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It's also clever marketing to potential draftees to do this midseason pitching lab checkup thing. It just makes the organization look advanced to outsiders, lol.

Only on the 2022 Blue Jays Message Board would a 32.5 year baseball player sucking lead to this statement: "You do know that medicines, vaccines and medical treatments aren't one size fits all. Anyone with brains would know that." Common sense torn out of brains, replaced with shriveled indignancy.

It sucks. He looked so good in the first couple of months. Came in all jacked up, smoking baseballs, looking like a 15 HR infielder all of a sudden. Turns out he just made himself slower and he's a hacker now, with a barely noticeable uptick in power. Sigh. Anyone else notice all year that he runs funny now? Very unnatural, like his legs are too stiff or heavy.

The vaccines are fake anyway. Just sugar water with some toxins so you feel bad and think it's working. smh

Santiago Espinal is now playing worse than he did last year, in almost every way. So much for the new Espinal...

I mean he's also 32.5, well into his physical decline and at an age when most MLB players stop being productive. And has not been particularly good since 2018, save for a bounce in 2020. It's probably extremely hard for lots of players to ever admit that their skills have eroded. Year to year, there is always some other reason that they couldn't play well - some injury, some distraction. Some players probably never admit it and just end up... not employed anymore so they retire.

More on this, Yankees have the 8th hardest strength of schedule remaining while the Blue Jays are 12th. So not a huge difference. Fangraphs PROJECTS Toronto to win 32 games rest of season and the Yankees to win 31. So they only project to pick up 1 game. That's why they need to streak hard, and/or hope the Yankees scuffle, and/or dummy the Yanks head to head.

7 games left against the Yankees. It is possible to catch them but they probably have to go like 6-1 head to head. Other than NYY, Toronto's remaining schedule is not that scary. 9 against TB is not easy but that's more than offset by having so many games against bad and mediocre teams. 13 against Baltimore, they play the Cubs, Angels, Rangers, Pirates, the sad Red Sox... The Yankees schedule is a bit tougher. Mariners, Mets, Brewers, Cardinals, Twins, and also the Rays for 9. It would be nice to see the Yankees scuffle in the next week against the Cards and M's.

Workhorse I wonder what the career record is for hit batters..Manoah is going to break like 19 hands and 50 fingers in his career.

That's not a good thing. Twins pen good

That's not a good thing. Twins pen good

How are they missing some of these fastballs lol

Lol yeah I don't see the point in keeping the header after like 1 year of service time

You were sexist and when confronted you layered on racism. Look, if a short timeout bugs you that much that's a you problem. Good luck in life.

I was just going to say this Same issue we Vlad Some of it is probably the ball. Oppo flyballs are outs a lot more often this year vs 2021.

Zimmer is definitely more useful than Collins. You can use Zimmer a little bit here and there. But Toronto has like ONE player you might ever pinch hit for with Collins (Espinal) and even then it's so specific because Espinal is a better contact hitter against even RHP I bet.

Sonny Gray has DECLINED Whitey Merryweather can still RUN Bo Bichette is FALLING LIKE A STONE GO BLUE JAYS

happens on all forums people lose interest, leave, literally die, etc.

There are almost no regulars who have left because of this. I might even say there are zero. Remember, Twisted Logic was gone for like a year before returning fairly recently. I think his contribution problems are personal to him. Some people take a banning event as like a personal wake up call. "why the f*** was I posting on that dumb f***ing message board all the time anyway???" Boxcar was a spaz before we changed any rules

temper tantrum because he got a 24 hour timeout?

who bailed?

nah their prospect stuff is amazing now it competes with or exceeds any other publication is it perfect? no of course not

No I mostly agree with you. It's not as important as the media says. There are different ways to pitch well... SWSTR is great if it helps you have better K-BB results but there are other ways to get there, like called strikes or limiting walks or generating foul balls (there are pitches that are good at getting foul balls but not great at getting whiffs). Also non K-BB factors like ground ball rate. And of course some pitchers with high whiff rates also have high BB rates which becomes counterproductive at a point. Like, Toronto pen ranks higher in called strike rate so their CSW% is better than their SWSTR%. Toronto pen is also good at limiting hits on balls in play, I wonder if that is defense related or maybe a bit of it is due to having funko pitchers like Cimber

just 1 day timeouts for refusing to stop posting about vaxx / covid s***

I think that's a bit of a data presentation issue the difference between 10.2% and 13.3% is actually 30.4%. As in, team B is 30.4% better than team A. You wouldn't really expect teams to be like, TWICE AS GOOD at a granular skill that literally everybody chases and values, right? That doesn't track with most of the other stuff in baseball; you don't see teams with .250 OBPs and teams with .400 OBPs, it's more like .280 to .330. You actually see these types of issues all the time in medical statistics that the general public has trouble wrapping their heads around. Like you'll see "QOVID20 kills 0.1% of infected men and 0.5% of infected women" or something like that. People on Facebook will say "women are only 0.4% more likely to die than men, QOVID20 does not discriminate, don't be scared ladies!" and it's like, no, you are FIVE TIMES as likely to die as men! You should be scared. On the team level, three extra whiffs per 100 pitches is a lot, over the course of a whole season. Even think anecdotally, imaging it's one pitcher throwing a 100 pitch outing... three extra whiffs could mean one extra strikeout and two less balls in play. Could be a big deal even in that one start. Would be meaningful for sure across many starts.