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lmao wow

The Blue Jays went straight from Josh Donaldson 3B to Brandon Drury 3B

yes hate is a strong word you can just disagree bro

LMAO chuckles yanked him as if he was at 120 pitches and limping towards a no hitter attempt

lmao

Just let Rocket Raimel play every day in CF. He can do it.

looking forward to about a week of George Springer playing 25% of the time and nursing an injury before something breaks and he's gone for 60 days

Put Springer on the DL immediately.

he's growing on me

Probably health related. Oh yeah, found it on wiki: On September 24, Cabrera was diagnosed with two herniated discs in his back, a condition that he likely played through the entire [2017] season. RIP Miggy.

I don't know why but in my head Miggy was bad but serviceable up until like, Covid. But he's been replacement level since 2017. Sad.

Stephenson lunges into Voit's path. Voit's hands are impulsively protecting his own head. Play more sports, you nerds. s*** happens.

haha no way. it's got Bichette, Vlad, Gurriel, and Chapman. There have been entire Blue Jays teams with no hitters as good as any of them. Tapia, Biggio, and Collins are also not complete zeros. In theory. Zimmer and Katoh are zeros though. Still fun to see Katoh draw in for one.

Of course it's worse. This is like the sucker punch version

He doesn't really monetize it directly. It's a resume / hobby thing. Derek Carty. He writes for and shows up on The Athletic, ESPN, etc. He uses these tools to win big money fantasy baseball things so I guess that's some monetization. Actually maybe he used to sell it to subscribers or something. I don't know.

Apparently THE BAT is the best projection system, when back tested. It was made by a big nerd. I think THE BAT X is a version that the creator uses to experiment with newer inputs, like it uses some statcast data right now. It could be better than THE BAT but the X literally stands for experimental so

Gore looks good again. If the guy had replaced Greene with some filler piece then it's a solid deal.

why

Love it when young guys fill my holes

Doesn't change my opinion. I don't think Jesus is that good. Also, I think Gray > Waino, despite early season results. It mostly comes down to Kershaw though. If he stays healthy then your P upgrade is better than the OF downgrade I guess.

Yeah Kershaw is a big injury red flag. If he goes down, that trade is awful.

well that offer sucks but have you seen Jeremy Pena's statcast page? wow.

I dunno, Bo has actually looked fabulous there this year up until those two throws last night. I kind of think the work is paying off and this will be a bit of a Marcus Semien situation.

I would be interested in knowing the Jays front office people's opinions on Ryu. I guess his avg velocity is down literally one mph from the start of his career, but he was very effective in this velo range in 2020 and the first half of 2021. His velo actually went up a bit in the second half of 2021. It must be something else with a physical cause... like decreased effectiveness on a key pitch. The only thing that jumps off his statcast page to me is that his FB% is way up in 2022 and 2021 vs the few years prior. 35% 4 seamers this year and last vs 24% to 31% the three previous years Changeup use seems down. Is he having trouble executing an effective changeup? Could that be caused by a sore arm? A lower half problem? Back problems? Changeups are unique because they use a different full body musculature than all other pitches. The best changeup artists (of some varieties, not all) use little tricks like deadening their lower half --- so you get a body that is intentionally out of sync, sort of. I always kind of thought Marco Estrada's uber-elite changeup caused his back problems. I would imagine a guy whose body kind of contorts through the core and legs and almost fights against itself as the pitch is thrown.

this was not a dirty slide, lmao Voit looks immediately remorseful about the contact Stephenson literally dives into Voit's path to make the tag