 8/10 for his first game with the Jays. His first string was just monstrous.

He got his first hit, run, rbi, walk. It wasn't JPA's first start but it was pretty good.

And seriously the team would have won the game if he would have played RF with Bautista starting at 1B tonight, just saying.

[Lange]

Thames reminds me of Matt Joyce, a guy who has done nothing but mash the ball buts gets unfairly slapped with the platoon player tag, hopefully we show more patience with THames than Joe Maddon did with Joyce.

Regardless of how Farrell plays him, if he does what Matt Joyce does, I would be extremely exited. He's a low profile player who has a knack for getting the barrel on the ball.

[evilRyu]

Long shot here, but would someone by chance have a .gif of that 1st swing by Thames like a boss?

[OvertimeNO]

Long shot here, but would someone by chance have a .gif of that 1st swing by Thames like a boss?

Not the first swing, but I imagine all of the dude's cuts are epic like this.

[evilRyu]

haha good job with that..

[baulderdash77]

Thames continues his good start with another walk & hit. 7 PA, 5 AB, 2H, 2W, 1RBI, 1R. He looks much more comfortable at the plate than Cooper did.

I really like his ability to grind out at bats. He's been more than a match for 2 very good young arms so far.

[Hoopstarr]

Many might not know that yoga was a huge part of his success. There was a BP article on this last year. He said he has always had unusually tight muscles that led to easy injuries so yoga gave him a ton of flexibility he never had until last year.

Edit: Here it is http://www.baseballprospectus.com/artic ... leid=12155