Laika

Good swings by Schneider and Kirk. Thought Kirk had a cheapo homer, sigh.

with what?

Was KK a late scratch? Hurt?

Why is Vlad still on this team? Honestly just trade him to whoever will take on his salary.

he will blame the interpreter

Those fans are idiots.

Maybe sort of but not really. For the most part, they have been dominated and aren't putting many good balls in play.

See in my head it's very different. connorp is played by Danny DeVito. His private school son is played by Haley Joel Osment. The glamour/prestige is mostly in connorp's head and the whole thing is more or less an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.

Very happy to have this backstory, thank you so much you just made my day. The connorp lore grows. Sounds like you were just a bit of a hustler, decades ago, for a few years and played it fast and loose then it blew up. Good stuff. I am sure much was learned.

IKF revenge series incoming

Yeah it doesn't matter if KK is even worse than Varsho. They need to hit Varsho at the bottom to take the pressure off him or something. What else can they do. Schneider in there against a RHP who does not throw high fastballs. Maybe a glimpse into the future. He will now play against all LHP and the RHP who don't pitch up in the zone?

These people don't live in the real world. It's like they've never had to engage in competitive markets for anything. Never tried to buy a house for example, or completely forget what stuff like that can be like. connorp has been rejected by 1000 women in his life you'd think he would realize that you can't just pick 'em off the pile on the parameters you want

He's 32 now and had 11th and 17th percentile range at 3B in 2021 and 2022.

That's $10M more on the 2024 payroll and the team is a f***ing nightmare defensively. Imagine a left side of Urshela and Bo? With Teoscar behind them? Holy f***

All of the options on the market were simply worse at baseball than KK by every single measurement of comprehensive value, or likely to be much more expensive (Bellinger, Soler, Teoscar). Even Soler and Teoscar probably did not / do not have WAR projections that are better then KK and they cost way more. Don't be an idiot. You have to be realistic. Cost is part of this. If someone takes the position that Toronto NEEDED to put Varsho in CF and bring in a LF that can hit, these are the actual options: - Pay 3/$45 for Gurriel/Soler or 1/$25 for Teoscar - Pay $5M for Pham or Renfroe or someone like that and have a player who could be replacement level in LF. Would need to sign a backup CF too in this scenario. - Stick Schneider in LF and role the dice on him. Would also have to sign a 4th OF who can handle CF in this case, not sure who that would be - Trade for a LF. And sign a backup CF.

Here is some good cope data to throw at the idiots who were saying things like "the offense is a lost cause, the pitchers they were getting dominated by aren't even that good!" Stuff+ in 2024 for qualified SP so far Javier, 124 (tied #2 in MLB) Valdez, 124 (tied #2) with 100 location+ (solid) Blanco, 110 (#14 in MLB) with 104 location+ (plus command) Civale, 100 (rank #25) There are 68 qualified SP. Only Littell ranks poorly by Stuff+ out of the SP that have owned Toronto. Javier and Valdez stuff profiles rank as elite from their starts. Blanco is borderline elite, with plus command, so it's not like they got turned into pretzels by mediocre stuff. No, instead the Jays have evidently faced the most elite pitching trio in MLB this year. These numbers are independent of results, remember - the model just looks at pitch shape, velo, spin, release points, etc. I don't know what the f*** Houston did but they did something. Probably something to do with developing changeups in the offseason. As far as the Jays pitching goes... really not much to point out so far other than this: - Mayza's FB stuff+ is down but his SL stuff+ is off the charts, as it always has been. If he's not hurt, expect him to morph into a 50% breaking ball guy. This should mean walks up and strikeouts up. Historically he has been a 75% fastball guy! He might still be solid. - Yimi's stuff is way up. Tiny sample though. - Gausman's FB stuff+ was higher (122) in his one start than in 2023 (110) - Bassitt actually has better stuff grades this year than last. His sinker grade is up to a 99 stuff+, it was only 92 last year. He might have improved his primary pitch. - Pearson's stuff+ is 108 which means it has fallen off a cliff. It was 127 last year. Unless this ticks up, he's going to get rocked as 108 with poor command does not work in relief.

Preach! I think the only valid criticisms of Shapiro and Atkins are on the drafting and development side. Also, the MLB coaching and game planning area. I do not think any criticisms of their transactions or trades make much sense at all. On balance, they have been very good. Varsho-Moreno trade is probably not going to work out but I don't blame them for it and personally thought the trade was fine in context. Other than that, generally speaking, they have been fantastic in terms of MLB transactions. Granted, the valid criticisms of drafting, development, strategy, and MLB coaching (of hitters) ARE a big deal of course. The lack of impact prospects to bridge to the "next wave" of contention is squarely on Atkins. The group decline in offensive production has to be blamed to some extent on the coaching staff and MLB development people.

Your hunch is basically the reason that I would assume Except the coaching staff is a bunch of dinosaurs who probably just do what they want. So I honestly have no f***ing idea.

The deanmike of mlb

Dyson lol

It seems dumb to me. He might whiff on REALLY GOOD fastballs up in the zone but he can still bang. Just watched all of his homers from 2023. At least three were high fastballs, very top of the zone. A 92mph stinker from Syndergaard (which means nothing) A 94mph heater from Gore 93mph from Dany Jimenez 90mph from Logan T Allen The rest seemed like middle middle hanging breaking balls. What he is is an expert mistake pitch destroyer. Everybody makes mistakes once in a while. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=6759c5dc-d911-4d30-9905-100af2958b24 https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=422ff1fc-88d0-4179-ae57-5d8c6a05c4cc https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=71165c47-e65e-41d9-bf50-d28fcf173e0b https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=fd42ed62-65f0-41a3-80d9-869b0f11681c If the team was benching him for a LHB that crushed pitchers like Javier, sure, go ahead I guess, but they aren't. They are benching him because IKF might poke a single through the right side once a game??? Like, this is exactly the same problem as the Jose Berrios decision last playoffs. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater by trying to be "objective and smart."

Donny Baseball - "lay off the offspeed, Vladimir. wait for the fastball in your happy zone" Ronel Blanco - proceeds to throw 41 straight changeups.

That looks slick. The roboump video.

It's too early to look at most of this stuff though. It's all over the place. Better in this sample to just scout the players Vlad has looked like trash for most of these games, unless he is walking. Lots of bad swings when he does swing.

Blue Jays are so far behind the times, it's pathetic