And now it’s time for your daily injection of all the Jays-related stuff spinning around the interwebs that wasn’t worthy of a post– which, at this point in the off-season, is pretty much all of it. It’s your Mid-Afternoon Snack!
At Getting Blanked, Parkes is alarmed by the picture above of Jays players on the club’s Winter Caravan, mostly because of “Eric Thames’ off season surgery, which has seen his thighs transplanted into his shoulder sockets.”
And in that same little corner of the interweb, Chris Creamer of SportsLogos.net suggests that history tells us the Astros are due a rebrand for when they move to the American League in 2013.
Sticking with the folks that pay the bills, theScore Buzz takes a look back at when Wayne Gretzky was a Blue Jay. Kinda.
And keeping it related yet one more time, USA Today tells the story of how Getting Blanked contributor Bill Parker from the Platoon Advantage, a humble blogger who only wanted to talk sense about the Hall of Fame, became Saberboy.
Bluebird Banter continues in its series of asking readers to predict the seasons of Blue Jays players, and the combination of this being such a slow news day and the fact that their subject is Jose Bautista actually made me not instantly flip past it for once.
Finally, someone writes a piece on the potential suitors for Prince Fielder, and doesn’t include the Jays among them. (It’s Buster Olney of ESPN.com (Insider Olney)).
Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing tries to scare other teams off Prince Fielder by examining evidence that suggests he’s probably terrible at baseball.
Lastly, WWTDD seems to believe it has found the definitive picture of Alex Rodriguez.
Thx Rory, just figured it out and came back to delete my post.
It makes no sense to punt a player with his potential when the club could obviously use someone who could develop like he could. The return value for him right now would be pitiful considering what value he could provide. You’ve invested 6 years in him, no sense giving up at this point.
Snider’s not the only one patience is having to be extended too, when you have players like Drabek, Rasmus, Cecil, or Lind or Morrow for that matter.
holy shit the guy is only 23 for fuck’s sake. do you know how shitty aaron hill, alex rios and adam lind were at age 23, let alone their first few years in the bigs?
K rate has been high, for certain.
While I agree it’s too early to give up on Snider, I wouldn’t use 3 players who currently suck ass to try and prove that point.
Tabby’s gonna love Thames’ new body.
#BEEGandSTRONG