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Elliott: Chat Nuggets From a Hall Of Famer

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Bob Elliott, Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

Bob Elliott chatted with readers today over at the Toronto Sun, and while it may be true that I took something of a mocking tone yesterday when I linked to a previous chat, today I’m going to go with a different approach, because it turns out he’s let loose all kinds of interesting tidbits in there.

To wit:

On starting pitching:

“They are looking for better than Marcum.”

Names of interest on that front, he says, are “Dickey, Niese, [Wade] Davis.”

“It would be nice [to keep Arencibia and Rasmus], but they are looking for a No. 1 guy. Right now they have a lot of No. 3s or maybe Morrow is a No. 2 and Johnson could be if his shoulder allows him to add missing MPH.”

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Francona: Manager Is Boston’s Biggest Weakness

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under John Farrell, Mailing in a Post, Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

Welp, the Winter Meetings have been a bit of a bust so far, but this should make your day.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Yeah, yeah, he’s joking, but still. Gold.

 

Image via @James_in_to.

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Knobler: Escobar Almost Traded In July

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings, Yunel Escobar on Dec 05, 2012

We’re lacking specifics on this one, but a tweet from Danny Knobler of CBS Sports caught my eyeblack late last night:

So… right about the time the Jays were looking to move everyone with a pulse for a reliever? Or were they perhaps looking for starters still at that point?

It’s impossible to say, with such a small nugget of information, but there were always a few ways that the Jays could have lined up with Oakland. I certainly can’t complain, given what’s transpired since, that it didn’t come to fruition– especially after the Rays shrewdly picked up Escobar from the Marlins yesterday for a Double-A middle-infielder who was blocked in their organization by, like, three different guys. Any offence the Rays can pick up is a very good thing for them, and it’s not a terrible bet to think a rebound could be in the cards for Yunel.

So… there’s that.

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Winter Meetings Day Three: Housekeeping

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

While we have your attention, as the festivities continue down in Nashville, allow me to give you a quick reminder that you totally should be following DJF on Facebook, to have all of our posts injected straight to your news feed as they happen. And don’t forget @DrunkJaysFans on Twitter, either– we’re closing in on 10,000 followers!

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Stay tuned for a podcast today (I think!)– and I think another Google+ Hangout in the works in the very near future (stay tuned!).

Thanks for your continued support, and welcome to those of you checking us out for the first time, waiting for the Jays to make their big move in Nashville. Though… um… don’t hold your breath.

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Davidoff: Jays Still Looking For Bullpen Help

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

Not the kind of earth-shattering news we were maybe hoping for during these Winter Meetings– though it’s hard to get greedy, and as I heard Mike Wilner point out on the radio yesterday, if the Jays had spaced out their acquisitions of Johnson, Buehrle, Reyes, Bonifacio, Izturis and Cabrera a little more over the course of the winter, I don’t think we’d be nearly so antsy right now– but at least, apparently, Alex Anthpoulos is still on the prowl for something.

Per Ken Davidoff of the New York Post (via MLBTR):

The Blue Jays, having dramatically remade their team already, are looking for bullpen help. Lefty Darren Oliver, 42, has not yet committed to coming back for next season even though Toronto exercised its $3 million team option on the former Met.

There hasn’t been a lot of attention paid to the Jays bullpen so far this off-season, largely because of all the work Alex Anthopoulos did to shore it up over the course of the summer, but… maybe there should have been.

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Tom Cheek Wins The Ford C. Frick!

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Awesomeness, Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

I’m kind of amazed to have just written the words in the title of this post, but it really is true: the voice of the Jays from their inception in 1977 until 2004, Tom Cheek, who called 4,306 consecutive games and uttered those famous words, “Touch ‘em all, Joe” after Joe Carter’s blast to win the 1993 World Series, will finally take his place as a member of the Hall of Fame.

I’ll leave it to Mike Wilner, who campaigned so hard on Cheek’s behalf for so many years, for his reaction to the results of this year’s Ford C. Frick Award vote…

Fantastic news, and so well deserved for the memory of Tom, for his surviving family members, for colleagues like long-time radio partner Jerry Howarth, Wilner, those who knew him from within the club, or from covering it, and, of course, the fans. He’s still missed, and still, very obviously from the reaction today, beloved in this city.

And thanks to @james_in_to, here’s something rather special and appropriate for the occasion: the full audio of the bottom of the ninth of Game Six in 1993…

So… there’s that.

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O’Brien: Emilio Bonifacio Available

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings on Dec 05, 2012

Alex Anthopoulos gave the impression that he was doing backflips when he was able to get the Miami Marlins to include super-utility guy Emilio Bonifacio in The Trade, and just about anyone who I’ve heard speak about the player since then has raved about his play and his exuberance on and off the field.

So… he seems like a nice piece for the Jays hold on to, right? Especially since their bench last year primarily consisted of Omar Vizquel and a tumbleweed, right?

Not so fast, says Dave O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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