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  1. Laika
    I'm sure they don't really make anything after considering the costs to staff and support the players. Tickets are cheap and many of the games are sparsely attended. It's more vestigial than anything. It began way back when players had normal jobs all offseason and needed a few weeks to get back in shape. People probably thought, well, why not send them somewhere warm and just get them to play friendlies while we sell a few tickets to it. You are right, if they were designing a new system from scratch it would probably not have many actual games at all.
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    Mostly because of the starting pitchers. It takes a few turns for them to build up stamina and since they only pitch every 5 days, it takes a few weeks. If it was just hitters and relievers that needed to get ready spring training could be two weeks long.
  3. Laika
    Decent lineup today Anyone good pitching? Seems like Cam Eden is getting into these games a lot
  4. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    He was my favourite player. But now, nobody really talks about him much when discussing the all time greats. They say he had the best wrist shot ever, but that's what you hear.
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    I, for one, welcome our new Landlord Overlords
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    what
  7. Laika
    At least Romero had the excuse of chronic knee injuries/pain.
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    Mr. Free Agent
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    Sort of begs the question, which team(s) read the market well? You can't just pick a team that sucks or is always cheap. Scrolling through the signings by team, seems like most of them who spend anything have a few earlier signings that they may regret. I guess you can say the Cubs did well getting Imanaga for his money and waiting out Bellinger. I don't see any other obvious winners though. And even with the Cubs, their actions may not have been prescient; they have been surprisingly cheap in FA for a few years, much to the chagrin of their fans who want them to operate like a big budget historic powerhouse franchise. So, maybe them "reading the market well" is just luck.
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    No?
  11. Laika
    Ernie wants them to trade Espinal 3 singles today, two of them 100 mph+
  12. Laika
    Not sure why you guys think they will trot Manoah out for a bunch of starts if he sucks The bandaid was ripped off last year
  13. Laika
    109 mph groundout haha
  14. Laika
    Clevinger from 2023 is basically what Alek Manoah used to be. It's wild that he is unemployed? Wonder what he is asking for.
  15. Laika
    This guy is completely cooked. 92-95 with piss-poor command and bad shape on the fastball. A slider that doesn't do what it used to and he also cannot command. In 2021 and 2022, he had a 102 stuff+ on the FB and 112 on the slider. That's a solid grade on the FB and an okay grade for a slider. His location+ numbers on both were near 100. In 2023 the location numbers cratered by almost 2 standard deviations (think, 50 grade command became 30 grade...) and his stuff numbers went to 91 and 94 on the two pitches, well below average. How does this happen How for someone his age How It is like he has the yips or something Why was he not doing weighted balls or hardcore velo training all offseason? He should have came into camp throwing 97 ffs.
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    LMFAO ALEK MANOAH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Single HBP HBP GIDP Double (hart hit, 105 mph) Lineout HBP Lineout Groundout Walk Double (nuked, 110 mph) Great outing, Alice.
  17. Laika
    Alex Fast @AlexFast8 · 3m Blue Jays top prospect Orelvis Martinez smoked a double at 111.2 mph. That's the 2nd hardest hit ball of the spring (of all tracked games)
  18. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Fun to look at career stats for Crosby and Ovechkin now Crosby could really climb the all time assists leaderboard if he plays a few more years Ovie might be cooked, probably won't set the goal record. Bit sad. Joe Sakic might be the most underrated player in history. What a stud.
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    None of this makes sense and you are dumber than most monkeys Water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 = the best Water freezing at 32 and boiling at 212 = so dumb it hurts
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    People just cling to F because they like how 100 degrees = "it's really f***ing hot out", right? I must admit, that makes sense. But none of the rest of it does.
  21. Laika
    Yeah I think so If the player settled (didn't actually go to arb) I think the new CBA says that is a guaranteed contract, even if they are released. But IIRC a player on salary arbitration contract (you went to arb) can be released during ST and be given a pro-rated portion of their salary. It used to be 30 days? My understanding if they are not released, but optioned, they still get the money. So they could maybe cut him and save most of the money...
  22. Laika
    It's not much different than the current workload A: Mods have to use spam-o-matic to delete spam threads (this bans the account in the process) B: Mods have to approve the first post of all new accounts Same amount of clicking, no?
  23. Laika
    Atkins hit absolute home runs with Belt and KK last year, so he does deserve the benefit of the doubt. It is possible that the majority of these cheap veteran FAs will be replacement level players anyway. It's not helpful to save money if the player sucks! What if the Jays internal projections say this: KK, 2 WAR IKF, 1.5 WAR Turner, 1.7 WAR Chapman, 2.5 WAR Pham, 1 WAR Rosario, 1 WAR Urshela, 1 WAR Grichuk, 0.5 WAR Kike, 0.5 WAR I mean, it's safe to assume that Toronto wanted KK, IKF, Turner because they like them more than the alternatives i.e. they project better. Having KK+DV in the OF also provides important resiliency as the team can afford to lose a CF. It's easy to plug someone into LF, it's very hard to just find a CF on your depth chart though. A team without KK in the fold, and some platoon with Pham+ in LF, is one DV injury away from.... IKF in CF? Springer in CF? Cam Eden? Nathan Lukes?
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    The problem with trading all the depth guys Is they probably have no value now that the FA context has shifted Vets are signing for $1M... why would anybody want Biggio or Garcia or Richards at their salaries? Dunno boys
  25. Laika
    Huh
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