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On May 28th the Yankees had a 91.,8% chance to win the division and Toronto had a 3.2% chance

I wonder what kind of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) the Jays have switched to at AAA It's funny to me that all of Barger, Schneider, and Loperfido were meh in AAA this year but have been much better in MLB after promotion. And Wagner was also just meh in AAA but has a 159 wRC+ since coming back up in June. They must be working on specific things down there and doing things that the Jays are tracking which don't really translate to being good in games

Need to crush Montero, dude has a 5.26 FIP and it just a boring sinker-slider RHP. In past years random sinker-slider RHP could cause issues for Toronto but they can throw four viable LHB in there today so we should be good

Hard to comp anybody to the A+ prospect in the deal. I think Stanifer and King are clearly more exciting, but guys like Barriera and Maroudis would be worth less. Jays also don't have a good comp for the MLB ready relief prospect. The bucket for "40+ FV" prospects is like 500 names deep so teams are going to have wild variations in valuations on such players

It's a solid return for Naylor. Garcia might be a reliever but his stuff is wicked and they control him forever. I was reading that the other guy is a 2022 high school pick whose stuff jumped a lot this year. Realistically Naylor gives Seattle about 0.8 WAR and then walks. Not an amazing return though. Not sure why Arizona jumped at it.

God bless you Eric Lauer

Working on the run differential now

lmao please stop talking about Severino

I think the minimum every team gets is like $4.75m

The Yankees fans and commentators seem jealous of the Jays' roster construction and it just tickles me pink to be honest

On some of these it seems like the pitch tracking is not accurate. Like if you go frame by frame there, when it is about to enter the glove it's in the zone. I know the camera angle makes it tricky

Yankees have such an awkward roster. They should shake it up huge at the trade deadline. Stanton clogging up DH most games. Cannot man a position even for one inning. Three left handed catchers in Wells, Escarra, and Rice. So they can't play the platoon advantage game at C when deciding when guys play or get days off. Ben Rice can really hit and needs to play but his only "real" position is 1B and to give him run there means putting Goldschmidt in the short side of a platoon. Their best defensive of is Bellinger - Grisham - Judge. But Jasson Dominguez can also really hit. But Jasson Dominguez is inexplicably bad at left field, somehow. So it's kind of like the Ben Rice situation where getting his bat in there is so tempting but you lose so much on defense. Vivas and Peraza should not be on MLB rosters but they are sharing time at 3B until a trade happens. Volpe has the yips and still has not developed with the bat. They are stuck with Stanton and they cannot honestly roster Stanton, Rice, Goldschmidt, and Dominguez at the same time. We might see them trade Rice despite the offensive prowess, and demote Dominguez to work on his defense. Clint Frazier flash backs.

Yeah some of the prior whiny episodes were funnier

Lauer vs Olson Berrios vs Keider Montero Gausman vs Skubal Scherzer vs Flaherty Gotta avoid a "let down" series and at least split this one. Skubal is almost impossible but if any team can put the ball in play and scratch out a few runs on him it's this version of Toronto.

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Can't wait to listen to the next Talkin Yanks podcast with Jomboy Have been a subscriber ever since the 4 game sweep and it's very satisfying I must say

Maybe give him Peraza

More runs plz

Questionable for sure but it may have just been a pinky hangnail

Good for Straw

it's probably too light but the Marlins are one of the teams that might actually want/value a couple of this bats Toronto has at/near MLB Maybe it's RJ Shreck or Pinango or Kasevich instead of Roden/Loperfido.

Arjun NimmalaTrey YesavageJoJo ParkerRicky TiedemannKendry RojasKhal StephenAlan RodenYohendrick PinangoGage StaniferJosh KasevichJake BlossJohnny KingLanden MaroudisJuaron Watts-BrownOrelvis MartinezJonatan ClaseAdam MackoRJ SchreckBrandon BarrieraSam Shaw

Yeah even if he never bounces back, he's probably an SP3 Sandy and Mitch Keller have similar projections but I don't see the upside with Keller. 95 Stuff+ for MK. 106 Stuff+ for SA.

None of the better ones. TBH part of the appeal of Sandy is that he might not cost an arm and a leg because of the performance so far. They can have Loperfido or Roden + Watts-Brown + Orelvis. Maybe Bloss slides in there somewhere. I am too attached to Yesavage, King, Stephen, Stanifer, Rojas.

Sandy Alcantara shoved today against the Padres. I think he's the guy to target, unless there is some surprise Ace or SP2 like DeGrom to be had. Alcantara has been bad but the stuff is largely still there