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  1. Laika
    Well they just fire him if he sucks. The term is irrelevant really. His salary is probably inconsequential.
  2. Laika
    he underperforms at everything he does runs funny bad routes bad jumps bad swings game power < raw power it's remarkable really
  3. Laika
    But Varsho has physical tools Was a highly touted prospect And was just as good in 2021 7 WAR in 1000 career PA for Varsho he's real! look, Daulton Varsho is a sick player. How many catchers slash centrefielders have there EVER been? He's a dual threat, five tool dude. Well, four tool dude... not sure if the hit tool is amazing. The K rate is fine but getting close to concerning. The AVG is low. So maybe a fringe average hit tool. Which is all to say that I would be shocked if Arizona would even consider the swap believe it or not. They probably LOVE Varsho and consider him a bit of a unicorn. He would be like, Bo Bichette for them.
  4. Laika
    Tapia out-WAR'd Castellanos and Gurriel in 2020, lol The Rocket played like a 2 win player in 2020 and close to a 1 win player in 2021 I don't know what your definition of "awful" is but he looked like an above replacement level guy, at the least. Plenty of contending teams end up giving playing time to dudes who are somewhere between replacement level and average. People need to leave Tapia alone. He did not flourish here but he also did not sink the team, and his acquisition was not a blunder by the front office. Yeah, they misused him at times.
  5. Laika
    Yeah it can't be the bat. No pine tar, too clean.
  6. Laika
    It might not be that high on the spectrum once the strike zone is automated. The era of the stone handed catcher
  7. Laika
    The amount of young pitching they have coming through is kind of nuts. Ryne Nelson Drey Jameson Brandon Pfaadt Blake Walston Slade Cecconi Tommy Henry Matt Tabor Bryce Jarvis I swear they will get one front end starter and multiple solid MLB SPs out of that collection. They have pitching to spare I think. And they have SP1 and SP3 already locked in for a couple of years. And SP5 I guess if you want to be nice to Bumgarner... Gallen - 3 years control Kelly - 2 years control
  8. Laika
    I dunno, Varsho is good
  9. Laika
    Urquidy is bizarre. 3 years of control and good stuff. It's possible he is pretty good and FIP / Fangraphs just don't show it well. 107.6 stuff+ 104.5 command+ = 106.5 pitching+ The SP above and below him in stuff+ with at least 1300 pitches are: Trevor Rogers Michael Kopech Freddy Peralta Marcus Stroman (Urquidy) Max Scherzer Roansy Contreras Adam Wainwright Frankie Montas
  10. Laika
    Abreu has ascended. Can't see Astros doing this. In reality Toronto will probably trade Jansen for Urquidy + roster filler and the Ross Atkins apologists will squint and fart really hard and find a way to justify it.
  11. Laika
    I think if Bellinger stays with the Dodgers he'll be a strict platoon player hitting 9th and he will suck again. He might even end up worse than a platoon player if he stays with LA in 2023. I could see him starting out in a strict platoon and then even losing that job at times... If he gets a change of scenery he might be a full time player who hits 6th in lineup. And who knows maybe a different voice in his ear would help SOMETHING.
  12. Laika
    You guys are overcorrecting on Syndergaard by the way. He's boring but young enough that one more year removed from his surgeries could mean an uptick in velocity. And a 3.80 FIP in 2022 is a good enough starting point.
  13. Laika
    Bellinger was still worth money in 12 and 15 team leagues, in basic 5x5 and points setups. Nuked AVG but he did go 19/14
  14. Laika
    If he has good bats but mostly young pitching like that then I would say definitely lean for boring veterans like Syndergaard as keepers, over lottery tickets. He can hunt for pop up impact pitching on the waiver wire during the season.
  15. Laika
    Gurriel's power did not go away because of physical decline. He changed his approach. That matters for trade value. He's probably not worth much sure but somewhere there is a hitting coach who thinks they can make him a .300/.350 hitter with power. I would not just dump Gurriel. That makes no sense. He's a useful player... just maybe not a guy who needs 100% playing time in LF.
  16. Laika
    Yeah I would be boring here and just go Syndergaard, Singer, Detmers. Sixto had another shoulder procedure last month. Guys like Anderson/Bello/Pearson are replacement level now in a shallow league like that. Your brother probably has lots of work to do
  17. Laika
    Now now. Let's not be so quick to throw away our institutions.
  18. Laika
    1. I think most people know this and it was even stated recently by others 2. Yeah the posters who think Toronto can trade Gurriel for much of anything are kind of out to lunch. They could trade him for a SP but it would be a #5 type with 1 year of control, probably. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. Also, they were 27th maybe by some of the fancy stats but they were also #1 in outfield shifting. This creates a weird dynamic because good positioning can actually hurt a player's metrics, sometimes, given how catch rates are figured out with some of the stats. Just mentioning this. But yeah the outfield defense is not great obviously - Tapia sucked, Springer is just a competent CF at best, Gurriel is a statue, Teoscar sucks.
  19. Laika
    Yeah for sure. I bet he will be AWESOME in 2024 and the Padres will miss the playoffs, lol.
  20. Laika
    Man who would have considered that desperately trading for an enigmatic 1B with a career 116 wRC+ may not work out great.
  21. Laika
    Soto .349 wOBA for SDP in the season (bad by his standards) .226/.294/.258 in the playoffs. SOTO + BELL for ABRAMS, GORE, HASSELL, VOIT, JAMES WOOD, and JARLIN SUSANA Maybe this has a chance to go down as one of the worst trades in MLB history? Imagine if WSH gets two stars out of it and Soto is a flop.
  22. Laika
    At least they were smart enough to recognize that Civale had nothing? The plan can't have been for him to barely pitch...
  23. Laika
    why the f*** would Cleveland start Civale?
  24. Laika
    I guess he might prefer the more cautious approach which is to not try for significant contribution in 2023 and then do a pillow contract somewhere in 2024 after a normal offseason
  25. Laika
    He made a bad first impression but he did have a good FIP with Toronto, and a good FIP on the season in 99 innings. Should be a good #6 SP. And the #6 on Toronto will basically be the #5 because Kikuchi is useless. Manoah/Gausman Berrios <------- Ideally they add someone who is a capable SP3 to slot above Berrios. Could even be Stripling coming back... Kikuchi/White Ryu (second half) Zulueta, Tiedemann (maybe) <------- they also need better MiLB depth this year. Hatch and Kay, Lawrence and Pearson, those guys aren't going to cut it. I think other than Zulu and Tiedemann the arms who are close enough to maybe help in 2023 are all bullpen prospects.
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