Laika

It's a weird situation. The more casual fans would pay more attention for more of the season, I guess, but the more hardcore fans are probably somewhat annoyed by how many mediocre teams there are. In the AL there are: 3 obviously bad teams something like 8 mediocre teams that are either in a WC spot or think they have a chance still only 2 very good teams IMO, NYY and BAL (not calling Cleveland and Seattle "very good" right now) In the NL there are NINE teams within 1.5 games, spanning from WC 2 all the way to the Reds who are 3rd last in the NL but only 1.5 games back of a playoff spot All of these teams are actually BELOW .500 lmao. Nats and Cards sitting in WC2 and WC3 a game under .500 lmfao Hardcore fans of most of these mediocre teams are NOT happy right now, unless they were the Nats/Tigers or whoever who had zero expectations heading into the season. Toronto - miserable Houston - miserable Texas - miserable Tampa - no fans anyway Cardinals - misery Padres - misery DBacks - misery Cubs - misery Giants - misery Mets - perpetual misery Reds - sadness

have to get KK, Springer, and Turner all in there! have to do it!

The only remaining hope is the Rogers Board of Directors. There is a clear conflict of interest between Atkins/Shapiro and the organization generally. Their best interests do not align. The BOD needs the gumption to recognize that and act on it. Extend Atkins/Shapiro for the next decade so incentives are aligned!

I hate this team so much Everything about this team. Other than the innocent youngsters - the Buffalo crew.

baserunning +1 (helmet stays on) hitting +1 (less stuff waving in his eyes and distracting him)

Injuries took a lot of potential WAR from him 1680 career IP, 32.6 bWAR Strasburg: 1470 career IP, 30.9 bWAR Pretty similar

bruh this is f***ed they call up Orelvis and will give him like two starts I guess why

The NBA comp would be some guy who was the best in the sport for like 8 seasons but only won 3 championships instead of 5+

Yeah but there would be MLB comparables Hard to be the best in the world in the NBA and not win it all. But in baseball, well, you get Mike Trouts all the time.

I couldn't help but wonder what Barger would have done in that late AB Springer wasted Man, Springer got 93 on the inner third from a lefty and had no chance. Complete whiff.

Yes but no Of course hits are better than flyouts but if he keeps up an approach like this he's an easy 20 HR hitter

Yeah and now it should be Little, Richards, then anybody other than Mayza or Genesis literally anybody

He's a f***ing moron

Horwitz launch angles 23 degrees 32 degrees 27 degrees Plus a walk f***ing NICE trajectories bro

Little #1 lefty and it's not close

f*** yeah Little!!!!!

The Buffalo Boyyyzzzzz come through again

Disgusting team remains disgusting

hahahaha every night is Pride Night!

At this point they should just call up Lukes, Wil Robertson, Juenger, and their girlfriends and just go full Buffalo. The summer of the Bisons.

sick as f*** wow super awesome dude

why? he has been f***ing brutal praying for a Springer injury too

They had, and continue to have, almost NO faith in their young players. To sign KK and his ~2 WAR projection and IKF and his ~1.5 WAR projection means they must have had internal projections of like 1 WAR and 0.6 WAR at LF and 3B, from their internal players (Schneider and Barger?). And somehow had Vogelbach as a push at worst with Horwitz. Atkins hates the Buffalo boys half the time. That's why they hit leadoff or 2nd and then get the next game on the bench. It's all desperate stupid nonsense.

Nothing could have been done other than what Atkins actually did. I mean that the end result was more destiny than anything else. Free will is an illusion. The decisions made this offseason were more or less pre-ordained, pre-determined by context and circumstance and common sense and the choices the Blue Jays have made over the last few years. And more remotely, in some respects, Atkins' parents put this all in motion since they are the ones who formed his personality. But even his hiring was inevitable. Mark Shapiro was always going to be the President of the Blue Jays. He was always going to hire Ross. These things were meant to be. We exist at the tail end of an unimaginably complex Rube Goldberg machine, which God himself triggered into motion. Our suffering is unavoidable and intentional and mechanical. There is no reason to be upset.

If you took one of the all-time hitters like Miggy or Pujols and made him play his entire career with a fungo bat, he would probably look a lot like Vlad