Laika

f*** yeah Little!!!!!

The Buffalo Boyyyzzzzz come through again

Disgusting team remains disgusting

hahahaha every night is Pride Night!

At this point they should just call up Lukes, Wil Robertson, Juenger, and their girlfriends and just go full Buffalo. The summer of the Bisons.

sick as f*** wow super awesome dude

why? he has been f***ing brutal praying for a Springer injury too

They had, and continue to have, almost NO faith in their young players. To sign KK and his ~2 WAR projection and IKF and his ~1.5 WAR projection means they must have had internal projections of like 1 WAR and 0.6 WAR at LF and 3B, from their internal players (Schneider and Barger?). And somehow had Vogelbach as a push at worst with Horwitz. Atkins hates the Buffalo boys half the time. That's why they hit leadoff or 2nd and then get the next game on the bench. It's all desperate stupid nonsense.

Nothing could have been done other than what Atkins actually did. I mean that the end result was more destiny than anything else. Free will is an illusion. The decisions made this offseason were more or less pre-ordained, pre-determined by context and circumstance and common sense and the choices the Blue Jays have made over the last few years. And more remotely, in some respects, Atkins' parents put this all in motion since they are the ones who formed his personality. But even his hiring was inevitable. Mark Shapiro was always going to be the President of the Blue Jays. He was always going to hire Ross. These things were meant to be. We exist at the tail end of an unimaginably complex Rube Goldberg machine, which God himself triggered into motion. Our suffering is unavoidable and intentional and mechanical. There is no reason to be upset.

If you took one of the all-time hitters like Miggy or Pujols and made him play his entire career with a fungo bat, he would probably look a lot like Vlad

- Teoscar wanted Toronto to outbid the Dodgers - Candelario cost $45M - Bellinger and Chapman were holding out for six figures - JDM was holding out for a huge AAV - Pederson wanted the west coast - Ohtani used us - Soler and Gurriel commanded uncomfortable money - Hoskins commanded multiple years coming off major surgery (and has been replacement level) - Boston sniped us for O'Neill What was a girl to do other than reluctantly sign Justin Turner, Izzy Falaffle, and drunk dial KK one more time?

He's just going to go to AAA and get f***ed over by the ABS system and lose all of this confidence

Pardinho promoted to Buffalo, if he shoves there too then he should be up this summer Honestly though why even send him to Buffalo?

MiLB deal for James Kaprielian

Yes they could have traded for Tyler O'Neill

Not Toronto!

The whining about not signing Teoscar is dumb in my opinion because hindsight free agent selections are just logically problematic. We never have any idea what discussions were and were not had, what the players wanted etc. FA generally is also just a huge crapshoot these days so it's too convenient to go back and say Toronto should have signed X player that is having a good season. They could have elevated their sights to that tier of the player pool and ended with Jorge Soler, right? On the other hand, lots of people wanted Tyler O'Neill and it is actually incredibly annoying and lame that he Jays evidently did not make a serious push for him. And we know that this was an actionable decision because the player has no say in it - the gray area is so much smaller here because all we have to do is say that Toronto needed to beat the actual trade package. And that trade package was weak. It looks like it was a crummy 35 FV depth SP in Victor Santos (getting pumelled in AAA) and then a so-so RP with team control in Nick Robertson (also 35 FV per Fangraphs). So for two 35 FV prospects and $5.8M in salary, Toronto could have had a player that fit an obvious hole in LF and had demonstrated well above average upside. I guess Atkins just fell in love with Kevin Kiermaier's pretty face or something. Sigh. And O'Neill was dealt from a team that frequently trades with Toronto. The Jays just didn't want Tyler O'Neill at all I guess.

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Imagine if literally any Blue Jay could ever hit a 400 foot homer? Imagine

Houck (tomorrow) murders RHB Bello (two days) is better against RHB Pivetta has reverse splits this year and is pretty neutral for his career so I guess this might be the best game of the three to actually play Springer or Turner??? Hopefully they f***ing sit the next two games jesus christ Toronto Blue Jays you spineless f***ing limp dick no nuts organization omfg

Initiate Votto to Horwitz talent and skills upload sequence

Horwitz has no errors so far and a +1 OAA!!!!!

Arenado seems like the kind of player that will get in despite his WAR perhaps falling short

Overall body of work? Is there a specific RP that you think is being mis-coached right now? Not sure I can think of one at all.

Addison Barger already has batted balls at: 108.5 mph, 106.2, 105.3, 103.2, and 102.4 That is in just 17 batted ball events. 29% are 100mph+ Compare to some Jays who hit with pop. Danny Jansen has 117 BBE this year and has a maxEV of 106.7. 21 of 117 BBE are 100+ mph (17.9%) Davis Schneider has 114 BBE, 31 at 100mph or more (21.5%) MaxEV of 109.3 This is not exactly scientific and Barger could just have a couple of lucky swings in there, but I kind of think that we are going to start seeing some beastly exit velos from him. It is quite possible that he emerges as a 114 maxEV guy, or something like that, which would put him in his own tier on the team just below Vlad. This is supported by how he swings, his measurable bat speed, and physical characteristics. Think Matt Chapman pop.