Laika
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Their model is pretty dumb on Cobb. He's got to be worth $20M; he's as good as Bassitt.
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Well.... he probably would have accepted the QO to be honest if he believes in himself and had any sense of the market. Because the QO is way better than the deal he just took. So we'd probably have Stripling on 1/$19 instead of Bassitt. I kind of prefer Bassitt on his deal, but it could go either way.
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well the opt-out is very powerful it lets Stripling capture the value of most of his remaining talent upside
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22 batters is not really ropes off. That's twice through + change. I don't remember game specifics but it could be basic one-off things like his pitch count as 60 so they let him ride, or the other team had all RHB at the top of their order. Look at Drew Rasmussen TBF per game. He is kind of the current model of a "twice through the order guy" as handled by the best player handling team in baseball. Many times he faces 22 hitters.
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Not really. They let him face a few more hitters, a few times... but he was stilling getting yanked for the most part after facing 21 or 22 batters.
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I thought it would make sense for them to sign Correa. I guess they still could but I have not seen their team rumoured around any free agent.
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This offseason has been great. Not only is Toronto doing smart things, but the O's and Red Sox look pathetic. I was very mildly worried that Baltimore would spend and become a real pest in 2023 but it doesn't look like they plan on it.
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He had a great year but it was only 134 innings, being guarded against going through lineups more than twice. And his prior two years stank.
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Nice deal. Loved what Stripling did here but the upgrade to a guy of similar per-hitter talent who can eat significant innings in Bassitt is worth the added cost. Last year was painful with no decent #5 SP, Berrios getting yanked early all the time, and Stripling only being a two times through the order pitcher.
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Bellinger was an integral part of my championship. I believe he had a .422 wOBA in the semis against Detroit and homered against Jimbo in the championship week. If I could go back in time I would pay even MORE for him.
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If Kevin Kiermaier can stay healthy and his hip surgery takes five years off his metabolic age…
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I mean he's not the best OF in fantasy baseball but it's hard to ask for more than 6th best Randy is worse in real life because he's not a plus defender, even in LF. That's the big bummer.
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The only thing they do better than most or any other teams is cycle through players aggressively, while properly evaluating them at the major league level. So they will have guys like Seth Brown and Cole Irvin turn into 2 win players out of nowhere. That's a skill. It's not captured by prospect rankings or team projections. Chris Bassitt is one great example. Wasn't Mark Canha a rule 5 pick? Other than that which you might call "Dumpster Diving Skill" I am really not sure what else they do well anymore.
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ah found it seems kind of hocus pocus, not sure how much this stuff matters
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Rays DFA Feyereisen This is literally like the #LoD when you just have too many decent relievers and can't find a trade so you drop someone He had surgery and is out until late summer at the earliest but he also has years of cheap control left and was quite good... would like this guy.
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what changes?
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It seems like William Contreras was the best centrepiece the A's could get, but they didn't want him because they have a couple of catchers in the pipeline. So they called around. Esteury Ruiz is really the lynchpin of the entire trade. I think he's a s***** slap hitter. But he's super divisive. There are people who think he is a blue chip prospect. Ruiz is the Kevin Smith / Brett Lawrie of this deal for Oakland; the major league ready position player who they think can be a two way difference maker. Both of the Chapman and Donaldson trades flopped for Oakland largely on the failings of Lawrie and Smith (Hoglund could still salvage the Chapman deal...) If Ruiz flops, this Murphy trade will probably be awful in hindsight. Obviously the A's also got three live arms, but they all have some warts. Maybe one of the arms turns into a mid rotation SP or a bullpen stud and then the thing looks okay in three years even if Ruiz is replacement level.
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Yeah it could have been a leak from Cards people. Little bit of propaganda before they closed the deal on Contreras.
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is your chronic loneliness/horniness a disability? if so, we are all sorry bro
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)
Laika replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)
Laika replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
well i'd like him NOW if he's going to be one of four -
Imagine Tapia as a hitter But he's an elite CF with a cannon arm. And a better baserunner.
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I'm not sure he has the track record to command a 3 year deal at that money.
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One big difference is that JBJ can no longer hold his own as an MLB hitter. There is a big difference between a 75 wRC+ and a 90 wRC+ In this last two years JBJ was worth negative 52 batting runs. Just hemorrhaging runs. He only contributed +13 runs on defense and baserunning in those years. By comparison, Kiermaier has been almost neutral on batting runs over the last 3 years (minus 3.1 runs) which he more than makes up for by baserunning alone. So in theory he can hit enough to make his defense pure gravy. Statcast also shows that JBJ is cooked. He wasn't even above average by sprint speed in 2022. Kiermaier was 93rd percentile.
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Imagine if Tanner Roark couldn't even eat innings. That's Taijuan Walker.
