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  1. Laika
    Exactly. "Unfixable" things on the player side are numerous: - George's age - Varsho's swing - Too many hitters just don't have enough raw power (more of a team construction thing, fixable in that sense, but the specific players can't really just be different) - So many RP don't have enough velo or swing and miss - Rotation old and declining in term of stuff - Manoah will never get it back - Tiedemann is never coming
  2. Laika
    how would he know that lol
  3. Laika
    Well it sort of is actually. Fire Mark Ross.
  4. Laika
    Well it sort of is actually. Fire Mark Ross.
  5. Laika
    But he could just say that and it would have nothing to do with "protecting the players" The only way to interpret that whole protecting the players part is if he was referring to talent of the players
  6. Laika
    Sorry, flat earthers The only thing that he would allude to as "not fixable" would be player talent He means the present roster was just lacking talent in certain ways but he does not want to get into the specifics Of course that is also a criticism of the front office because they put the team together. But he wasn't saying the doom and gloom thing some of you are implying which would be something like "the front office is so dumb they can't be fixed"
  7. Laika
    They were separate points though It wouldn't make sense for anything on the front office side to "not be fixable". You can always fire people or change procedures. The only thing that should reasonably be read to be "not fixable" would be talent of certain players.
  8. Laika
    I feel like when he says that certain problems aren't fixable he is mostly talking about players being bad or old
  9. Laika
    The only pitcher in history to go to from Petco to GABP and somehow cut his HR/FB rate by 60%
  10. Laika
    Already spending too much on pitching. Having four FA contracts in the rotation would be gross. But they probably have to. Pathetic
  11. Laika
    This is like watching a Flat Earthers quarterly meeting
  12. Laika
    Lots of obvious cases of decent hitters going there and becoming ass
  13. Laika
    Three GREAT starts in a row and four good ones. He's becoming a story
  14. Laika
    This chunk of the Fangraphs Vlad article is brutal (sad)
  15. Laika
    Yimi is getting nuked as a Mariner so far sad
  16. Laika
    Change it to "an infusion of 45 and 40 FV players" and it is true Certainly a few of them have a shot of being 50 FV dudes but it's more likely they don't end up there. Bloss, Clase, Macadoo, Wagner, Loperfido.
  17. Laika
    that's not true i don't even like the blue jays
  18. Laika
    Even Riley Greene is maybe not even that special, lol. jesus christ some of you guys will just deepthroat random players on other teams if it makes the Jays somehow look weak in comparison. Or if you own them in fantasy, I guess. Greene has a career 27.2% K rate, is a bad defender, and presently looks like a 3.5 WAR player or so if he can stay healthy. That's not a STAR. That's not a franchise player. That's a second fiddle stick on a good team. Dude is getting out WAR'd by Daulton Varsho presently and for the foreseeable future lmfao.
  19. Laika
    It's not MY FAULT that Colt Keith's comps to those guys. It's COLT KEITH's fault!!!! And the point is not that I would take them over Keith. It's just to illustrate that Colt Keith is nothing special.
  20. Laika
    wet noodle argument
  21. Laika
    That was not the initial question though. Yes, Detroit has a better set of young players/prospects right now. But connorp said: "No trolling, but who has the better 5 year outlook, including FA spending room and such. All things considered Detroit or Toronto? I feel it’s objectively Detroit for sure." The only reason to pick Detroit seems to be if you have a prospect fetish. The entire discussion is about how much it matters that Detroit has Riley Greene and a "better farm system". Someone needs to look at the data I guess. I don't really even know what else to say. Colt Keith has 400+ MLB PA and Clement and Horwitz are outperforming him this year, so reality says you are a stooge. Chad Ross Atkins can find guys like Colt Keith for free. I don't make the facts I just state them.
  22. Laika
    I could see the Jays getting over .500 They kept their veteran starters so the rotation of Gausman, Bassitt, Berrios, Francis, Rodriguez is very good compared to any other under .500 team The lineup is decent until you get down to Loperfido and Jimenez. Pen sucks but some of the newer guys don't seem like total stinkers.
  23. Laika
    Steamer etc. all know how old he is bro You can tell a lot from 400+ MLB PA Colt Keith is a decent player and would be a nice piece to have but under the hood he doesn't look like anything special. His barrel and maxEV rates are kind of in that slop where some good hitters exist (like Bregman, Semien) but lots of guys with no punch live (Benintendi, Josh Rojas, Leody Taveras, Gavin Lux, Jose Cabellero). His BB/K ratio is middling. Power is middling. Defense isn't an asset. So it's a good (not very good) ability to make contact coupled with average power and easily replaceable defensive utility. That's the package! You can very easily compare that total package to Horwitz and Clement. They are older, but Clement has a way better contact ability and Horwitz has a better eye. Clement also has more on the D side. This happens all the time where certain types of young guys look like great prospects in MiLB but they aren't as good as expected in MLB. At least Keith is still very likely a solid MLB player. Alek Thomas' first 400 MLB PA at age 22 showed exactly who he was, in hindsight.
  24. Laika
    Ross Atkins with a quarter billion dollar payroll >>>>>>>>>> the team inherited by the apathetic son of Mike Illitch, who doesn't even like baseball and has never built a thing himself in his life.
  25. Laika
    Also, in 2021 the Tigers had the consensus #2 or #3 farm system Didn't do that much for them lol It just doesn't matter as much as they want you to think, unfortunately
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