Jimy Williams  - 10
Roy Hartsfield -  8
John Farrell   -  5
Jim Fregosi    -  5
Carlos Tosca   -  5
Bobby Mattick  -  4
Buck Martinez  -  2
Tim Johnson    -  1

Tautology notwithstanding, I would guess that the Pennington acquisiton ($3.3M salary) puts to rest this hypothesis.

Jack Morris     17-5,  4.22
Todd Stottlemyre 8-9,  4.79
Jimmy Key        8-11, 3.75
David Wells      7-8,  5.40

On the DL
Juan Guzman      12-3, 2.35
Dave Stieb        4-6, 5.04

Agreed. With his flyball tendencies, a short porch, a bunch of lefty power hitters and a well rested pen, Estrada will be under close watch and won't be asked to do too much.

Gene Tenace was often used as a leadoff hitter in the 1970s... in Strat-O-Matic leagues. It would take another decade or two for on-base skills to be similarly appreciated by baseball professionals.

Yes, hitter 9 is over .300 for the season, but what he did elsewhere is of little value to the Jays.

He's a fine #4 middle infielder (promoted to #3 with Travis' injury), but let's never mind all this clubhouse leader, gamer, professional, blah blah blah crapola.

And if you're going to pinch-hit for him, why not Martin (presuming EE is not available)?

Hawkins: 42 years, 231 days
Sanchez + Osuna: 43 years, 224 days

The young 'uns have just under a year more collective life experience than Hawkins.

One guy is convinced that the team's success is due to a change in chemistry. Why go all Sylvia Browne? Why is the rationalist perspective not people's default position? The team is playing better because the team is better (and, frankly, they are on a bit of a flukey streak).

Another guy is requesting that AA to stop making trades ASAP. The departed Kawasaki was required to keep the guys loose! And when Wilner suggested that he wouldn't oppose AA trading for a 4th outfielder, the bewildered fan asked: "another outfielder????".

I understand that we will not get a compensatory pick for losing Price (if not re-signed) but, assuming we offer qualifying offers to Estrada, Buerhle and Navarro, will we not receive compensatory picks for them if they choose to sign elsewhere? Also, coupled with our original first rounder plus the additional second rounder for the loss of Singer, wouldn't that give us up to 6 picks in the first two rounds?

The qualifying offer to obtain free agent compensation in the event of your player signing elsewhere was $15.3 million last year and will be higher for 2016.

There is no way Navarro is getting a 15-16 mil qualifying offer. His entire 2 year contract is only worth 8 million. He is going to walk as a FA with no compensation

Estrada is a more interesting case. He is only making 3.9 million this year in his last year of arbitration. He doesn't have much of a track record as a starter (88 career starts, 511 innings, ERA 4.10, xFIP 3.95. So somewere around a league average starter, but still fairly untested. Unless you think someone is crazy enough to give him a Rick Porcello-style contract, you don't over him a qualifying offer

Buehrle probably gets a qualifying offer if he doesn't retire. He has to sign with another team for the Jays to actually get the pick

Oh, I agree. That Gods of chance seem to be tilting the game board in the opposite direction at the moment.

I was going to suggest that the homerun was, what, 15-20 years ago? Sorry, Charlie. 27 years ago! How do I get off this ride?

Consider him an IOU for the Donaldson trade.

Off the top of my head, we were 12-24 when we fired Jimmy

That would be the 1989 turnaround. The 1987 turnaround went the other way

Two years ago, Drew and Morales should have accepted their QOs but received lousy advice from their agents.

*sigh*. Risk-averse, not risk-adverse.