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  1. Laika
    I think he had the second highest xwOBA of all free agents. Ohtani .428 Jorge Soler .376 JDM .370 Joc Pederson .368 Mitch Garver .363 Tommy Pham .361 Andrew McCutchen .351 Donovan Solano .349 Gary Sanchez .342 Chapman .339 Belt .337 Teoscar .336 Lourdes .326 Candelario .319 If I am Toronto I am probably just waiting out the market again and trying to get a dude on a Belt-like deal near the end of the offseason. Pederson/Soler/JDM would all be sweet. Garver I think is legit. Pham and Cutch work but preferably they are in a platoon or your ostensible 4th OF. Solano is a sneaky good fallback option on the infield.
  2. Laika
    Arcia made fun of Harper's baserunning error (getting doubled off to end the game). Harper heard about it and then hit two homers and stared him down. But apparently what Arcia said was in his own clubhouse, to his own teammates. Something benign like "attaboy, Harper". So a reporter must have over heard and like, told the Phillies.
  3. Laika
    "Ross needs to get better" well at least he said that, haha
  4. Laika
    Everything wrong with the offense's collective approach this season smells like Don Mattingly. Falling behind in the arms race so they hire a dinosaur? Makes no sense.
  5. Laika
    Payroll not going down is good news 2023 Payroll was like $214M Coming off the books: Chapman $12.5M Ryu $20M Belt $9.3M KK $9M Whit $6.75M Grichuk remainder $4.3M That's what, $60M? Say arbitration raises eat up $15M of it. Still $45M to throw around. And they don't need to buy *much*. A couple bats and an SP5.
  6. Laika
    So Shapiro said nothing of note, other than confirming that Rossy will return?
  7. Laika
    Oh, clubhouse distractions have nothing to do with baseball now? That's news to me. I thought the people in the clubhouse were the ones who played the game.
  8. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    The difference is there is so much scoring in the NBA that it is rare for a 5 minute OT to not end the game. Double OT games are relatively rare. In the NHL it would be much, much more common for games to go to 2, 3, 4 OTs. So they would just need some way to make that unlikely. Something like a 20 second "shot attempt clock" so teams have to play aggressively. Or maybe a rule where if the 2nd OT ends with no goals, the team with the most shots on net in overtime wins the game. f***, why not do 1v1 60 second overtime shifts instead of a shootout? That would be insanely fun. It would be the ultimate test of skill.
  9. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Honestly 3v3 OT with some kind of basketball style "shot clock" would even be better than a shootout.
  10. Laika
    Speaking of Jordan Groshans - WOOF. Dude hit well in AAA in 2022 after the trade and earned a cup of coffee but was so bad in 2023 that he didn't even get a day in the bigs. Full year in AAA at 23 years old, 74 wRC+. He has NO power. Kind of shocking when you think about his amateur swing videos.
  11. Laika
    lmao, Anthony Bass the funny thing is that it actually WAS defensibly a baseball decision IIRC they had to activate White or lose him and you could justify Bass as the worst RP at the time. Or at least the worst asset in the pen.
  12. Laika
    I dropped him Had saves locked up and wanted to stream some hitters
  13. Laika
    Well he HAS to be better than 2023
  14. Laika
    Everybody wanted Dodgers v Braves Gonna get DBacks v Phillies
  15. Laika
    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
  16. Laika
    Sigh. Moreno is a superstar isn't he.
  17. Laika
    Ryan Pressly went 3-2 on all three hitters and struck them all out Three absolutely wicked full count whiff pitches Nails.
  18. Laika
    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.
  19. Laika
    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.
  20. Laika
    Can't be a cuck if you're the most single person on earth. It's the ultimate line of defense.
  21. Laika
    I don't think I posted the results here - just in the Fantrax message board. Jim was 5th ranked and jumped up one spot. That was the only movement!
  22. Laika
    tis done the 2024 picks have their proper numbering now
  23. Laika
    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!
  24. Laika
    The Shapiro / Jays MO would actually be to hire somebody else to take some of his responsibilities away. Keep Atkins but cut one of his nuts off.
  25. Laika
    Oh, interesting.
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