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Rosenthal: Jays Still Looking for a Starter

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers, Kenny Ken Ken on Nov 15, 2012

Maybe there really is something to the notion that we haven’t even yet seen the top of the Jays’ payroll mountain, because while you were out arguing about how it’s absurd for anyone to believe that Miguel Cabrera– incredible season as he had, and incredible achievement as the Triple Crown is (albeit one that does precisely nothing to demonstrate a player’s Ultimate Value, and one only made possible by something as quaint as whichever long-dead scribe coined it choosing to use RBIs as one of it’s three pillars, rather than a stat with actual meaning or that Cabrera didn’t happen to lead in)–  had anything close to a better season than Mike Trout, Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports was doing the lord’s work, laying this one on us:

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Jays Close to Major Deal with Miami Marlins

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers on Nov 13, 2012

WHOA!!!!!

And Kenny Ken Ken adds:

Shit son!

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME:

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Rosenthal: Anthopoulos “Itching” For Pitching

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers on Nov 13, 2012

Not that this should come as any surprise, but apparently Alex Anthopoulos really wants to make a trade for some pitching:

Well, at least there’s something he’s itching to do– hiring a manager seems to be cramped in the back seat, insisting it has enough leg room.

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Jeremy Jeffress: Jays Haul in Another Nugget

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers on Nov 08, 2012

In addition to the acquisition of Maicer– not Macier– Izturis this morning, the Jays have made themselves a small trade with the Kansas City Royals, picking up hard-throwing right-handed reliever Jeremy Jeffress in exchange for cash, according to a tweet from Jeffress’ agent, Josh Kusnick.

Jeffress is a guy who really blows smoke, and knows how to bring the high heater, averaging above 95 on his fastball in limited MLB action over the last three years. But he’s a chronic minor leaguer, heading into his eighth season as a pro, with fewer than 40 innings in the Majors to show for it.

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Bowden: Jays “Most Interested” In Jackson

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers on Nov 06, 2012

No, really.

In an impressive piece of work that he does every year, at ESPN.com (Insider only), Jim Bowden has listed his top 50 free agents, providing suggestions as to the best fits, little tidbits of information about each, and predictions of the terms of the contracts they’ll eventually sign– which, as you may recall, were eerily accurate in last year’s version of this exercise.

Because of this, and in spite of the fact that it’s a piece written by Jim Bowden, I think it’s certainly worth taking a look at all of the Jays-related things he’s saying. Which… um… isn’t a whole hell of a lot.

Which makes sense, because the thing is, despite all the talk we’ve heard of Rogers ponying up more dough for Alex Anthopoulos to spend than usual this off-season– which they may well actually do– their benevolence isn’t quite as impressive as they’d like you to think. Money is flowing around baseball like beer that flows like wine, and free agents will be flocking elsewhere like the salmon of Capistrano.

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The Off-Season Begins

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers, Jeff Blair, John Farrell, Manager Search on Oct 29, 2012

“Free agency began at 8 a.m. Monday, with teams retaining exclusive negotiating rights until midnight Friday,” wrote Jeff Blair in a piece chalk full of goodies in this morning’s Globe and Mail. “Other teams are not precluded from talking to free agents during these five days, but only the players previous team can re-sign him during the period.”

In other words, the Jays need to get on their damn horse with this managerial search, in order to make sure they don’t have too many balls in the air as the most ridiculously crucial free agent period this team has faced in a long time gets set to begin. And, at least according to Blair, it’s not going to be an easy decision, explaining that “one veteran baseball man, who knows Anthopoulos and the Blue Jays, said last week that he believed Anthopoulos would lean toward hiring a candidate with a background in player development as well as coaching – much like Farrell – which could hint of Wakamatsu,” however, he also believes that “finding someone who has proven that he can manage a Major League team and has demonstrated tactical nous would seem to be an important consideration.”

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Marcum? I Hardly Know ‘im!

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under AA's Quest for Pitchers on Oct 26, 2012

Believe it or not, it’s been a busy week around here, thank you very much, Ben Cherington, meaning that the odd item has managed to slipped through the cracks– which, of course, is just a more delicate way of saying, here’s something that happened on Tuesday that I haven’t bothered to get around to until now.

With the Jays’ need to acquire starting pitching help so bloody obvious that even the normally tight-lipped Alex Anthopoulos is open about it, a lot of names have been tossed around among fans as potential fits– and potential free agents who might actually be interested in taking the Jays money.

An obvious one that folks keep coming back to is Shaun Marcum, who, of course, cut his teeth with the Jays before being dealt to Milwaukee for Brett Lawrie.

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