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  1. Laika
    Gilberto Batista (Jansen trade) has had two good appearances for Dunedin. Seems to have a decent changeup and enough velo for now considering his age. Touching 94/95 sitting 92.9. Would probably need to add a bit more velo to be viable.
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    Victor Arias Also seems to have nuked A+ after a promotion at the beginning of August. Just turned 21 4 days ago. 141 wRC+ in A ball and has continued that in A+.
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    Adrian Pinto Had some serious rib injury in spring and did not get activated in Vancouver until August 6th. Since then: .372/.413/.698 10 games 46 PA only 4 Ks Will only be 22 next year in AA
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    Boogers
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    Bo + KK + Biggio + Turner = 1028 combined plate appearances and 1.3 combined WAR Bo's unfortunate season/injury and the front office's bad decisions to go with these crusty old veterans + an obviously s***** Craig Biggio's son cost the team a lot of wins. Give them 4 more wins and they are at the top of the WC3 chase pack. On the pitching side, I don't think there are any valid criticisms. The team did not get f***ed over by a lack of SP depth as some feared they would. They had some underperformances, from Gausman and Berrios, but not extreme ones. The bullpen was just a gut punch of randomness --- who the f*** even considered the possibility of getting negative WAR from all of Swanson, Pop, Romano, Mayza, Cabrera, and Pearson? Mayza/Swanson/Romano combined for like 3.2 WAR last year. Insane!
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    Hey Tigger Do you know if anyone is working on defining "swing repertoires"? When the bat tracking stuff went public this year one thing that I thought of is that it might be possible to show that certain hitters have a bag of different swings. Just like pitchers have different pitches with varying speeds and shapes. I mean we know they do, because they talk about A swings vs B swings publicly, and we can see different swings, but it would still be cool to define and it might help project performance or explain things.
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    Very excited for the Toronto Blue Jays to almost almost almost land Juan Soto but come up just a hair short The false confirmations will be legendary After the inevitable near miss my projected offseason by the Blue Jays will be: Anthony Rizzo 1/$5M Max Kepler 1/$10M Jorge Polanco 2/$15M Yimi Garcia 1/$6M with club options AJ Minter 1/$5M with vesting option in 2026 Shelby Miller 1/$4M Jake Junis 1/$3M Brandon Drury - MiLB deal Daniel Vogelbach - MiLB deal Zach Plesac - MiLB deal Josh Staumont - MiLB deal
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    I think this is one too many wishes I wonder if they could do something like this: O'Neill 3/$45 (LF/DH) Santander 4/$80 (DH/LF/RF) Fill in the rest with P
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    O'Neill is my guy get him
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    Current starters with FG Depth Charts projected wRC+ / WAR per 600 PA 1B - Vlad - 150 wRC+ and 3.9 WAR 2B - Horwitz - 116 wRC+ and 2.8 WAR SS - Bo - 114 wRC+ and 2.96 WAR C - Kirk - 113 wRC+ and 4.09 WAR (per 450 PA) RF - Springer - 112 wRC+ and 2.61 WAR CF - Varsho - 106 wRC+ and 3.65 WAR LF - Schneider - 104 wRC+ and 1.48 WAR 3B - Clement - 99 wRC+ and 2.36 WAR DH - Wagner - 101 wRC+ and 2.27 WAR (this WAR is maybe wrong because he's not projected as a DH) Red = need someone else Pink = need insurance (or someone else) You can swap in Loperfido or Barger for Schneider but it doesn't move the needle. The Blue Jays' LF situation is abysmal by the projections; in reverse order of current roster projections it goes Marlins, White Sox, Braves, Blue Jays, Royals... Since Springer is old and crusty they should probably add TWO players than can at least camp in an outfield corner. One can be the LF, the other can be the DH and RH backup. I am comfortable with 2B since so many internal options can play there. They don't need a 2B.
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    I would describe Pivetta is a mid rotation arm I know his fWAR doesn't say so but he has pitched in brutal home parks his whole career, probably jacked his HR rate and FIP/ERA a good amount
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    Ryan Yarborough
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    Team Science concedes nothing The news essentially just says the front office didn't like his interview. Yeah, no f***ing s***. That still doesn't mean he ever meant the organization or front office is "unfixable" Undefeated
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    .500 will be easy to make
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    Yes it was the Angles, but he also JUST faced them so they should have had a good read on him.
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    The Angels suck but still f*** yeah Bowden Francis!!!
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    Barger and Loperfido crushed those pitches
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    They still did okay on the trade Clase may never be a starter but nice cheap bench piece at least
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    Feels weird to be on this side of a Yarbro after opener dominant W
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    His stuff+ is about the same but his command has cratered. It went from average in his career (100 location+) to about two whole standard deviations below average (94 location+). That's minus minus command, out of nowhere. It's possible that he has the yips or something based on what happened with his kid in spring... Zero qualified SP have a 94 location+ There are only 17 qualified RP with location+ of that or worse and it's mostly guys like Genesis Cabrera, Greg Soto, Austin Adams, Trevor Richards, Reed Garrett, Scott Barlow, Lucas Sims.... guys who either spam breaking balls because they have horrible fastballs or guys who just have no idea how to throw strikes.
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    They did swing a bid trade for Corbin Burnes and that has worked. Eflin is an impact talent. Too bad he got hurt. I did not understand the Jimenez trade much for them. The Trevor Rogers trade was lame.
  22. Laika
    there is a string of anti-player stuff for sure breaking up the barrio, maybe the teoscar trade in some ways, pulling Berrios not sure what else but there might be other instances
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    They are of course critical of the front office He was obviously somewhat critical of the offseason and even if he was just saying the talent on the team is kind of unfixable, that is a form of criticism of the front office that's not really in dispute
  24. Laika
    Yeah he's strictly unavailable in every dynasty league I am in and he always has been, even when he sucked. P2F traded for him in LOD pre 2023. Matt Olson, Alek Thomas, Drey Jameson, and Diego Cartaya for Vlad a 2nd and Whitlock. Trade looks amazing now. Looked sorta bad for one year.
  25. Laika
    Votto and Vogelbach really had nothing to do with one another. Neither signing had a real impact in hindsight. Votto never came close to pressing for a roster spot. Vogelbach was cut after like 2 months. Horwitz getting some time in AAA to get comfortable at 2B was probably a good thing?
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