creed might sob at the state of affairs up north. The
Blue Jays have the stars that the bottom-feeding
Rays are lacking, with
Roy Halladay giving
Mark Buehrle a run for his money and
Carlos Delgado striking terror into the
Department of Homeland Security and opposing pitchers alike. But there ain't much help. However, there is
some hope, I suppose, as many of the bit players on the club struggled last year.
P.S. Pls scroll over & read "notes" u wil go 
thx!
Code:
PLAYER AGE '05 OPS '06 OPS CHANGE NOTES
C G. Quiroz 25 .779 .616 -.163 catching full-time sucks. just ask Guillermo!
1B C. Delgado 34 1020 .962 -.058 pray for aging first sackers making $12.95 mill.
2B O. Hudson 29 .868 .793 -.075 age 27 peak season!
3B E. Hinske 29 .771 .739 -.032 hinksi is a bust there ear, even if his had was fine, he sucks
SS D. Berg 36 ewww yuck wow ouch
Left Fielders 26 .760 .800 +.040 L. Nix and A. Rios; both should play
CF V. Wells 28 .921 .766 -.155 not so studly when he hits .260, like so many before him (Soriano?)
RF M. Restovich 28 Pass .706 who cares? .296 OBP...it's cringe-tastic!
There's no Proven Closer (TM, with a nod to Mr. Hulten), with the likely candidates being unappealing sorts named
Knott (
not good) and
Geary (
switch gears). The back of the rotation's nasty, too, and not along the lines of a
Rick Ankiel fastball.
Mike Bacsik?
Chris Reitsma? These guys grow on trees.
Scott Thorman, a 25 year old with prodigious power, provides a nice trade chit since he resides in terror of
The Terrorist, and that sucking wound at short (
see pretty chart above) could be filled by 26 year old
Russ Adams, who has a 1.000 career batting average despite never reaching AAA, or 24 year old Aaron Hill, who's, uh, in AAA. Barely. He struck out 164 times and received 21 free passes in AA last year.
And
that might best personify the
Jays. Hope rests on a shortstop with an "abundance of talent" and 8 whiffs for every walk, or maybe hope resting on last year's first rounder Tom Fresquez, an 18 year old third sacker whose line at single-A Dunedin was lousy enough to not merit a mention. The
Evil Fishies may be a worse organization than us; it's a close call. But the
Blue Jays give us both a run for our money. All $53,666,953 of it. And that's even less with the exchange rate.