Laika

I think more accurately the bear case is see Brendan Rodgers. Veen may not have a good enough hit tool to become an elite MLB hitter. He might end up being just okay.

is a Rockie

nope

jaysblue thinks the Rays are a better playoff roster/team than Toronto and I cannot understand it. Their offense is mediocre AT BEST and they also are not a good defensive team.

selling him at rock bottom would PROBABLY be dumb

Watch Bo ask for a trade in the offseason

WOW Bo down to 7th Bichette getting bodied by Papa Schneider

Will give you the first 4 but not sure about the rest. Cleveland has a vulnerable rotation, it's more good 1-5 than great anywhere; even Bieber is not really an Ace anymore and Toronto probably has better bats. Mariners have two rookies in there and Castillo and Ray are both kind of enigmatic (and Ray is a HR machine) and again edge Toronto on the position side. If the Rays don't have Baz and Glasnow in their rotation then it's no better than Toronto's and their position side is worse IMO.

wow he still has Orelvis so high!

Yeah it's 2022. For all we know Pop could change his training program and come back next year throwing HARDER.

His slider rates well on fancy metrics, just can't control it. I could see him harnessing that one offseason and becoming a very different reliever.

lollll

turns out he could stick after all

I forgot about Dustin May lol his rehab numbers in AAA are nutty I guess he figured out how to strike people out

I dunno man, the Jays have a 1-2 SP punch that competes with any team. They also have a top 5 or 6 offense / position player group if you zoom out and look at the proper information. The bullpen is now perfectly cromulent. And if Stripling is healthy they can at least roll out an SP3 and SP4 in the playoffs who might not suck. Like they can have White in reserve and yank Berrios if he does not look good, to stay in a game... I doubt they are a bottom third team in the playoffs. With a top tier 1-2 SP punch and a good position core, they get *most* of the way there. If Kershaw is not healthy the Dodgers roll into the playoffs with Tyler Anderson, Julio Urias, and Tony Gonsolin. It doesn't exactly strike fear into you. Edit and Dustin May I guess oops. Like if Jose Berrios was having a normal Berrios season Toronto would look as good on paper, even right now, as most of these playoff teams and better than basically all of the wild card hopefuls in both leagues. This is all basically to say that there are not seven playoff teams with better rosters than Toronto all things considered. There are a handful, but that number is not 7.

The offense has been very bad in August (91 wRC+ and 27th in MLB in runs scored) But they were nearly the best in baseball the two weeks prior (136 wRC+) and on the season they are the 5th or 6th best offense. On the pitching side they are 17th in fWAR on the year. I don't buy that there are fundamental problems with the offense, at all. Certain players are slumping very recently - it's disappointing at this point in the season but also normal. The frustrating truth is that some of these other teams are better than we thought. The pitchers Toronto has been facing are not zeros. There are actually no zeros on the other side this month - the opposing SP ranges from helpful to very good. And Toronto has been throwing out 2 good pitchers (Gausman and Manoah) one unknown without length (White) a zero (Berrios) and a pitcher who actively loses you the game every time (Kikuchi). It creates a tough environment for confidence when one of your pitchers is a guaranteed loss, another one is an enigmatic probable loss, and a third is an unknown import with just okay stuff who looks like more a swingman. On the other side of the field, a guy like Kyle Bradish, Jordan Lyles, Cal Quantrill, Triston McKenzie, would probably all be Toronto's SP3 at the moment and give the team more reliable and consistent chances to win. Bradish has a bloated ERA but we all saw his breaking ball the last two starts and his MiLB numbers are great. Just a tough spot. The rotation is a f***ing mess. Berrios is the lynchpin problem. This is August: Gausman vs Rasmussen Kikuchi vs Beeks + Yarbrough Manoah vs Gray Berrios vs Mahle White vs Bundy Gausman vs Archer Kikuchi vs Lyles Manoah vs Bradish Berrios vs Quantrill White vs McKenzie Gausman vs Bieber Kikuchi vs Bradish On the season: Kikuchi -0.8 fWAR Berrios 0.0 fWAR Bradish 0.2 fWAR but a 3.99 xFIP Archer 0.6 fWAR Beeks + Yarbrough 0.8 fWAR combined Bundy 1.0 fWAR Quantrill 1.1 fWAR McKenzie 1.6 fWAR Gray 1.6 fWAR Lyles 1.8 fWAR Rasmussen 1.8 fWAR Mahle 2.1 fWAR Bieber 3.5 fWAR

uh huh of course

so they will get 1 run here right

I quit

what the f*** was that

sure fine

right but I'm assuming you can just drive a bit inland and be snowboarding with a snow cone

Meant to say Denver too. Maybe Seattle. Basically just need an MLB team and an NHL team and some snow and then most importantly not a dump like Detroit or St Louis

I am too Canadian so if I had to move to the states I'd probably land in Boston or Chicago.

The Rangers have actually received a handful of OVERPERFORMANCES and they still sucked. Who expected Martin Perez, Jon Gray, Brock Burke, Nate Lowe, Adolis Garcia, Jonah Heim, Matt Moore, Leody Taveras to all be pretty good to very good? Very little went horribly wrong for them this year. Semien was not great but not horrendous.