Laika

Varsho is going to have a huge game

Where is the Lenyn Sosa DFA? s*** will hit like crack

Gunnar has a 99 wRC+ Coby Mayo 75 Holliday 90 Cowser 79

He has a chance to be a stud A couple of years ago with his 30% K rates he looked like a future Orelvis Martinez, with decent defense. Which would be a bench player. But now he's got it all going on. K rate under control. Taking walks. Hitting the ball hard enough. Defense is there. Age vs. level is great. He's probably underrated because he has never had a LOUD offensive season.

Precisely. There is a barrel control guy. However, Holliday's career BB and K rates are not like Spooner Horwitz's. Holliday does not have good top end velo but he is able to consistently hit the ball "kind of hard". There are slightly better guys to comp him to.

They did NOT do it with Yesavage. Trey had like 213 IP between college and summer ball in 2022 to 2024, then 98 minor league innings before getting called up. And then his usage was expanded by context (playoffs) beyond what Toronto was probably even comfortable with. And as a reaction, they then sort of faked an injury with him this year to bring him along slowly in 2026. Perry was drafted in 2022 and had just 84 pro innings between then and the start of 2026. Injury and recovery timelines all over the place. If Toronto lets him throw 90 in the minors this year and then calls him up for MLB innings, it is only comparable to Trey if you ignore all of that substrate. But hey, believe in the science. If Toronto does not think he is a bigger injury risk than Yesavage was, go ahead and do it.

That's not my opinion, that's what Steamer, ZiPS, OOPSY, ATC, and The Bat say. Projection wRC+ range: 102 to 110 Projection WAR range: 1.2 to 1.6 WAR in 310 AP or so General consensus that he is "a tick above average" right now The rough thing with Holliday is that his tools are so quiet. His bat speed / MaxEV are so light. I think people were expecting more in that perspective. He could still figure it out as a barrel control guy though.

Keith Law on Parker (37th in his top 50 today) Parker has hit .239/.384/.384 so far in his pro debut, with much harder contact than the statline implies. His exit velocity has peaked at 109.2 in-season after hitting a ball at 111 mph in spring training. He’s uber-patient, swinging just 37 percent of the time, and has ended up with two strikes on him in more than half of his PA this year, a condition known around here as “Emmanuel Rodriguez Syndrome.” In 2-0 and 3-1 counts, when you’d expect him to be in attack mode, he’s only swung at 17 percent of pitches while taking strikes almost half the time. The Jays have mostly kept him at shortstop with a few games at third base; second also seems like an option. Batting average is far from my favorite stat for a hitter at any age or level, but I do expect Parker’s to creep up over the course of the season as he goes after more pitches in hitters’ counts. And Nimmala (41st) Nimmala returned to High A, where he spent most of last year, and hit well enough out of the gate for Toronto to bump their 2023 first-rounder up to Double A in early May, where he’s hit .317/.359/.383 in 17 games. He’s a true shortstop who does have plus power and he’s been making more hard line-drive contact since he got to the Eastern League, where pitchers have been attacking him with more sliders and he’s still adjusting. He also put Perry in his HM section: Other players who weren’t on my preseason top 100 ranking but are heading towards next winter’s list include: Nolan Perry, RHP, Toronto Blue Jays Nate Payne, LHP, Miami Marlins Jhonny Level, SS, San Francisco Giants Ethan Petry, OF, Washington Nationals Devin Fitz-Gerald, 2B, Washington Nationals Roldy Brito, OF/2B, Colorado Rockies Charles Davalan, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers Ty Harvey, C, San Diego Padres Josh Hammond, SS, Kansas City Royals Luke Stevenson, C, Seattle Mariners

Cannot say that I am thrilled with these pitching matchups on paper: Patrick Corbin vs Chris Bassitt Voth/Seabold/Commitee vs Trevor Rogers Trey Yesavage vs Brandon Young Spencer Miles bulk vs Kyle Bradish But the 2026 context makes it better I guess.... : Bradish good but not beasting (4.13 FIP) B Young is not great (4.75 FIP) Rogers not having a good year (4.52 FIP) Bassitt, more of the same (4.38 FIP) These are MLB starters but it's kind of a bunch of slop a good team should cream, at least for two of the games. Are the Blue Jays capable of being a good team at the plate? Who knows. Corbin (3.95 FIP) may be outpitching most of that O's slop. Miles is half of a SP but he has performed so well. So the Voth/Seabold whatever game is going to be the worst the Jays send out there.

