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  1. Jimcanuck
    Chatwood. And right now, pussy Charlie is glued to the bench working his nose. No leader, that one.
  2. Jimcanuck
    I think with Gibby at the helm, Jays are making moves to line up the SP for the postseason right now.
  3. Jimcanuck
    Agree with this. Strike gold with Semien, Ray, Manoah, Vlad monster breakout and not make the playoffs?
  4. Jimcanuck
    They aren't bad. Just a weird season. Plus Buxton was out for a significant time, and JD was in and out of the lineup. Pitching was a problem for them. Jays are playing them when they are as close to full cylinders as they have been all year.
  5. Jimcanuck
    Plus McGuire not getting the BABIP luck he was getting earlier. He's an AAAA player, at best.
  6. Jimcanuck
    I'm all fapped out
  7. Jimcanuck
    Damn, wasn't even close
  8. Jimcanuck
    Time for the slider K
  9. Jimcanuck
    Berrios has a history of early game trouble. Let's see if he can get of this.
  10. Jimcanuck
    He's a f***ing beast. If he can ever stay healthy, 30/30 player easy with otherworldly defence.
  11. Jimcanuck
    Damn, that was a good pitch.
  12. Jimcanuck
    I think Soto, Wander, and J-Rod should be a winning trio.
  13. Jimcanuck
    Must win.
  14. Jimcanuck
    I prefer to imagine him in the middle of the Blue Jays lineup.
  15. Jimcanuck
    Soto dynasty value took a hit this year with the general suckage of the players around him.
  16. Jimcanuck
    OBP up to .471 Ted Williams has a .482 OBP for his career.... crazy. I could see Soto coming close to that, though.
  17. Jimcanuck
    To be clear I never said Johnson regularly threw 100 MPH. The available anecdotal reports are that he threw harder than Feller, who was measured at 100 MPH max (measured at the plate, mind you, not out of the hand - big difference). So let's say Johnson sat 94 and topped at 98. Seems reasonable? https://everything-everywhere.com/jesse-owens-vs-usain-bolt-who-would-win/ The above is an interesting read on Jesse Owens. They got Andre DeGrasse to run on same conditions that Owens ran under, and DeGrasse did 100 m in 11 seconds.
  18. Jimcanuck
    According to Fangraphs, Walter Johnson max'ed out at 371.2 innings in a season. Nolan Ryan, 332.2. Not that far apart.
  19. Jimcanuck
    I don't think Nolan Ryan did much of mechanics, weighted ball, etc either. And I doubt Pineda has been to a gym even one day in his life and yet there he was throwing 95/96 or whatever. Of course The Big Train was getting up to 100 MPH. Nolan Ryan is basically his clone.
  20. Jimcanuck
    Babe Ruth in his 20's had a physique quite similar to Mike Trout. Hell, fangraphs has the Babe at 6'2", 215 lbs, and Trout at 6'2", 235 lbs.
  21. Jimcanuck
    Have a great trip. Come back and make the postseason GDTs.
  22. Jimcanuck
    Golf distance increases are predominantly equipment/technology. There is no question athletes today are on average physically stronger / faster than their counterparts from 100 years ago (Pineda types notwithstanding). However, I do not believe the gap is as great as you think. There is a line of MLB fireballers Johnson, Feller, Gibson, Ryan, Johnson, Verlander all throwing 100 MPH or close to it. There was never some massive leap in fastball velocity from one generation to the next. A slow increase generation to generation, sure. Nothing close to 75 MPH to 100 MPH across those 5 generations of pitchers. Grichuk in 1920 hit 200 HRs? Give me a break.
  23. Jimcanuck
    Feller was measured. Primitive methods compared to today, to be sure. You have no evidence to back up your 75MPH tops assertion. None.
  24. Jimcanuck
    Walter Johnson estimated to be at 98 MPH. Bob Feller who came up shortly after Ruth retired, was measured at 100 MPH. Charlie Gehringer, the HOF second baseman with Detroit, batted against Feller, Lefty Grove, and Walter Johnson and said that Johnson, who pitched in Ruth’s era and earlier, threw much harder than Feller.
  25. Jimcanuck
    Strongly disagree. Ruth had more power and WAY more hitting ability than K machine Grichuk.
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