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  1. Laika
    Dynasty 2B Elite players this year age doesn't matter C stop gap
  2. Laika
    I just feel like I don't NEED many things so it's hard to find trades that really improve my team I think a lot of the teams in the playoffs feel similar Like, a lot of the bottom feeder teams have very little to offer
  3. Laika
    The 2005 and 2006 Blue Jays has some real *******s. Rios, Hillenbrand, Zaun, to some extent Towers, Lilly, Burnett, and Halladay. I'm sure more. salty f***ing team
  4. Laika
    LOL I wonder who the Blue Jays clubhouse cancer would be, if there is one.
  5. Laika
    Lopez would be great but apparently has 2 more years of control after 2022 so he'll cost a lot I'm not sure Santander really improves the team
  6. Laika
    This "they've been here for 7 years" meme that popped up on the board is annoying. When Shapiro took over the team was in a very awkward place as far as long term success goes. They took one crack at it and it didn't work so they rebuilt for a couple of years. Then Covid hit and the team has been generally good and a winning team the whole time. The division has been it's usual competitive nightmare though The trajectory is fine. Don't overreact in the darkest moments. This could be the nadir of public opinion on the front office. For all we know next week they will bring in two good relievers and everything will be peachy. And Montoyo has been pretty good this year let's be honest.
  7. Laika
    The real answer is - money and an overflowing farm system. They sign/extend guys like Britton and Chapman They traded two 40+ FV position prospects for Clay Holmes which could have been a disaster but obviously looks great right now. Most teams don't have the farm system to do trades like that though. They traded Garrett Cooper + Caleb Smith for Michael King which doesn't look like a great trade.
  8. Laika
    It would look like Jansen for McCormick
  9. Laika
    Here are some more realistic trades: Biggio for Urquidy Gurriel for Urquidy Odorizzi and cash for worthless prospect Moreno for Luis Garcia or Cristian Javier Jansen for Hunter Brown and a decent second prospect
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  11. Laika
    Happy I didn't watch Borucki shutting us down before Romo loses it sounds like max pain
  12. Laika
    Of course.
  13. Laika
    Didn't Toronto players want to all sacrifice a bit of money one year so the team could sign Ervin Santana?
  14. 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.
  15. Laika
    yeah this is pathetic i would be embarrassed if I were Pujols in particular
  16. 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Laika
    Vernon Wells is a great player to promote and own for six+ years. You just don't want him after his physical prime!
  20. Laika
    Yes most of the recent frustration is squarely on the players. Blame I mean.
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Laika
    trainer should lose his job
  24. 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
  25. 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.
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