The Jays had a lot of down-list players make huge strides.
I would say the system developed well this year. It will be underrated on off-season rankings
The Red Sox were NOT rebuilding on purpose. They signed Turner, Yoshida, Jansen, Duvall, Paxton, Chris Martin, Kluber. They previously brought in Story.
They just sucked. They ended up looking like a rebuilding team at the end of the year though.
IIRC there were changes done to the WAR calculation that completely rekt Doumit's numbers, post-career. Like he went from a slightly above replacement level catcher to the worst catcher ever and worst framer in history.
We don't really know if Shapiro thinks his job is even in trouble.
The corporate overlords may not care whether or not the team can ever get over the hump. Consistent wild card "contention" is kind of good enough for TV ratings!
Nobody said this.
You are a horrible, horrible poster. You consistently get into personal conflicts with people because you suck at writing, you can't make a brief argument, and you misrepresent others all the time.
Nobody said the Jays have a "secret". It's not a secret at all. It's very obvious what their strategy has been, and it worked. That's not shocking nor is it luck.
Seems more like the type of guy who will come into camp with a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnosis and ask for accommodations.
The first player to be medically exempt from the pitch clock!
his wxOBA was .374 this year
vs his wOBA of .340
every other year of his career these two figures have been bang on
throwing the narratives aside, there is a chance he was just stupid unlucky this year.
It is reflective of talent only because none of the Blue Jays teams have been good enough to win the division and get into the larger sample size series. They were mediocre enough to have to try and win these coinflip games.