Laika

connorp are you not reading

He's good he's just not, you know, a big star

Corbin Carroll is their only star Marte is up and down. He hit 12 homers last year. 94 wRC+ in 2020. Christian Walker's 120 wRC+ this year was worse than Belt, Bo, and about tied with Vlad. If he's a star then Brandon Belt should have carried Toronto! Moreno was a 7 HR rookie, lol. He was out fWAR'd by Davis Schneider.

Sir you just quoted a 5 game sample size

sample size matters, bitch

I don't know what point you are trying to make but I don't really care because I don't respect you as a poster or a person. f***ing Alek Thomas has four playoff homers, lmao.

107 wRC+ vs 97 wRC+ But 746 runs scored by both teams Toronto was so f***ing horrible in the clutch this year. It's wild. The DBacks are better "clutch" and better on the bases by a wide margin. But everything else is edge Toronto and it's not close.

Gelof is truly a superstar, I agree.

His general athleticism was overrated as a prospect I guess. Some people thought his ceiling would be peak JT Realmuto, i.e. a 20 SB, +6 BsR catcher. Hard to imagine him ever being a positive baserunner after the -7 this year. He may be able to get close to average with practice.

Do you mean make or start? If you include the outgoing free agents... Springer, Bo, Varsho, Kirk, Jansen, Chapman, Keirmaier, and Vlad probably all start on at least one of the four semi-finalists. Biggio, Babe, probably make the bench for somebody. Belt probably is a platoon DH on one of the teams. Many of the bullpen pitchers make most of their pens. The top 4 SP on the depth chart make every team in some capacity.

JP France in game 7. WOOF.

I just think Ownership deserves the credit for raising payroll Any GM could have made some big signing and trades and driven excitement. And MANY GMs would have done it better.

Preller's string of bad trades is legendary. 2014 - Trea Turner for Wil Myers. They also dealt Jake Bauers, Joe Ross, Rene Rivera, and Burch Smith in this deal lol. 2014 - Yasmani Grandal and Zach Eflin for Matt Kemp 2015 - Jedd Gyorko for Jon Jay 2015 - Max Fried for 1 year of J Upton 2018 - Hosmer deal 2020 - Naylor, Quantrill, Gabriel Arias, Owen Miller, Joey Cantillo for Mike Clevinger+ 2020 - Taylor Trammell, Ty France, Andrés Muñoz, and Luis Torrens for Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams. 2021 - Jack Suwinkski, Tucupita Marcano for 4 months of Adam Frazier 2022 - Soto deal. 2022 - Brent Rooker for.... Cam Gallagher? To be fair, KCR waived Rooker later on. I am probably even missing a few stinkers. Yeah he's made the odd good trade too, but come oooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. This guy a f***ing idiot. He has burned so much value on trades that I am shocked he still has a job. This doesn't even mention any signing other than Hosmer. The Padres are competitive in spite of him, not thanks to him. His best contribution has been convincing ownership to raise payroll. You have to give him credit for that, at least. But most morons with a $256,000,000 payroll in a salary cap sport could be a bit competitive. The Padres missed the playoffs with the 3rd highest payroll.

Probably missing nothing. They not only went with Singleton over Diaz, they went with him over Chas McCormick too. They could have pinch hit Diaz and McCormick for Pena and Maldonado, in whatever order desired. Truly one of the worst decisions I have seen this postseason. Diaz and McCormick had wRC+ of 127 and 133 in MLB this season... Singleton was like 118 in f***ing AAA and 51 in MLB. When Singleton walked to the plate he didn't even look like a big league player. He had no chance. Jon Singleton is NOT a quality LHPH like, say, Craig Biggio's son. Astros Stats �� @astro_numbers · 9h Talk about salt in a wound... Top 3 Hitters at MMP in 2023 Yainer Díaz - 164 Yordan Alvarez - 144 Chas McCormick - 144 Guess who didn't play tonight...

I'm not sure ownership meddled or if Chaim Bloom just sucked. Like, a team with their resources should be able to remain somewhat competitive while they rebuild the system. They axed Dombrowski specifically because they just thought a rebuild was needed and he was not the right person for it. So that alone is owner meddling, I guess. The owner thinks they know exactly when a full rebuild is needed? That's a high level baseball decision. I suppose the Mookie Betts trade would have more or less been a directive from ownership... they probably poo poo'd the possibility of extending him.

Many east coast Canadians cheer for the Red Sox. Sadly.

Say it with me! Nooooobody wanted to trade for Kirk. He looks like a f***ing meatball. wOBA and framing are for nerds.

I dunno. Must be something ugly in there that people know about, or something bad about the position. I am pretty f***ing sure that Kim Ng and James Click are not turning down the interview because of the "pressure of a big market."

brother, Kim f***ing Ng turned them down the Boston Red Sox are almost the connorp of MLB baseball maybe they can find a nice Morrocan GM or something

Boston is a laughing stock. You love to see it

It might be as simple as a fitness issue. I could see how being 80 pounds overweight might inhibit his ability to hit for power, while being say 40 pounds overweight may not be detrimental. At some point your swing mechanics are affected and out of balance. He was definitely fatter than ever in 2023.

You are talking about 41 games in the 2nd half. Cute narrative aside, there is not much information in that sample. Also, if you want to throw narratives around... lots of young catchers show flashes of greatness and then the physical demands of the position wear them down or limit their actual production. Moreno has barely had to deal with that. He caught 87 games across all levels in 2022 and then 111 this year. Basically - we still haven't seen the pitching in the league adjust to Moreno, and we still don't know how he will hold up. We kind of know what Alejandro Kirk's FLOOR is. We just saw it. We have seen pitchers adjust to him. He sort of looks durable (but too early to reallllly say).

Skill .... Kirk .... Moreno (all skill run values are approximations) DEFENSE Framing: .... +8 .... -2 Arm (SB): .... 0 .... +6 Blocking: .... +4 .... +2 Misc. "good fielding:.... +2 .... +4 BASERUNNING: BsR: .... -8 .... -4 Assuming Moreno is not as bad as his 2023 results which were basically as rough as Kirk's BATTING: BB% .... 10.6% .... 7.3% K% .... 11% .... 18.3% ISO .... .134 .... .112 MaxEV .... 110.1 .... 109.7 Barrel% .... 6.8% .... 4.5% I'm not sure if you can say good or bad on the career batted ball profiles. Moreno has a higher career LD rate and a higher BABIP. Kirk has a higher career FB rate. Moreno probably "earns" some of his higher BABIP, but probably not all of it. Kirk's batted ball profile is superior IF he can find his 2022 and 2021 pop again, I think. So.... DEFENSE + BSR all things considered is probably just a wash. The superior player will be defined by the sticks. I feel like Kirk has better inherent skills; his career B and KK rates are way better and the power potential seems very similar. Moreno however may have better "tools" i.e. he could have skills not showing up yet in the numbers.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

The point is not to get rid of it Everyone likes the playoffs, generally speaking. They are exciting. It's just to make the contest a weeeee bit more of a proper test of strength