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  1. Laika
    The Toronto Blue Jays: Drafting high school pitchers in the upper rounds, giving them legit signing bonuses, and then dumping them + other decent depth pieces for a single fringy SP in his arb years. All part of the master plan.
  2. Laika
    I really like how Todd Redmond is better than JA Happ. The Blue Jays trade 10 prospects for Happ and pluck Redmond off the scrap heap (waiver claim). At this point I'd take Redmond as the 2014 #5 SP over Happ (if one of them has to be). Redmond can pitch man. His peripherals are very good. His SIERA is like, 3.60. He's always been a decent minor league pitcher (~3.60 ERA), and in 2012 he started striking out more batters than ever. He carried that into Buffalo this year, and has transferred it to the big leagues.
  3. Laika
    Yup, it's pretty encouraging. Hitting everything hard, not like in 2012 when he hit .273 on the strength of what seemed like 100 duck farts and infield dribble singles. If he hits like this in 2014, he's going to get a lot of extra base hits.
  4. Laika
    Rays lineup tonight: Jennings Zobrist Longo DELMON YOUNG HITTING CLEANUP ON THE SABR RAYS WHAT WORLD IS THIS five more guys
  5. Laika
    This is getting annoying. Can't we all just agree to acknowledge the following? - Ryan Goins' chances of ever being a big league regular are extremely slim, yet still existent, because baseball can be kind of crazy. - It would be pretty ugly for Toronto to pencil him in as the 2B starter for 2014. - Ryan Goins has looked like a decent defensive infielder through this small major league sample size. - Ryan Goins probably has the ability to be a decent big league bench player (mostly if he can handle SS in the big leagues, which we don't know yet). - Ryan Goins should be on the infield depth chart in 2014. There's an argument to be made for starting the year with him on the big league bench. - Basically every team in baseball has a Ryan Goins. Some teams have multiple Ryan Goinses. Ryan Goinses almost grow on trees. /thread
  6. Laika
    How exactly have we tolerated 916 posts from this guy? Obvious ban candidate. Everyone report.
  7. Laika
    b00bz
  8. Laika
    23rd in Pitching WAR. 23rd in Position Player WAR. lol, where do we get these guys?
  9. Laika
    Top percent defender, can hit for AVG, doesn't strike out much, consistently underrated coming up... He's Dustin Pedroia, version 2.Goins
  10. Laika
    lmfao @ Ryan Goins having a replacement level floor
  11. Laika
    Amazing. He laughs and then proceeds to more or less outline the exact cognitive bias that he was being accused of falling victim to. The way Goins turned that DP to end the game is more evidence that his D is upper level MLB caliber. Actually, that's just you falling victim to attribute substitution (again). L o f***ing L You're a wonderful poster. I watched that game ending DP several times and watched enough ball in my day to come to a rational conclusion that the likes of Izturis,deRosa or Kawasaki would not of turned that DP. Hint: Being greater than Izturis and co. does not = upper level MLB caliber. Objectively evaluating Goins' defense with your eyeballs is extremely complicated, so you're defaulting to simply comparing him to the team's previous second baseman, which is fine, except you aren't even aware of it and you're conflating the two (very different) questions.
  12. Laika
    Don't try to tell me that he can't start
  13. Laika
    Marcus Fcking Stroman 8 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 11 K.
  14. Laika
    And lots of people didn't like that signing, me included. 3/39 for a 32 year old coming off of a .321 OBP/ .704 OPS season. Can't predict ball
  15. Laika
    ESPN update on him today says he'll get 2 more starts, that's it.
  16. Laika
    Should the consolation playoffs count for final standings? (in terms of future draft pick slotting). I don't really think they should. I think teams 9-20 should be slotted based on final regular season standings, and then teams 1-8 will obviously place wherever they end up after the playoffs. What do you guys think? Is there even a consolation playdown for non-playoff teams? I wouldn't really know. Don't think I've ever missed the playoffs in fantasy baseball.
  17. Laika
    Yeah, I'm very much a 2nd tier playoff team right now. Solid but not spectacular.
  18. Laika
    I'd really like to get to 5th spot so I can play the Monte Cristo champ in R1. Although I'll probably need David Wright to come back swinging soon if I'm gonna make any noise in the playoffs.
  19. Laika
    It's anytime on Sept 1st. One more night.
  20. Laika
    Not stolen - was discussed. Guy is probably worth a follow if he keeps the blog up to date. Not stupid.
  21. Laika
    This isn't about Goins anymore. It's about the message board clique. Douchecanoes like BTS, Hurl, Dinger, Nox, Boxy, KSaw, and NJH just think they're so f***ing cool....
  22. Laika
    He reminds be a bit of Drabek. And I mean the version of Drabek that we've seen in the majors, as in, the 17 year old Grant Holmes looks basically as polished and talented as the 22-25 year old former top prospect in Drabek. It's just that big running fastball and hammer breaking ball. Also the stature and mechanics.
  23. Laika
    No you don't. It's completely immaterial. Not even in the equation. Johnson would accept a QO before he could blink.
  24. Laika
    Could be so, but it would just be weird that he could still post K and BB rates like this if strike throwing was his main issue. I guess you could rationalize it somewhat like this: He has a lot of trouble throwing that slider for a strike. It's always finishing down and out of the zone. This is leading to a small spike in BB rate, but also an increase in the K rate since it's acting very much like an out pitch. However, for players that can recognize the breaking ball, they can essentially forget about it and sit fastball. This explains some of the "hittability" (BABIP and HR/FB), and by extension, some of the grossly high ERA. .... But then we're just constructing stories, probably. It's only 81 innings though, so I'm comfortable with just hanging the weird numbers on the small sample size hook and moving on. For me, JJ will go into 2014 not much worse than he came into 2013 - as a huge injury risk with some upside.
  25. Laika
    If we're talking about, like, 5M, then sure. But I don't see why JJ would do that. He'll go to the NL. Pittsburgh will get him for dirt cheap and he'll be 2014's Liriano. Something like that. I wouldn't give him 10+ mill. I don't like the gamble, and that's mostly considering his health concerns, not necessarily his ERA.
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