Laika

Funny how in the last two weeks... Biggio looks like his old self and Espinal looks like his old bench player self.

Nature is healing

Nobody is saying they "can't". Don't muddle the point

wow we will see are you running him?

He must have poked him in the chest or something I guess?

So pitching "backwards" is what a lot of pitchers do now, particularly the fastball + breaking ball relievers A lot of them throw more breakers than fastball these days I'm not entirely sure there is something wrong with Romano's approach. But his command just sucks this year that's for sure.

He would only look that weird and veiny when he's like fasting and not drinking water right before a competition Normally he probably just looks like a typical kinda fat jacked dude

I could see Cortes and Taillon and Montgomery all struggling at some point. Add in an injury or two to their old players...

BERRIOS (career) 1st time though order --> wOBA against .302 2nd time through order --> wOBA against .304 3rd time through order --> wOBA against .318 GAUSMAN 1st time though order --> wOBA against .300 2nd time through order --> wOBA against .323 3rd time through order --> wOBA against .322 MANOAH 1st time though order --> wOBA against .229 2nd time through order --> wOBA against .277 3rd time through order --> wOBA against .290 STRIPLING 1st time though order --> wOBA against .304 2nd time through order --> wOBA against .318 3rd time through order --> wOBA against .345 KIKUCHI 1st time though order --> wOBA against .353 2nd time through order --> wOBA against .332 3rd time through order --> wOBA against .352 The league average wOBA this year is .310 Last year it was .314 Trent Thornton, a mediocre middle reliever for Toronto, has a .299 wOBA against this year. Cimber = .300 Yimi = .279 Phelps = .274 Mayza = .301 Conclusions: 1. Stripling should almost never face an order for the 3rd time, even if the RP coming in is not great 2. Kikuchi should retire 3. Toronto will typically be right if they remove Berrios during his third time through the order, even if the RP coming in is not amazing 4. Manoah might be special but it STILL would probably make sense to remove him before the 8th in most games if the replacement pitcher is a good setup man. But matchups will be important. Manoah has a case so far (small sample size) to be left in deep into games. 5. Gausman has weird numbers and had a significant skill chance last couple years so I will not conclude anything on him

Toronto is 16th in innings pitched by relievers. Only 18 more innings pitched than the Yankees, who are 26th. I don't think their pen is being taxed to an extreme degree. The only specific concern that I have is Jordan Romano who: a) might be hurt might just be mediocre c) might have bad stamina

Burke and Puk could. Bautista seems fungible to me.

Tatis is made of glass

Although with the dumb committees and s*** who f***ing knows

Sorry, like it not neither has a better than 50% chance of being a hall of famer in my opinion. Devers maybe has a better shot.

Reds are maybe weird with Castillo and value him too much

I think some other team pays more and gets him

See Berrios deal

Do you expect them to be this good into their 30s? Nobody really should. To me they look like great players but not hall of famers. Obviously they could get in.

seems s***, isn't OG a great two way player?

agreed for the most part

what do you mean by "put down" comparing them isn't a put down

Mostly he just doesn't line up with the Pirates contention window which will be like.... 2027 if everything goes right lmao.

I've never heard someone put down Babe Ruth when talking about Ohtani

Hall of Famers? Not sure that applies to any of those three although Betts has an okay shot. That's not a great litmus. The Rockies s*** out a similar amount of stars, for example.

Bryan Abreu, Whitley, Hunter Brown. I dunno. Houston always has arms...