Farrell will probably stick him in the bullpen as the 9th reliever.

This wins the thread.

Fixed!

Also, re: Gose, he improves the outfield defense, but he is still obviously very raw at the plate, and I am not sure that this would be my choice of action (which is why they don't pay me the big bucks). I would have liked to see Gose with a chance to get more AAA at bats, with someone like Snider or Thames coming up instead. C'est la vie, I suppose.

Gose should be OK against RHP but he'll make even Adam Lind look good, in comparison, against LHP.

I've lost count as to how many times I've just shook my head at the computer as a result of this year's roster manipulations.

It's all speculation until a move is made.  Perhaps Gose was removed because he's just been traded and he's on his way to Arizona for a physical.  But count me as someone who thinks Snider, not Gose, should get the call if that was in fact the reason for Gose's removal from the game.

As for "tendon issues", as someone who has suffered three broken bones, a sprained tendon and who is currently in month 3 of recovery from a severed tendon surgery, I'd take three broken bones over a major tendon issue any day!  The recovery time, in my experience, is much longer and the lingering soreness, stiffness and weakness is much worse after a tendon injury.  If Bautista tore a tendon surgery expect 1.5 months of immobalization, 3 months before he can lift heavy weights or swing a bat, and another month or two after that before he's back to full strength.

Snider has no options left I thought.  If they bring him up and he faulters, what do they do then?  Trade him for a bucket of balls?

In AAA, his shine will be there and his trade value will be up.

I am not sure I agree with Gose though.  I thought it would be Gomes or Sierra.  With Gose, Davis and rasmus, there are not going to be many flyballs hitting the turf.

You mean the two batters Sam Dyson has pitched to since July 4 haven't rendered him an integral member member of the bullpen yet?

To be fair, I guess the 8th member of the bullpen is being carried around for games like tonight's, where Cecil is facing the Yankees and could be out of the game by the 2nd or 3rd inning. That doesn't justify it in my mind, particualrly given how well Villanueva and Laffey have been pitching.

We don't know, and possibly never will know, if there is some other psychological aspect to Gose's promotion.

Could the Jays be rewarding him for something he has done or for the progress he has made?  By all accounts he has worked hard to alter his swing after the Jays acquired him.

Could it be a way of the Jays showing Gose what else he needs to learn to do in AAA in order to succeed in the big leagues?

Could it be that Gose is now cruising, thinking he is major league ready, and the team want's to show him he isn't?

Could it be that the front office is worried that the team might let down over Bautista's injury and Gose might inject some energy, as Lawrie did when he was first called up?

Could it be that the Jays needed to look at Gose anyway before the off-season to see what they can count on, if anything, for 2013?  The extra two weeks or so wight not be a big difference from that.

And of course there are the showcase arguments.

I wonder if they will hold him back from facing CC in his first game.

Meanwhile Gose gets to travel on some charter planes, stay in some nice hotels, and look at some major league breaking balls.

And the women have long legs and brains.

1. Are they showcasing him to let other ML teams know the kid is ready? 
2. Are they showing Gose what being a ML'er is about?  Sometimes a kid when he first comes up is overwhelmed and if this year is a write off then it is best to get the 'oh my god I'm in the bigs' over with
   
3. They feel Gose is ready and it is time
   

Call me crazy, but doesn't it sounds like Guaranteed Win Night? The Law of Large Numbers, the Gods of Regression-to-the-Mean, will be with us!

Sure, they're due. Isn't that the exact formula for going broke as a gambler?

Jayson Nix starts at third for the Yankees tonight and bats eighth. That should be fun.

Top of the 7th. Yankees lead 7-4. All 9 Jays starters remain in the game. Yankees have burned Sabathia and reliever D.J. Mitchell. Boone Logan pitching. Bases loaded. Two out. Kelly Johnson rips a two-run ground-rule double to cut the Yankees' lead to 7-6. Runners on second and third, two out, Mathis up, Davis on deck.

Girardi calls for righty sidewinder Cody Eppley. You have to pinch-hit Gose if he's present, right? And if so, do you leave him in?

I would've just started Gose, to be honest, and one reason would be to dodge these scenarios.

So now unless we're to assume that Farrell isn't being truthful

Why would we ever except GMs and managers to be entirely truthful? When they answer questions for the public, rather than internally within the organization, we should expect spin. To not expect it is to be naive. That doesn't mean they are always lying but that they could be lying.

What if the real reasons for Gose's promotion are: 

"Thames' defense is so poor that we don't think he'll ever be a useful major leaguer for us and because of that we're currently looking to trade him". 

"Snider had been hitting well before his injury but we want to see him start hitting again because the next time we bring him up will be the last time, and we want to be sure. We're thinking of that time being the start of the 2013 season". 

"Gose has played well but could stand a little bit of a reality check. We'll expose to him major league pitchers and he'll probably struggle, and that should motivate him to continue working on areas that need improvement".

Well, they'd have no option but to keep Snider in the majors at that time, as he'd have no, um, options left..

Thanks, um, I know.