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Hot GIF: Anthony Gose Steals Home

Posted by Scott Lewis under Anthony Gose, GIFfer Madness on May 08, 2013

Here’s something that ought to fire up the free Anthony Gose set. Fair enough, as it’s rather fucking awesome. Gose stole home for his fourth steal of the season in the first inning of the Bisons’ game versus Norfolk on Tuesday.

Gose pulls this off while none other than the 2012 Baltimore Orioles Opening Day starter, Jake Arrieta, is on the mound. The speedy outfielder has been caught stealing in four out of eight attempts in Triple-A thus far in 2013. Not that swiping home makes his .250/.352/.352 triple slash line any more palatable, but y’know, it’s still totally fucking NAILS.

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Dickey Rumours And The Value Of Anthony Gose

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthony Gose, RA Dickey on Dec 09, 2012

Apologies for the deluge of R.A. Dickey-related posts lately– and the bad puns that inevitably go with them– but at the moment it’s one of the few things legitimately on the horizon that we’re aware of and that we can feel comfortable thinking the Jays might be in on. Or that, at the very least, has all the signs of something the club must be considering, even if much of the talk of some kind of feverish interest is bunk. And here we’ve at least got something of a different angle than passing along ever bit of speculation…

The problem with making a play for Dickey, of course, is the question of his value, which no one– not Dickey and the Mets, not the Mets and the teams inquiring on him– seems able to agree on.

The Mets want a lot, and the fact that the Rangers just missed out on Zack Greinke could make Texas more interested in moving someone like Mike Olt to get a deal done, which could escalate the market–and, as Buster Olney points out, given the Greinke deal and some of the other signings this winter, that the “extension request by Dickey looks very reasonable.”

Despite their seeming unwillingness to extend him at that rate, New York clearly knows this, as Andy Martino of the Daily News tweets that even Olt on his own won’t be enough to get the Mets to trade their Cy Young winner.

Ken Rosenthal takes a look at the difficulty of finding the right value for both sides in a piece at Fox Sports, using both the Rangers and Olt and the Jays as examples.

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Breaking: Our Collective Tolerance for Incompetence

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Anthony Gose on Aug 24, 2012

If anybody can make sense of this one (other than the obvious ie: they’re not ready and/or good enough), I’m all ears. In order to make room for Brandon Morrow and Yunel Escobar, the Jays optioned Anthony Gose and Adeiny Hechavarria back down to Triple-A. On August 24th, one week before the rosters expand. While Mike McCoy stays up and Colby Rasmus obviously nurses an injury.

On the same night the Red Sox get a do-over on a quarter billion dollars of seemingly sunk costs. After another loss to the motherfucking playoff-aspirant Baltimore fucking Orioles – a game in which Chris Davis hit three home runs! CHRIS DAVIS!

Anything else happen today? Fuck me, I need a drink.

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Maybe Not Yet the Golden Gose?

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthony Gose on Jul 23, 2012

During Saturday’s curious evening game from Fenway Park I could hold my tongue no longer on a subject that had been distressing me for most of the week, blurting into the sports bar atmosphere that is Twitter during a live event that Anthony Gose kinda doesn’t look ready for the Major Leagues.

Some agreed, while others were aghast that I would make such a statement while seeing him in MLB action for only the third time.

Of course, you can parse my words to see that there’s really nothing inflammatory in them– I wasn’t suggesting anything’s changed about Gose’s long-term projection, just that he looks a little overwhelmed as a 21-year-old making the jump to the Majors after just 433 plate appearances in Triple-A. But I can’t deny that it may have seemed a little strange, seeing as I generally tend to want to keep pushing samples size as far as I possibly before relenting to whatever conclusion the masses guts had been telling them for months (see: Cordero, Francisco).

Thing is, though, Gose has looked overmatched, and for a guy who came to the Majors with the reputation of having all kinds of crazy tools, except the one where… y’know… he hits, it’s not exactly been the kind of start to his career that has you praising the Jays for their acumen in deciding that he was the player who deserved to get called up when Jose Bautista went down.

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Digging for Goldstein: Killing the Golden Gose

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthony Gose, Kevin Goldstein on Jul 17, 2012

Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus has been fielding all sorts of questions this afternoon, mostly relating to Jays fans being unable to process reality when it comes to Anthony Gose– who, it should be noting, won’t necessarily be making his MLB debut tonight, as Ben Francisco gets the start in right with somewhat-difficult left-hander CC Sabathia on the hill for New York.

And Goldstein’s got plenty of other stuff too. Let’s watch!

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It’s Official: Bautista to the DL, Gose Up

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthony Gose, Injuries, Jose Bautista on Jul 17, 2012

The Jays’ official Twitter makes it… er… official:

Shi Davidi of Sportsnet adds that, in order to clear a spot for Gose on the 40-man, Brandon Morrow has been moved to the 60-day DL (which, as you may know, can be done retroactively, and doesn’t at all mean that he’s still 60 days away from returning).

Davidi also adds that “there’s no immediate word on the severity of Bautista’s injury, but ‘inflammation’ is better than strain or tear.”

He’s right, of course, but that sure was a rather instant and violent-looking bout of inflammation.

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Gose Will Get the Call, But What of Snider?

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthony Gose, Injuries, Travis Snider on Jul 17, 2012

Shi Davidi of Sportsnet tweets some clarification on the reports that we’d heard from Las Vegas about Anthony Gose being removed from tonight’s 51s game…

The suggestion that Gose is next in line to get the call-up has produced a lot of “whither Travis Snider?” reactions, and naturally, more griping from fans insistent on seeing this as further evidence that the club is screwing over its once-elite prospect.

That said, while it’s easy to get caught up in the prospect porn trip, obviously, first and foremost, the concern is for Jose Bautista, and what any time on the DL for him might mean to the Jays’ already-slim chances in 2012.

I saw some folks on Twitter who actively welcomed the news, actually, seriously hoping that the results of tomorrow’s MRI would quickly usher the Jays in to sell- and play-the-kids-mode. Others, somehow even more fucking ludicrous, seemed to feel that this very well may mean the end for Bautista, unless he’s able to find Luke Skywalker’s wrist doctor… or… anamatronic limb-maker… or… whatever the hell that was in that movie people my age know way too much about.

But there’s only so much you can say about that until we find out what the injury is for certain (unless, apparently, you’re Paul O’Neill), and lots of talk has turned to what happens if our MVP does go on the DL. In that regard, obviously, seeing Anthony Gose patrol right field is an exciting prospect when divorced from any thoughts of the reasons that brought him there, but it’s certainly fair game to wonder why he got the call and Travis Snider did not.

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