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  1. Laika
    Yeah they changed the fences. It's murder for RHB now.
  2. Laika
    Yeah I dunno about top 3 lmao I will give you top 10 org
  3. Laika
    Sale coming back. Rehabbing now...
  4. Laika
    Is his ERA better than his xFIP? Lopez - yes Tate - yes Bautista - yes Akin - yes Baker - no Krehbiel - yes Perez - yes 6/7 when looking at RPs who have pitches 20+ innings for them Just look at K rates. Some of these guys are not that amazing. Get used to Baltimore pitchers being "good", by mirage.
  5. Laika
    One thing that you have to factor here when giving Baltimore any credit is the 2022 park factors. Their ballpark changes in conjunction with the ball changes have had a MASSIVE effect. Their park factor for runs is now 0.85 on the season and for homers it's now 0.675. I am not kidding. In 2021 those numbers were 1.16 and 1.574 It's like taking a pitcher from the one of the most hitter friendly parks in baseball and moving them directly into one of the most pitcher friendly.... so far.
  6. Laika
    errrrrrrrrrr he was a dumpster fire for 1.5 seasons in Arizona before Toronto acquired him and also "just okay" but trending down the two seasons before that
  7. Laika
    today I learned that Royce Lewis died again sad
  8. Laika
    We are in like, year 12 of people thinking Seattle is smart. I don't know why they get so much credit from people; in a lot of ways they have been a developmental disaster a long time running. Remember the #6 org meme? https://blogs.fangraphs.com/organizational-rankings-6-seattle/ I will of course admit that things look promising for them on the pitching side. Kirby and Gilbert should be good. I don't know. I'm just not worried about Toronto right now. I'm looking at the arms coming up who are currently in A and A+ and it all seems super comfy. The MLB org just needs to bridge to that wave, I think.
  9. Laika
    It doesn't have to take that long if you can poach or identify talent like the Rays do. I don't know if Seattle has just been lucky or if it's a repeatable organizational skill but they have had some very good little waiver claims / trades in the pen last few years. Could just be luck though, we are really only talking about 3 or 4 acquisitions. I still think the most sustainable approach is to try to develop a system that just shits out new high octane arms every year like Houston or LA. One thing that the Jays might be guilty of is sticking with guys as starters too long. Like what if they took a completely different approach with guys like Hatch and Kay and Pearson and at some point one or two years ago just told them they are pure relievers - go to the pen and air it out.
  10. Laika
    The pipeline for RP prospects needs a long time to develop You basically need to hoard arms for over half a decade and then you finally get a trickle of the failed SPs who can be good RPs filtering up I don't think it's really this regime's fault, yet. If you look at the good, young, whiffy relievers in other bullpens many of them will be 2014 to 2017 signings or draft picks. They have gone budget on pen acquisitions and because of that decided to NOT target whiffs, but that has kind of worked out. Like Cimber is good. Phelps is doing alright. They could be better at trading for or claiming relievers with potential and making them into something. Jason Adam and Bryan Baker were even here, for example...
  11. Laika
    I want to vomit
  12. Laika
    He needs to wear tighter pants Then he will be thinking about whether or not everyone can see his dick, and not about how beeeg and strooong Aaron Judge is
  13. Laika
    Ken Giles is back from the IL? wtf
  14. Laika
    I will give myself a strike
  15. Laika
    Alejandro Kirk Isn't Your Average Catcher “What if Freddie Freeman was 5-foot-8 and knew how to operate a PitchCom device?” https://blogs.fangraphs.com/alejandro-kirk-isnt-your-average-catcher/ someone tell Fangraphs that Kirk is definitely like 5'6"
  16. Laika
    who gave birth to this dunce
  17. Laika
    lmao periphery
  18. Laika
    That's not the point. I mean it's true but the point is just to analyze why the attempted change (cutter removal) is not really working so far. Old Kikuchi - 80% of pitches were cutters or 4-seamers. I think he could throw the cutter for strikes more reliably but it would get hammered. New Kikuchi - 60% of pitches 4 seamers. No cutters. Walks and falling behind hitters are now a bigger problem than ever though.
  19. Laika
    I really think they want him to be a poor man's version of Robbie Ray with 60+ percent fastballs while saving the decent offspeed pitches to surprise hitters The problem is that Ray could throw his FB in the zone almost at will. He has good enough command to do that evidently. Kikuchi has starts where his command radius on the FB is like 2 feet; sometimes he has no clue where it is going. Then he is absolutely f***ed.
  20. Laika
    So they took away the cutter earlier this year. He was then good for 5 starts. But he has returned to s***. Still not throwing the cutter. All I can see is - he was throwing may more fastballs on his good stretch than during his recent run of s***.
  21. Laika
    Kikuchi's statcast snapshot is the grossest, saddest thing I have seen in a while. Above average FB velo, spin rate, and whiff/K rate Everything else extremely below average. Like, 5th percentile or worse. Everything hitters touch is a rocket. It looks exactly like 2021 EXCEPT his chase rate has plummeted from 60th percentile (good) to 12th (horrendous). Hitters are spitting on his chase pitches at will.
  22. Laika
    Yeah the word of the day is tithead Here I will use it in a sentence. "connorp is a tithead"
  23. Laika
    May 4th to May 28th Kikuchi had 5 starts 2.36 ERA 2.64 FIP 5.1 IP per start Only 1 HR He was bad before this for his first four starts (failed to pitch 4 innings three of the times) and bad in the four starts since. I wonder if this was just random or if something did click but then he lost it.
  24. Laika
    Uh huh The Jays have three SP1 or SP2s. Good pitching fan always shut down good hitting, when the arm is locked in
  25. Laika
    Ahhhh but they can Lmao Toronto is throwing out Strip and Kooch this series. It is not representative at all of what they would do in the playoffs.
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