Comments on: The Changing Jays Depth and Bench http://jaysjournal.com/2010/06/20/the-changing-jays-depth-and-bench/ A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Matt-ttaM http://jaysjournal.com/2010/06/20/the-changing-jays-depth-and-bench/comment-page-1/#comment-1771 Matt-ttaM Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:02:57 +0000 http://jaysjournal.com/?p=1711#comment-1771 Didn't you feel like the whole time Ricciardi was in Toronto, you (as a fan) can kinda knew what we had to do as a baseball team to be great and how we would have to get there with a flexible payroll; all the while Ricciardi bare spoke the talk, and didn't walkthe walk? . Well Double A's is the consummate Blue Jay fan. Not an MLSE type, but a do-it-the-right-way-no-bullshit-never guy. . He knows good people and good people like and trust AA. The results of his real work won't be seen for a few years (when Drabek and Wallace are pro's), but he has even adressed the short-term situation with an ability to spend the money otherwise was going to be spent on any AA-plan player (young, talented and controllable) on risk/reward players that fill gaps and have come at a price sometimes extravagant (as in the TOP bidding team, Hechavaria) or bag of balls (F. lewis + others you have above) Didn’t you feel like the whole time Ricciardi was in Toronto, you (as a fan) can kinda knew what we had to do as a baseball team to be great and how we would have to get there with a flexible payroll; all the while Ricciardi bare spoke the talk, and didn’t walkthe walk?
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Well Double A’s is the consummate Blue Jay fan. Not an MLSE type, but a do-it-the-right-way-no-bullshit-never guy.
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He knows good people and good people like and trust AA. The results of his real work won’t be seen for a few years (when Drabek and Wallace are pro’s), but he has even adressed the short-term situation with an ability to spend the money otherwise was going to be spent on any AA-plan player (young, talented and controllable) on risk/reward players that fill gaps and have come at a price sometimes extravagant (as in the TOP bidding team, Hechavaria) or bag of balls (F. lewis + others you have above)

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