Laika

Schwarber 27 dongs already. Could hit 50?

Mullins - star Rutschman - future star Santander, Hays, Mountcastle, Mancini - four solid bats Pitching - surprisingly decent

*heart

Didn't he have a heart issue? I wonder if he is having a mental breakdown or something Dude is walking away from $77M

Any catcher trade would be a significant move Nobody gets Danny Jansen for peanuts!

No matter how you depict the problems and characterize the situation, it's clear that Toronto is at a bit of a crossroads. Approaching some major decision points. And it's not at all obvious what they will or can do. - Coaching changes? - Kikuchi role change, DFA, phantom injury? - Big lineup changes for guys like Biggio and Bo? - Trade a catcher? - Trade for relief? SP? - Trade for a LHB? Do they push more minors chips in with big deals this deadline, like they did with Berrios? Or is it smaller stuff?

Yeah good one, he has big buzz

I don't know anything about him but that far down the projections systems... I would just use them as a flag really. I would not place a ton of value on how good they think he is, but that's interesting nonetheless.

Carroll could be that good. His tool set compares with some of those players. Marco Luciano Jordan Walker Marcelo Meyer Gunnar Henderson Noelvi Marte Pete Crow Armstrong Those are six other names to watch, who could debut in the next couple years. Bottom 2-4 might not have the tools to be comparable to the names you listed though.

I guess, but there are a few years left for him to develop. I'd like to see his approach change. It's possible. In my head, he wasn't this wild last season.

Bo takes some of the worst swings imaginable. Balls three feet off the plate in the dirt.

Toronto is 4th in wRC+ behind only the Astros, Yankees, and Dodgers. And that is despite some specific players underperforming. Their offensive approach is fine generally speaking!

You could see it on his face He is doing everything he can with the media to tell the front office to fix the problem Insane to see from Chuckles

Shut up john

This is horrible How can they possibly give Kikuchi another start?

Holy f*** Kikuchi is hopeless

This is pretty dumb. You have some valid complaints about the current roster construction / organizational depth but you are taking them way too far. Deep breaths.

It's fine to say that Baltimore's FO shows promise but it's wayyyyy to early to say they are better than Toronto's, all things considered.

Baltimore does not have a better FO, that's nuts. 1) it's much easier to pull pitching out of a hat when you have nothing on the line at the MLB level. You can just run shitbags out there with complete disregard for their projections or likely outcomes, just because you like one specific thing they do. 2) their park factors are dramatic this year for suppressing runs; some of their pitching is a mirage right now.

Watching Winckowski nuke AAA and hold his own in a Red Sox uniform hurts a lot. This is a guy that must of us identified as a legit sleeper back in 2018...

In fact could the 4 years of control not be seen as a liability? Does anyone really want his age 37 season?

I bet they just gave him away. He is 21 and was in the complex league, doing poorly. Maybe Atlanta wanted an organizational guy just to fill a position for complex games. "hey, do you guys have any infielders down here who you are about the cut? we need a guy who to stand in for the rest of the year..."

As everyone has pointed out, the years of control don't really matter because you don't really control these stars in the NBA anyway. I dunno. He's old as f*** and has massive injuries in his record. This is a weirdly proportioned geriatric player whose achilles could explode getting out of bed.

Definitely this has been a pretty awful year as far as fan enjoyment goes. Which is a bit weird I guess because the record is fine. It's just expectations not being met. Bullpen - awful Romano - declined Merryweather and Pearson - disappointing and dead Almost everyone else - either sucks or is boring and not showing much potential Rotation - annoying Kikuchi - worse than awful Ryu - awful now done Berrios - awful, mysteriously awful Stripling - nice performance but not a huge factor Gausman - awesome but he is f***in 6 and 6 so his games have had a lot of annoying losses Manoah - awesome Bats - annoying Chapman - underperforming expectations and projections Bichette - underperforming expectations and projections Vlad - underperforming expectations and projections Teoscar - underperforming expectations and projections Jansen - missed entire season basically Tapia and Zimmer - just horrendous to watch Springer - treading water, playing time and DH stuff is constantly annoying though. Gurriel - whatever. decent performance but annoying lack of pop. Espinal - nice performance, but not an impact player Biggio - nice bounce back, but not an impact player Moreno - swings a pool noodle Kirk - awesome

Mild sexism and racism about Kim Ng. 24 hours timeout.