Holliday's projections have already plummeted back down to earth. Now he projects to be more of a 100 wRC+, league average player. Nobody EVER even hinted at Basallo being a bust, though. Dude only had 31 games last year.

Fine. We won't talk in absolutes. No Realistic Chance. Put the "realistic" line wherever you want. Less than a 1% chance. Whatever. Perry PROBABLY has the stuff to help the big league team this year out of the bullpen or as a swingman for a couple of months, but that would be a big developmental risk and is not something this organization has a track record of doing. Being said, here is the best video I have seen of Perry. He looks so good. The command he has of these pitches is extremely impressive. He has the look of a college Ace SP who just went top 10 in the Rule 4 draft. That is what he FEELS LIKE to me. Just without any history of innings, whatsoever. Like, I can almost imagine the draft scouting reports where he is praised for his poise, mechanics, command, polish, fastball shape and breaking ball quality, but scouts question his top end stuff or velo and whether it will translate into a front line MLB starter.

Unfortunately the O's offense is cooking lately

Jeff P says Charles McAdoo is being called up This can only mean Sosa is getting cut. Unless someone got hurt today.

They need to figure something out Something isn't right with Ernie's 2B defense. The team's best defensive alignment probably has him at 3B. The backup infielder on the roster is the worst hitter in baseball and he can only play 2B and 1B (poorly, at that) Schneider could not hit at all, and can only cover 2B anyway Barger is hurt but even when he is back he can only cover 3B, so he just allows you to maybe play Okamoto at 1B sometimes AAA has McAdoo as a maybe 3B/1B option and Kasevich as a light hitting no power MIF option but both of these guys are likely nothingburgers and they have no MLB experience Any interesting AAA prospect is a corner outfielder (Schreck, mainly). The only interesting MIF prospect anywhere close to MLB is Nimmala They really need an option to emerge that can at least cover 2B or SS and provide MLB quality depth there. Nobody exists at the moment. Myles Straw is an athletic freak, he can probably play second base. Range for days.

Hilarious game, lads. I didn't watch it but the box score is colourful. Marlins stole 15 bases but got caught stealing 9 times MLB MVP Otto Lopez refused to get out Gausman was trying to bean dudes and then did bean a dude Yucky Perez hurt himself butt stretching too hard? lol John Schneider flipped the bullpen pecking order around just to make people panic

0-2? 2025 Louis Varland shows up and throws a fastball right down the dick

r u kidding me, Otto Lopez

did he get hurt?

game is not over yet dudes Perez might only go five

I had to ban Spanky last week. Must have been one of his alts.

yes

this game will be easy to win now

+ if BV is going to be something close to a 100 wRC+ hitter they could even get him 1B reps backup 1B is actually a problem on the roster right now. they appear to not want to slide Okamoto over there, ever, for some reason.

Always a bummer to see Heineman back in there. Valenzuela is absolutely mogging him. BV has a 112 wRC+, plus defense, and somehow a positive BsR too. 1.1 fWAR in 105 PA is crazy. What a find. Spencer Miles and BV, Atkins pulled these chips out of nowhere. Pinango too.

His pitches do grade well. Not elite, but sort of a Spencer Miles grade distribution where the FB, SL, Curve all rate above average. And the prospect guys (scouting types) are already saying he's in the next top 100 lists. Ideally you would like to see a bit more velo. No chance he pitches for Toronto this year, I think that's crazy. Maybe next year.