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bjays.wordpress.com - 10/12/2009
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Oh, Alfredo…if only you had pitched in the
days before Hi-Def TV and Youtube. Check out the
latest fan-spotted doctoring of the ball before MLB pulls the plug:
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Random Yankees Suck Video
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bjays.wordpress.com - 9/29/2009
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We are having some rather serious technical difficulties
here. Does anyone have a computer science degree that
is better than my computer science degree? Because the endless cycle of rebuild-million-pitch-database/watch computer explode in flames/get new computer is what has lead to my ...
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Please Stand By
bjays.wordpress.com - 8/14/2009
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Just in case you were wondering where those
fastballs that Randy Ruiz hit 600 feet were, here’s
a lazily stolen graphic from Fox: He might not see one of those for a while.
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The AAAA Bomber
bjays.wordpress.com - 8/10/2009
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So after days of speculation and presumably hours
of intense negotiations over Alex Rios, the Jays have
traded him for…err…squat. The Hardball Times crunches the numbers here, which point out in fancy ways that we’re trading him at his lowest value ever, he’s an ...
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Alex Rios Given Away
bjays.wordpress.com - 8/5/2009
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Asked on the Fan this afternoon what the
general feeling in the clubhouse was about the team’s
chances next year, Adam Lind tried to change the subject by saying nobody thought that far ahead, but “we just feel terrible for Roy”. I know he probably didn’t mean because ...
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Can’t Hardly Wait
bjays.wordpress.com - 8/2/2009
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Over at Baseball Prospectus Rob McQuown has deemed
the Jays/Reds deal the worst deadline deal this season
(hat tip: BDD ) in favour of the Jays, giving it an “outside chance that this will be looked upon as a disaster of Liriano/Nathan proportions”. Probably nothing you ...
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More on the Rolen/Encarnacion swap
bjays.wordpress.com - 7/31/2009
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It now seems relatively official that the Jays
are getting back Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Roenicke, and Zach
Stewart for Scott Rolen. There’s going to be a lot of crying that this is a sign the Jays are not going to attempt to compete next year, but come on – when you get three ...
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The New Guys
bjays.wordpress.com - 7/31/2009
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Spreading the word…apparently it is for Edwin Encarnacion
and potentially Yonder Alonso, which would be a rather
ridiculous coup by JP. I’ll keep babbling here about why if that is indeed the case, but you should probably just go to mlbtraderumours for updates. Update: Maybe ...
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Rolen Traded
bjays.wordpress.com - 7/30/2009
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With brilliant SABR minds like Bill James in
your front office, a wunkerkind of a GM, a
few quality characters like our own Kevin Millar keeping things loose, and the willingness to spend what it takes for the last few pieces of the puzzl needed to go all the way. Oh yeah, and drugs. Tons of ...
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How to topple the evil empire the Boston way
bjays.wordpress.com - 7/29/2009
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Hello, all…this Bird isn’t dead, I’ve just been
laboriously assembling million-pitch databases lately, only to see one
computer after the other that I put them on promptly explode (no doubt overburdened by the sheer volume of baseball knowledge contained within). I did ...
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Ichiroed
bjays.wordpress.com - 7/5/2009
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By request, here are the umpire calls for
the last couple of games — first how Burnett
was treated in his successful start against the Jays: Of those two called strikes way off the plate, one of them is his big breaking ball, so it will have curved closer by the time it reached the ...
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Under the Microscope
bjays.wordpress.com - 6/24/2009
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I’m out of here for a couple of
days, but this site has much cuter graphics anyway.
Halladay is apparently back on Monday . Vernon Wells is apparently the 58th worst regular , but attacking it with the “ diligence of a lab chemist “. (No swearing, or chucking — what ...
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Hiatus Ho
bjays.wordpress.com - 6/23/2009
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Confession time: when Jeremy Accardo saved his first
game of the year, I almost cried. Yeah, he
got two outs on five pitches, but they were almost unbelievably straight down the middle, he was hit hard, and didn’t even hit 91 mph. He threw one slider, and none of his once-incredible ...
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Accardo’s New Pitch
bjays.wordpress.com - 6/18/2009
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So how did Scott Richmond not only survive,
but strike out 11 against a lefty-stacked Phillies lineup,
when lefties have hit him on for an absurd .972 OPS this season? He finally ignored the completely overblown concept that as a righty you don’t throw breaking pitches to left handed ...
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Throw the Damn Curve
bjays.wordpress.com - 6/16/2009
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For a little pick me up in the
middle of the latest Jays’ slide, check out John
Dewans’ stat of the week , where the authour of The Fielding Bible gives the nod to the most defensive runs saved so far this year to Aaron Hill (13) – with Marco Scutaro (9) not too far behind. ...
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Sweet Up the Middle
