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Tim Mayza minor league deal with the YANKEES Tim is as sick of the Blue Jays as they are of him, I guess

Olerud is our senile philosopher king He's like a poet or retired academic with just a tiny little dash of dementia or maybe just that lack of social awareness than affects certain old people Frenchsoup was just a straight up schizophrenic who probably snuck out of the institution in a laundry hamper

we need to Cancel Bo Bichette!

He's worth a look in Toronto have you f***ing seen our shortstop's numbers? Have you seen him try to play defense?

lmao wtf apparently he is also an actual defender too. like, infielder. shortstop? https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/charleston_dirty_birds/atlantic-league-baseball-shortstop-cancel-doing-it-all-for-dirty-birds/article_75820d48-e40a-5664-9bbd-bdf3a0923bf5.html

Braves OF is pretty gross with Acuna done for the year. Duvall - Kelenic - Rosario. Their worst contracts are probably Sean Murphy and Matt Olson Nothing really short term and bad to assume

Springer is on a huge heater 1.2 fWAR now in 343 PA his xwOBA of .339 is now better than last year he has positive defense by OAA and DRS and passable D by UZR he projects for 1.1 to 1.3 WAR rest of season very likeable veteran, good glue guy and clubhouse guy I wonder if they can move that contract after all... not the whole thing but most of it? maybe Jays eat $20M or something and get a prospect back

Yes I think trying to coach up sweet spot% or launch angle is way too hard. It's basically trying to coach up HIT TOOL. Certain guys may be able to deploy tricks to change their launch angle, or fix their mechanics, or alter their swing plane a bit. But many (most) these days won't be able to meaningfully change it intentionally because they won't have the barrel control to do it. A lot of the famous examples of guys increasing their LA and pulling the ball more for homers are really, in a fundamental way, examples of players who were already pretty good hitters (in a basic sense - HIT TOOL) before making the changes. Justin Turner - was hitting for average and making contact before his tweaks so the barrel control was already there. Jose Bautista - had good PD stats before the changes and obviously had a good hit tool in hindsight. There has been some semblance of the Blue Jays trying to take guys with "good hit tools" and coach up power. Clement, Horwitz, all the minor leaguers like Roden and Jimemez who don't have good raw power grades. Kirk. But the Jays are probably 5+ years behind the eight ball, yet again, because other teams are already looking at things more specific and granular than "hit tool" as MikeM says they are looking at VBAs and stuff. This might be why the Jays have a certain collection of organization guys with "good hit tools" but there has been a general failure to coach up or develop any power. They have the general idea right but are getting lapped or outcompeted on the specific implementation of it. Hit Tool - old school scouting concept, define it how you want. some would say bat control. some would like at K% but that's very indirect. Launch Angle - objective, measurable but not necessarily that helpful in all circumstances. THIS IS AN OUTPUT. Sweet Spot% - objective, measurable. THIS IS AN OUTPUT. Hard hit% - objective, measurable. THIS IS AN OUTPUT. Barrels etc (some combo of hard hit and sweet spot or LA) - objective, measurable. THIS IS AN OUTPUT. VBA - measurable, THIS IS AN INPUT. Bat speed - measurable, THIS IS AN INPUT. Biomechanics - measurable, THIS IS AN INPUT OF THE INPUTS!!! What do the Jays look at? What do the best teams look at? To be ahead of the game you need to find the significant INPUTS. If you look at outputs you are probably lagging.

Have to agree with jb Correa++ could be a decent dynasty trade for Bo but it depends on the ++ I'd still want a good prospect to hedge

Not rostered or not starting? It was paternity list so I think he had to be activated Either way, Ross is a f***ing douchebag

Tough option for Barger He's from Seattle area, whole fam probably there all weekend

Holy f*** that's an insane catch Better than almost every diving catch or home run stealing catch in history. The ground Varsho covered was nuts and he crunched the wall wow

Okay you go have fun in your 12 team CBS redraft league

What the f*** are you even talking about? Colt Keith was one of the hottest preseason prospects. Everyone thought he'd be good.

Kind of wild but the only good Yankees hitters anymore are Soto and Judge. Carrying the entire team. Everybody else who is active has a wRC+ under 100, OPS under .700. except Uncle Ben but he's played like twelve games

LOL Call me dumb but at least Schneider, Clement, and Barger are mildly interesting to watch since they all still have some kind of potential

skill issue you don't just "try to swing harder" I guess; you train with weighted bats and stuff to increase natural bat speed the "try" part just means you train in a way to swing faster in games, and put the kinds of swings on the kinds of pitches that = homers

Yeah he had some focus on leveling out his swing so he could hit high fastballs better. Or returning to his "old self" that wasn't as pull happy? You can't see it in the results at all. He needs to pick a lane and do one of the following contradictory things: - develop a viable "B swing" so that he can put the ball in play more on tough pitches and avoid some of the terrible contact results he gets OR - just become an absolute barrel monster who does one thing only and that is hunt dingers. if he is going to be only capable of pulling flyballs, then f*** every other kind of trajectory just become a guy who can pull 30 homers a year. either way an offseason doing driveline type stuff is the method, the goals would just be different. i dunno

