Laika

I guess not. Kiriloff might be a bust and Soderstrom will probably only be playable at C

I'd probably give the edge to Bradley since he has already debuted and the stuff clearly plays CES's low walk rates and moderate K rates make him seem sort of risky. Might be more of a .250/.300/.480 hitter or something like that.

Need to take you down a peg

Yeah if Belt looks like this in 2-3 weeks it has to be over.

Mitch White was a pretty interesting commodity when he was on the cusp and breaking into the league. His stuff numbers graded well and he held his own and the Dodgers had a track record for producing those kinds of pitchers. You need to at least understand that as Toronto Blue Jays fans we have only ever seen the absolute worst of Mitch White. And a sample size of suck that borders on meaningless. The trade looks horrible right now but there is still a chance that White is who Toronto thought he was (a viable MLB SP of some caliber) and Frasso is less than that. I guess the outside information that makes people less confident is that this FO does not really have a good track record at identifying and acquiring pitchers like this. Trent Thornton didn't stick, Anthony Kay couldn't figure it out, Thomas Hatch hasn't been able to figure it out... Bowden Francis still has a chance but he was horrendous in AAA last year... Ross Stripling is kind of the only success story when it comes to bringing in a depth SP. And he even sucked for Toronto at first and the credit for Ross Stripling being good for Toronto probably should go to Ross Stripling more than anybody.

guys, don't forget about alex de jesus!!! he is hitting uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .181/.263/.375 in Vancouver

Toronto looks hopeless

Gabriel Moreno has thrown out 70% of base stealers btw

Blue Jays pitchers in Boston https://streamable.com/dqirdx

Grant on suicide watch???

doesn't look good

Jesse Winker has no homeruns, lmao.

His timing is clearly off, and he is not being patient enough, but the measurements for power and batted ball profile and contact are all fine. I think he's perfectly fine and just in big slump. Also, unlucky.

His xFIP and FIP are both in line with his career marks. Really, they just happen to have three young studs to go to in Logan T Allen, Tanner Bibee, and Gavin Williams. Could also see them option Quantrill at some point if McKenzie gets healthy. Bieber, McKenzie, Bibee, Allen, Williams.... Plesac, Quantrill, Civale, Curry, Battenfield, Gaddis are all extra. Wow.

one nice thing about this series has been realizing that Triston Casas f***ing blows he looks like one of those slow twitch behemoth 1B prospects who will have trouble getting to his power in game like Justin Smoak or Nomar Mazara... doesn't really have that lightning strike swing like certain other fatties show. e.g. Rowdy Tellez

go blue jays gooseman vs. bellllllllo 1SpringerRF .208 3 10 5 2BichetteSS .328 7 21 1 3Guerrero Jr.1B .317 6 18 2 4VarshoLF .209 4 10 5 5Chapman, M3B .364 5 21 1 6BeltDH .161 1 5 0 7Jansen, DC .177 3 13 0 8Biggio2B .122 2 4 1 9KiermaierCF .277 1 8 2 1Tapia, RRF .233 1 4 1 2YoshidaLF .303 5 21 2 3Turner, JDH .273 2 10 1 4Devers3B .226 10 27 0 5Duran, JaCF .400 2 12 2 6Casas1B .157 3 10 0 7Valdez, E2B .345 1 5 2 8Hernández, KSS .243 3 11 1 9McGuireC .327 0 6 0

OUCH. ouch. he legit f***ing sucks like, he might not be a top ~80 SP

Jack Flaherty against Toronto 5.0 IP no hits, no runs SEVEN f***ing walks four strikeouts lmao so pathetic

Kodai Senga also cannot throw strikes

It looks like service time manipulation but it really can't be or shouldn't be because they are .500 and ostensibly trying to compete. Really just at a loss. I sort of get not handing a job to Matt Mervis, 1B prospects are 1B prospects, but Morel not being on the roster is f***ing insane, he is such a useful player.

pythag W-L is 14-17 so they are getting unlucky but, they just aren't very good. aside from the obvious problems with the pitching staff they are surprisingly unathletic for a Cardinals team. I like to look at DEF and BSR runs combined on Fangraphs to get a good idea of which teams are neglecting the non-hitting side of position players. The bottom ten is kind of a list of the most poorly run organizations in the game, to be honest. STL is not typically negative in this stuff. MIA -7.8 BOS -8.2 CHW -8.3 WSN -8.8 MIN -8.9 CIN -9.3 STL -10 BAL -10.9 OAK -11 PHI -11.8 COL -20.9

Springer has been s*** but I'm not really worried about him. MaxEV and barrel rate are actually better than last year. His timing has been off all season though; his hard hit % is down a lot. If you believe expected stats at all he has been pretty unlucky. His .322 xwOBA is fifth best on the team. Not good by any means but not brutal. xwOBA - wOBA Springer 0.071 (.322 vs .251) Jansen 0.040 Vlad 0.030 Bichette 0.020 Chapman 0.010 Kirk 0.002 Varsho 0.000 Whit -0.012 Kiermaier -0.033

Barriera absolutely shoved

Kiermaier!

Our little groundball meatball coming off the bench All cold and gross what a luxury