Toronto Blue Jays Case Study

Coming off of a terrific 2016 season, the 91-70 American League Champions Cleveland Indians had high expectations going into 2017. The Indians made themselves into a seemingly unstoppable force. Cleveland had dominated in the regular season, especially in their division as they were also crowned American League Central regular season champions. They had helped themselves by winning a franchise high 14 straight games. This gave the Tribe tons of momentum heading into the postseason. On their trip to the World Series, the Indians managed to only lose one game. Everything was going Cleveland’s way until injuries arose in the pitching staff. The Indians had ended up only being able to pitch Corey Kluber and Josh Tomlin in the last three

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Houston Astros last ten games have seen them produce five wins and five losses including a series win over Phillies and Baltimore Orieles but a defeat to Detroit Tigers. They have averaged 6.1 runs and on their day are the biggest hitters in MLB, their defensive

An elite starting pitcher will call Fenway Park his home next season for the first time since Jon Lester was traded to Oakland at the deadline in 2014. The Red Sox signed 30 year old lefty David Price to a 7-year, $217 million contract this past Tuesday. Price is one of the top starting pitchers in baseball. He won the 2012 American League Cy Young award after going 20-5 in the regular season. Boston won the David Price sweepstakes after months of talk about where he would land. Besides Boston, it is reported that Price was very interested in signing with either the Cubs, Cardinals, or the team he played for during part of the 2015 season, the Blue Jays.

On June 29th the Braves made a surprising move in sending down infield prospect Ozzie Albies to Double A. The move comes as a shock but it only certifies the answer of the great question, who will play short and who will play second?

Training camp has begun and fans are gearing up for another exciting season. They are hoping for a repeat of last year’s performance. People are already speculating that the Toronto Blue Jays are contenders to win the World Series even with the changes that have been made in the club. Is it too early to think about the playoffs and the World Series? Will the team be able to overcome the changes that have been made? I guess only time will tell as the season progresses, but it should be interesting to watch the team develop with the new management and

The Philadelphia Phillies have been a staple in Major League baseball for over 120 years. The Phillies are one of the League’s oldest teams dating back all the way to the year 1883. Over the years the Phillies have acquired many accolades and accomplishments; although the Phillies are a decorated team for many positive reasons they have also become the league’s most losing team, with over 10,000 losses. Although the Philadelphia franchise may have the most losses in any professional sport, whether it is football, basketball, or soccer, they have had many playoff runs and even a few World Series appearances. Throughout the winning and the losing seasons the Phillies have had some very good players, which went on to be a Hall-of-Famers, while many of the players were mediocre at best. Although not all of the players that played in Philadelphia were good, they had heart and drive to not let the rambunctious fans in Philadelphia not get the best of them. Whenever a family goes to one of these baseball games, the game may not be the center of attention for the kids or even the adults with the most entertaining mascot of all the Phillie Phanatic dancing around and being goofy in front of 20,000 people in the stands.

Again, thanks to GM Matt Klentak, he made a couple of solid moves in the offseason to the pitching staff that has helped them become one of the better staffs in the majors.

However, there is one big concern for the Red Sox is the inconsistency of the pitching staff. The team ranks 22nd in baseball with a 4.37 collective ERA, which will not get the job done over an entire season. They must address the pitching staff if they want to reach their ultimate goal of a World Series

The Phillies are a proud baseball team with 2 World Series Titles and 7 National League Pennants. The Phillies play at a stadium called Citizens Bank Park, but sadly there lease has came up, and they need a new sponsor. The Phillies Stadium hold a capacity of exactly 43,647 people. Yet the average attendance in the past 10 years are 35,254, reaching a map attendance at 45,440. For luxury boxes the prices vary yet around $6,000. The Phillies offer four main suites; HOF Club Deck, Corporate Party Suite, All Star & MVP Suite, Bill Giles Party Suite. Most of the Party suites are along the third and first base side on the second and fourth level. Another club is called the Diamond Club, which the recipients receive credit to buy food and beverages.

The Houston Astros have been making deals to improve their team, and avoid another collapse like the one they had last season. Their bullpen could not finish the year strong after being one of the best in baseball throughout the season. The bullpen, also, collapsed in game four of the ALCS against the eventual champions. The Royals could not hit Lance McCullers, but once he was removed with one out in the seventh inning, Kansas City 's offense got it going.

The Los Angeles Angels, formerly known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Anaheim Angels, and the California Angels, are a Major League Baseball (MLB) organization based out of Anaheim, California. The Angels franchise was established in 1961 as one of the four MLB expansion teams that year. In their inaugural season, they went 70 – 91, which is the best record of any MLB expansion team in their first season. Despite the hope of success that the Angels’ inaugural season brought, the Angels have only won World Series.

In my example, I’m going to talk about the position I was recently hired for. My new job is the designated hitter (DH) for the Boston Red Sox (fictitious of course). I was hired to fill the shoes of David Ortiz who retired in 2016. I signed a 1 year contract for 5 million dollars. While this is well below the league average, my salary is incentive based. I get paid 80 thousand dollars for every run I bat in (RBI). The expectation is for me to achieve over 100 RBI’s this year, which would make me one of the best hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB), (as the professor said “just let me dream”).

The Toronto Blue jays are a strong dominant team who coming into the playoffs may have a chance to win the world series. The opponents in the playoffs will be hard to defeat but the Blue jays will pull through. They do have a chance at winning the world series as they have superior batting, pitching and coaching.

The Texas Rangers hired Jeff Banister on October 17th, 2014, becoming the 18th full-time manager in club history. He faced a tough task, taking over a ball club that looked to be drifting away from arguably the best run in franchise history. The team was an uninspiring 67-95 during their 2014 campaign, and they didn’t make any off-season moves that made you believe they could turn it around. Rangers’ fans loved Ron Washington, his high energy and incredible sunflower seed eating ability made players and fans gravitate towards him, so it is easy to see why the Rangers faithful was so disappointed once he left. But, Jeff Banister and his calm but stern demeanor is exactly what the Rangers needed. This team has taken on his persona and that is why I believe he is the AL Manager of the year.