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  1. Laika
    Didn't catch much of the games over the weekend but I saw one inning from Manoah and his slider kind of seemed... back? It looked like a plus pitch
  2. Laika
    Any version of Ryu is certainly better than Ally Manure!!!
  3. Laika
    stop it
  4. Laika
    probably meant to type RP and had a little brain fart
  5. Laika
    Why do you even get up in the morning?
  6. Laika
    The pitching lab might be having immediate results if you are paying attention to some of the relievers coming through AA/AAA this year.
  7. Laika
    Jordan Montgomery
  8. Laika
    sounds good to me
  9. Laika
    Tom Tango did not rub any part of me who told you that
  10. Laika
    They dicked around and lost an entire extra year. Poor kid. If he had the surgery in spring when he first blew out his elbow he could have been on the mound early 2024 in the majors at this time in 2024. But now he will lose all of 2023 and 2024
  11. Laika
    Nobody knows everything, it's baseball. I'll be right 60% of the time and you dorks will be right 40% of the time.
  12. Laika
    But most teams have those types of circus games on their game logs
  13. Laika
    Yeah but "turn it around" probably just means he's a 1 WAR SP.
  14. Laika
    Berrios had a 4.21 xFIP last year and a FIP above replacement level. Not even close. Not the same planet of underperformance.
  15. Laika
    How does this make any sense? The risk is that they throw away another game by letting literally the worst SP in baseball take the mound. When the Jays have gone with Richards and/or Francis for bullpen games IIRC the results have been mostly fine. Much more competitive.
  16. Laika
    absolutely nothing if he gets demoted and the league has MiLB rosters and infinite keepers then maybe a 4th round pick or so
  17. Laika
    Not really. Sometimes players just randomly develop in a way you can't have expected. They traded him in 2017 while he was in A+ and having a mediocre year. STL also got nothing out of him then traded him for the final 66 innings of Jon Lester's career, which were worth exactly 0 WAR. Lester had a 5.43 FIP at the time of the trade and had given Washington 0.1 WAR in 75 innings. So, Thomas was worthless at that time...
  18. Laika
    It's not one bad start. It's a half season of bad starts, and most recently one extra bad one. I don't think you are appreciating how horrible it is for a pitcher to throw 92 pitches and strike nobody out, while giving up 5 walks and a homer. Bad starts happen. Aces can give up 10 earned runs. But last night, Manoah was bad in a very specific way that: 1) demonstrated in a small sample size that he sucks 2) was on trend with his entire season, which demonstrates the same thing This is completely different than a good pitcher just having a random bad start where lots of hits fall in and they don't miss as many bats as usual.
  19. Laika
    It's getting ugly. Varsho is in a complete tailspin this month. Just 5 hits in July. His swing looks broken. It kind of seemed like he had turned a corner in June (.326 wOBA) but I guess not. He is missing SO MANY hittable pitches from RHP. Hilarious that Moreno and Varsho are both flopping and the throw-in piece is defining the early returns for the trade.
  20. Laika
    Toronto tends to trade these guys or let them go, yeah. Smith, Noda, Lane Thomas... ummm... Jonathan Davis, Andy Burns, Samad Taylor.... just thinking of guys in AA/AAA who performed well in the minors but didn't have strong profiles in the age vs. level models in the last few years that the organization has opted to trade or let walk. Surely many others in the last 7 years or so. Christian Lopes, Smith Jr... Rowdy Tellez kind of in this bucket, maybe. They probably WISH they traded Biggio early in his career haha. Probably WISH they traded Espinal after his all star year haha.
  21. Laika
    Everyone DID question the front office decision to bring him back. Detroit is awful. There is bad starts and then there is what Manoah did last night. MLB quality pitchers don't really ever provide an outing with 92 pitches, 3 IP, 5 walks, no strikeouts, and a homer given up. They don't even need a decent replacement because Manoah looks like a sub-replacement level player. I'd feel way better with Bowden Francis on the mound. Throwing Kloffenstein to the sharks is probably better. Heck, Casey f***ing Lawrence might outperform him. I'd just pull the plug now and bullpen game his next turn up. Or spot start Bowden.
  22. Laika
    I would not give Manoah one more start Last night was so bad statistically that you can just make the conclusion
  23. Laika
    Even if Ryu throws 88 and gets rocked at least you know he's not going to walk five and whiff nobody
  24. Laika
    Marry f*** kill Manoah, Brad Keller, Zach Davies
  25. Laika
    Halladay had stuff and a great attitude Manoah has bad stuff and food addiction
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