Trade Forecast for the Toronto Blue Jays - by Moses

From Toronto;  Nathan Lukes (OF - bats left) to the Philadelphia Phillies for Rafael Marchan (C - bats both)

The 2024 Toronto Blue Jays - by Moses

Manager - John Schneider

Projected Record - 97-65 (2nd in the American League East Division)

As a result this is what the Jays look like going into the '24 season;

Pitching Staff                            G   GS CG   IP     H   BB   SO    W  L ERA WHIP Sa    

1.  Kevin Gausman (RHP)       33  33   5   210.0 177  44   230    16  5  2.57   1.05     -

2.  Jose Berrios (RHP)              32  32  4   200.0 176  55   176    15  7   3.15   1.13     - 

3.  Chris Bassitt (RHP)             29  29  4  187.2 170  56   144     12  8   3.44   1.18     -

4.  Yusei Kikuchi (LHP)           27  27  1  165.1 148  44   133      8   6   3.50    1.14     -

5.  Alek Manoah (RHP)            23  23  0  128.0 104  38   135      9   5   3.21   1.10     -

6.  Ricky Tiedemann (LHP)     18  18  0  111.1   77  20   123      7   2   2.07   0.85     -         

7.  Trevor Richards (RHP)       55   -    -   77.0   63   25    87       3   4   3.26   1.13     5    

8.  Mitch White (RHP)             53   -    -    75.0  65    24   63       3   3   3.10    1.11    1

9.  Yimi Garcia (RHP)              63   -    -   68.2   61   18    63       3   4   3.33   1.14     0 

10.Genesis Cabrera (LHP)      55   -    -    53.1   45   17   57       4   3   2.99    1.15    1   

11.Tim Mayza (LHP)               56   -    -    57.2   41   22   62       3   3   2.54    1.08    3   

12.Chad Green (RHP)             50   -    -    51.2   44   13   56       3   4   3.44    1.09    0

13.Nate Pearson (RHP)           57  -     -    54.0   38   22   73       3   4   2.90    1.08    2            

14.Erik Swanson (RHP)          67   -    -    72.1   55   13   80       4   4   2.40    0.94   11

15.Jordan Romano (RHP)      56   -    -    55.2   43   23   61       5   3   2.77    1.14   35      

Batting Order vs Lefties                           AB  R   2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBP SLG SB CS  

1.  Davis Schneider(LF/2B/3B-bats right)400 67 27  3    18   69   .290   .367  .533  11  4 

2.  Bo Bichette (SS - bats right)               533 122 33  5    30  100  .312   .378   .579 30  8      

3.  George Springer (RF - bats right)     510  88  23  2    26   92   .279   .355   .514  7   3

4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (1B - bats right)   555 103 38  1    45  135  .300   .413   .627  5   1   

5.  Justin Turner (3B/DH - bats right)   447  70  22  0    23   77   .277   .355  .467   1   1     

6.  Alejandro Kirk (DH/C - bats right)  355  55  23  0    17   57   .256   .325  .433   0   1         

7.  Danny Jansen (C - bats right)           370  67  23  0    23   70   .246   .337  .452   0   1      

8.  Daulton Varsho (CF - bats left)         544  89  31  7    25   80  .275   .323   .469  13  5      

9.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa (2B/3B-bats right)350 64  23  2    11   53  .265   .315   .424   7   4  

Batting Order vs Righties

1.  Kevin Kiermaier (CF - bats left)      379  56   20  3    11  50  .255   .304   .404    7    4

2.  Cavan Biggio (2B/3B/RF - bats left) 410  77   31 3    15  64  .289   .367   .504   30  5  

3.  Bo Bichette (SS - bats right)

4.  Joey Votto (1B - bats left)                  333  53   22  2   15   56  .270  .392   .506    2   1    

5.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (DH/1B - bats right)

6.  George Springer (RF - bats right)

7.  Daulton Varsho (LF/CF - bats left)

8.  Justin Turner (3B/DH - bats right)

9.  Danny Jansen (C - bats right)

 

 Bench

1.  Alejandro Kirk (C - bats right)

2.  Rafael Marchan (C - bats both)           135  15  7  0   2  14  .245   .289   .321    0   1  

3.  Ernie Clement (2B/SS/3B-bats right)  243  33 18 1  6   30  .260   .312   .389    5   4 

4.  Spencer Horwitz (LF/1B - bats left)    300  33 17 0 12   42  .310   .376   .510    1   3      

5.  Addison Barger (LF/SS/3B - bats left) 206 33 12 2   5    36  .268   .302   .380    5   2     

Depth Chart

Catchers

1.  Danny Jansen (bats right) *

2.  Alejandro Kirk (bats right)

3.  Rafael Marchan (bats both) ^

4.  Brian Serven (bats right)

1st Basemen

1.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right)

2.  Joey Votto (bats left) *

3.  Justin Turner (bats right)

4.  Spencer Horwitz (bats left) +

2nd Basemen

1.  Cavan Biggio (bats left)

2.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa (bats right)

3.  Davis Scheider (bats right)

4.  Ernie Clement (bats right)

3rd Basemen

1.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa (bats right)

2.  Justin Turner (bats right)

3.  Cavan Biggio (bats left)

4.  Ernie Clement (bats right)

Shortstops

1.  Bo Bichette (bats right)

2.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa (bats right)

