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Nimmmmmalllllaaaaa our savior Roden the Messiah

Alan Roden

I was a bit surprised by the MLB.com report on Roden. They seem to be slightly higher on his power, defense, and baserunning than some other pubs. Like, they say he has solid pop + is a good baserunner + is a decent corner outfielder. Alan Roden, four tool prospect.

I don't think so. I've heard that he is passive to a fault and the swing has some holes in it. I am expecting a similar translation as Edouard Julien!

Basallo is a tier above the rest.

six figures for a sports writer is pretty high, but no doubt some of the heavy hitters make good money. most beat writers are closer to entry level writer salaries

mmmm that's not really proof he's a tough kid trying to make the team

There are lots of quality baseball guys in Toronto now. I like Shi, Zwelling, BNS, and Keegan Matheson.

That's true. Half of this message board would self-describe as "apathetic, anhedonic, no motivation, overweight, disappointment to my parents despite a slightly above the mean 105 IQ" so he would just be one of the gang.

I don't think he would care about loose moderation. He's a loose butthole kind of guy. But he probably came here one time while Connorp was on a steroid bender and thought we were all Nazis. Can't really blame him. He should have stuck around long enough to notice all the pinkos / Jimbos.

Have you ever seen two people meet IRL and they should be best friends but they end up as instant enemies because they are too alike? Almost a "this friend group isn't big enough for the both of us" situation? That is the relationship between Stoeten and this message board. On paper it's a perfect fit. He's a good writer, a bit analytical, extremely lazy, with a liberal slant. If you smush the entire message board into one loser, it's basically that ^. Oh well. I don't remember why he hated the message board in the past. I want to say it was political.

I can't believe Joey Loperfisher broke his c3 vertebrae crashing into the wall in his first start of spring training with his new team with a clear path to being the temporary CF starter shame

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/estimating-hitter-platoon-skill/ You regress a RHB's platoon differential against 2200 PA of the average differential i.e. it takes 2200PA until you weight the hitter's own platoon split more than the league average platoon split which means for many players, by the time you might have a stable platoon split, they are a whole different player lol

probably true

The much anticipated Barger-Jimenez-Orelvis-Wagner infield Other than Jimenez, everyone has hands so clunky they might as well just carry pickle ball paddles out there

Starting a controversial thread and then reporting multiple posts in it that come at you = great way to annoy the mods = great way to quickly achieve boy who cried wolf status = great way to get yourself some warnings for baiting/spamming *golf claps*

Feel free to not post here. Seriously, just don't if this is your attitude about a bunch of posters.

Speaking of Yelich, there's another good "don't extend Vlad" data point

GB tendencies are seemingly very hard to get rid of permanently Remember Christian Yelich, perhaps MLB's biggest groundball loser of the last 10 years, seemingly fixed his woes for one year in 2019, hit 44 homers, but then went right back to slapping everything on the ground? I doubt he has ever really tried to "fix" it though. He probably thinks there is nothing wrong with his approach.

LOLperfido is the new Derek Fisher I guess

The Boston broadcasters were pointing out Bloss's velo on air. They weren't doing that with any other SP as far as I remember. If the gun was hot you think they would have been gushing about their own guys.

What flavour of crack were we smoking when this chart was created? Scenario Vlad Wanted A Reasonable Deal Vlad Wanted Too Much Jays Made a Reasonable Offer A fantasy land where we get to be happy. Jays have to get creative, but a deal probably gets done. Jays Lowballed Vlad A deal probably gets done We are here? What does "Jays have to get creative but a deal probably gets done" even mean if the premise is Vlad wants too much? The text in two of these boxes is hilarious and wrong. The chart should be illustrating that to extend at this juncture both sides need to be reasonable parties, otherwise there is never a deal. I dunno how you could see a deal happening with one party acting unreasonable. Here is the deal on the Vlad negotiations... We have a pretty big sample size on how the Toronto Blue Jays present front office handle negotiations with players and free agents. What they seem to do is cast their net widely, evaluate all alternatives, make an assessment on all options, explore big money free agents if their assessment is competitive, stay patient until their assessment lines up with a target's actual market or desires. We have a tiny sample on how Vlad will handle contracts and negotiations. Some statements about him being the best there is. Some irresponsible social media likes about him signing with the Yankees or Red Sox. So I really don't think we are in the "Jays Lowballed + Vlad wants too much" box. More likely in the top right box. Why? Because the Jays historically make a "reasonable offer" on f***ing everybody. They are so "reasonable" that it makes us want to throw up sometimes. Who is more likely to be acting unreasonably? The guy with 17 kids at 25 years old, who still can't run the bases, and doesn't know when to not click like on Instagram? Or the executive who takes a paper towel and dabs the fat off of his turkey bacon every other Sunday when he treats himself?

https://x.com/ShiDavidi/status/1893733845347741987?t=T5FC-5_rBrSykEWXElae2Q&s=19

Bloss is having trouble throwing strikes but the stadium gun has him throwing 97/98

We basically know Vlad's demands because of the David Ortiz comments. That's probably a direct leak. He wanted $585 million. It's such a stupid ask that it doesn't even matter what Toronto offered on the other side.