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  1. Laika
    Chapman's market appears to be exactly where most of us thought it should be. Somehow just under $100M. Not to exceed 100m. Wonder if Toronto jumps back in now
  2. Laika
    I'm fine with a multi-year deal if the AAV isn't massive. He's got legit upside.
  3. Laika
    lol If there was tons of free agent demand for these guys they wouldn't all be free agents still. And Teoscar would not have settled for a 1 year pillow. These guys are sweating buckets. Brandon Belt is begging his agent to even find him a job. Soler is already whining to the media because the Marlins don't want him. No demand.
  4. Laika
    But Joc should get like 12M Soler is half the talent of Teoscar, he might be for something like 3/36M
  5. Laika
    Nah. Vlad 40 HR Bo .300/30/115 Springer turns back the clock Schneider 30 HR IKF gold glove Jansen stays healthy Kirk mashes Varsho goes 30/20
  6. Laika
    Lol right?
  7. Laika
    But does it?
  8. Laika
    I dunno anything about Ferris but he only signed for $500k less than Barriera out of the 2022 draft and had a strong debut on stats So.... Imma say Brandon Barriera
  9. Laika
    it's not a PREDICTION it's a PROJECTION they are still humans, and baseball has lots of variance in Vlad's case, he is an idiot human who probably ignores advice and probably does not train properly you can lower your personal PROJECTIONS for him accordingly. I don't think Steamer incorporates IQ. tools-wise he is exactly the same guy he was when he hit 48 homers...
  10. Laika
    he still looks good "under the hood" 95th percentile xwOBA in 2023
  11. Laika
    He wants to be Seth Lugo I guess But a four year deal? I guess if he does turn into a decent SP he would be a free agent at 32 so he could get a multi year FA contract at SP level money But unless he changes major things he'll just be a 4.50 ERA starter who doesn't even give you innings because he walks so many batters
  12. Laika
    what the f*** he will NOT be a good starter dude has minus minus command
  13. Laika
    0 WAR team wins like 47 games. Toronto projects for 43.3 WAR with current roster, per Steamer. 90.3 win projection. 5th in baseball, but closer to #10 (Mets, 40.2 WAR) than even #4 (Astros, 47.3 WAR). AL EAST goes Yankees - 48.3 Jays - 43.3 Rays - 40.9 Orioles - 39.9 Sox - 35.7 Need to add some f***ing wins. It would be great to add like 4 projected WAR somehow, to get closer to the Yankees by projections... and further from TB and BAL. Stankees probably have more downside risk to their projection based on age, youth, injury problems, that kind of s***.
  14. Laika
    Insane contract. Everybody must despise Stroman.
  15. Laika
    nah they were f***ing studs the modern DH plays like 115 games because they platoon a bit and get days off back then these dudes were the best hitters on the team and they all got 750 PA ahaha
  16. Laika
    Ross needs to HOLD THE LINE and not give any of these greedy bastards more money than they deserve. Could always bring Belt back for like $6M I bet. Or Votto for.... nothing? ahha
  17. Laika
    6th SP? I don't think he's started in any meaningful way since like, 2018. Just some 2 inning opener appearances, probably. 0.1 WAR projection. The team models obviously don't think he's much better than replacement level. Probably a push with Mitch White
  18. Laika
    haha, pretty much can't imagine IKF being more frustrating than the May, June, Aug, Sept versions of Matt Chapman. They version of Chapman was something like a .200/.270/.350 hitter with a 32% K rate. at least IKF will be slapping the ball around consistently
  19. Laika
    Maybe with the stick but not when you consider defense I think Toronto views IKF as an elite 3B defensively and the metrics support that
  20. Laika
    He would purely be a backup on the present roster. 2B: Schneider 3B: IKF SS: Bo BN - Biggio is the platoon partner at 3B or 2B if the matchup is favourable Espinal still fits on the roster but has no direct path to playing time as he does not profile better than any of the above, in any matchup situation. Otto Lopez is probably a DFA unfortunately. He blew it in AAA last year. I think Ernie Clement (out of options) is on the bench over Otto Lopez. Everyone else has options. IF they bring in a 3B, then they can trade Espinal because that slides IKF into a utility role where he can be the backup SS. But at the moment, Espinal is literally the backup SS because IKF is starting at 3B most days. So, can't trade him yet. I mean he also might be decent. 2 WAR in 2021 and 2022.
  21. Laika
    It would be idiotic to non tender him
  22. Laika
    Doesn't really look like it. Just looking at GS and innings, from 2016 through 2023 he appears to have never missed significant time
  23. Laika
    Shoto Imanaga deal with the Cubs seems weird. Might be very light vs. expectations. "Reporting has indicated that the deal guarantees Imanaga just $30MM over two years and involves a complex series of options as well as incentives that could bring the total guarantee to around $80MM over a longer term."
  24. Laika
    If I was going to do a top 10 SP list that did NOT just copy the top 10 projected WARs, it would probably be: Strider Wheeler Gausman Cole Burnes Nola Webb Gallen Castillo Valdez #9 and #10 are really hard. Guys like Lopez and Skubal and Glasnow pop on projections, and guys like Alcantara, Cease, Scherzer, Fried are really good and show up on the last 3 year leaderboards.
  25. Laika
    At worst he's Kole Calhoun plus 2 extra WAR every year for superior D and baserunning. But, I think there is more potential. Could figure some s*** out and pull off a Curtis Granderson career or something like it. A random 40 hr season and then gets some old man hitting skills as he ages.
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