The 2019 Toronto Blue Jays and Blue Jays Trade - by Moses

Proposed Trade

From Toronto; Devon Travis, Teoscar Hernandez, and Daniel Hudson to the Chicago Cubs for - Jose Quintana

Manager - Charlie Montoyo

Pitching Staff

1.  Aaron Sanchez (RHP) 
2.  Marcus Stroman (RHP)
3.  Jose Quintana (LHP)
4.  Clay Buchholz (RHP)
5.  Trent Thornton (RHP)
6.  Sam Gaviglio (RHP)
7.  Ryan Borucki (LHP) +
8.  Joe Biagini (RHP)
9.  Nate Pearson (RHP) *
10.Kirby Snead (LHP) *
11.Dusty Isaacs (RHP) *
12.Thomas Pannone (LHP)
13.Tim Mayza (LHP)
14.Ryan Tepera (RHP)
15.Derek Law (RHP)
16.Ken Giles (RHP)

Batting Order vs Righties

1.  Freddy Galvis (SS) bats both
2.  Eric Sogard (2B) bats left
3.  Justin Smoak (1B) bats both
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (3B) bats right
5.  Rowdy Tellez (DH/1B) bats left
6.  Randal Grichuk (CF) bats right
7.  Cavan Biggio (LF) bats left *
8.  Danny Jansen (C) bats right
9.  Dalton Pompey (RF) bats both +

Batting Order vs Lefties

1.  Freddy Galvis (SS) bats both
2.  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (2B) bats right *
3.  Justin Smoak (1B) bats both
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (3B) bats right
5.  Randal Grichuk (CF) bats right
6.  Brandon Drury (DH/INF) bats right
7.  Danny Jansen (C) bats right
8.  Anthony Alford (RF) bats right *
9.  Jonathan Davis (LF) bats right *

* - currently playing in the minors 
+ - on injured reserve

Bench

1.  Luke Maile (C) bats right
2.  Bo Bichette (INF) bats right *
3.  Richard Urena (INF) bats both
4.  Billy McKinney (OF) bats left

Depth Chart

Catchers

1.  Danny Jansen bats right
2.  Luke Maile bats right

1st Base

1.  Justin Smoak bats both
2.  Rowdy Tellez bats left

2nd Base

1.  Cavan Biggio bats left
2.  Eric Sogard bats left
3.  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. bats right
4.  Brandon Drury bats right
5.  Richard Urena bats both

3rd Base

1.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. bats right
2.  Brandon Drury bats right
3.  Bo Bichette bats right
4.  Cavan Biggio bats left
5.  Richard Urena bats both
6.  Eric Sogard bats left

SS

1.  Freddy Galvis bats both
2.  Eric Sogard bats left
3.  Bo Bichette bats right
4.  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. bats right
5.  Richard Urena bats both

LF

1.  Cavan Biggio bats left
2.  Dalton Pompey bats both +
3.  Jonathan Davis bats right
4.  Randal Grichuk bats right

CF

1.  Randal Grichuk bats right
2.  Dalton Pompey bats both
3.  Anthony Alford bats right
4.  Jonathan Davis bats right

RF

1.  Anthony Alford bats right
2.  Dalton Pompey bats both
3.  Billy McKinney bats left
4.  Randal Grichuk bats right

DH

1.  Rowdy Tellez bats left
2.  Brandon Drury bats right 
3.  Cavan Biggio bats left
4.  Justin Smoak bats both
5.  Dalton Pompey bats both

Forecast for the 2019/20 Toronto Maple Leafs - by Moses

Head Coach - Mike Babcock

Goalies

1.  Frederik Andersen
2.  Garret Sparks
3.  Kasimir Kaskisuo *
4.  Ian Scott +

Defencemen

1.  Morgan Rielly
2.  Jake Muzzin
3.  Travis Dermott
4.  Ron Hainsey
5.  Igor Ozhiganov
6.  Calle Rosen *
7.  Andreas Borgman *

                                                          Forward Lines

               LW                                               C                                            RW

1.  Andreas Johnsson                      Auston Matthews                   William Nylander

2.     Zach Hyman                              John Tavares                          Mitch Marner

3.   Patrick Marleau                           Nazem Kadri                       Kasperi Kapanen

4.     Tyler Ennis                              Frederik Gauthier                    Connor Brown    

Bench

1.  Trevor Moore (LW)
2.  Jeremy Bracco (RW) *
3.  Chris Mueller (C) *

* - played for the Marlies in 2018/19 

+ - played Juniors in 2018/19

         

