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  1. Laika
    Steamer knows how old he is, Dingus
  2. Laika
    1.1 WAR in 414 PA projects for 0.4 in 141 PA ROS he's a 1.6 WAR player so far over a full season. below average player. Horwitz and Clement are better by both projections and 2024 performance. It is what it is! Results matter!
  3. Laika
    The disagreement is more about how little that actually matters. They have a s***** developmental system, per recent history. All of these prospect lists are literally in the business of selling hope to fans of s***** teams. Having one Jackson Jobe and one Kevin McGonigle or whatever does not really get you as far as some people think. Remember that every cool prospect that the Tigers have will be stepping over the corpses of Casey Mize, Matt Manning, Spencer Torkelson, Alex Faedo, etc. Reese Olson and Sawyer GL are already f***ing broken. Keith kind of blows so far. Meadows blows. Wilmer Flores is busting in MiLB. Henry-Malloy seems like a replacement level slugger. Who cares about this collection of kids? It's like saying the Pirates are a good organization. LMFAO.
  4. Laika
    John Mayo? lol
  5. Laika
    You guys realize that Colt Keith and Parker Meadows are no better than the Jays younger slop, right? Schneider, Clement, Horwitz, Wagner, etc. Skubal isn't controllable for 5 years. Greene is really good. Carpenter seems like an above average player. Jobe is a pitching prospect.... this is funny
  6. Laika
    It's not a better pipeline. They've just been s*** forever. I think save for one year, every draft since 2016 they have been in the top half of the first round. And for every good first round pick in that time period they also have a complete bust like Mize, Manning, Tork. Their present farm system isn't obviously better than Toronto's, post deadline.
  7. Laika
    Imagine how awesomely bad the Vlad - Bo - Horwitz 3B-SS-2B infield would be though I must see it
  8. Laika
    Toronto because of resources I don't think Detroit has had a top half payroll since Mike Illitch died
  9. Laika
    RT is now on the Nate Pearson development track my expectation is that he gets called up, kind of sucks, gets hurt, provides basically nothing for a couple more years, and then ends up as a promising but frustrating reliever. Hopefully he can get off that track and just became a 5 and dive SP once he is back healthy, or a closer.
  10. Laika
    Yeah Schneider has kind of blown his big chance. He's a weak side platoon player now (or bench player) without much defensive utility. I don't know if they have so much depth that they should go trading guys for relievers, though. Most of these guys still have options. For example, if they sign a 3B and LF this is how it could shake down out of camp: Horwitz - DH Wagner - 2B LF - Mr. Outside Hire 3B - Mr. Outside Hire Leo Jimenez - on the bench, covers all infield spots (no options) Loperfido - on the bench, covers all OF spots (options) Clement - on the bench, covers all infield spots and is a viable hitter / fringe starter (no options) Barger - AAA (options) Schneider - AAA (options) Martinez - AAA (options)
  11. Laika
    I am going to be sick
  12. Laika
    I am going to be sick
  13. Laika
    I just can't really see how they fix this. I go through the list of free agents and they all seem like no-chance signings or players that I don't even like. I just don't see how they spend $50M AAV and improve the roster enough, unless they hit on multiple low cost signings and pillow contracts. Maybe that will be the play. Maybe they won't go after the big guys but they will try to sign 5 bounceback candidates: Buehler, Bieber, Scherzer, Sewald, Goldschmidt, Gleyber, Conforto. Guys like that. I mean how else are they plugging all the holes for $50M other than trying to get lucky multiple times?
  14. Laika
    Chad Green putting together a weird year Stuff+ says he is back to 2022 form, ERA agrees But his whiff rate has not returned so his FIP/xFIP are replacement level
  15. Laika
    it's pretty gross ideally they bring in 2 big bats that can just be full time starters at a couple of those positions. push some of the young players to bench roles and not platoon roles. LF is the biggest concern for me. After LF, I think they could add at 3B and/or DH. A bit of flexibility on where to add. Sort of depends on how the incumbent pieces fit best as well. I feel like they are solid at 2B for example. rest of season projections by positional depth chart on Fangraphs LF - 0.3 WAR (rank 27) 3B - 0.6 WAR (rank 22) DH - 0.3 WAR (rank 21) 2B - 0.7 WAR (rank 15) SS - rank 19 (includes 118 PA from Bo, though) C - rank 11 RF - rank 11 CF - rank 6 1B - rank 3
  16. Laika
    I hope you all like platoons because the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays could get weird with it. CF - Varsho - might be lightly platooned depending on performance, but his defense will keep him in there most of the time. Clase the backup. C - Kirk - won't be platooned but will split time with some other C LF - Loperfido/Schneider/Clase 2B - Wagner/Schneider/Horwitz DH - Horwitz/Schneider 3B - Clement/Barger
  17. Laika
    How many of McMahon's homers or Coors created though? He's like a 15 hr dude on most other teams
  18. Laika
    Jays should claim Nick Robertson Make him throw 70% sliders
  19. Laika
    Good stuff but bad command He'd be #2 in stuff in the current pen, behind Green
  20. Laika
    It won't work forever We saw Kikuchi make a bunch of different tweaks with Toronto. He always ends up losing his command for stretches and gets hammered. Last year the CH was his worst pitch.
  21. Laika
    Burger isn't a third baseman -23.7 UZR/150 Might as well just put Vlad there and sign a cheap 1B
  22. Laika
    Only cheaper in absolute dollars Much more to expensive in present value dollars and in AAV (payroll)
  23. Laika
    It's more about the lost offense
  24. Laika
    Yes and then he walked two and got pulled The Full Kikuchi
  25. Laika
    Kikuchi dominating wow
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