Laika

Corbin already worth his contract! Godsend

Yeah part of the issue is their bullpen is horrendous. Don't even know the alternatives. Pomeranz or Brent Suter?

The Kirk injury was quietly catastrophic I mean he is their best player, all things considered.

I dunno dawg. Heineman

Jays just need some puck luck, for once Brutal season so far Just wet blanketing all of the new fan exuberance

It's amazing how inept the Angels are I understand taking a flyer on Jordan Romano but after back to back negative WAR seasons why is he your closer? Dude has a 69 Pitching+ now.

Maybe we pivot to prospect porn for the rest of 2026

Yeah but if he's at second he probably makes the play on the Contreras hit

Are 50 mph groundballs the new market inefficiency?

Lenyn Sosa with the fall down range

Such a dumb sport

Lol Lukes

It's really not a good lineup without Barger and Springer and Kirk Pretty groooooooossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Gotta stick with my boy Nate Lukes

Nathan Lukes is leading off LMAO what the fruck

Some more fodder for the crowd that wants Jeff Hoffman to be the SETUP MAN and Gus Varland's brother to be the CLOSER. Fangraphs shows you various Leverage Index stats under the Win Probability tab. gmLI is the average Leverage Index when the pitcher entered the game. Varland is #1 on the team now. So, considering the season as a whole, Varland has been used at higher leverage than Hoffman. Of course that is tainted by last night, where Varland came in during a MAX LEVERAGE situation that Hoffman made. But still. # Name Team WPA -WPA +WPA RE24 REW pLI inLI gmLI exLI Pulls WPA/LI Clutch SD MD 1 Louis Varland TOR 0.53 -0.87 1.40 5.27 0.55 1.69 1.50 1.98 1.29 8 0.34 -0.02 4 1 2 Jeff Hoffman TOR -1.02 -2.29 1.27 -1.95 -0.20 2.31 1.73 1.73 4.52 2 -0.25 -0.19 2 3 3 Mason Fluharty TOR 0.21 -0.42 0.64 2.62 0.27 1.51 0.98 1.41 1.57 8 0.13 0.01 2 1 4 Braydon Fisher TOR 0.26 -0.32 0.59 2.99 0.31 0.66 0.76 1.23 0.77 5 0.03 0.36 4 2 5 Tyler Rogers TOR 0.47 -0.37 0.85 3.84 0.40 1.42 1.24 1.17 2.09 8 0.40 -0.06 3 0 6 Spencer Miles TOR 0.24 -0.29 0.52 2.48 0.26 0.66 0.61 0.95 0.27 2 0.25 0.11 1 1 7 Tommy Nance TOR -0.27 -0.53 0.26 -4.39 -0.46 0.80 0.61 0.71 1.00 7 -0.14 -0.20 0 1 And yes, exLI is the average LI when exiting the game and yes Hoffman's 4.52 is hilarious right now

I just have this GUT FEELING that the LENYN SOSA BLOCKBUSTER is going to be the TURNING POINT of this entire 2026 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON 💪

I hate it for the players Virtually every player who reaches free agency at 27 or so gets hella paid these days. Even if it's not Vlad/Soto level of mega contracts, it's high AAV crap like Bo got or worthwhile short term money with options like Bellinger Guy like McGonigle already has 3/4 WAR projections and is 21 years old. I guess he is insuring against catastrophic injury more than anything but selling those three future free agent years for like 60 cents on the dollar to do so is kinda GROSS. Limiting his total career earning potential quite a bit. Even a guy becoming a young free agent with big flaws, like Gleyber Torres, is getting $15 to $22M annually these days. Yes it gives him a crack at full free agency at 30 years old but THAT IS WHEN TEAMS START TO HATE YOU. The calculations change wildly if he only sells one free agent year. I would get that.

JoJo parker has a 165 wRC+ in a tiny 41 game sample size in the FSL That is the best qualified mark for any teenager in the league. Blaine Bullard in the same league has 3 homers already and a 137 wRC+. One of the homers was 423 feet. Preseason scouting reports only gave him 40 grade raw power.

Lenyn Sosa gets some early flowers for having a mature debut at bat, and a huge hit.

I don't really care who the CLOSER is but I do think Hoffman has a good personality for it. Short memory. Irrational arrogance.

In between the leadoff walk (bad) and the final batter walk (out of gas) he got two outs, two groundballs that found holes, and Schneider made him walk someone. A lot of baseball randomness in there. This isn't the same guy as last year, serving up meatballs. Poor guy has a .526 BABIP against so far lmao

Reminder that by AAV it's not Bo vs Okamoto It's Bo vs Okamoto + Dylan Cease Lmfao

We are so back Hoffman has been great this season, you're all clowns. He didn't even look that bad for most of this appearance - things just snowballed. Okamoto gets like two more months before changing his position is even a discussion. If they had an elite bench infielder then late inning defensive subbing would make sense, but they don't. Schneider at 2B is a similar liability maybe.

Yeah at least Davis might walk and not STRIKEOUT ON THREE PITCHES WHILE SWINGING AT A BALL AT HIS EYES