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  1. Laika
    Didn't Toronto players want to all sacrifice a bit of money one year so the team could sign Ervin Santana?
  2. Laika
    Hatch, Kay, and Thornton are all arms that other teams probably thought of as rather fungible when trading them to Toronto. Obviously Toronto liked certain elements of all of them and thought they could develop into productive MLB arms and it hasn't really worked out but yeah.... go back a few years and project any of them and you probably would not project or expect any of the three to be much more than they are right now, which is replacement level depth.
  3. Laika
    yeah this is pathetic i would be embarrassed if I were Pujols in particular
  4. Laika
    devil's advocate here Toronto might not be chugging on all cylinders when it comes to retaining the right arms or getting the most out of them IIRC Tepera and Loup both saw performance or peripheral improvements after leaving They sold Dominic Leone and he is good I think Jason Adam always had great stuff, they let him get away Bryan Baker was a Toronto farm hand who only got a cup of coffee here now he has more fWAR for Baltimore than any Jays reliever has right now Joel Payamps would look better on this roster right now than half of the current relievers what the f*** is going on with Pearson and Merryweather what the f*** is going on with Romano's command why could they never make Borucki an even remotely useful RP? why are the depth long men / SP / RP options in AAAA like Hatch and Kay and Francis just crumbling into a nothing soup of uselessness? I am fully aware that you could do a list like this for most organizations, even the good ones
  5. Laika
    I still think COVID and the regulation differences between Canada and the USA have f***ed over Toronto in this regard. If you are a depth SP or a reliever who may not get a guaranteed MLB deal... why would you want to sign with Toronto and have to worry about cross border stuff all season long? Your antivax wife can never come be with you in the City, blah blah blah. Even if it's not a huge concern in fact, most players probably see it as a big deterrent.
  6. Laika
    I think it's true. Cimber actually gets more whiffs than guys like Mayza and Phelps doesn't he? You could express this a different way. Toronto's pen lacks "stuff". The only guys with elite stuff are Romano and the enigmatic Merryweather.
  7. Laika
    Vernon Wells is a great player to promote and own for six+ years. You just don't want him after his physical prime!
  8. Laika
    Yes most of the recent frustration is squarely on the players. Blame I mean.
  9. Laika
    Yeah the core bullpen guys are perfectly "fine" there just isn't enough elite at the backend + the lower end dudes are pretty trash
  10. Laika
    Yeah I honestly don't know what happened here. I must have had a toggle wrong but I can't even reproduce it. Or Fangraphs literally just updated and Casey Lawrence lost like 0.6 fWAR or something edit - oh it flipped back to "All" for me and not just relievers ignore everything I said and ever will say
  11. Laika
    trainer should lose his job
  12. Laika
    FIP is essentially fWAR whiff rate is great but at some sample size K% or K-BB% takes over in importance Tiny sample (one game or less than a game) = pitch shape and velo and spin Small sample (one game or a few games) = plate disc. stats like whiff rate and zone rate Medium sample (weeks / a few months of games) = ERA estimators including the simple K-BB% differential Medium big sample (a season) = other ERA estimators Large sample (many seasons) = ERA
  13. Laika
    Wellllllllll part of it is that the division is stacked. By fWAR Toronto has the 7th best bullpen in the AL. The only non AL East teams with superior pens by fWAR are Detroit (by half a win) and Houston. lmao Yes, by ERA they rank worse but that's not a park adjusted, or luck adjusted, or strength-of-schedule adjusted stat so no sense looking at it By K-BB% Toronto's pen is the 5th best in the AL, including better than BOS and BAL Complaints about the bullpen are mildly overblown. It's not elite but it's not actually a complete disaster.
  14. Laika
    Torture
  15. Laika
    Unwatchable
  16. Laika
    He turned a relatively routine play for most outfielders into a home run He shouldn't smile for a week
  17. Laika
    The 2022 Blue Jays are officially the worst good team in history Horrible viewing experience
  18. Laika
    It would have been like a two star catch Pretty routine unless it's Yordan Alvarez or Manny Ramirez out there
  19. Laika
    Why is he laughing
  20. Laika
    Odds of pulling a groin are probably higher than beating it out lol
  21. Laika
    Man f*** this s*** already
  22. Laika
    Yeah I wouldn't be super interested either. Type of skill set that falls off a cliff if he loses a bit of bat speed. If he has a great 2023 I would definitely not be interested in a big extension If he has a bad or mediocre 2023 I might be interested in a pillow contract extension though!
  23. Laika
    Big foul territory could boost defensive metrics as far as I understand Basically, Chapman in Oakland could make catches in "zones" that don't even exist in other ballparks
  24. Laika
    No clue on this one His UZR/150 is about the same as his past two years (7.5 vs 8.8. vs 6.4 this year) and depicts him as a steady plus 3B but not the +12 run 3B he was when he first entered the league. At this point I would just say it's small sample noise in OAA.
  25. Laika
    holy s*** what a psycho terrible sign for the Red Sox
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