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Batter's Box:
PLAYERS:
Hanley Ramirez,
Marco Scutaro,
Vernon Wells,
Dan Uggla,
Garrett Jones,
Jack Cust,
Scott Rolen,
Shaun Marcum,
Dustin McGowan,
Jesse Litsch,
Adam Lind,
Travis Snider,
Aaron Hill,
Roy Halladay
TEAMS: Miami Marlins, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Cincinnati Reds
TEAMS: Miami Marlins, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Cincinnati Reds
Alex Anthopoulos's first order of duty is to come up with a philosophy for the team. What is a team philosophy you ask? Beeston and Anthopoulos stated in their first Saturday press conference that the organization first needs to define a philosophy and from there decisions regarding payroll and free agents and roster composition can be made. The philosophy covers how the team will compete, it is a baseball equivalent of a business plan. Alex and Beeston were supposedly meeting over the last couple of weeks to determine the philosophy. This week they might be presenting it to Rogers. So we at Batters Box, at no charge to the Blue Jays, will help define what the philosophy should be.There has been a lot of discussion in other threads about what the Jays should do but a lot of it is based around specific players such as JJ Hardy or Hanley Ramirez that the Jays could target. However a philosophy cannot be based...
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