Laika

tbh he does look to be in slightly better shape

Didn't expect Helton or Mauer first ballot

I guess the think he did can't be... that bad

Every single pitcher on the LAD depth chart, 1 through like #14, is better than Alek Manoah

Yamamoto Glasnow Buehler Paxton Miller (has options) Yarbrough May (has options, hurt) Sheehan Grove Stone Frasso Landon Knack, Kyle Hurt, River Ryan, Maddux Bruns It would seem a bit excessive to sign Kershaw and plan on optioning Miller. But he is Clayton Kershaw.... right and he's hurt.

He should get a bit more than those guys. Might get a small raise on his 2023 salary?

Gallo to Washington $5M plus $1M in performance bonuses Kind of sets the floor if you want an idea of what guys like Donaldson, Longo, Anderson, Winker, etc. should cost

No but....

he will almost certainly never get an MLB job again, even if he dodges prison somehow

because they are idiots and their opinions are being shaped by the timing of when Garcia gave up runs. I believe he had some key blown saves in 2023, or some bad stretches both at the start of the year and in September.

If you can't keep it civil you catch a ban. Warning for deanmike and max silver here. I think both crossed the line.

Going to change the draft timelines a bit as it might attract a few more owners. This is the new plan: Once we get to 12+ owners we will close the league and begin the draft. Currently there are 10 owners. We can take up to 20 though. The draft will start "soon" as an offline draft but it will have massive 20 hour windows, so there is no pressure. Then later in February or first week of March if the draft is still going we will drop windows to 1 hour just to get it done. So, this will be a super chill slow offline draft. Lots of time to do research and whatnot.

But they just reacquired Tyler Nevin so

Kind of like where the Pirates are going. Good young position players at like 5 positions. Keller, Priester, Skenes, Jared Jones... Solometo, Chandler and of course Termarr Johnson close. They could surprise.

Unironically, Garcia and Espinal are both worth as much or more than Eloy It is just a question of whether or not Eloy is even worth his guaranteed $16M, basically I think the trade would be more like Otto Lopez for Eloy But if you can get a DH from the FA pile for closer to $10M, might not be any point

Yeah it seems optimistic. On the other side, he remains young and his injuries have all been random, unconnected things.

Eloy Jimenez 2024 - $13.83M 2025 - $16.5M Team Option, $3M Buyout 2026 - $18.5M Team Option, $3M Buyout White Sox apparently getting no trade interest. sucked in 2023, has been a good hitter at times but can't stay healthy but the upside is obvious, and there is also contract upside because if he breaks out the team controls him he has a 2 WAR Streamer projection! That is actually better than all the FA options. kind of worth considering, eh? throw CHW some B prospect for him rather than commit $40M to Jorge Soler? Basically the same player?????

5th year in a row haha

Sir, people are talking about dumping serviceable players like Espinal and Garcia because they make $2.5M and $6M.

Who said the team has money problems, anyway? They spent a ton of money last year. The team does not appear to care much about the puny little luxury tax surcharges and they aren't particularly close to the bracket where picks start to be pushed back. There is a poster here making a big deal about the tax thresholds but I don't think they matter that much to Toronto tbh. Current estimated luxury tax payroll per Fangraphs is $238,518,453 (this includes arb estimates) $257M is when the tax increases a bit more (doesn't matter if they roll over this) $277M is I think when picks are negatively affected, that is the line they won't likely roll over. But they aren't close to it. The $257M is a soft as f*** line in the sand. They can go over it by a few million without it hurting much. I would say the team "could use" 2 bats but they are only in "desperate need" of one. The only negative impact of going over the lower luxury tax thresholds, other than money, is that the comp pick for Chapman is two rounds worse. It would be before the 3rd if they did not spend into the tax but I think it's two rounds later now. Oh well.

Cuz I want to draft What difference does it make, bike?

Made league, 9 in so far so it's definitely running but more people would be better Reply if you want in or DM me

That's not bad. I'd have to do more research but wouldn't Montgomery be a top 5 pick in a FYPD if eligible?

Everybody would want him John Brebbia just got that much money and he's half as good Jays could move Yimi or Richards or Biggio or Espinal in five seconds if they wanted but why the f*** would they do it right now? They could do it after they sign somebody big. Lmao

K rate tells you a lot - Richards is so close to being awesome. Feel like his ERA has been a bit unlucky last two years. But he does lose command sometimes and gets pounded His versatility has lots of value, swing and miss plays in late innings or with men on and he can give you some length so he's a decent swing man or opener. But I wonder if the inconsistent role has made it harder for him to, you know, be consistent.