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    Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2248966

    I can't wait to see our rotation play next season.
    Halladay, Burnett, Towers, Chacin and Ryan in the pen.

    Go Jays Go!

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    just happy he's not on cards! helps mets a lil

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    All the article says is they will continue talks and he will still go to the Cards if they offer a 5th year

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Sorry the story keeps changing.
    He will probably go the Jays.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    It's official, he's a Blue Jay.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2249623

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    That is a ton of money and years for a guy who's 49-50 and seems to be a head case.

    I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    What was Pavanno's numbers before he got that big deal?

    AJ is more proven. He has a good era over his career, lots of K's. Overcame tommy john. And if you play for a bad team, records are overrated for pitchers. ERA is the big stat to look at.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Pavano was overpaid as well IMO.


    AJ hasn't played on bad teams, the Fish have been pretty good over the past 3-4 years.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Riccaridi has to over pay to get FA's to come to TO. He got the best SP available, and the best closer available. Did he over pay, probably, but at least players will consider Toronto again.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by Forward_Lateral
    Riccaridi has to over pay to get FA's to come to TO. He got the best SP available, and the best closer available. Did he over pay, probably, but at least players will consider Toronto again.
    Halladay and Burnett will make a sick 1-2 punch!

    Roy is my 2nd favorite pitcher after Pedro. The guy is sick. AJ came out of Mets farm system.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by EricStratton
    Pavano was overpaid as well IMO.
    AJ hasn't played on bad teams, the Fish have been pretty good over the past 3-4 years.
    Marlins finished in 4th place last year. THEY STUNK. They have been around .500 since the WS team and they started disbanding then. And Now completely broke team apart.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by STAMPY
    Halladay and Burnett will make a sick 1-2 punch!

    Roy is my 2nd favorite pitcher after Pedro. The guy is sick. AJ came out of Mets farm system.
    If Roy can finally stay healthy. Poor guy was having another CY Young year and gets beaned by a liner. Sucks. If AJ and Roy can both stay healthy, with Chacin, Towers and Lilly, the Jays might end up with one of the better staffs in the AL. They are big IFs, however. I'm just happy that the organization is doing SOMETHING again. It seems like yesterday that they were the team to beat.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by Forward_Lateral
    If Roy can finally stay healthy. Poor guy was having another CY Young year and gets beaned by a liner. Sucks. If AJ and Roy can both stay healthy, with Chacin, Towers and Lilly, the Jays might end up with one of the better staffs in the AL. They are big IFs, however. I'm just happy that the organization is doing SOMETHING again. It seems like yesterday that they were the team to beat.
    The Blue Jays do have the best Staff in AL EAST. That Chacin character was solid last year

    As Randy and Curt are both done.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by STAMPY
    The Blue Jays do have the best Staff in AL EAST.
    On paper perhaps... Let's see how it goes when they play the games.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by EricStratton
    Pavano was overpaid as well IMO.


    AJ hasn't played on bad teams, the Fish have been pretty good over the past 3-4 years.
    Marlins have had 2 good years their whole existance.

    Just happens since they won those 2 years that people think they've been consistently good.
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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by Crisis
    Marlins have had 2 good years their whole existance.

    Just happens since they won those 2 years that people think they've been consistently good.
    Did some research...

    Marlins were:

    83-79 in 2005
    83-79 in 2004
    91-71 in 2003 w/World Series win
    79-83 in 2002
    76-86 in 2001
    79-82 in 2000
    64-98 in 1999
    54-108 in 1998
    92-70 in 1997 w/World Series win
    80-82 in 1996
    67-76 in 1995
    51-64 in 1994
    64-98 in 1993

    Definitely were anything but consistent.
    Last edited by Darth Takeo; 12-06-2005 at 10:22 PM.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Takeo
    Did some research...

    Marlins were:

    83-79 in 2005
    83-79 in 2004
    91-71 in 2003 w/World Series win
    79-83 in 2002
    76-86 in 2001
    79-82 in 2000
    64-98 in 1999
    54-108 in 1998
    92-70 in 1997
    80-82 in 1996
    67-76 in 1995
    51-64 in 1994
    64-98 in 1993

    Definitely were anything but consistent.
    AJ came up in 1999 so they have been at least close to 500 since he's been there. That isn't to bad.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    Quote Originally Posted by STAMPY
    The Blue Jays do have the best Staff in AL EAST. That Chacin character was solid last year

    As Randy and Curt are both done.
    I hope you are right. Did the Bosox get Beckett in the Florida deal? If they did, their staff is going to still be pretty good, even without Curt.

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    Re: Jays to sign A.J. Burnett

    I just read that Peter "I would take a bullet for the BoSox" Gammons said Boston almost called the deal off after reading the MRI on Beckett's shoulder...

    Still, almost must not have been enough since the deal went through. Interesting bit of info regardless...

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