Snider to Triple A, Thames to Left Field: OK Then I Guess

That is the look Eric Thames gets when he is thinking about Beowulf

I have no problem with this, despite everybody else who cares thinking it is wrong and dumb. Travis Snider hasn't done anything with his time in Toronto, to hell with the projections and protestations of your precious Keith Law (who is also my precious Keith Law, so it's complicated). It's not like exactly like Eric Thames is a world beater, but whatever, man. 


In stranger news, the Blue Jays have extended Dustin McGowan, he of the barely existent right arm, so I guess they think everything is all better and we're good? Good. 


Also, I would be remiss if I did not direct your attention to like a five minute thing Chad Harbach, author of the brilliant Art of Fielding, did with The Economist, a fine publication to which I subscribe because I am almost unbelievably wealthy and powerful. 


Finally, BASEBALL TOTALLY STARTS TOMORROW MORNING LIVE FROM JAPAN ISN'T THAT AWESOME I LOVE BASEBALL LET'S PLAY TWO


KS

Blue Jays (SS) 8, Twins 2; Blue Jays 7, Yankees 5; Blue Jays 6, Astros 3: So Here's The Thing

Score that an E5

Far be it from me to even come anywhere close to saying Spring Training standings mean anything at all. That the Blue Jays are 11-2 so far is better than being 2-11 (what's up, Atlanta?) but is, on the whole, not actually relevant to anything at all even a little, because absolutely nobody's priority is winning Grapefruit League baseball games. That much is indisputable. But Travis Snider is totally hitting! Kyle Drabek and Dustin McGowan both pitched three strong innings today! There are national media -- national American media -- stories about how the Blue Jays are on the cusp of being better than just pretty OK! And I'm listening to all these "away" radio feeds because I guess Rogers doesn't think anybody would want to listen to Blue Jays Grapefruit League baseball on a Thursday afternoon (they are wrong to think that by the way) and all the other broadcast teams are like "hey now, these Blue Jays, why not!" That is exactly how I feel about this right now. 


KS

Blue Jays 8, Pirates 5: Travis Snider Answers from the Mouth of His Cannon

still loving the new uniforms btw

Only a day after my most recent denunciation of Travis Snider, dude hit a couple of doubles, drove in a pair on a weird groundout, stole third, and threw a guy out from left. That is all awesome, however I would be remiss if I did not point out to you that he hit like .347 or something in spring training last year, so while you might be thinking this all might auger well I am here to say that we don't know how it augers. We just don't know. How. It augers.  Also, thinking about the Pirates for a minute, isn't it something how the Pirates traded for A. J. Burnett on the condition that they wouldn't actually have to pay him really any money but then in a bunting drill Burnett fouled one off his eye and that shit is broken and he's out for months? Oh, Pirates . . .


KS