Day 3 of the Waiting for the Cuban Show

No game today so it's all about Adeinis Hechavarria. I thought I would finally come to a decision on what to use as his nickname, because I ain't copy and pasting that monstrosity forever. So here's what I got.

Hech - Simple, I like it pretty good

Denny Hech - this is whiting him up to the extreme, I suppose it would be "ironic" but I don't like it

Addie - For a little bit of that baseball history reference. Addie Joss anybody?

Adhechia - This one I think is cool, because if you pronounce it right (A-duh-k, Adek-e-ah, Adek-e-eh?) it sounds kind of Japanese. So you get a 2 for one International free agent feeling.

I'll have to see how it goes.

Marcum pitched in a minor league game, threw 58 pitches and tries to get it too 75 in his next start. Good news.

The JJ Ruiz Mystery

I think I'm going to just rack this JJ Ruiz stuff up to more ado about nothing. A team that needs talent as much as the Jays of course should look for as much of it as possible, but how many LH 1b/dh/lf do you need? (Lind, Snider, Overbay and Wallace) Especially when, you also have 2 RH ones (another Ruiz and Dopirak) as well. I think in the back of my head I am starting to believe that either Wallace or Lind is actually being looked at as some kind of future trade bait, in addition to Overbay obviously leaving.

Adeiny Hechevarria however is a different story. The Jays need to get as many SS prospects as possible, and hope one of them turns into something in the next couple of seasons, hopefully a capable lead off hitter as well. If atos wants to stock up on something, that would be the thing to me. Maybe he can turn Overbay and some of the excess bullpen pieces into a prospect ss at the end of spring training.

Catching up

Been a little bit rough in the recovery department the last couple of days so I'm just catching up on things. It looks like nothing has happened so we are all even.

First thing first, Bastian has now written a number of articles without having to start by reminding us that Roy Halladay is no longer a Jay. Yay to that.

I see that Lyle Overbay has finally gotten the gist of this "baseball is a business" thing. Good for Lyle. I really hope he has a monster of a season, gets traded for some good stuff, and can sign another contract somewhere. He really got robbed with the hand injury.

Vernon wants to take on more of a leadership role, or just rambled on about it in an interview about the only polite topic of discussion you can really have with him that doesn't involve "hope your wrist feels better". I wonder who's going to be "gritty" on this team now that we have the leadership issue covered for the time being.

Brandon Morrow is looking forward to a season where he doesn't have to guess whether it's starter or bullpen. Nobody wants to say he's guaranteed the job but you have to believe If he doesn't go out to the mound and forget to throw it to the catcher he's in. Especially since none of the guys who came back in the Halladay deal seem likely to be starting the season above AAA. I'm actually pretty excited about Morrow, I'll have to post something about that later.

There's an article about atos spending a week in the DR at the new digs and talking in circles about drafts and international players and cubans oh my! I really like the parts about the "high risk/high reward" stuff. Dude they are all high risk/high reward, unless you get guys who you know are lousy and won't ever amount to anything. Anyways I do like that they say they are going to be looking at everybody, sounds good, but it will be better when we start seeing some results. Besides he's got to do something with the 1,255 scouts the Jays now have. Funny thing is I thought I remembered at least 1 if not 2 of these being announced already, but i'm not going back to look.

Even the pretend games cannot start soon enough.