Talk:Blue Jays Preview/@comment-65.94.99.129-20060307195639

how can you think that this team, with all their improvements and their solid overall pitching has the same projected record as last year&quot;s squad. First, halladay was injuried for a large part of the season, which impacted their record, secondly wells had no protection in the line-up which created unneccessary pressure on him to be the &quot;clean-up&quot; guy, which now we have. Now i know that injuries affect every team, but this was halladay is our &quot;ace&quot; so its different when he goes down. Now, i think some of your predictions of the players are very conservative. I think reed is an alright player, but he gets less efficient with more ab, so hes good in short amounts, i think aaron hill and russ adams are better then what you think they are. I want to make one thing clear, hinske and hillenbrend are not the same, hillenbrand is a much better hitter with a little more consistenceny, hinske goes for the long ball, but hillenbrand drives it hard usually although he is prone to being very streaky. I think we got at least average depth considering our starting catcher is now our backup and we got catalanatto is back up as well as hinske. Our bullpen is above average, i think our pitching staff is strong, but their is serious potiential for everybody not to live up to their invidividual potiential and this could lead to a &quot;halladay and everybody else&quot; rotation. And you say a line-up without power, but lets look at the CHIGAGO WHITE SOXS. i think they won the world series with STRONG pitching and chemistry. I think we have a bit of both, the red-sox and the yankees in my opionion have gotten weaker overall, and this may the year the bluejays might make a run at second and maybe even first. The orieos dont have a chance. The devel rays need pitching. GO BLUE JAYS!