Laika

I would describe Pivetta is a mid rotation arm I know his fWAR doesn't say so but he has pitched in brutal home parks his whole career, probably jacked his HR rate and FIP/ERA a good amount

Ryan Yarborough

Team Science concedes nothing The news essentially just says the front office didn't like his interview. Yeah, no f***ing s***. That still doesn't mean he ever meant the organization or front office is "unfixable" Undefeated

.500 will be easy to make

Yes it was the Angles, but he also JUST faced them so they should have had a good read on him.

The Angels suck but still f*** yeah Bowden Francis!!!

Barger and Loperfido crushed those pitches

They still did okay on the trade Clase may never be a starter but nice cheap bench piece at least

Feels weird to be on this side of a Yarbro after opener dominant W

His stuff+ is about the same but his command has cratered. It went from average in his career (100 location+) to about two whole standard deviations below average (94 location+). That's minus minus command, out of nowhere. It's possible that he has the yips or something based on what happened with his kid in spring... Zero qualified SP have a 94 location+ There are only 17 qualified RP with location+ of that or worse and it's mostly guys like Genesis Cabrera, Greg Soto, Austin Adams, Trevor Richards, Reed Garrett, Scott Barlow, Lucas Sims.... guys who either spam breaking balls because they have horrible fastballs or guys who just have no idea how to throw strikes.

They did swing a bid trade for Corbin Burnes and that has worked. Eflin is an impact talent. Too bad he got hurt. I did not understand the Jimenez trade much for them. The Trevor Rogers trade was lame.

there is a string of anti-player stuff for sure breaking up the barrio, maybe the teoscar trade in some ways, pulling Berrios not sure what else but there might be other instances

They are of course critical of the front office He was obviously somewhat critical of the offseason and even if he was just saying the talent on the team is kind of unfixable, that is a form of criticism of the front office that's not really in dispute

Yeah he's strictly unavailable in every dynasty league I am in and he always has been, even when he sucked. P2F traded for him in LOD pre 2023. Matt Olson, Alek Thomas, Drey Jameson, and Diego Cartaya for Vlad a 2nd and Whitlock. Trade looks amazing now. Looked sorta bad for one year.

Votto and Vogelbach really had nothing to do with one another. Neither signing had a real impact in hindsight. Votto never came close to pressing for a roster spot. Vogelbach was cut after like 2 months. Horwitz getting some time in AAA to get comfortable at 2B was probably a good thing?

okay, updated Explanation B Explanation B: Chris Bassitt meant that the front office / organization is "unfixable." The Jays front office asked their media wing to do damage control. The PR team had a sit down with Bassitt and told him he needed to spin this. Bassitt, who is very brave and willing to slam the front office in interviews, suddenly lost his spine and agreed to spin it and throw specific players under the bus. Two media lackeys flew in and did an interview with Bassitt, with the PR team having already vetted the answers. This was then published. Phew - player criticism of the front office successfully swept under the rug (at least, in the eyes of all the sheeple who do not think critically and wear blinders all the time). But it is important to point out that while Zwelling and Davidi are obviously Rogers shills/lackeys, the intrepid and heavy Jeffrey Blair, also a Rogers employee, is for some reason not and he is allowed to put forward any narrative he wants on his programming. Remember, Jeff Blair = gospel, Zwelling and Davidi = corporate shills. Nevermind that they all work for Rogers and that Davidi wrote the article and was interviewed by Blair. Don't think too hard about this. Don't actually read the text of the Blair interview, just let your body react to the tone of it. That's the way. Name your kids Elon and Remington. Never drink tapwater, they put microbots in the Flouride. Chemtrails etc.

He is going to be 3B eligible for a while in dynasty leagues. Wow! I don't own him anywhere sad

Maybe if he agrees to a pay cut

I feel like they hired him to be a veteran presence for John Schneider on the bench And then Donny Baseball's dripping testosterone took over, Ross wilted into a corn cob and could not deny him, and Mattingly succeeded in taking over the entire offensive programming / game planning / coaching systems top to bottom

Joe Mauer was a 28 HR talent who had chronic groundball issues!

What are your parameters? These kinds of guys definitely aren't hitting .290 anymore but some of them still exist. Some of them are less prominent because they platoon. But if you scan for 11%+ BB%, ISO of .170 or less, 1B types you do find LaMonte Wade, Nate Lowe, certain Josh Bell seasons. Yandy Diaz before the power spike. Ryan Noda (RIP). Ji Man Choi. Nolan Schanuel might be one. And if you just adjust their AVG for era, it might be the same. I dunno. From 1999 to now the MLB wide batting average has gone from .271 to .244

Mattingly is doing work this year Vlad is back Varsho 100 wRC+ despite some of the worst peripherals in baseball IKF was somehow 116 wRC+ pre trade Clement hitting .268 and almost at 100 wRC+ Horwitz very good Springer sucks but is probably close to the best version of his pathetic 34 year old self considering the loss in power (5 mph off his maxEV in one year) Kirk was lost but has found himself Wagner is a god rookie Jimenez good so far as rookie Justin Turner clung to relevancy with Toronto (110 wRC+) long enough to fetch something in a trade before cratering with Seattle as expected (77 wRC+) The blemishes are: - Barger, maybe he just sucks - Schneider - Bichette but blame Bo and his legs - Biggio, you can't fix a guy like that

Right, I am using colourful language. But it IS less likely. And it's more than just a disagreement about human nature, because explanation B is in fact a weird interpretation of Bassitt's original interview that makes less sense even if you just ignore the whole corporate bad guy ad hoc. So it's a more complex explanation for two reasons. #1 it's a less logical conclusion based on the initial interview (like one of those logic questions where one answer is "more correct" than the others but neither is obviously wrong) and #2 it now requires a Rogers/PR/Media mini-conspiracy.

sample size in 2024 is meaningless but he has a 1.089 OPS when starting at 3B

Bo's obvious decline in athleticism