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  1. Laika
    Shane Bieber is shamelessly obsessed with coming back to Toronto
  2. Laika
    Of course Barry Bonds remains the craziest modern player ever Imagine if Mike Trout never got hurt or declined and instead was an MVP until 36 and then had an Aaron Judge four year steroid fueled cheater peak and then also added 7 WAR after 40 and retired after a 1.000 OPS season at 42 That's Barry Bonds drugs, man.
  3. Laika
    I thought about this yesterday I do think the Mets would pay it down slightly to get out of it
  4. Laika
    Realistically I don't want any of them Toronto will do their usual thing and consider literally everybody Probably someone like Boyd/Flaherty/Eflin
  5. Laika
    Toronto can play the three old friends off of each other Gausman - best durability and quality on a one year deal Bassitt - durability but performance questions (no real "upside") Bieber - guarantees nothing but should be the cheapest, and does have "upside" theoretically If Bassitt is $12M and Bieber is $9M who do you want? I feel like Toronto would want the innings more.
  6. Laika
    Everything like this just makes me appreciate Mike Trout more as time goes on 163 career wRC+ and never below 160 in a season until his age 31 year. And still never below 122. 8 or 9 consecutive MVP quality seasons. Just the GOAT of the 2000s. The only comparable feat would be Judge's 2022-2025 peak.
  7. Laika
    So 2027 payroll looks to be around $239m or so, before any additions. I think they will explore the SP market for depth but land back with Bieber on a much cheaper pillow deal, maybe $8m or so. That's your SP5 behind Ponce. Cease, Soriano, Yesavage, Ponce, Bieber.... Miles (swing)... Arrighetti (AAA), Berrios (IL for 1 months), Bloss, Bowden, Tiedemann, Stanifer, King, Perry. I don't think the pen requires a big investment. That does leave a good amount of money to try and improve the bats.
  8. Laika
    Nope I think it was only Varsho and Alek Thomas
  9. Laika
    Since Toronto is a big market team now and they will sign free agents and extend players, we will see this forever They will lean towards trading good prospects rather than make room for all of them and take the performance risk In four years we may very well regret the Soriano Nimmala trade just like this Moreno Varsho deal It's not a bad thing though. Think about how many top prospects the Dodgers have to give away or use in trades. Miguel Vargas...
  10. Laika
    Necessary is a weird word They had Kirk, Jansen, and Moreno Nowhere for all three Only a long term spot for one And they had no long term CF Kirk is shaped like Danny Devito so he probably was hard to trade at that time, and get good value Jansen was solid but not worth much with limited control Who knows what other trades were even possible at the time What is the alternative to trading - converting Moreno to 3B?
  11. Laika
    Worst post in the history of the message board
  12. Laika
    He should be politely boo'd because he sucks and he sucked all year and the team sucked mostly because of him forget the comments, he has always been a buffoon
  13. Laika
    He says he is sorry, he has apologized to his teammates, he is going to work hard to make his contract a great one, and he talked to his dad who told him he needed to apologize, and the comments he made were "not really what he wanted to say"
  14. Laika
    Brandon Lowe is a trap 32 years old Hard platoon Coming off a career high fWAR and an inexplicable defensive value surge Someone is going to pay for a 3+ WAR "starting 2B" but I think the best he is going forward is a 2 WAR, 500 PA guy that looks more like a LF/DH you can't use against LHP. And Toronto was already too left handed for much of 2026 The Blue Jays had an 84 wRC+ against LHP in 2026. 99 vs RHP.
  15. Laika
    True... although Sanchez should have been and Gimenez was many years ago.
  16. Laika
    So he has back pain, depression and anxiety. The stuff about the contract is just excuse making and basic stupidity. There is a semblance of truth that the structure of free agency is that players get paid more after arbitration, so maybe we should not get too indignant about the quote. Ignore the quote, it's noise. Focus on the actual issues: Demonstrated stupidity Demonstrated inconsistency Demonstrated fitness issues Admitted chronic back pain Admitted depression Admitted anxiety This is a mess
  17. Laika
    https://x.com/hgomez27/status/2102869783666401626?s=20
  18. Laika
    So many dudes just never seemed to have a viable MLB level game plan Varsho, Sanchez, Clement, Sosa, Gimenez, just swung at everything or swung randomly. Straw and Schneider just have swiss cheese swings and are only passive because they can't hit. Cuck takes. Vlad is re****** Kirk and Springer sort of had a plan going at times but were wrecked by injuries or lost for much of the year Okamoto was probably the only guy who hunted pitches professionally in 1 and 0 strike counts, and then executed his swing often enough to make it work I don't really have an opinion on Lukes. He does seem to have a plan most of the time and is just limited by his actual, physical skills. Same with BV.
  19. Laika
    We are so back https://www.tankathon.com/mlb 12% chance at getting a top 6 pick through the lottery #LetUsPray Even with the 10 spot penalty the worst they will pick is maybe 25th?
  20. Laika
    Vlad and the Blue Jays never say a single substantive thing about his struggles, and they won't do anything either He will just go to the DR and do pushups and take batting practice. That's it. The org will just politely ask him to do some kind of training once and he won't even text them back. He will come into spring training with the exact same swing and game plan and he'll just be praying to God a bit differently
  21. Laika
    They probably end up signing Kyle Tucker or Bo and they also suck this year but the ramifications are more palatable
  22. Laika
    It's like some perverse combination of the Pablo Sandoval, Anthony Rendon, and Chris Davis situations all wrapped up into a personal nightmare for all of us. The worst contract in sports history. The most infuriating and insufferable, slobbish moron mascot you can imagine. Just a perpetual and incomprehensible waste of talent that somehow couldn't just fail, they had to do just enough to cripple a franchise before they failed. One chubby, 80 IQ Dominican trust fund baby is going to bankrupt Rogers Communications
  23. Laika
    The quotes are real.
  24. Laika
    This could be fake but if it's real, it's a horrible look The Blue Jays organization was so close to ascension. Had the payroll and resources to do it. Then they hitched their wagon to this absolute clown.
  25. Laika
    Roy Halladay also took so many painkillers and other drugs that he became a junkie and literally died
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