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  1. Laika
    Yes and mostly under 30 MLB players who have value in a 30 team league. Depth guys like Mateo, Josiah Gray, Brash, Burke, Hearn, Trevor Stephan...
  2. Laika
    It gets a lot worse than this in the LOD, haha.
  3. Laika
    It's not an amazing team but it has some building blocks. Melendez Pasquantino Miranda Miguel Vargas Francisco Alvarez Burleson Seiya Suzuki Termarr Johnson, Noelvi Marte, Jace Jung, Abel, Priester, Mason Montgomery Pitching side needs a lot of churn that's for sure.
  4. Laika
    ahahahahahahahaaa
  5. Laika
    They should have held him. Why take the chance in that context when the score is 4-1
  6. Laika
    No automatic waivers We will waive players by request, or if a commissioner notices a hot prospect debut But most debuts just end up going through the automatic, two day + 8 PM ET deadline
  7. Laika
    There are a few theories around the "DH penalty." Some of these are: - when you don't play defense you aren't as mentally engaged with the game - when you don't play defense you are physically not staying warm/active - when you aren't on the field playing defense there is vision adjustment because the lightning on the field is different than in the dugout or in the tunnel And then the one you mention. Injured or older players maybe playing half-hurt while DHing.
  8. Laika
    Did you know, the average DH in 2022 hit: .236/.313/.397/.710 That's a worse OPS than 3B, 1B, LF, and RF The bar offensively at DH as not as high as you think. Teams use it very often as a flex position nowadays. Also, there is an offensive penalty that is well documented (it's harder to hit when you don't play defense, for whatever reason).
  9. Laika
    well you look f***ing stupid don't ya?
  10. Laika
    Well, the bat is REALLY good. His CS rate was fine last year: 26% which was one point above league average of 25%. He was also a good framer (+9 runs) and one of the better catchers at blocking pitches (+3 runs). The baserunning will always be horrendous but there is actually less pressure on the bat than you'd think.
  11. Laika
    yes and it was glorious
  12. Laika
    Kikuchi the stopper He looked fantastic!
  13. Laika
    doesn't matter, he's a free agent before then
  14. Laika
    by the way, Moreno is hitting .154/.143/.231 with no walks is that good?
  15. Laika
    Have to think that Lopez would project significantly better at the dish than Kiermaier, against a LHP, though.
  16. Laika
    Mark Shapiro built a 7 billion dollar state of the art training facility just so Kirk, Vlad, and Berrios could hang out at home in Mexico etc. all offseason, get fat, and dye each other's hair.
  17. Laika
    I mean, if it's a huge problem Kirk just DHs more often and Jansen gets the majority of the catching. No sweat.
  18. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Really a different era though. That's like, significantly closer to the Mike Milbury shoe incident than it is to today.
  19. Laika
    If Alex Verdugo is upset then I'd say Manoah should just... keep being the same, lol.
  20. Laika
    don't call him fat though
  21. Laika
    I don't believe them / didn't see it / will still pretend they did nothing
  22. Laika
    If you go back and look at video of some of his good starts in 2021, 2020, he doesn't really pitch up in the zone for whiffs. Mostly you see slurves below the zone for strikeouts. Or fastballs for called or swinging strikes but kind of all over the place - inside, outside, sometimes missing his spots by a foot. It just seems like his pitches have lost some "shape" or some type of nuance like that which is the difference between them being effective vs. consistently hittable. Or, he is tipping pitches.
  23. Laika
    It really has nothing to do with the WBC. He should have been at Driveline or a similar place all December, using sCiEnCe to design a new trick or two.
  24. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Are you saying they will try to hurt Samsonov? That's kind of nuts. No way.
  25. Laika
    Ultimately I blame the front office for not forcing him to hit the lab in the offseason. He 100% should have shown up this year with some new pitches, or new shapes on his existing pitches. Everyone else in baseball is developing sweepers and cutters.
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