Laika

Interestingly, some of the numbers should already be stable, when it comes to average bat speed and swing length. I think these measurements are about as "sticky" as fastball velocity. I'd still give it a couple of weeks. And you never know who might be dealing with a nagging injury or something like that. But Kirk's bat speed being up 3.6 mph on average is probably already significant. He is TRYING to hit for more power and/or did something new in the offseason. Same with Gimenez.

Who remembers when the axe handle bat took the league by storm? Don't really see or hear of it anymore. The torpedo bat makes sense in theory but I am sure there are certain downsides. Pitchers with east-west movement probably have a better time against torpedo users since the end of the bat is more useless than ever. At the end of the day the mass of the bat is a zero sum game.

Some very early Bat Speed information for those who cannot savant Player 2024 2025 Length Change Vlad 75.9 75.3 -0.1 Kirk 70.1 73.7 0.2 Bo 70.4 71.8 -0.2 Springer 71.9 71.7 0.1 Santander 73.1 73.3 0 Gimenez 68.3 70.3 0.1 Kirk swinging faster but also a bit longer (not necessarily good). Bo faster and shorter (nice). Springer incrementally slower and longer (ugh) Gimenez faster. I am sure none of this matters at this point. Probably not enough swings. But, watch Kirk/Bo/Gimenez. Schneider is swinging very short and slow so far. Weird. Clement swinging slow and long (horrible). Wagner and Lukes have very short, contact swings and Lukes is actually fast so far - interesting?. Roden is pretty vanilla in terms of speed and length.

Could Yariel be a good setup guy?

Interesting they are using Yariel here. What is the plan for SP5???

Little might be solid. New Mayza?

Aggressive promotions early, and pray. Bloss, Fluharty, Yesavage promote them all

The Yarborough, Lovelady decisions could not have gone worse. - Yarbro cut because "don't need two long men" - Yarbro immediately signed by division rival to MLB deal - Lovelady loses a game himself - Lovelady cut after being directly responsible for said loss - Scherzer hurt, Yariel to the rotation, now the Jays have no long man

My ******** sensor is going off. Is Max Scherzer conning the Blue Jays?

57.09 FIP so far. BTS loving this for his LoD team.

Now Cora is saying he isn't even the backup 3B. Wow.

Kirk's best season was the one where he wasn't babied. Let the big guy eat as much as he wants

Weird contact. He was on time and hit a line drive but it wasn't on the barrel. Must have been off the end of the bat a bit

Jays have like seven hard hit balls tonight and scored all their runs on... none of them?

MLB civil war The Manfred Apologists vs the Selig Conservatives

Blue Jays off to a horrendous marketing start. Get destroyed at home opener. Security kicks out a patriot. Second game isn't even on TV.

And Ross Atkins is probably in his jammies right now. Half asleep. Rewatching Grey's Anatomy.

Jokes aside Jose Berrios is dogshit as far as "opening day starters" go Eflin was always the heavy favourite. Sigh. Why not Gausman? Kind of disrespectful to give the OD nod to the guy who is your 4th or 5th best SP.

Going to be a long season, boys.

Jack Zepplin is shutting us out

I see we are going straight to zero on the 2025 Vibes graph

Jackson Kelenic

That's on Vlad. Should have been an easy play for the 2B.

Berrios swiftly reminding everybody that he sucks now