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  1. Laika
    I agree. Not feeling any of the long-term 3B options at all so unless there is something in trade I would just cheap out and get some slap hitter 1 year stop gap. Maybe hope a prospect can take the position. Spend a bit for quality 1 year veterans at LF or DH. Maybe even a multi-year quality veteran at LF...
  2. Laika
    Bro it's JP Morosi. His tweets mean nothing. Atkins kicks the tired on literal every free agent and trade possibility.
  3. Laika
    sounds like he came out of literal prison and then a couple of mental health facilities bless the french soup
  4. Laika
    Lmao high IQ
  5. Laika
    He is essentially an average stuff, plus command guy now Lots of money for that... This is my common sense impression from watching him pitch and looking at his ERA btw
  6. Laika
    The downside to this is he comes into 2024 and looks like s*** again. The he has almost NO value. Right now there are probably a few teams that think they can fix him. That number drops rapidly with bad results again
  7. Laika
    I'm surprised at the dollars Nola has looked on the precipice of decline for the last year or two
  8. Laika
    Not really. Cimber was really good and then he lost it. That's pretty typical with relievers especially ones that rely on funk/deception
  9. Laika
    yes have to agree there even for hitters, just a weird place to have a career and terrible org/coaches
  10. Laika
    JDM 1 year deal Garver 3 year deal?
  11. Laika
    He used to yell at the other team and grab his nuts and stuff. Also his daddy went out for a smoke and never came back and went to prison and stuff. So JD grew up hard. But he's still f***ing ten ply and made of toilet paper.
  12. Laika
    JD is not tough, lol. Dude misses half the season every year with a calf ache.
  13. Laika
    Dunno how you guys could want JD after seeing him play a bit in 2023. If dumpster diving for a 3B stop gap I'd honestly rather have Jean Segura or IKF or someone like that
  14. Laika
    lmao horrible landing spot for Quantrill well, I guess he'll take MLB Colorado over AAA anywhere
  15. Laika
    I'd think Espinal is a trade candidate if Toronto doesn't want to tender him.
  16. Laika
    Soroka and Lopez both have limited control left and will cost $3M+ in arb so with Atlanta's MLB depth they were probably considering non tendering them both. Almost no value. Shuster and Shewmake have cheap control but their numbers are not great. They are name brand prospects in a bad system. They don't project well. Bummer is a reliever with a few years left of getting expensive control on a horrible team. Great trade for White Sox to be honest. Understandable trade for Atlanta but I bet AA is frustrated he could not make better use of these assets. He traded them all at rock bottom values in a roster crunch context. Kind of a late night, capitulation dynasty baseball trade lol. f*** it I'm sick of negotiating fine
  17. Laika
    You are dumb and ugly
  18. Laika
    I wonder if there is a way around it. Ohtani would have Rogers stock, not Blue Jays shares. Yeah that's indirect ownership and indirect financial interest in the earnings but they could give him some type of Special Shares that don't get dividends or whatever. And escrow them until he is retired - vested special shares.
  19. Laika
    Agree with your assessment The Yankees did not exactly position themselves to be the Ohtani favourites since they are kind of bogged down with long/massive contracts already. The Mets, who f***ing knows. All their new owner spending flopped horribly so they might be gunshy. The Dodgers have very clearly been maintaining roster and payroll flexibility for a year+ so they can sign this guy. They have to be like, 70% favourites. So you have the Dodgers up top and then a glut of teams including Toronto that could swoop in and overpay him to steal him from LA. That would include NYM, NYY, TOR, SFG, HOU, SEA, BOS, TEX. I mean, really anybody. Some of the smaller market teams could even make a case to increase payroll and extend for him. Baltimore, lmao. Imagine. They could do it. Baltimore.
  20. Laika
    I agree that the interest is probably genuine Some other team will simply have more money to offer though If Toronto offered $600M, one of New York teams or the Dodgers would match or top it.
  21. Laika
    I dunno. It's not a big deal. Why should the initial times be assumed ideal and set in stone? Why not tinker and find the best balance? Maybe 20 seconds was just too long to the point that it did not have the desired effect.
  22. Laika
    I think some team will trade for him. It's not that much $$$ and his results were good for long enough (2020-2022) that some might think he is a DIPS overperformer. 2023 looked like full regression. But, 99 innings. If he sucks in 2024 then yeah he was just getting lucky in 2020-2022. One last try for Cal. I think for Toronto specifically he would be a nice addition. Kind of like adding another Manoah... lottery ticket SP5. Will only be 29. Has decent velo, I wonder if a repertoire change could work. He is a kitchen sink pitcher with 6 pitches but the stuff grades are all over the place. Fourseamer 19.1% 80 Cutter 24.1% 101 Splitter 13% 115 Sinker 23.7% 84 Change 9.1% 86 Curveball 10.9% 102 So, bad fastballs but the cutter is okay. I guess he's already throwing about as many cutters as he can. Hard to do like, 35% cutters. Similar to Bassitt except Bassitt has an extra command level AND a better sinker. 92 stuff+ sinker is a lot different than 84.
  23. Laika
    Two interesting DFAs today Josh Staumont and Cal Quantrill
  24. Laika
    Probably? But I don't know. They are different things. VAA is responsible for some portion of the results that people in recent years have been attributing entirely to high spin 4 seamers. VAA will be increased by FB velocity, pitcher height, and pitcher release point. I would ASSUME that VAA does correlate with spin because the pitchers from a strategy perspective would be trying to maximize both, if they pitch like that. Basically, you can have a great VAA and succeed even with middling spin. Or amazing spin but get hit if your VAA really sucks.
  25. Laika
    it's one of those things that people don't really understand if your farm system is any good at all then you need to be trading players from it constantly because you can't keep them all
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