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May 2nd vs Red Sox

Batter pLI WPA
Lawrie – 3B 1.62 0.090
Lind – 1B 2.03 -0.147
Bautista – RF 1.51 0.011
Encarnacion – DH 1.55 -0.193
Arencibia – C 1.29 -0.064 Pitcher pLI WPA
Cabrera – LF 1.39 -0.144 Happ  – SP 1.29 -0.080
Rasmus – CF 1.39 0.146 Lincoln – RP 1.40 0.107
Bonifacio – 2B 1.37 -0.118 Delabar – RP 0.78 -0.021
Davis – PH 3.51 -0.079 Cecil – RP 0.53 0.031
Kawasaki – SS 1.66 -0.060 Rogers – RP 0.51 0.019
Total 1.59 -0.557 Total 1.08 0.057

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April 30th v Red Sox

Batter pLI WPA
Lawrie – 3B 0.99 0.002
Davis – DH 0.98 0.120
Lind – PH / DH 1.42 -0.036
Bautista – RF 1.26 0.150
Encarnacion – 1B 1.15 0.570
Cabrera – LF 0.61 -0.079 Pitcher pLI WPA
Arencibia – C 0.57 0.050 Morrow  – SP 1.34 0.029
Izturis – SS / 2B 0.59 -0.048 Loup – RP 1.01 -0.112
Rasmus – CF 0.54 0.045 Delabar – RP 2.55 -0.348
Bonifacio – 2B 0.49 -0.040 Oliver – RP 2.64 0.124
Kawasaki – SS 0.34 -0.005 Janssen – RP 1.00 0.078
Total 0.82 0.730 Total 1.50 -0.230

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Jays Graph April 7th v Boston

Batter pLI WPA
SS – Reyes 0.27 -0.007
RF – Davis 0.28 -0.029
LF – Cabrera 0.18 -0.019
1B – Encarnacion 0.24 -0.025
DH – Arencibia 0.15 0.012
3B – DeRosa 0.22 -0.016 Pitcher pLI WPA
2B – Izturis 0.18 0.007 SP – Dickey 0.39 -0.384
C – Blanco 0.30 -0.031 RP – Bush 0.01 0.000
CF – Bonifacio 0.18 -0.007 RP – Cecil 0.00 0.000
Total 0.22 -0.116 Total 0.23 -0.384

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Jays Graph April 6th v Boston copy

Batter
pLI WPA
Reyes – SS 0.65 0.086
Davis – RF 0.73 -0.04
Cabrera – LF 0.91 -0.07
Encarnacion – 1B 0.83 -0.09
Lind – DH 0.59 0.036 Pitcher pLI WPA
Arencibia – C 0.73 0.17 Happ – SP 1.01 0.276
DeRosa – 3B 0.41 -0.015 Delabar – RP 0.57 0.09
Rasmus – CF 0.61 0.072 Loup – RP 0.17 0.013
Bonifacio – 2B 0.46 -0.035 Santos – RP  0.08 0.007
Total 0.66 0.114 Total 0.77 0.386

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April 5th v Red Sox Done

Name pLI WPA
Reyes - SS 1.41 0.345
Bonifacio - 2B 1.23 -0.101
Cabrera - LF 1.16 0.028
Encarnacion - DH 1.63 -0.295
Arencibia – C 1.56 -0.016
Davis - RF 1.39 0.051 Pitcher pLI WPA
Rasmus - CF 1.88 0.061 Johnson – SP 
1.27 -0.130
Lind - PH-1B 3.63 0.092 Cecil – RP 1.59 0.106
DeRosa - 1B 1.36 -0.16 Rogers – RP 2.08 -0.234
Izturis - 3B 2.37 -0.176 Jeffress – RP 0.56 -0.071
Total 1.64 -0.171 Total 1.25 -0.33

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Not that I’m afraid of what the Red Sox lineup would look like with Josh Hamilton in it (though I am), but this sounds like a pretty fantastic turn of events for the outfield down there in Fuckface Farrell’s Masshole Nation:

Cafardo had earlier called the Sox front runners, and says that there’s “optimism” a deal could happen.

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Is the insufferable saga of the courting of John Farrell by the Boston Red Sox finally nearing its conclusion? It sure as shit is starting to feel like it, as reports now indicate that the talks are moving well forward, and it’s getting harder and harder to see how the Jays could, at this point, pull back and continue on with Farrell, who they’re very obviously not insistent on keeping, as their manager.

As has been the case lately, it’s Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe who appears to have been first to stick his neck out:

In the Toronto Sun, Bob Elliott writes about Cafardo’s report, explaining that “we believe, as the Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo wrote, that the teams are ‘beyond preliminary stage of compensation talks for Farrell’ since the two teams have been talking for a week,” however, “we do not believe that talks “have reached the ownership stage” as we’ve seen reported.”

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