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  1. Laika
    It's been one month though If his numbers are this bad at the end of the minor league season then yeah some concern is warranted
  2. Laika
    Yeah but a super scout might have realized that smashing the ball into the ground isn't really a 70 hit tool It's a hard hit ball but a mishit He probably did that everywhere and hit .350 with 50% groundball rates most of the time He's more of a 50/80 hitter right now. That's raw power of course not game Probably at his peak was 60/80?
  3. Laika
    Vlad's fundamental problem is that his hit tool was overrated by one maybe even two grades as a prospect because his exit velo and bat speed were so good. You can see it in this sweet spot rate on statcast now
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  5. Laika
    He's like Yandy Diaz
  6. Laika
    Well f*** me Maybe that's a turning point? Schneider is kind of beasting offensively. Vlad looks to have figured something out for sure, his AVG has rocketed up. Jansen is taking the starting C job and his bat really stretches the lineup. Ernie Clement needs to be in there more often. Two way player. Probably better than Biggio even against RHP. Springer and KK are honestly both at risk, somewhat, of losing at bats.
  7. Laika
    The hypotheticals would range from guys like Otto Lopez (who is killing it this year and projects well) to just about every viable waiver claim position player or dude traded for cash in the last few years That's the whole point. Opportunity cost. Is Biggio trash? No. But he doesn't move the needle very much at all and he has no upside because he can't hit the baseball very good and he has no tools. Best case Ontario he just walks to first base enough to worth one WAR or whatever.
  8. Laika
    He can't f***ing hit Good example of opportunity cost Over the last few years the Jays would have been much better served by trying out other players in his role. Guys with more tools, more potential for impact
  9. Laika
    Awful season Just end it
  10. Laika
    Preller basically shits good prospects so that's a valid opinion even if he's a dumbass in trades
  11. Laika
    A lot of us are generally unhappy with the personnel decisions over the last year Nobody really understands why Don Mattingly is on the bench. The team sort of stopped hitting after he showed up.
  12. Laika
    "Spiking the football" find a new phrase man
  13. Laika
    I called Ross after the signing and said what do you see in IKF He said "1.5 war in 450 PA" Might be bang on. Playing time may be higher though
  14. Laika
    Yeah but Springer isn't playing We will see where he slots on tomorrow
  15. Laika
    he's toasted Mitch Black
  16. Laika
    Mitch White is bouncing around every f***ing "pitching lab" team in baseball so if he sucks at the end of the season he needs to just retire. Dodgers --> Jays --> Giants --> Brewers
  17. Laika
    I feel like more would be on the table. 2/$24M was the Mitch Garver deal this offseason and he was also a C who never put up playing time, and looked more like a 33 year old DH. Maybe same AAV with couple more years though? There are not really any comps I can find in the last 5 years in free agency.
  18. Laika
    Jansen is ABSOLUTELY a guy the Rays would like Pulled flyball dudes are one of their archetypes. See Isaac Paredes
  19. Laika
    How about anytime someone homers they get to ice bath vlad when vlad homers he does it to himself dunk tank
  20. Laika
    Kikuchi went through a lot of anguish in Seattle and in his first year in Toronto. Since the start of 2023 he has probably felt the best and happiest he ever has, as an MLB pitcher. Have to think he would take SOME sort of hometown discount. He is also 33 in two months so a big contract is probably not on the table for him, especially with his track record being spotty. The comps from last year would be Sonny Gray and Seth Lugo, I think. Two 34 year olds coming off of good years wire to wire, and projecting decetly. 3/$75M for Sonny Gray 3/$45M for Lugo In both instances the signing team was aggressive. Stroman last year is sort of a comp but he had such a brutal second half in 2023.
  21. Laika
    The RP need part of the story isn't even that relevant Toronto probably just didn't see Teoscar as having much surplus value on his projected arb 3 money so they dealt him for whatever and then made the value signing of KK with the budget Funny enough, if Toronto decides they don't want Vlad's final arbitration year we could see a similar thing play out. 2025 - Vlad traded for a reliever and a B prospect because his $23M projected arb salary is gross. Toronto uses part of the money to sign some 1 year replacement... maybe a late 30s guy like Rizzo, JDM, or Goldschmidt or another one of these year-to-year DH types like Pederson. Vlad scuffles in his new scenery because low IQ but there is still endless talk about "trading Vladdy for a reliever." 2026 - Vlad signs a pillow contract in a big market and hits 50 homers. The reliever Toronto got for him in 2025 loses 2 mph on his fastball before 2026 and has his ring finger amputated due to chagas.
  22. Laika
    Hard to say because the free agent market was so weird last offseason
  23. Laika
    BTS is right though You guys don't even understand why the Jays are bad You probably still think they are bad because they signed IKF instead of Gio Urshela. That was one of your main complaints lol
  24. Laika
    No man you don't get it, the Teoscar trade was bad because.... uhhh the Jays thought they were the Rays and uhh.... He's having a good year now in LA and hmmmm.... Toronto probably didn't even try to sign him as a free agent and errrrrr... defensive WAR is fake and the third wild card is for liberals and I'm quitting all my dynasty leagues!!!
  25. Laika
    Okay but did you see his beard this spring? Why would someone who can grow that, ever shave that? Bizarre. Talk about an infield pop-up of a facial hair decision.
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