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  1. Laika
    Maybe they'll win 10-7 or something ahah Canada always f***ing sucks
  2. Laika
    The worst pitching performance I have ever seen by anybody, ever, in any sport.
  3. Laika
    Omfg Canada
  4. Laika
    They would have paid basically that for any catchers over the next eight years. If they commit it to Ruiz at least they've locked in a guy with upside and bought two free agent years or three
  5. Laika
    Actually a bad deal for Ruiz? 1.7 war last year and a 2 war projection...
  6. Laika
    Thornton is a weird one If I had to diagnose his issues by looking at these new models I would guess that his fastball command is just not quite good enough. Which is weird because he has not had gross walk rates in his career. But with good location numbers on his slider and good stuff on his fastball and slider, the poor location on the fastball is the only shortcoming. But it makes sense. Fringe command of your fastball is a tough foundation. Miss your spot too often and you will get hammered in general. Another component might be that the models are trained on what has been successful historically, but the game is evolving. So Thornton's high spin 4 seamer up in the zone may have been amazing for him for a few years ago but by now it's kind of old hat and more and more hitters are trained at how to hit those pitches. Maybe he should become one of those guys who is 25% fastballs, 75% offspeed.
  7. Laika
    does pitchingBot use a 20-80 scale rather than centering on 100?
  8. Laika
    Stuff+ / Location+ / Pitching+ are now on Fangraphs! Pitching Leaderboards --> Pitch Modeling You can even see it per pitch amazing
  9. Laika
    I'm not sure they used him in exactly a modern/scientific way in 2022 How many 19 year old pitchers, drafted the prior year out of high school, are routinely throwing 6+ innings and 90+ pitches? Towards the end of 2022 Painter was routinely going 80+ pitches, with 90+ a couple of times. The Phillies picked Mick Abel 15th in 2020. In 2021 he threw less than 50 innings, all at one level. Never threw 6 innings, never threw 80 pitches. The Phils basically skipped an entire year with Painter. They had him and Abel, a year older, doing the same basic workload. For comparison the Jays capped Tiedemann at 5 innings and in August they kind of shut him down, partially, and he finished the year with a few 3 inning outings.
  10. Laika
    seems like a stupid plan ooof surgery today and he might be good to go in May 2024 try to nurse it for a couple of months though and the end result might be 2023 and 2024 completely lost
  11. Laika
    the games don't matter right now
  12. Laika
    Italy has a decent roster I guess. Pasquantino, Frelick, Nicky Lopez, David Fletcher, a few other AAAA quality bats, Matt Harvey, Pallante + Festa + Nitolli in relief. Not surprising that they could beat a team that was trotting the remains of Yoenis Cespedes out in LF and cleanup.
  13. Laika
    Did the Eagles practice there? If not, then a Phillies player in one year would have been on the turf more than most Eagles players in their careers
  14. Laika
    It's just MLB trying out a more detailed classification I guess
  15. Laika
    Duran casually throwing 103 in spring
  16. Laika
    You mean THE Barry Davis, of Bolton Honda fame?
  17. Laika
    Iconic moments that belong on the immersive multimedia wall of Blue Jays history: - Bautista homer - John McDonald father's day homer - Brett Lawrie helmet slam - Brett Lawrie Yankee stadium railing injury and crying face
  18. Laika
    I'm not sure. - Lukes has options. Lopez has an option. Horwitz has options. Barger has options. - Bernard is RHB so he might complement the OF better than Lukes or Horwitz, since there are two LHB starters - Bernard was primarily a CF in AAA recently, maybe he is okay defensively? - by projections, there is not an obvious offensive gap between any of Lopez, Lukes, or Bernard. - as a veteran NRI they might have a deal with Bernard that they will cut him loose if he does not make the team. I mean he probably never plays a game as a Blue Jay but I could see a path to him being the final bench player out of spring.
  19. Laika
    Wynton Bernard is another candidate to get the final 40 man spot, maybe even an MLB roster spot...
  20. Laika
    The depth pitchers who may need to be added if they want to keep them around are: Jackson, Bard, Junior Fernandez, Hutch, Lawrence
  21. Laika
    Probably depends on the injury If they need a guy for a start or two they won't use Tiedemann or Zulueta But if it's to a replace a guy for a while, maybe they do just go straight to Teeds
  22. Laika
    10 wasted bullets
  23. Laika
    Oh he's definitely ready At worst he's some decent version of Robbie Ray
  24. Laika
    Mr. Tiedemann had a tidy inning there, including a silly strikeout from Rodolfo Castro (who is a decent hitter).
  25. Laika
    LOL I dunno, man Kikuchi had been given all the soft treatment to that point
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