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Arencibia Certain He’s Jays Day One Starter

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Aaron Cibia, Winter Meetings on Dec 04, 2012

Earlier in the day Nashville residennt and Jays catcher JP Arencibia joined Jamie Campbell of Sportsnet saying that, regarding his role for the Jays next season, Alex Anthopoulos told him “the same thing he told the media when he addressed the media preceding [sic] the trade, you know, ‘You’re our starting catcher, you’re our guy– that’s the everyday guy– and John Buck knows that he’s the backup, and he’s accepting of that role, and that’s the way it’s going to be.’ ”

“I know where I’m going to be, so I’m OK,” he confidently adds.

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Winter Meetings: Monday Evening Crumbs

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Daily Duce, Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Does not interfere with free use of mouth!

It is indeed the most traffic-whoringest time of year! Here’s what’s out there that I wasn’t about to make full posts out of, as Day One of the Winter Meetings turns into Night One down in Nashville…

Drew lays down some Winter Meetings know-how over at Getting Blanked. They’re killing it over there for all your non-Jays-related stuff from the Winter Meetings, bringing us all the low-down on the latest moves, plus– sadly– the end of Derek Eater.

At the Mockingbird, Jon Hale breaks out the Pitch F/X tool and goes ridiculous in-depth on Josh Johnson. Great stuff, as always.

MLBTR is keeping tabs on the reports that the Marlins are shopping Yunel Escobar– apparently the Rays and A’s are interested.

Matt Klaassen of FanGraphs looks at the Rangers’ re-signing of catcher Geovany Soto, and thinks he actually has value as a primary starter. So… no deal, then?

Elsewhere at FanGraphs, David Laurila gets his hands on some Buns– read: he does a Q&A with Alan Ashby!

Jim Bowden of ESPN.com (Insider Only) lists one trade candidate for each of the thirty MLB teams, tossing out– surprise!– JP Arencibia as a potential commodity for the Jays to deal, and the White Sox (along with the more obvious Mets and Rangers) as a possible destination.

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Duquette: Dickey-ing Us Around

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Former Mets and Orioles GM, and current MLB Network analyst, Jim Duquette knows where his rumour bread is buttered, as he lays this Jays-related nugget on us:

He follows it up by responding to a question:

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AA Speaks!: On CV, Oliver, Catchers, Lind, Carreno

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Anthopoulos Speaks!, Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi just tweeted at us, bro, and here’s what he said that was different from the earlier tidbits by way of Barry Davis:

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Alright! It’s the Getting Blanked Podcast: Winter Meetings Edition – Monday

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Getting Blanked Podcast, Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Alright! It’s time to go around baseball the Winter Meetings and talk about the interesting topics (TM), with a little Jaysturbation (or not), cooking tips (or not), heresy, trains, and even more depressing realizations about just how ridiculously out-of-whack MLB’s alignment is thrown in for good measure (or not): it’s a brand new episode of theGetting Blanked Podcast. Special Winter Meetings Edition!

If you’re more inclined to download today’s podcast, hit up the mp3 link.

Don’t forget that you can get our stuff shot straight to your tablet or mobile device by way of the Getting Blanked iTunes page, which is humming along these days, and from now on until the end of eternity will have all our podcasts, mp3s and whatever other audio goodies we dream up posted there in a timely manner.

And don’t forget that the DJF iTunes page remains up and running– so get on over there and subscribe, or update the subscription you already have to find the latest episode (once it’s up). You can also find it via our podcast RSS feed.

As always (or at least usually), Mint Musical Interludes courtesy of The Constantines, Arts & Crafts Records, Deathwish Records and Optical Sounds. Be sure to check them out and buy every single fucking thing you hear at their sites.

So… there’s that.

 

Image via Rusty Morris Design.

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AA Says Lind Will Face LHP (And Other, Less Infuriating Things)

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Adam Lind, Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Is it possible that, in the wake of The Trade with the Miami Marlins, and how the rest of the off-season has gone so far, that Alex Anthopoulos actually misses having scorn heaped down his throat? That he misses the infuriated bellowing of fans that we all got so very used to over the summer?

Because there aren’t a whole lot of other explanations for this:

Insanity. But as far as alternate explanations go, here’s the one I’m repeating to myself in order to keep my blood from boiling: he’s posturing.

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Softening Dickey Expectations

Posted by Andrew Stoeten under Winter Meetings on Dec 03, 2012

Holy fuck, it seems as though there may be a biiiiit of a gulf between the valuation of RA Dickey that we’ve sort of thought we might almost have a a handle on and the sky-high asking price that the Mets have put on their Cy Young winner.

Via MLBTR, here’s the latest tidbit:

I mean… shit. You can’t blame a team for asking but, for example, in the top Red Sox prospects list Marc Hulet posted two weeks ago at FanGraphs, those guys ranked number one and number three.

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