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  1. Laika
    lmao @ Sixto omfg
  2. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    But that's the comparison Offense-driven team. It's not about balls, it's about talent. The Leafs are that kind of roster, they just don't have quite enough star power to pull it off. I guess? If Matthews was McDavid or Mackinnon you could make a more direct comparison, but he's a bit worse.
  3. Laika
    the splitter is the new sweeper seems like every pitcher in baseball is working on a new splitter this spring
  4. Laika
    Yeah I get it Chris Davis hit his breaking point after several years of futility and his contract vs. production really tested the extreme limits of these dynamics Rendon... has similarities but also some big differences.
  5. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Leafs right now sort of remind me of peak Penguins teams Crosby-Kessel-Malkin-Letang Of course, they don't have a Sidney Crosby
  6. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    They have had opportunities to sell high on Marner or Nylander over the past few years and have chosen not to. Really think they needed to move one of them for two-way talent. Most of these teams ahead of them are built around two-way players like Marchand, Barkov, Tkachuk... Not sure a couple of defensemen fix much. I think it starts down the middle, with C.
  7. Laika
    Rendon just looks like an indignant child at every turn Shows a lack of immaturity, low IQ Nothing wrong with putting family and your choice of God above the sport of baseball or your job, but read the room dude It wasn't even a trap question the reporter just said "is baseball still a top priority for you" and his knee jerk reaction was to say "it has never been a top priority for me, it's just my job" How hard would it have been to say "after family and faith it's my top priority, yes" like every other player does? He basically walked it back to that anyway. What an idiot.
  8. Laika
    Yeah woof Okay but I didn't realize how much of a butcher Amed was recently. He looks like a 2B/LF
  9. Laika
    something really weird about that one does he have issues that aren't public knowledge? did he take way less $$$ because only the Rays would let him be a starting shortstop?
  10. Laika
    I think the FB is FINE and the issue is more about pitch mix and breaking ball inconsistency He had decent run values on the FB last year, stuff+ likes it, and a .313 wOBA on the FB is not bad. The slider got nuked to a .343 wOBA. Too many fastballs, and too many bad breaking balls. Yeah the velo being up and down was a problem though
  11. Laika
    They should trade for Dylan Cease The Bradish news sucks for them but not sure the Means blow is that big.
  12. Laika
    Yeah I don't see it Maybe he has a get-me-over slider but he was too predictable last year so it got nuked, and a splitter would help people get off of it. turn 62% FB, 38% breaking ball mix into something more like 50%-35%-15%
  13. Laika
    If we are being honest, every non-Orioles team in the division smells kind of desperate right now. Clinging to relevancy.
  14. Laika
    Pearson 62% FB, 24% SL, 14% CB FB: stuff = 118 (elite) location = 93 (horrible) SL: stuff = 140 (elite) location = 93 (horrible) CB: stuff = 140 (elite) location = 89 (horrible) It's POSSIBLE to be a great reliever with 93 location+, but it is still hard. I don't really think he needs another whiff pitch, he just needs something he can locate. A little bullet slider, gyro slider, something like that. Maybe if his splitter is more of a split change that he can surprise people with for strikes it can be a difference maker but I dunno. Doesn't seem like the thing he needs. The goals for him seem out of whack. Ship has sailed on him being a bulk guy. He should have tunnel vision on being a lock down one inning reliever. His Stuff+ and Location+ do track with some elite relievers, like Bryan Abreu.
  15. Laika
    The New York If Healthies, everybody
  16. Laika
    How about a soft floor, to mirror the current soft cap? Penalize teams if they don't spend above the soft floor. Make their draft picks and international budgets worse.
  17. Laika
    From June 14th to June 28th, Jack Suwinski went one for forty-three. In the following two weeks he went: .333/.479/.667
  18. Laika
    Kind of a bummer, I was curious to see how good he could be as an old fart throwing 87 mph poo I kind of thought he would be tricky enough to be a solid SP4 doing that
  19. Laika
    He hits tons of flyballs and strikes out at a decent clip so he will always have slumps. Every year he will have a horrible stretch or two. But if you pussy out at the bottom, during his slumps, you won't benefit from the inevitable homer barrage. Jack Suwinski is a really good comp of another current, young player like this. Broke into the league as a non-prospect and nobody thought much of him, but the Pirates suck and gave him a full season and he was a 3 win player. .224/.339/.454 Schneider might have a slightly better hit tool than Suwinski, just looking at MiLB K rates.
  20. Laika
    Dumb
  21. Laika
    Everyone who talks about 2B like it's even a question mark Many pundits reference him likes he's just "in the mix" in the infield
  22. Laika
    DS is criminally underrated because of how his season ended. It's human bias. His debut as a whole was fantastic and his projections are strong. He's probably a top 40 prospect objectively
  23. Laika
    Oh shiiiiiiiiit it's a business!? Since when!!!???
  24. Laika
    What does a Trout trade even look like 32.5 years old 4 WAR per 600 PA projected but injury issues 7 years, $260M left on the contract He probably is not worth that deal, not even close, but there is some chance he could have a couple more MVP seasons so he's definitely not your normal 32 year old star player... As a fan, I'd be fine with my team just taking him and the entire contract. You just pray for the best and take pride that your team saved him from being a career Angel.
  25. Laika
    I dunno, I feel like he's just a hedge. If they end up trading an infielder or two his chances go way up. This paragraph is just pure assumption and I think it's wrong: I have trouble thinking that Toronto would slot Escobar ahead of multiple players who project better than him
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