3.  Ernie Clement (bats right)

4.  Addison Barger (bats left) +

Leftfielders

1.  Daulton Varsho (bats left)

2.  Davis Schneider (bats right)

3.  Rafael Lantigua (bats right) +

4.  Spencer Horwitz (bats left) +

Centerfielders

1.  Kevin Kiermeier (bats left)

2.  Daulton Varsho (bats left)

3.  George Springer (bats right)

4.  Cameron Eden (bats left) +

Rightfielders

1.  George Springer (bats right)

2.  Cavan Biggio (bats left)

3.  Addison Barger (bats left) +

4.  Cam Eden (bats left) +

Designated Hitters

1.  Justin Turner (bats right)

2.  Joey Votto (bats left) *

3.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right)

4.  Alejandro Kirk (bats right)

* - on injured reserve

+ - in Buffalo

^ - trade impending

World Wars in Todays' Age - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

       In 1915-1919 we saw World War 1, a fight that was in the realm of the Astro-Hungarian Empire.  Germany breached in that War when they assassinated Prince Ferdinand and the Astro-Hungarian Empire launched into World War.  In 1937-1945 Germany breached again against anything towards humanity and murdered and butchered roughly 30 Million people including six million Jews by way of Concentration Camps.  

  In the last two years we've seen two major conflicts that are gross by nature for anyone living in Canada.  Why the hell is Russia attacking its' neighbour Ukraine and butchering their people using military might.  Britain just gave 3.2 Billion Pounds ($5 Billion Pounds when including 2022) to the Ukraine so that they don't lose the battle.  In the case of this escalating further we saw terrorist factions Chammas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah attack the holy land of Israel.  This is surmounting to attacks made by Iran sponsored Yemen bombings as recent as yesterday-the present.  These are threats that the U.S are just starting to dig their teeth into and we'll have military ops in place for probably five years or more depending on where the terrorist factions strike next.  I'm just wondering why Barack Obama was so accepting of Iran when he was President signing a Nuclear energy deal worth Billions of U.S.D.  Keep in mind that Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczinek were not stupid when they wrote 'Games of State' and 'Op-Center'.

  This is symptomatic of World War in my eyes and I hope and pray people aren't being led by herd mentality when they gather their thoughts on the events in the news today (about what War we're really talking about).  It seems that Russia is always taking a pro-dominant approach to settling affairs in their region  Great Britain has seen this as far back to the days of Stalin.  They had 'A Clockwork Orange' to contend with when their populous was put to test.  The terrorist factions that are surfacing is starting to escalate and this concerns me.  When there is someone hunting a group of ethnicities is  where I draw the line.  To target an ethnicity to what we're seeing with Chammas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and now Iran sponsored military exercises performed by Yemen seem to indicate that the efforts of the I.D.F will now need American involvement to settle some scores and reduce the threat of a full out World War.  In the American media is where we should be looking for ideas to understand the patterns of the last 100 years.  In 1994 the movie 'Surviving The Game' came out.  The movie was about hunting humans for sport.  By the way, just asking, how many mass shootings and games like hunting people for sport have we ween in America in the past 10 years?  When all is said and done when do the Politicians come to terms with their frailties and let their military handle military operations? 

Israel and the War on Terrorism - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

 

  It is now 2023 and we're still having conversations as to whom Israel belongs to, funny enough but this is 1948 again for Christ's sake and the proliferation of the State of Israel has been accepted?  Every time this issue comes up there are terrorist factions that are in place to justify the Zionist viewpoints that were put to rest in 1948 by way of War.  The resulting aftermath of the October 7th massacre in Israel (1400 victims) and the 250 Hostages that were taken are reminders of why Israel had to fight for the land in 1948.  This attack was by far the largest terrorist attack Israel has suffered since the 1973 War of Yom Kippur and ironically the Chammas chose Simcha Torah this time to attack us (when we believed to be secure in our Homeland).  

  For those following the news coverage it should be noted that the IDF has the retrieval of the Hostages as their first aim, but make no mistake this war will not end at the end retrieving all the Hostages.  Netanyahu is gung ho in killing off terrorist factions like the Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Chammas and has full support of the U.S military (not that it's needed).  The problem with this crisis is that there is mis-education in the story of our peoples.  As a Jew I know that I'm a descendant of Israel.  I am aware that every Jew and Arab has common lineage to Shem (Noah's oldest son).  This is why a Jew and an Arab both say Baruch Hashem.  The Palestinian people are descendants of Ham (Noah's youngest son).  The Palestinian people are not Arab and the majority of Palestinians Worldwide are Muslim.  Palestinians are descendants of Ham, Misraim -a.k.a Egypt) and Casluhiim (the father of the Phillistine People).  I have no problem with a Palestinian never had one in my life.  In fact I used to work with a Construction crew with a couple of Palestinian Tilers when I worked in Israel and knew a couple of Palestinian Canadians through my years in the workforce and never had a problem.  What people need to see is how Terrorism has affected these course of actions.  If Netanyahu deports Palestinians to Egypt they have enough of a bloodline to take them in, it is not Israel's responsibility.  The Israeli's could probably take over the Sinai like we did in 1967 again in battle.  As sad as this summarization sounds it's probably for the best as this War isn't really against the Palestinian people but against the Terrorist acts of Chammas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.  

  In the 1950's 'the underground' came into play and we saw Jewish prisoners make their way to Israel.  Without this underground Egypt could have swallowed their Jewish population as a whole.  Palestinian people looking to resettle will probably have to move to Egypt when all is said and done as Netanyahu won't be having a peace process for a long time.  What all this really comes down to is land claims.  The same thing really if I'm Camaroon Canadian I would have a land claim in my name in Camaroon.  This is the same deal for Schlomo to live in his homeland of Israel.  Being Moses I feel a strong duty to speak up for Jewish rights and sidestep the mis-education of the whole story.  What I'll never understand is how we've confused the same scriptures and perpetuated the same lies in lineage as has been the case over the past 5778 years. For Christ's sake this should be common knowledge by now.