Nimmala hits in every game since getting promoted, .348/.444/.696 during that mini streak with 11.1% BB and 14.8% K rates 5 XBH vs 4 strikeouts

The Jays should sell so f***ing hard. This is a rare opportunity to rebuild. Many of the players on that list won't even be shopped. The Astros won't sell, the Rays won't sell everybody, the Mets should buy not sell, D-Backs should buy not sell, the Cubs and Nats might even hold and go for WC3 Here is the amended list with more probably sellers. Hitters Stars 1. Luis Robert Jr., CF, White Sox 2. Bo Bichette, SS, Blue Jays 3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 1B, Blue Jays 4. Jazz Chisholm Jr., CF, Marlins 9. *Danny Jansen, C, Blue Jays Good regulars 2. Taylor Ward, COF, Angels 3. Brent Rooker, DH, A’s 4. Luis Rengifo, IF, Angels 5. Andrew Vaughn, 1B, White Sox 9. *Elias Díaz, C, Rockies 12. *Josh Bell, 1B, Marlins 14. *Justin Turner, 1B, Blue Jays 16. *Mark Canha, COF, Tigers 17. Eloy Jiménez, COF, White Sox Role players 2. *Kevin Kiermaier, CF, Blue Jays 3. Miguel Andujar, COF, A’s 4. *Tommy Pham, COF, White Sox 8. *Paul DeJong, SS, White Sox 9. *Kevin Pillar, CF, Angels 10. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS, Blue Jays 12. *Tim Anderson, SS, Marlins 14. *Brandon Drury, IF, Angels 16. Javier Báez, SS, Tigers 17. Andrew Benintendi, COF, White Sox 18. George Springer, COF, Blue Jays Starting pitchers Front-line starters 1. Garrett Crochet, LHP, White Sox 2. *Yusei Kikuchi, LHP, Blue Jays 3. *Jack Flaherty, RHP, Tigers Mid-rotation starters 2. Erick Fedde, RHP, White Sox 3. Tyler Anderson, LHP, Angels 4. Cal Quantrill, RHP, Rockies 8. Paul Blackburn, RHP, A’s (IL) 9. Griffin Canning, RHP, Angels 11. *Martín Pérez, LHP, Pirates (IL) 12. *Marco Gonzales, LHP, Pirates (IL) Relief pitchers Late-inning relievers 1. Mason Miller, RHP, A’s 2. *Tanner Scott, LHP, Marlins 6. *Carlos Estévez, RHP, Angels 10. Michael Kopech, RHP, White Sox 13. Lucas Erceg, RHP, A’s 15. Yimi García, RHP, Blue Jays (IL) Relief fliers 1. *Andrew Chafin, LHP, Tigers 2. *Luis García, RHP, Angels 3. *Trevor Richards, RHP, Blue Jays 4. John Brebbia, RHP, White Sox 6. Shelby Miller, RHP, Tigers 7. *Matt Moore, LHP, Angels 10. *Jalen Beeks, LHP, Rockies

Varsho is or was a good talent. Then the Jays hitting coaches got to him. Nobody has a f***ing chance when Don Mattingly is there telling you that "damage is kind of a scary word" and s***.

It's like the organization is literally just 3 years behind Cleveland CLE has already moved on from this and this year, with great results, basically told Josh Naylor and Steven Kwan to f***ing swing harder

Until he steps to the plate

They also do this weird (stupid) thing where if one of the FB guys has a bad few weeks they cut their playing time. It's like they don't understand that you need to just roll with those guys, then you get the hot streaks in full which counteract the slumps. Jansen bad for 3 weeks? Kirk is 60% catcher again! Schneider bad in June? Platoon player now!!! Varsho in another slump? KK, limber up!

Line Drive rate and BABIP are just so prone to random fluctuations It's almost comical that the Toronto Blue Jays continue to (seemingly) chase hitters who build their offensive profile around AVG, Line Drives, and BABIP. They have Bo in house who they curated as this kind of guy. Kirk who used to be a sweet swinger with an average LD rate. Clement is like this. IKF is like this. Horwitz is like that. Vlad is sort of like that, although not in the LD% category because he hits too many grounders. But definitely parts of his approach are about contact and BABIP (but at least it's more power-dependent which probably makes it more reliable). They traded for Whit Merrifield who build a career on LD rate and BABIP. That sort of worked out for a bit but not overall. Even Justin Turner is very much a LD%, BABIP guy. You always hear about him as a pulled FB dude but his game has also for a long time been about pulling soft liners, that's why his batting AVG has always been good. It really seems like the front office is just too obsessed with f***ing line drives??? They even sort of encouraged Biggio to try to become a line drive dude I think. Maybe? Shouldn't Cavan Biggio have just been pulling more flyballs the whole time? Shouldn't he have just tried to hit .210/.340/.400 or something like that? Seems more in line with his actual tools. Rather than trying to slap every outside pitch the other way or whatever so he can hit .240 5th best LD% in baseball. 24th in runs. But I thought Line Drives were good!!!! Everybody should try to hit line drives, right!? Yeah, not if being 27th in average exit velo is the f***ing tradeoff. Way too one dimensional on offense. And that's DESPITE actually having a few flyball HR boppers like DS, DJ, and DV.