Laika

I don't think it's a question of unreasonable vs. reasonable. It's a question of likely vs. less likely; how people will ignore Occam's Razor because of their preconceptions. Explanation A: Chris Bassitt meant that certain players on the team have characteristics that are "unfixable" Explanation B: Chris Bassitt meant that the front office / organization is "unfixable" Justification for A being more likely: - player commentary generally speaking is more likely to be related to the team - players CAN have objectively unfixable characteristics like age, injury history, lack of physical tools. front offices really don't unless you assume a flawed executive cannot be fired. - Bassitt even says in the interview that he wants to "protect his teammates" -- this makes it seem quite likely that what he would say if being candid would be a criticism of the teammates. I can't see how him saying the front office is bad would harm his teammates. - it would be extreme for a player in Bassitt's context to call the organization / front office "unfixable." It would be a Milton Bradley on a one year deal soundbite. However, some people get boners about the idea that the player was slamming the front office that they hate so they see it through a different light (explanation . The only real contextual information that supports B is that the interview began with a discussion/question that was about front office moves (Ohtani, pivoting, etc.) So, that's the initial disagreement. A is more likely. The B people accuse the A people of being sheeple, etc. Luckily this time, the player almost immediately was asked to clarify his statements. It became obvious that A was right. Now the only chance the B people have is to add on some ad hoc explanation. This is where you can basically throw them in with flat earthers. Oh, your experiment failed? The earth still seems round? Time for some more ********. Now we have this: Explanation A: Chris Bassitt meant that certain players on the team have characteristics that are "unfixable." He affirmed this in a subsequent interview. 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 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). I have been laughing non-stop since this began. It's basically a litmus test for dingleberries.

Hahahahahahaha

85 Stuff+ he is COOKED and it's a miracle that he has a decent ERA/FIP

He sort of gets the yips on throws and that might make the trad coaching staff hesitant to label him a starting infielder but yes he is a total stud almost better at baseball than, for example, ryan mcmahon or maybe colt keith

All I know is that this is the list right now: Team Science Laika Brownie Eat My Shatkins BatFlip Omar Team Flat Earth, everything is a conspiracy, aliens knocked up my sister, I swear they aren't hemorrhoids no come back Jays Blue L54 connorp Jays24 Team completely forgiven because he knows when to admit defeat Stangstag

why?

Hit tools aren't even comparable career contract rate of 80% vs 66.9% And Bo actually swings more often (gets thrown way more strikes of course) There is a universe where Bo Bichette ages okay and in that universe he probably slides to 2B or 3B, plays okay defense there, and hits like Nick Castellanos. Maybe with a bit more AVG even.

It's his platform year. He had every reason to be a baby this year and sulk for a trade, but he can't do that next year. I'd just hold him if the return isn't there.

All I can think of in recent history is the Jesse Winker trade to Seattle He was coming off a good year but he was an obviously flawed player with a track record of injury problems, fringe power, platoon problems.

Feels like the best they can do would be similar to the Teoscar package. Aaron Swanson and Erick Macko.

Yeah dude it must be the more complicated explanation

What's he worth anyway? Even if there was no drama his season has been horrendous

Not reading all that Sorry not sorry that you were wrong and looked stupid, again and immediately Stay in school

Derek & Cavan & Daulton & Joey A proud Blue Jays tradition. Lefties that can't hit.

LMAO where are my flat earthers now??? f***ing idiots. Not even reading comprehension to understand Harry f***ing Potter.

Exactly. "Unfixable" things on the player side are numerous: - George's age - Varsho's swing - Too many hitters just don't have enough raw power (more of a team construction thing, fixable in that sense, but the specific players can't really just be different) - So many RP don't have enough velo or swing and miss - Rotation old and declining in term of stuff - Manoah will never get it back - Tiedemann is never coming

how would he know that lol

Well it sort of is actually. Fire Mark Ross.

Well it sort of is actually. Fire Mark Ross.

But he could just say that and it would have nothing to do with "protecting the players" The only way to interpret that whole protecting the players part is if he was referring to talent of the players

Sorry, flat earthers The only thing that he would allude to as "not fixable" would be player talent He means the present roster was just lacking talent in certain ways but he does not want to get into the specifics Of course that is also a criticism of the front office because they put the team together. But he wasn't saying the doom and gloom thing some of you are implying which would be something like "the front office is so dumb they can't be fixed"

They were separate points though It wouldn't make sense for anything on the front office side to "not be fixable". You can always fire people or change procedures. The only thing that should reasonably be read to be "not fixable" would be talent of certain players.

I feel like when he says that certain problems aren't fixable he is mostly talking about players being bad or old

The only pitcher in history to go to from Petco to GABP and somehow cut his HR/FB rate by 60%

Already spending too much on pitching. Having four FA contracts in the rotation would be gross. But they probably have to. Pathetic