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  1. Laika
    what do they even do for Toronto that isn't just blue and white? looks like the first semi-pro baseball club in Toronto was called the Toronto Dauntless. That's a cool name.
  2. Laika
    incoming gold and yellow ovo ********
  3. Laika
    Would kind of be hell if you were a player who liked baseball, to have your peers and friends reporting to spring while you are unemployed for purely financial reasons
  4. Laika
    The Jays are definitely just trying to get one of them on a pure stink bid So, you'd definitely still bet on the field
  5. Laika
    The Save Mitch White clause
  6. Laika
    nevertheless, luxury tax doomers are doing it
  7. Laika
    never heard this rumour i am just still pissed that they flipped Napoli for Francisco blind faith in JPA lmao
  8. Laika
    nah it's just a criticism of IKF "hey, this guy we are paying 7.5M for is barely better than the kid we just DFAd lol" fair point tbh even if it ignores what we know about defense Toronto has to be right about something that escapes public perception on IKF to look good. Or not because it's $7.5M and nobody should even care about that much money...
  9. Laika
    Their wRC+ projections are pretty close But defense is the problem. We know IKF is a good 3B and acceptable defender all over. Lopez might be a bad defender, that makes his floor negative WAR and that realistic possibility makes him unsuitable. Can't take risks like that on the 26 man roster in the Jays current situation. If the team was rebuilding, sure you give him a year.
  10. Laika
    Yeah but Ben Wagner was entering arb3 and he was getting pretty expensive
  11. Laika
    Vernon Wells went 1.8 war, 1 war, 0 war, then had a dead cat bounce that AA was able to convince the Angels was legit Springer just had a 2.2 war year, which followed a 4.3 win year. He projects for 2.2-3.0 wins. It's really not that bad at all. Yeah he has negative projected value but the contract isn't big enough for it to be an albatross
  12. Laika
    You can't say he PROBABLY would be more valuable when his wRC+ in AAA was like 66 and he has no options
  13. Laika
    sad
  14. Laika
    All of these players are worth keeping at these costs, in a nutshell. Just depends on internal projections and internal projections of their minor league depth, I guess
  15. Laika
    Yeah there is an obvious benefit to not going past 2 year commitments as the "Bo and Vlad" era potentially ends after 2025 Free money after 2025 = flexibility to pivot and sign a replacement star in free agency. Whoever that might be.
  16. Laika
    saying "it's possible" is unrealistically hopeful?
  17. Laika
    No need to even mention Springer or Kikuchi in stuff like this. Jays would be insane to get rid of Kikuchi to save money, and Springer nobody would take without the Jays burning $25M to make it happen. Yimi - 6.3 Biggio - 4.2 Richards - 2.1 Espinal - 2.7 ^ these are the guys they could get rid of to trim a bit of payroll if necessary
  18. Laika
    I think it's possible They might also approve it if Ross says he thinks he can clear a few million before the season begins, by dumping a couple bench or BP guys in trades. I dunno
  19. Laika
    I think, ignoring a 1 year pillow contract possibility, capitulation for these guys would be something like 3/$60 for Chapman 5/$100 for Bellinger With a bunch of lofty MVP type incentives to make them feel good
  20. Laika
    Cubs and Jays might just rock paper scissors for them and each get one pillow contract?
  21. Laika
    Yeah he probably capitulated on the AAV and just took a stink bid from the Giants would guess that at the outset of the offseason we was trying to get more like 3/$60M
  22. Laika
    Being a SFG fan would kind of blow right now. Their lineup is 2/3 platoons, they turn it over all the time, cobble the team together with 30+ year old vets every offseason and buy low signings, and their only "star" is a really boring 4 win groundball specialist in Logan Webb. They are also arguably failing on the development side of things. Problems with many of their top prospects. Marco Luciano was supposed to be one of the next great shortstops...
  23. Laika
    SFG keeps f***ing around in the middle of the market. They hit a home run in 2022 with Rodon, and did well with Cobb, but last year it was flops all around. 2023 Conforto, 2/$36M, 1 WAR in 2023 Haniger, 3/$43.5M, 0 WAR in 2023 Stripling, 2/$25M, 0 WAR in 2023 Pederson, $19.7M QO, 0.6 WAR in 2023 Manaea, 1 WAR for $12.5M Rogers, 3/$33M, 0.3 WAR 2024 Soler Hicks 2022 Desclafani, 3/$36, 1 WAR in two years Wood, 2/$25M, 1.9 WAR in two years Rodon, 1/$21M, 6.2 WAR THIS ONE WORKED WOW Cobb, 3/$28M, 3.7 WAR then 1.8 WAR THIS ONE WORKED TOO
  24. Laika
    Where is Scott Mitchell's apology?
  25. Laika
    Yeah Manoah lost his stuff and his command. He overperformed in 2021 and 2022 but he had almost exactly league average stuff and locations for an MLB pitcher, so he should have had a continuing floor of a decent SP3 or SP4. But everything cratered in 2023 and the fancy stats say his stuff was much worse than most SP. His stuff was in line with guys like Tyler Anderson and Colin Rea and Paul Blackburn. And his command was even worse, bottom 10 among pitchers who threw 80+ innings. Scattershot command but with no stuff. Unless he gets some of it back the best case scenario might be something like Josiah Gray
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