The 2019 Toronto Blue Jays and a Proposed Jays Trade - by Moses

Proposed Trade

From the Toronto Blue Jays;  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Teoscar Hernandez to the Chicago Cubs for;  Jose Quintana (LHP)

As a result of the trade this is what our Jays look like;

Manager - Charlie Montoyo

Pitching Staff

1.  Aaron Sanchez (RHP)
2.  Jose Quintana (LHP)
3.  Marcus Stroman (RHP)
4.  Clay Buchholz (RHP)
5.  Trent Thornton (RHP)
6.  Sam Gaviglio (RHP)
7.  Joe Biagini (RHP)
8.  Tim Mayza (LHP)
9.  Thomas Pannone (LHP)
10.Dusty Isaacs (RHP)
11.Derek Law (RHP)
12.Ryan Tepera (RHP)
13.Ken Giles (RHP)

Batting Order vs Lefties

1.  Randal Grichuk (bats right - CF) 
2.  Freddy Galvis (bats both - SS)
3.  Justin Smoak (bats both - 1B)
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right - 3B)
5.  Brandon Drury (bats right - 2B) 
6.  Danny Jansen (bats right - C)
7.  Rowdy Tellez  (bats left - DH)
8.  Anthony Alford (bats right - LF)
9.  Billy McKinney (bats left - RF)

Batting Order vs Righties

1.  Eric Sogard (bats left - 2B)
2.  Freddy Galvis (bats both - SS)
3.  Justin Smoak (bats both - 1B)
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right - 3B)
5.  Rowdy Tellez (bats left - DH)
6.  Randal Grichuk (bats right - CF)
7.  Billy McKinney (bats left - RF)
8.  Danny Jansen (bats right - C)
9.  Dalton Pompey (bats left - LF)

Notre Dame - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

   
      We all saw the recovery in the name of donations after the famous French Cathedral Notre Dame caught fire.  Within 24 hours donations tallied $500 Million Euro.  What does this say of mankind?

  People seem to think that the Holocaust they're living under in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, among other Nations, are self inflicted.  Are we to believe that the Church Notre Dame is worth more than civilization itself?  This hypocrite oath that we live under in 2019 disgusts me.  Couldn't we focus on building up these aforementioned Nations instead of the current sentiment that dictates that their lives don't matter, and that we need to pay for the ultra-elites Tabernacle.

  What is needed is to be pro-active towards human healing.  Our youth buy into ideas that are passed on by their Parents and Grandparents.  The reality is that most people only care about their own ecosystem.  Many disregard human rights in their quest for success, and most are guilty of looking down on the downtrodden.  The parable 'to the victor goes the spoils' has been said of pretty much any war that's been fought.  Wasn't it the Nazi's that called for the extermination of Jews, Muslims, and Blacks?  Now we see Israel in that region in the World and they've become the aggressors against the Palestinian People in the name of Apartheid.  This is in a land that saved the Jewish peoples' hide in 1910-1915 by taking in 600,000 Ashkanazi Jews that were expelled from the U.S.S.R and taken in by Palestine.

  When Western Civilization comes to terms with its' narcissistic, me first attitudes we will see changes in the World.  Most people look down at a man who busks on the street to make a few bucks.  Likewise that of a homeless man who begs for change.  They site their laziness as reasons to look down on them, instead of wondering for a second what that person has to go through in the average day.  We've become an apathetic society in the Western World that has zero-rachmunis (Yiddish word for Compassion) to those that suffer.  

  While musicians stood up in the name of Band Aid, We Are the World, and Tears Not Enough in the mid-eighties, the staying power of the sentiment wasn't expanded on the way it should have been.  Why did artists lose their ability to communicate what an artist is supposed to communicate.  What's Going On?  Had musicians continued to bring light to the atrocities that are faced in the Fifth World we would be looking at a different scope.  The reality is that many people live with a hatred of Blacks in America today.  This is systematic to the States inaction to stop how Blacks are treated by the authorities, even in 2019.  'White Privilege' some would say.  It leaves one to wonder why this hasn't changed since it's authoritative policies in place.

  Is the Cathedral Notre Dame to be honoured? the answer is yes.  To be treated as more important than human life itself? No.  To be honest it's good to see people care, it's just that our priorities are way off kilter.  What about the good people that are out there indiscriminant of race, colour, and creed?