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  1. Laika
    Using Bass in the 8th when Pop was evidently available was... sure something. I was hoping they would just go to Pearson in the 10th. Yeah, high risk/reward but with the guy on base there is a chance he just blows everyone away. Espinal is driving me crazy. That's two or three routine grounders he has booted this year. You are on the team for ONE REASON man.
  2. Laika
    DFA Bass Demote Espinal
  3. Laika
    Where is the new whiff talent in the pen coming from? Four places. Yimi Garcia is throwing his FB harder than ever and throwing more breaking pitches than ever. Result, highest whiff rate of his career. Zach Pop, similar story in terms of breaking ball rate. More sliders and more whiffs. Trevor Richards - scrapped the slider. Now 57% changeups, up from 37.5%. His 20.1% whiff rate is wild. Erik Swanson - is on the team. Shows how silly relievers are. You can trade for one good reliever and just tell a couple guys in your pen to throw more sliders and boom, you go from 14th in MLB RP K% rate to 4th. You don't need to spend $60M on some 31 year old free agent closer.
  4. Laika
    Bassitt seems to have righted the ship. Kikuchi and Berrios have been surprisingly good. Cimber was bad but he got DL'd. That means the only ostensible issue on the pitching staff right now is... Alek Manoah! pressure is for tires!
  5. Laika
    AAA pitcher so giving the AAA hitters a shot here
  6. Laika
    Home runs an issue in AAA? Enjoy debuting in Toronto haha
  7. Laika
    It's not a scumbag move though Fully within their rights
  8. Laika
    why?
  9. Laika
    I can't find anything right now. Eno Sarris talks about it from time to time on his podcasts. The buzzword is "pressing" - there is some type of evidence that players tend to press when joining new teams after trades or big contracts. But, it's a tough thing to google or search
  10. Laika
    They probably wanted Kirk for Alek Thomas and Toronto wasn't interested in Thomas.
  11. Laika
    Lots of players struggle when joining new teams. It's a well documented thing. He does seem to have issues with velocity and premium stuff, though. Bit like Biggio
  12. Laika

    NHL Thread

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    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Goal called back in Boston game for a hand pass One of the worst calls I've ever seen
  14. Laika
    Manoah really has poor command. Sigh.
  15. Laika
    The most surprising teams in baseball: Padres 13-14 minus 20 run diff --> playing like s*** Dodgers 13-13 plus 9 run diff --> SURPRISINGLY MEDIOCRE Pittsburgh 18-8 plus 35 run diff --> LMAO WHAT Cardinals 10-16 minus 5 run diff --> bad luck + surprisingly mediocre The AL Central sucks but nothing too shocking there. The AL West is a dogfight. That's fun to see, actually. Four decent teams. The AL East is f***ing insane, of course. Ugh.
  16. Laika
    Very few teams slow play pitching prospects these days
  17. Laika
    everybody is at least 1% gay and Kevin Kiermaier is that 1%
  18. Laika
    I took over a BBDL in an act of charity and it happens to be the #1 team in the league Not only do I have Shohei Ohtani but I have tons of other fun players like the resurgent Yusei Kikuchi, the intrepid Zac Gallen, and the electric Sandy Alcantara. Also Jackson Holliday who is the best prospect in the world. And one guy I have always loved and supported no matter what, Jarred Kelenic, and it just warms my heart to see him slugging like this.
  19. Laika
    Even just getting Zach Pop with the 12th overall pick might be an okay result. I don't remember the numbers but I would guess that the 12th draft spot probably only has an expected WAR to the drafting team of like... 5 WAR? I think a pick in that range probably has a 70% bust rate. The average WAR is inflated because some of the players who make it are exceptional. So any type of useful MLB player will be above the most common result.
  20. Laika
    That's just you doing mental gymnastics to be sad about something. Brownie said the Groshans trade for Pop and Bass was a huge win. It probably was, considering Groshans as a prospect in the context of that trade. The 2018 draft is not relevant anymore. If the Jays had a time machine they'd go back and draft Shane McClanahan.
  21. Laika
    Yeah Bass was fantastic last year and perfectly cromulent for a few season before that so it would be rough (stupid) to give up on him after 8 innings. As sad as it would be, it would be better to just make Pop or Pearson chew glass in Buffalo... at least until Bass has produced a bigger sample size of suck. The bullpen is honestly sort of stacked. Like, I am comfortable with almost every reliever, in most situations. Ignoring Cimber who is hurt, every active RP other than Bass has a pretty solid K-BB right now. Trevor Richards has a great ratio; his K-BB peers at the moment are Bednar, Bryan Abreu, Jhoan Duran, Paul Sewald, Josh Hader...
  22. Laika
    Loss Win coin-flip slug fest, edge Toronto
  23. Laika
    Yeah I think they'll cut Bass, or make the unpopular choice to option Pop or Pearson. No chance they let White go. SP depth is way too thin. Tiedemann - the exciting good option Bowden Francis - decent option Zulu - can't throw strikes Thompson - horrible Robberse - too green Hatch - is relieving now Hutchison - lol Ryu - who knows You'd probably slot Juenger as a 2-3 inning "SP" third on this list.
  24. Laika
    I'll respect them if they sweep the Rays!
  25. Laika
    Shutdowns and Meltdowns on Fangraphs assess that
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