BTS
-
Posts
42,924 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
16
Content Type
Profiles
Toronto Blue Jays Videos
2025 Toronto Blue Jays Top Prospects Ranking
Toronto Blue Jays Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Toronto Blue Jays Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by BTS
-
I really hope Carrera gets claimed by some NL team and I never see him on my TV again.
-
For me the big difference is that Ceciliani can apparently handle CF pretty well and Lake is a disaster.
-
I'd much prefer to see Ceciliani. By all accounts he's a legit defender at all three spots, can run, and has hit a bit in the minors. He's interesting. Lake can't hit, or play defense. But he's out of options, so I could see the team keeping him up.
-
So, Junior Lake has to be the favourite for the 4th OF spot?
-
Nope. I'm actually pretty excited about a 'no player option' policy. Those contracts are terrible for the team.
-
I love this man.
-
Really looking forward to seeing what Gavin Floyd can provide. For 1M if he can even give 10-15 effective starts that would be a nice boost.
-
Blue Jays and Edwin have opened contract negotiation talks
BTS replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Someone ban this filth. -
C - Schwarber 1B - Rizzo 2B - Pedroia 3B - Arenado SS - Semien CF - Jones OF - Puig OF - Holliday Util - Ortiz CF - Santana 2B - Travis (IR) SS - Peralta SP - Kluber SP - Richards SP - Lackey SP - Chen SP - Kennedy SP - J. Ross SP - DeSclafani SP - Nola SP - Cobb (IR) RP - Allen RP - Betances RP - McGee RP - Cecil
-
I don't remember the last time I played a 12-team. Everyone's team looks the same.
-
Ugh
-
Ugh, 10th here.
-
Indeed. No Dominic Dunne gaffes plz.
-
Blue Jays and Edwin have opened contract negotiation talks
BTS replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Did you not notice that 5 of the last 6 WS champions are teams with a lot of cheap homegrown talent? Prospects turn into cheap MLB talent, which is critical to success. -
Fight me
-
ST GDT: Jays vs Orioles (March 15 at 1:07 ET)
BTS replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The Hendriks trade will look that much sillier if Chavez isn't used as a starter. -
lol Barry Davis is such a weiner
-
Yeah who knows. It's probably a bunch of stuff. DRS has him at -20 runs over his career, and he's had some big LOB% issues with terrible numbers with runners on base. Maybe pitching from the stretch hurts him more than it hurts an average pitcher.
-
The opposite is probably true more often than not - mediocre arms run into some poor BABIP and sequencing luck early in their careers and get buried before their ERA can regress to their DIPS. Like when Sean Nolin was exiled after one bad inning.
-
Did you respond to his post without reading it? It seems like you did.
-
Grant, you're completely insufferable. I actually agree with you that Sanchez is probably a very good reliever over the next few years. The comparison to Brandon League was not a slight. League had a stretch of 5 years from 2008-2012 where he averaged over 60 IP per season with a 7/3 K/BB, a 58% GB rate, an 83 ERA-, and an 84 xFIP- while using primarily a GB inducing 95+ MPH fastball. League was a good reliever. I think Sanchez will be a good reliever. I think Sanchez will do it similarly to the way League did it: ~7/3 K/BB, GB rate around 60%, big velo fastball as his best pitch. I don't believe that you actually don't see the similarities there. They're very similar pitchers. Maybe Sanchez has a better run. Maybe he doesn't.
-
We don't know if the cutter and change are actually any good, and the 'repeating his delivery more consistently' is basically on the level of 'best shape of his life' in terms of spring training narratives. I basically think he's been capable of pitching in an MLB pen for like 4 years using just his fastball, and I'll believe he's improved when I see his other pitches being used effectively vs. MLB hitters.
-
Multiple people have talked about how Sanchez is improving, but that probably isn't true. The pitcher we saw last year was much the same guy that was drafted: big fastball with spotty command, and nothing else. That's not to say he can't improve, but he hasn't really done it yet, and most pitchers don't at 24 years old.
-
That's actually pretty close. Especially if you adjust for run scoring environment and remove League's post prime s***** years. The two have very similar skill sets.
-
I don't think so.
