MLB 2011 season

The best that we could do is Ludwick and Derrick Lee?

I like the Doug Fister  trade for the Tigers, and I also really liked what I saw of Jacob Turner yesterday. An eventual starting rotation of Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Fister and Turner will be top five in the MLB.

3 games as a Jay, 0 hits for Colby Rasmus.

Ugly game tonight. 6 walks given up, 2 errors and a hit batter. Who is this walk machine Grilli anyway. He hasn't given up any runs as yet but he's walking too many people. I'm hoping for a closer game tomorrow night.

Royals had a pretty good series against the Red Sox, split it 2-2. Can't complain at all.

Stooge wrote: Sad news.  Hideki Irabu was found dead of an apparent suicide. http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=372668

That is sad news.


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Sad news.  Hideki Irabu was found dead of an apparent suicide. http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=372668

At least it wasn't the Braves. 

I like Hunter Pence, but I hate his price. Reportedly we offered Corsart, Singelton and a C prospect for him. To me that is absurd and I would have felt completely gutted if the Astros accepted. I'm so glad that they didn't. Hunter Pence isn't a top 10 outfielder. I would say he's just good. He's going to get expensive after this year, and the Phillies don't really need him.

I would like to see them stand pat. If teams are overvaluing Worely because he's been a little lucky in his starts, I would be willing to trade him (I'd even just trade him for prospect if this were the case) to maximize value. The Phillies will make the playoffs. Last I saw our playoff odds were 97.5%. So we don't really need Worely this year. Though a cost controlled #4/#5 pitcher would be nice next year.

If we can add small pieces for cheap. That's the only acquisition I want to see made. Maybe grabbing like a Giambi or a Thome for off the bench and possible DH later on. Maybe if we could pick up a LOOGY. The only player I'd give up a nice chunk for would be Cuddyer , but it doesn't seem like the Twins are going to move him. Even in that case, they're not getting two A prospects. I'm not trading Corsart or Singelton.

The team should just platoon Ibanez with Mayberry as far as I'm concerned. I'd even just give Mayberry a chance to start full time in left, but I know that's an impossibility unless Raul gets injured. I have absolutely no idea why Mayberry isn't at least used as a defensive substitution as we were doing for Burrell in 07/08.

I don't understand how  you can't see where the tag was made. Further, given how routine the play was, I would need to be more convinced that no tag was made.