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  1. Laika
    jim, kindly shut the f*** up vlad is unhealthy fat is not fit
  2. Laika
    Top end speed - when he reaches maximum velocity. Vlad probably has poor acceleration and stuff though because he's a blob. That's why he can be 38th percentile or whatever in sprint speed but 5th percentile in BsR.
  3. Laika
    Also fat and slow Really he could set a GIDP record some day He has the talent!
  4. Laika
    One thing to note is that all of those teams tend to have slightly unique approaches to pitching dev. Rays = market inefficiency demons, always hunting undervalued arms or unique arms Guardians = do this weird thing now where they target college pitchers, draft them at good value, and then make them better Yankees and Dodgers = wield their oversized treasuries to buy assets/talent and employ other humans to shape/develop the humans they own Astros = really good at being on the cutting edge of pitching theory. and at cheating. Toronto needs to find a niche....
  5. Laika
    he also slowed down quite a bit while bulking up I think he should try to lose 5 lbs this offseason and be somewhere in between 2021 and 2022 Espinal.
  6. Laika
    They will make JS sweat and use his s***** tactical performance in the final game as leverage to get him to do exactly what they want next year
  7. Laika
    Ross might as well have confirmed him. He literally said "we haven't started the process but I don't think we can do any better than him" I think they are jaded from the Montoyo search/interview process and they will just have Schneider a full year in 2023. Unless a great manager falls into their lap in November or something.
  8. Laika
    This is why I was mad Pearson was getting stretched out this year. And why I was mad years ago that the org let Aaron Sanchez be a s***** starter for so long. There is an art to pulling the plug on SPs and just throwing them into the pen. Sometimes teams hold onto the SP dream for too long...
  9. Laika
    The Jays made the playoffs in 2020 and were close in 2021. The core is getting expensive already. This right here is the payroll Rogers is willing to put out there. Roughly 10th in the league. Don't expect any more. The whole "they'll spend more when it's time" thing already happened; that money is on the books NOW.
  10. Laika
    Like, I'm sorry connor I know you think you have a slam dunk point here but it's probably just absolutely retarded to make big moves for relievers. Historrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy proooooooooooooooooooves it
  11. Laika
    How many bold closer / shutdown RP acquisitions have occurred in Blue Jays history? How many of those have worked out? Santos was a bust. BJ Ryan contract did not work out. Randy Myers was a bust. The only one I can think of that worked out was Duane Ward, who I mostly think of as a developed player but apparently Toronto traded an old buy good Doyle Alexander for him during Ward's rookie year.
  12. Laika
    Yeah that's actually part of it. I guess.
  13. Laika
    But they don't want to.
  14. Laika
    You just don't understand baseball. The SP5 spot is for anguish. There can be no pleasure without pain.
  15. Laika
    Even a washed up Ryu throwing 88 is maybe better in the #5 spot than Mitch White or Yusei Kikuchi.
  16. Laika
    Here is a fun exercise. Double Play Adjusted Batting Average We are pretending to be a Bill James wannabe in the early 1990s and making up dumb stats. For this one we take away a single for every double play a guy hits into. Of course everybody gets worse but the colour shading should help you appreciate who holds up more. Kirk is interesting, you would expect him to be a GDP monster but he is not.
  17. Laika
    Danny Jansen only hit into ONE double play all year. That's an often ignored benefit of being a huge flyball hitter. Biggio - only 2. Chapman - only 7.
  18. Laika
    Goddammit the double plays this year were excruciating. Vlad was #1 for qualified hitters with 26 Bo was #4 with 21 Teoscar was #16 with 18 Toronto was 3rd in baseball behind only Washington and the Rockies. The only other playoff teams in the top 10 were the Mets at 9 and the Yankees at 10, with 122 and 121 double plays. But both of those teams were as to 20th (Detroit, 108) as they were to Toronto's 136.
  19. Laika
    Yeah it would be interesting to see the numbers. Specifically for SPs who were traditional SPs all year and then relieve or long relieve in the playoffs. From my memory alone these guys tend to give up runs a lot. Thinking of Price in the ALDS relieving Dickey... 3 IP 6 H 3 ER
  20. Laika
    It's not "okay". It sucks. It's a bad outcome. A pattern of inexplicable bad outcomes = you are probably missing something. The fact that the WHY can't be easily seen does not mean it is not there. One bad outcome = one bad outcome. It doesn't really mean anything. There is no "so what" to it, at all. It would be asinine to decrease your opinion of the GMs competency because of one inexplicable bad outcome. All GMs have the odd dogshit outcome. The Yankees traded for Joey Gallo and are holding Donaldson and Stanton and Chapman together with duct tape. The Dodgers trusted their due diligence and signed Trevor Bauer. Juan Soto and Josh Hader and Wil Myers and Eric Hosmer suck and every other SP the Padres acquire dies. Jesse Winker is useless and the Ms dealt a lot for him, and Robbie Ray also sucks and is way overpaid.
  21. Laika
    Even for the majority of 2022 the data STILL had no idea why Berrios was bad. I remember Eno Sarris for most of the year talking about how his stuff and location numbers looked mostly the same as all previous years. One of the most bizarre seasons in recent Jays history. There is legitimately a chance he comes back in 2023 and is the old effective workhorse Berrios.
  22. Laika
    I mean I don't think there is anything special about Ross Atkins. If they have a limp dick finish again in 2023 then sure, let Ross amicably leave to pursue new opportunities and get a different kind of guy in that role. But leave most of the front office and staff in place.
  23. Laika
    I had Robbie Ray in there but yeah those other two were THEFTS On balance this front office has been close to excellent. People who want front office changes need to grapple with the total track record. Yes, they are not perfect. Pitching development seems a bit rotten the last few years. There might be something off with the culture and how the front office communicates with and controls the manager(s)... a few of their moves have not worked out or were bad in context. BUT the majority of what they do is gold! Gold! And jesus f***ing christ nobody is allowed to lay a hair on Shapiro until the stadium renos are 100% done..
  24. Laika
    Nah even if they LOVE him the years of control are way too different
  25. Laika
    There is less than no chance Arizona would do that trade
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