On Marcus Semien's departure, the addition of Yimi García, Gausman rumours, a whirlwind of activity around the league, the upcoming CBA fight, and more!
Bob Ritchie's analysis is a bit odd in its conclusion of Gausman's 'late bloomer' status. Ray has been the same only worse. Gausman's trajectory has been one of mostly steady progress and Ray much more up and down. While I've not logged the hours watching Gausman as Ray what I noted is how fine Ray's margin of error is. If his slider isn't nigh perfect with a late, hard bite batters can recognize it and camp on his fastball (though it is surely a wonder to behold when he's got it!).
Gausman! Phew! Wow....guess it's not that hard a sell as per my previous comment. In fact, the Front Office seems to be pretty darn good at selling Toronto. Based on some other reports, he seems to be a good person - fits right into the desired team culture model.
Sigh...it would have been so good to have Semien back, but I think it was fait accompli that he was going to move on. Texas is an interesting choice though. Presumably he had a ton of lucrative offers, but in terms of wanting to win a World Series....Texas? There's lots of other teams with more upside over the next 7 years (including the Jays) than Texas. But he's got his reasons.
I think one of Gausman/Ray is kind of a must, but despite getting Ryu and Springer, I still wonder how much of a hard sell it is for us to attract US born players and I wonder how much COVID is a factor. Hmmmm.
Bob Ritchie's analysis is a bit odd in its conclusion of Gausman's 'late bloomer' status. Ray has been the same only worse. Gausman's trajectory has been one of mostly steady progress and Ray much more up and down. While I've not logged the hours watching Gausman as Ray what I noted is how fine Ray's margin of error is. If his slider isn't nigh perfect with a late, hard bite batters can recognize it and camp on his fastball (though it is surely a wonder to behold when he's got it!).
Gausman! Phew! Wow....guess it's not that hard a sell as per my previous comment. In fact, the Front Office seems to be pretty darn good at selling Toronto. Based on some other reports, he seems to be a good person - fits right into the desired team culture model.
Sigh...it would have been so good to have Semien back, but I think it was fait accompli that he was going to move on. Texas is an interesting choice though. Presumably he had a ton of lucrative offers, but in terms of wanting to win a World Series....Texas? There's lots of other teams with more upside over the next 7 years (including the Jays) than Texas. But he's got his reasons.
I think one of Gausman/Ray is kind of a must, but despite getting Ryu and Springer, I still wonder how much of a hard sell it is for us to attract US born players and I wonder how much COVID is a factor. Hmmmm.