Laika

Like I said the Lenyn Sosa trade was the turning point

God forbid a manager defend his players!

The Berrios

This is what it looks like to execute a pitch

Holy s*** two more rocket outs What is going on

Jays hit four balls 100+ mph in the fourth, one hit Corbin is better than Lauer btw

Throwback Tuesday

It is Reggie Jackson, I think, and I cheated Anyway, Eddie Murray is a much better comp for Vlad

I don't f***ing know I heard it once on a podcast DYOR

Average EV is a pretty bad stat His MaxEV and other stuff show that his pop is at least average Damn, just noticed that Pinango has a 115.4 mph MaxEV this year. 4th best in AAA and it would be 11th best in MLB. uhhhhh boys Also JoJo Parker is the best hitter in A ball according to that website's little metric

Yeah it's 100% Sosa and Eloy gone They didn't trade this "Jordan Rich" guy (if he even exists) for Lenyn Sosa under the assumption that they would actually control Sosa for a long time. It was just the price of a stop-gap. Very possible Sosa stinks it up for two weeks and is then gone. But he also makes $800k and has control + some pop and hitability, so even if Toronto DFAs him they can probably trade him for "Justin Rich" or whatever. Some other causasian NPC who won't get above the FCL. Schneider, Lukes, and Straw just do too many things right as "glue guys" to even think about optioning them

Vlad is breaking out

I made a crossover thread yesterday! I think we can use it for the highlights and top prospect stuff. The in depth info and deep dives can stay in the minor league subforum.

Anecdotally this does seem to happen. I don't think he is tipping or anything because he fools hitters all the time but he will miss with back to back splitters so the LHB knows a FB is coming, for example. Stuff like that. Varying types of inconsistencies

Vlad is a ridiculous player. He is now the AL AVG leader, of course. Lowest ISO of anybody with a .400+ wOBA. Down there with XAVIER EDWARDS lmao. # Name ISO wOBA 15 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 0.134 0.413 19 Xavier Edwards 0.141 0.406 21 Yandy Díaz 0.163 0.403 22 Kevin McGonigle 0.171 0.401 20 Liam Hicks 0.211 0.405 24 Brandon Nimmo 0.211 0.4 12 Ryan O'Hearn 0.214 0.417 14 Otto Lopez 0.217 0.414 3 Andy Pages 0.235 0.446 5 Brice Turang 0.271 0.44 4 CJ Abrams 0.273 0.44 16 Shea Langeliers 0.281 0.413 17 Dillon Dingler 0.284 0.411 9 Corbin Carroll 0.3 0.426 11 Luke Raley 0.304 0.421 13 Mike Trout 0.309 0.416 18 Matt Olson 0.311 0.41 7 Jordan Walker 0.329 0.437 8 Max Muncy 0.329 0.434 10 Brandon Lowe 0.333 0.424 6 Sal Stewart 0.349 0.438 23 Aaron Judge 0.366 0.401 2 Yordan Alvarez 0.43 0.502 1 Ben Rice 0.462 0.529

Team Leader Okamoto

We have an entire subforum for MiLB content: https://jayscentre.com/forums/forum/42-blue-jays-minor-league-talk/ ... but this thread will just be for highlights and stuff. For the people that don't care about how many innings Austin Cates threw last night, but might care about how far JoJo Parker's dingers are going these days.

Mostly the fact that he lost like 3 mph last year during the regular season, and he seems primed to do the same thing in 2026

I am seeing the Murakami = Schwarber tweets today It appears to be true. He's a 26 year old Kyle Schwarber. What a huge whiff by the MLB Front Office collective. Good job White Sox!

Jeff Hoffman first 4 appearances in 2026: 116 Stuff+ Jeff Hoffman since then: 95 Stuff+ It may have been somewhat obvious if you were watching his velocity and other stuff characteristics, but something is going on with him physically. We was sitting 97.7 and now he is down to 96.2. His slider is down 2 mph in a month. His splitter is actually up a bit, changing his FA-Split separation from 8 mph to 6 mph. This is the same trend we saw all through 2025. I think he's broken. The O's physical was right. He seems like a Jekyll and Hyde pitcher because he probably is one, depending on how much he hurts on any given day. His 2025, taken as a whole with no context, looks like a decent RP (3.73 xFIP is rank 68 out of 191 RP with 40+ IP) who got very unlucky on homers (20% HR/FB is extreme). But he is starting off 2026 with the same stuff going on; I mean he has a 1.65 xFIP right now in 2026 thanks to all the early season strikeouts. It's all still small sample size stuff we would presume to be bad luck, most of the time. 77.1 innings as a Toronto Blue Jay. The folly of a relief pitcher. Pitcher HR/FB rates don't stabilize in that period of time. You can throw out so many of the numbers people look at. I don't care about the ERA, or the blown saves. The BABIP is ridiculous. The LOB% last year was lucky. The HR/FB for his last 77 innings is not his true talent. None of this matters. So much of it is noise. BUT you can't ignore the velo trend and the declining Stuff+. His Stuff is gone from plus with Philadelphia to something that is way closer to average. Nobody should expect anything more than an average relief pitcher, going forward. That means middle relief... PitchingBot has his stuff as 193rd out of 250 so far Stuff+ says 120th out of 250 in 2026 There is a decent chance he is worse than Tommy Nance. He might not be a top 5 RP in the Jays current bullpen.

Sigh. Sanchez I guess.

Jeff Hoffman is destined to fail. He did something bad and God is no longer with him. The everlasting enigma is that he is both good and terrible. He is bad and talented and unlucky and unfit. If you don't pity the man, you are inhuman. Look at this photograph.

Hoffman had like, 14 meltdowns last year. Negative WPA. Then he blew the world series. And he will perhaps have the worst WPA for all RP after tonight. He might jump Romano. It has to be over

Why is Jeff Hoffman still on this team? Seriously

Of course Hoffman gives up two 88mph groundballs hits and now everyone will say he sucks Poor guy