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  1. Laika
    89 wins probably doesn't get there. Might need two or three more.
  2. Laika
    Apparently four doctors looked at it and said bone bruise (two picked by the Angels two by Rendon). Then Rendon found a fifth on his own who said fractured tibia. Angels probably feel f***ed over by him and are assuming the worst. That he wants to get paid to not play.
  3. Laika
    So everybody says they are in The problem is that has happened before If next year you have like, three transactions midseason I'll have to just force some changes
  4. Laika
    Berrios won us the game. Vlad was #2 star. He just did his job
  5. Laika
    Did you read the Rendon news too? A bit like the Manoah situation. Not as bad but
  6. Laika
    The only thing more annoying than the Blue Jays playing poorly is all the narcissistic I-told-you-so cynics who now feel simultaneously vindicated yet still curiously indignant. You're not special because you were a fence sitter preseason and the team decided to perform at their 10th percentile projection.
  7. Laika
    At the end of the day we don't know enough about the process to make a decision I liked the offseason moves too. The Jays have projected well the last few years. Since I am not a moron, it's hard for me to get behind going scorched earth when so much of the failures the last few years just smell completely random. Like the crushing playoff losses, a lot of this is just random. Being the worst team in baseball on middle middle fastballs and with RISP for most of the year - I have trouble not attributing most of that to randomness. I dunno. What the YANKEES have done this year is a complete and total failure in team construction. For Toronto, it's not as obvious.
  8. Laika
    Teams for the most part are no longer making players go level by level Like if these guys are in A+ or AA and they are ticking the boxes for exit velo, pitch velo, barrel rate, etc. they are getting called up
  9. Laika
    I guess Game 1 it is 5-3 top 7th. Genesis Cabrera gives up 4 runs, blows the game. Game 2 it is 3-0 top 7th. Yimi Garcia gives up 2 runs, game over. Game 4 it is 4-2 top 8th. Trevor Richards gives up 5 runs, game over. It's not exactly "using Ubaldo Jimenez over prime Zack Britton in extra innings in the playoffs" but the same sort of logic, on a much much tinier scale, three times over.
  10. Laika
    Punchy tweet but Toronto lost most of those games like, immediately and thoroughly. I dunno. This is not the thing that bugs me about the series, lmao.
  11. Laika
    You kind of HAVE to let Shapiro and Atkins have more run at this The org shed a lot of institutional knowledge and talent when AA was here and then when there was the regime change to Shatkins... I bet the Canadian math nerds hired into the analytics dept under Shapiro are at least still here and happy. They probably feel heard and valuable. Front offices are so deep and complex these days. You can't just hire entire departments. It takes years and years (a generation?) to build a high end analytics dept or whatever.
  12. Laika
    Yeah Even if you present the correct information it won't have any effect if you: - have players who won't absorb or use it - don't have middle-men who can effectively communicate/translate it Several years ago the Rays took some f***ing nobody math nerd from their front office and put him in cleats for just this reason. It seems to have worked because he's still there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Erlichman BTW, this guy is probably still with the Blue Jays if AA's regime wasn't so f***ing dumb and ass-backwards back when he was poached by Tampa.
  13. Laika
    I dunno. I would just guess that with the march of statistics and data the prospect ranker people are just getting a bit better over time. Like, these upper/mid minors players with strong stats are more likely to make lists now, rather than the 17 year olds with big muscles.
  14. Laika
    I didn't even watch the game but checked in one gameday a few times The balls/strikes seemed f***ing horrendous Like, blue is out there squeezing a Cy Young candidate on September 14th. What a joke.
  15. Laika
    Isn't Chapman the only good 3B in free agency? Feels like he is a lock to get a decent contract.
  16. Laika
    I wonder how the team would respond if they fired JS today and flew Gibby in to manage right away
  17. Laika
    lmao yes so the thing is to find the top bozo and kill them I have trouble seeing Shapiro as a bozo. Maybe he is though. Maybe it's Atkins.
  18. Laika
    Yeah none of the young guys have emerged as leadership material. - Manoah is the opposite of a leader - Bo seems very individual - Vlad is on an island / a clown - Kirk is a nothing personality - Jansen is only around half the time And the veterans brought in by trade or signings are a mixed bag. - George / Chapman / Berrios have some leadership qualities - Gausman leads by example but is a bit of a stoner - Kikuchi, Ryu are nothing - Bassitt is actually a bit of a headcase The whole coaching staff and front office seems very low T. I mean what type of front office would sit down with Charlie Montoyo and actually hire him? Good lord. John Schnieder may be able to become a quality MLB manager with some sway but he's too green right now. The Jays had a fun/loose team for a couple years. They decided to squash the fun and turn "serious" this year. But you can't just flip a switch like that. They just went from a team with some charisma to a team with zero personality whatsoever.
  19. Laika
    Heads will roll for sure. Just a question of where they stop. The lesser coaches are definitely gone. Schneider is probably gone. Chadkins probably gets spared...maybe...
  20. Laika
    BlueRocky
  21. Laika
    The ledger does not care how much sleep you get. It's all about WAR and money, and when you flick the abacus it says that deal was a complete abomination. In hindsight, AA probably learned a lot from it, and the Dickey trade. The point isn't that these trades "defined his tenure" it's just that they played significantly into his objective record when Shapiro made the unpopular decision to part ways with him. Like, when he left Toronto he had a mixed track record. He made some brilliant moves and put together good and exciting teams for two runs, but he also had some huge fumble trades and the organization's farm system + MLB situation was a bit ugly (s***** farm, old expensive players)
  22. Laika
    DeScalafani ended up being solid for several years. He would have helped! And he was free in 2015 and 2016, freeing up all the Buehrle payroll for someone else. Handsome Jake was a very good bench player for a long time. Hendo was a stud in 2014 and 2013 with Miami Escobar was a political dump of course but he was good after leaving Toronto. Even Hech was useful for a couple years while cheap and cost controlled. And taking on the Reyes contract lead to a compounded bad decision with Tulo. The ripple effects of this trade really cannot be overstated. It was a disaster and it's safe to say that he Blue Jays in basically every competitive window from 2013 to 2016, to the present window, would have been better off if the trade never happened!!!
  23. Laika
    It's not INSANE to think that Davis Schneider is similar to Rhys Hoskins. Maybe more whiffs but some defensive utility instead. Schneids could hit .230 and still be pretty solid if his walk rate is going to up in the 14%+ range.
  24. Laika
    Pretty funny how stinky even THAT deal is in hindsight. The Ninja had to add Hoffman and Castro for the right to pay Troy Tulowitzki $98M for basically nothing. I think Reyes was owed $48M at the time of the trade. So a $50M additional commitment. Granted, Hoffman and Castro would have never helped Toronto, anyway, given how their careers unfolded.
  25. Laika
    The Marlins trade and the Dickey deal... omg it's so bad to think about it arguably, those two trades cost AA his GM job for a while. His time in exile with the Dodgers, he probably thought about nothing but those two trades.
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