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  1. Laika
    Yeah. Might as well challenge anything that looks close live, in the 7th
  2. Laika
    Please stop complaining about "emptying the bullpen" It's like you all missed Kikuchi last year If he gives you five good innings and is at 90 pitches you thank the Lord
  3. Laika
    Phew
  4. Laika
    Good swing for Whit at least
  5. Laika
    This team is just so f***ing pathetic It's honestly like they want to lose
  6. Laika
    Every night This team makes me want to throw up
  7. Laika
    He won't even show up to work on his game in AAA. You just KNOW he's not going to do f*** all in the offseason to get in shape or get better. He probably thinks he was just unlucky this year and everything spiraled out of control and he just needs a clean slate and a bulldog attitude next season to get back on track.
  8. Laika
    Manoah had already become a loathsome character this season but he's beyond redemption at this point. Refusing to report and pitch is horrendous behaviour. Trade him for whatever you can get in the offseason. Cancer.
  9. Laika
    He might get enough money to go home and pitch, actually...
  10. Laika
    Drew Smyly made 22 starts in 2022 with a 3.47 ERA and he got 2/$19M Ryu is old as f*** Gibson was a 2 WAR pitcher in 2022 and 3 WAR the year prior
  11. Laika
    It's insane, man The decline is insane. Here is one tiny slice of hopium - Vlad's wRC+ right now (age 24) is the same as Acuna's last year (his age 24).
  12. Laika
    huh
  13. Laika
    Completely possible Or it WAS just bad luck and at some point festered into a mental issue The repeated groundouts and GIDP in any clutch situation or with anybody on base...
  14. Laika
    I'm not even sure anymore that this is it anecdotally, I don't remember a huge amount of warning track flyouts to CF or RF. Sure, he hits a number of them but it's not like this is repeatedly happening. No, the failures tend to be lazy groundballs or double plays or cheezy pop ups. So hard to fix him but I think it's just mental. He needs to: - trust his instincts - get started earlier - swing harder - try to homer or turn the ball to dust all the time My gut says he is just stuck in a glass case of emotions in his head all the time. In between pitches, trying to be perfect, trying to pull line drives or serve singles into right field. Overthinking everything. Guessing and committing to swings without really seeing the ball first.
  15. Laika
    Alek Manoah has been diagnosed with: Morbid Obesity Food Addiction a Personality Disorder Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia Long COVID Medium COVID Climate Change Anxiety Hemorrhoids And the Nazi Blue Jays STILL won't place him on the IL! It's discrimination!!!!
  16. Laika
    AAV? That seems a bit lofty Maybe 2 years at an AAV of $8M or $9M he is throwing well enough but the velo is still declined
  17. Laika
    I dunno man. They played like s*** against the worst teams in baseball. And went 1-2 against a bad team the prior series. A sweep of KC would make the whole swing feel much, much better though. They NEEDED to bank wins on this stretch and I am not sure they banked enough. Blarghhjgjkfdgjfdklg
  18. Laika
    https://www.fangraphs.com/players/nathan-eovaldi/9132/graphs?pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2021&end=2023&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax=
  19. Laika
    Just need to sweep ONE good team to make up for blowing a game or two against bad teams. Easy.
  20. Laika
    Why does that f***ing matter None of us run the Texas Rangers They owned the motherf***ing player and had no idea what they had
  21. Laika
    They are on the precipice of disaster. Their lineup is mostly on the wrong side of the aging curve. Semien 33, Garcia 30, Seager 29, Lowe 28, Garver 32, Heim 28, Grossman 34... Eovaldi is busted. Scherzer looks busted. Yeah they could pull off a miracle this year but they are asking Jordan Montgomery, Jon Gray, and Andrew Heaney to carry them on the pitching side. BIG GULP. Things get ugly if they don't have a big run this year or next.
  22. Laika
    did you just compare Nicky Frazzo to Cole Ragans?
  23. Laika
    Cole Ragans is going to f***ing HAUNT the Rangers
  24. Laika
    His K% is like.. 60% or 70% stabilized at this point. I would expect some of these extreme granular percentages to regress towards normalcy. Just not sure if they will do it in the good or bad way. I guess we should assume they will go in the bad direction. Weird player. There aren't many players who barely swing but when they do they whiff 14% of the time or more. The ones who do show up on the 2023 search are generally not good examples. Trayce Thompson, Taylor Trammell, Trevor Larnach, Jared Walsh, David Villar, Sam Hilliard, Wil Myers. Noda. Judge and Stanton are close to 14%. One "good" comp on the PD side is Ryan Noda. His contact, swstr, called strike, and swing% are all kind of similar.
  25. Laika
    His SwStr% and Contact% and O-Swing% are all misaligned. Some of them will change drastically. His O-Swing% is elite. It's in Mookie Betts, Ed Julien, Juan Soto, Craig Biggio's son, Lars Nootbaar territory. The contact% is very poor but his SwStr% is not quite as poor. It's funny that people think he is just being fed meatballs. He actually has a very low zone% and first pitch strike% against him. Pitchers are generally trying to get him to chase and he is not chasing. He seems to have an actual skill at hammering pitches at the very top of the zone. Four of his homers are on pitches at the upper limit of the zone (almost balls). Many players can't pull those in the air consistently. Vlad doesn't have a single HR this year on a pitch at the top of the zone. Neither does Springer. Opposing teams will stop throwing him high fastballs very soon. They will start staying down and away. Hopefully he's not a breaking ball chaser, that could be bad.
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