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  1. Laika
    Cut an arm and add Biggio for sure Kikuchi is not there for me. Him or Pop get snipped.
  2. Laika
    Will be kind of fun to see the lineups today. Hopefully they just make White and Kikuchi and the 29th man (Lawrence?) eat like 15 of the 18 innings regardless of pitch count. f*** they could piggy back White and Kikuchi for all 9 in game 1 and then just let Casey Lawrence throw a 200 pitch complete game in game 2. Why not? If there are a few RP who want or need work get them in there. Spring Training style. I would expect the regulars who DO get some playing time today to just go through the motions. Go up there and swing three times, either get a hit or strikeout. Confident in a sweep today
  3. Laika
    I think he jumped down in case the ball landed just shy of the stands
  4. Laika
    I think it's just command. If you look at RP samples from the last few years with 10+ IP and then sort by K% and eyeball for RPs who have had TONS of Ks but posted poor ERA and FIPs (read: got hammered while getting tons of Ks).... you don't get many but you see guys like Ray Black, Zac Rosscup, this s***** version of Craig Kimbrel... And his Stuff+ numbers support this 104.8 stuff+ and 94.3 command+ Compares to guys like Jordan Holloway, Matt Barnes, Jared Solomon, Gregory Soto, Yoan Lopez, Tyler Matzek, Andrew Wantz, Michael Fulmer, Jovani Moran, Corey Knebel There is no longer much reason to believe he can be a good starting pitcher. But there remains some reasons to believe he could even out into a pretty good reliever. Some of those reliever names are actually solid enough to help a good team.
  5. Laika
    O'Neill will have better projections for 2023. That's probably the most important thing. If you aren't going for it in the next year or two then maybe Thomas. Detmers is also just a straight SP upgrade on Manning IMO so that works too haha.
  6. Laika
    Yeah there are no throwaway games in the WCS Even if you go down 8 runs you don't throw in the towel and use your worst pitcher In the longer series you can punt a game if you are getting pummeled. Or take a mild risk and use your worst P if you are up huge.
  7. Laika
    Hard to imagine him getting any important innings. To be honest I was thinking he would not even be on the roster until I saw these numbers.
  8. Laika
    No. His stuff is not that great. Looks like he has some command. His MiLB K numbers might have been buoyed by good command. I would not buy him in dynasty. Still likely overvalued because of prospect pedigree.
  9. Laika
    wtf is this true 2.26 xFIP lmfao Even if you look at K-BB% he is 11th in that sample Toronto should just make him a reliever next year. Forget starting.
  10. Laika
    Only in baseball would they permit irregularly shaped fields but then try to standardize the humidity of the object of the sport
  11. Laika
    Dylan Moore probably plays more than Haggerty I would guess that Taylor Trammell would replace him on the roster?
  12. Laika
    He should. Any lineup configuration that does not have Kirk and Jansen in there is a huge mistake.
  13. Laika
    Maybe you're right. Espinal has not been out as long as I thought... Funny enough, Whit has barely played LF in his career. He's been in CF and RF more.
  14. Laika
    Yeah he's on the roster if ready but not under consideration to start against Ray, is what I mean.
  15. Laika
    At this point it seems like the are going with Tapia. He has started every game in LF for a week now. You'd think if Whit or Biggio were going to be involved in that way they would have been doing that... instead Biggio just has the two 1B starts and Whit has been full time 2B. Against Robbie Ray Option 1 Tapia LF Whit 2B Option 2 Whit LF Espinal 2B I don't think Option 2 offers anything more offensively and it might be a downgrade since Espinal is so slow and just a boring contact bat who has been bad for months. Actually I think it's a downgrade offensively. Is it a slight upgrade on defense? Maybe but with Espinal coming back from injury he won't be sharp.
  16. Laika
    A short series CAN be about tactics but most of the time they aren't and they are decided by who outslugs the other team or shuts the other team down. So while a player like Haggerty CAN make a big difference it's not like he is likely to matter much at all. In most simulations he plays sparingly and has no impact. Everyone is both correct and wrong.
  17. Laika
    The Espinal and Gurriel injury timelines are pretty awful I'm not sure I would be starting Gurriel in the WC round at all, even against a LHP (Ray). And Espinal might not even play for me. He's certainly not starting in the WC round and it's not obvious who he would even pinch hit for. He's probably just injury infield coverage. Or a last resort pinch runner in a weird game if the other bench pieces have all been used.
  18. Laika
    banged early
  19. Laika
    Nah there are certain players who are 100% healthy and it's probably best for them to get their regular action.
  20. Laika
    I think they absolutely do this. In the last two days we will see this lineup: Zimmer RF Bradley Jr . CF Tapia LF Moreno C Biggio 1B Lopez SS Merrifield 2B a pylon at 3B a volunteer at DH Nobody available to pitch other than White, Kikuchi, and a couple relievers who need work
  21. Laika
    Have there been any good clips of how close he was? From the live video it looked like inches or a foot at the most.
  22. Laika
    omg that's a nightmare
  23. Laika
    Haggerty has 1.3 WAR in only 82 games / 197 PA this year From the game to PA ratio it seems like he's a common defensive replacement and pinch runner I think Dylan Moore and Frazier kind of platoon on the infield So the main effect of no Haggerty would be one less pinch runner for them but more importantly you might see both Winker and Haniger in the OF in the late innings with the M's winning. Pretty bad defense in late/close situations.
  24. Laika
    At least post his wRC+ for f***s sake 106 110 166 130
  25. Laika
    Kind of a chill end to the season. The final series has significance but doesn’t reallllllly matter enough to mess with the rotation or tire out the big dudes. So you set up the rotation for R1 and give the core bats 1.5 days off each. Whatever happens happens but hard to see the Ms catching us and even if they do as term said they might have to ride their horses into the dirt to do it
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