Laika
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Big Fungus pays for them
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If you wanted the Blue Jays to shop in the Teoscar bucket, they could have realistically ended up with Soler instead which would have been a disaster. Tier 1 - Ohtani (elite) Tier 2 - Bellinger, Chapman (flawed but good) Tier 3 - Teoscar, Soler, maybe Candelario (combo of age, offensive upside, or position make them more competitive) Tier 4 - Gurriel, Hoskins, Garver (slightly younger, may take 2+ years) Tier 5 - JDM, Turner, Pederson, maybe KK (one year geezers) Atkins is a cheapo. He never wanted to f*** around in tiers 2-4 at all. Can't really blame him when you look at the FA landscape as a whole.
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wow they got someone who might actually help at some point he just seems like a boring arm with middle relief upside right now https://scout.texasleaguers.com/players/680755 fastball, curveball, slider/cutter velo is fringe for a reliever but the K rate is there so the curveball must be good he has always had reverse splits, I wonder why
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But it's even harder to appreciate and understand today with the information overload Now many MLB players can understand kinesiology and biomechanics and physics? One of the major communication issues MLB teams have is the conveyance of information. You need to somehow turn particle physics into a grade 4 subject in order for half of the team to even partially understand and buy in. I mean so... yeah sort of. Even O'Hearn evidently didn't understand his own body until he got to Baltimore
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So when Ted Williams tells Don Mattingly that Don doesn't understand what he's doing, who's right? Some players get it, some don't. Guys like Donaldson and Bautista know what their bodies are doing but many probably don't or think they do but are wrong
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Nathaniel Pearson, wow
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What the f*** are those swings Vlad!!!???? Can he not see????
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What if Stephen Horvat is just.... a really good hitter? This year's babe? Completely different profile of course
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Literally kill me
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Looked like he f***ed up the footwork tbh
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Holy f*** Angel Hernandez has been reincarnated
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always love to re read this one Ted said "WILLIAMS: As did everyone else who ever played the game. When you pull the ball, you have a tendency to hit more ground balls. You tend to hit the ball on the ground because the toughest thing is to pull the ball and get it in the air. That's the premium, par excellence hit." hahahaha wow
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That's the excuse that popped up two years later
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We have to remember that the guy who is probably running the entire offense, Donnie Baseball, is one of the biggest losers in baseball history. Stopped hitting for power inexplicably at age 27. Never made the playoffs until 1995, his last year. Decided to take a year off from baseball, only to watch his team win without him in 1996. What kind of role model is that? They hire a guy who forgot how to hit homers in his prime, and the Blue Jays immediately forget how to hit for power. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wonder what could be happening!!!! I don't know! It's a mystery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Forbidden word, I should ban you I think you meant "he needs to swing with more intent"
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Yeah they kind of have a 2 strike approach from the first pitch Lots of them do at least I don't understand why Bo, Vlad sometimes, Kirk, IKF. Springer is sort of just lost and has no idea which end of the bat to even hold. Kiermaier is just overmatched half the time. Varsho, Schneider, and Jansen will take proper adult hacks. I guess Vlad sometimes does but he is really dumb with it.
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They are f***ing losers man I don't know how else to describe it They win sometimes but they win like losers
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They go up there with this dumb as f***, almost defensive mindset Almost none of these hitters are thinking about crushing meatballs, ever Vlad is trying to hit liners and groundballs up the middle for some genetic reason Bo is trying to be Derek f***ing Jeter and slash every fastball to right field I want to cry and die
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Okay, Sheriff Fudge
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
Laika replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Starlyn Caba Aiden Miller George Klassen Mick Abel's numbers are dogshit this year. Wonder what is going on. Roboumps? In any event he can't be the primary piece in a big trade. I doubt they would move Painter but maybe for Luis Robert. I don't see the appeal in Crawford, 40 raw power. Not super exciting. Decent prospect but... Samuel Aldegheri -
Yeah but you can still add it all up and do maths
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The explanation is that the Jays just f***ing suck Can't hit the good pitchers because not enough talent Can't hit the s***** pitchers because they are mostly mental midgets and the coaches suck It's not some niche argument like they can't hit soft stuff because they are too good at yanking 96mph fastballs and they get off tempo. No. They can't hit anything. Can't hit in the clutch, can't hit with RISP, can't game plan well against anybody, can't pull the ball enough, can't lift the ball enough, can't hit at home, can't hit on the road, can't hit on holidays, can't hit can't hit can't f***ing hit. They kind of only do one thing at an above average rate and that is take walks. I guess they also hit doubles at a slightly above average rate but that's not super helpful when the HR rate is below average. They also GIDP the 6th most so that negates a lot of the benefits of walking. Kind of only ever put up crooked numbers when the opposing pitcher can't throw strikes.
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The age at free agency is the biggest factor. You take his exact WAR trend and make him a free agent at 29 or 30 and teams are not nearly as interested, it would shave years and dollars off that contract and not just a linear reduction like him getting two less years on the end it. But you make him a free agent after his age 26 season and GMs start to get excited about the proposition of buying like 4 years of peak Vlad in free agency and then fixing him and it being some franchise altering move.
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If Vlad can have a 4 WAR year in 2025 then the Devers comps are strong Both have the seam peak (6.4 and 6.3 WAR) Both have the same valley (Devers bad in his first 750 MLB PA, 1.5 WAR, and after his great year, 0.8 WAR in 250 PA) Vlad loses a bit in defensive value and BsR but I don't know how much that matters for a contract. It's not like teams look at Devers and think he's a long term 3B. Of course if needs a 4+ WAR year at age 26 to make that a strong comp. Or at least very strong final offensive lines in 2024 and 2025. If he has a stinker then he just looks objectively worse than Devers on a WAR graph since Devers has been steadily good since age 24.
