Laika

Very interesting decisions by Thomas Pham on that play

velo has been steadily dropping

Exactly Fire Atkins but don't necessarily just fire sale this year Maybe a new leader could put new systems in place that will fix some of the bats for 2025 Imagine this team with Kirk, Vlad, Bo, Varsho, Schneider, Clement, Barger, Horwitz, Orelvis all performing very well. Would be pretty good.

Nobody is even really praising his plan Bs Just counterpoint to the bags of garbage who expected him to somehow do something this offseason to "fix the offense" The Jays issues began half a decade ago

PLAYER - WAR - SALARY GUARANTEED - AAV IKF - 1.2 WAR - $15M - $7.5M Chapman - 1.4 WAR - $54M - $18M Bellinger - 0.9 WAR - $80M - $26.67M Candelario - 0.1 WAR - $45M - $15M Gurriel - 0.6 WAR - $42M - $14M Soler - 0.0 WAR - $42M - $14M Hoskins - 0.4 WAR - $34M - $17M Garver - (0.5 WAR) - $24M - $12M Teoscar - 1.3 WAR - $23.5M Pederson - 1.4 WAR - $12.5M Look at this f***ing slam dunk windmill through the legs free agent signing lmfao You f***ing dum dums

It's sort of just the Justin Turner decision If Rossita had managed to court one of those other DH bats then things would feel very different for the offense. It is just hard to know if any even entertained Toronto. Seems like Joc wanted to be near the west coast. Seems like JDM was holding out for dumb money for too long. Hoskins required a two year commitment. Teo was a lot more in terms of AAV and there may have been some bad blood. Yeah you can poo poo the KK re-signing but c'mon. You don't have to love WAR to at least understand and admit that you can't stray too far from total package thinking in pursuit of one-dimensional needs. KK probably projected as a better use of money, all things considered. No counter arguments accepted please because f*** off if you think Adam Duvall or MAT were better choices lmao.

Candelario - 99 wRC+ Gurriel - 85 Soler - 95 Garver - 76 Renfroe - 60 Duvall - 93 Tellez - 47 MAT - 42 Rosario - 66 Frazier - 74 Anderson - 25 Gallo - 75 Santana - 95 Whit - 55 Blackmon - 78 Turner - 88 IKF - 105 Just sign a good free agent bat, bro, it's easy bro, why didn't you just improve the offense bro You know what else is hilarious? Vogelbach has a .371 xwOBA and better projections than most of the list. You could reasonably argue that he has been a rock solid signing at this point and bad luck has just rekt his numbers to date. His xwOBA is better than almost every FA bat that is having a good year. xwOBA Vogelbach - .371 Chapman - .348 Bellinger - .314 Hoskins - .369 Teo - .335 Pederson - .381 JDM - .363 Pham -.336

He has been having solid PAs all year long, got really unlucky in his limited playing time through most of May.

The funny thing is, Atkins did manage to land one of the better performing, better hitting free agent bats. His name is Isiah Kiner Falefa!!!!!!!!!!

Nobody from the top of the Tork draft looks that good Actually the 2018 draft too Just bad classes! And sandwiched in between the Rutschman, Witt draft lol. At least the Tigers for Riley Greene that year at 5th.

They could arguably sell Jansen and Yimi and still try to sneak in. It would be trying to thread the needle and it's something only the poor teams would typically ever do, but they could try. Yimi has been great but it's a bullpen. Everyone else just slides up and you hope Romano figures it out. Jansen is great but has value for that reason and at least with Kirk there is a defensively competent #2 to slide in there. I can't see how they could try to sell Kikuchi and make it in. Too important and no replacement viable at all. They could also be selling for MLB guys with more control, of course. Doesn't have to be prospects coming in. Although we've seen that movie before and it didn't really work - that idea is how or why some of the trades in 2017/2018 flopped. The "quick rebuild" theory. Brandon Drury and s***. Ken Giles, Billy McKinney, Merryweather, Anthony Kay. MLB ready MLB ready MLB ready!!!

I am not divorced but I am depressed so there you go

The team has their 20% chance of doing something this year + it is theoretically set up to compete for a playoff spot next year. Yes, after 2026 things look grim but would selling now really accelerate the timeline much? If we are being realistic, Vlad has little value giving his arb salaries and production since 2022. Bo is a tough sell because the SS defense is fringe and the plate approach is questionable. The total package is solid but there may not be a buyer given his profile. Turner, no value. Springer, can't be moved realistically. Bassitt no value, realistically. Kirk, value is gone. Biggio, value is gone. Gausman and Berrios - probably have some value but it's tough to tell how much because they are sitting on free agent contracts. Need a specific kind of buyer. Romano, value gone. Yimi some value but how much is someone really paying for a pop-up 8th inning guy, 33 years old, with a good but not great track record? Kikuchi some value but you have his checkered track record and historic command issues. Jansen some value but you have his injury history. Nobody, Atkins or otherwise, is moving the next window up much by taking what is out there for Kikuchi, Jansen, and Yimi Garcia and then maybe moving Gausman's contract and getting some mediocre prospect for Vlad. I dunno dudes. Just not sure it's worth punting 2024 and 2025 to move some of these guys. I guess they can just set some high asks and see what happens. It may be a seller's market again. Last year the D-Bags made a couple of dogshit trades: July 31: D-backs acquire RHP Paul Sewald from Mariners for INF Josh Rojas, OF/1B Dominic Canzone and INF Ryan Bliss Aug. 1: D-backs acquire Tommy Pham for INF Jeremy Rodriguez ^ these f***ing SUCK. Josh Rojas already has 1.5 WAR this year and Jeremy Rodriguez looks like a stud. The Rangers also made some bad ones, particularly the Cole Ragans disaster.

Listen to all these defeatist losers "why even try" "just start the rebuild" This is why you're all divorced and depressed God forbid a sports team try to win!

Vlad is playing third base today lol

Just the quintessential game for this version of the Blue Jays The most anti clutch team in MLB history Allergic to important hits

Omg he brought the nasty tonight good job Genie

Genesis Cabrera I guess that's it boys good try (not really)

fastball middle middle Springer fouls it off Why can't this team hit fastballs down the pipe hahahaha

three cookie fastballs to our "best" hitters take, groundball, groundball

lmaooooooo

Who would have guessed that a soft tossing lefty would give the Jays fits!!!

Why do you say he was hurt in Detroit?

If you liked spending Nick Frasso for Mitch White then you'll LOVE spending nothing for Mitch White

Mitch White was DFAd again at the perfect time Come on home, Mitchy