Laika

Lmao

Only really interested if he's cheap and will be going on the 60 day IL until summer for some phantom injury.

Red Sox To Acquire Caleb Durbin By Steve Adams | February 9, 2026 at 8:26am CDT The Red Sox are acquiring infielder Caleb Durbin from the Brewers, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. Milwaukee receives a three-player package including lefties Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan as well as infielder David Hamilton, Passan adds. Boston is also picking up infielder Andruw Monasterio, catcher/infielder Anthony Seigler and a Competitive Balance Round B pick, per Will Sammon of The Athletic. Weird trade!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basically every worthwhile remaining FA is a pitcher. By projected WAR the top 13 left standing are SP. Gallen and Bassitt through Corbin and Mikolas.

Sell high!

Buck on the LOE is weird for me He was not a good announcer, for a long portion of his tenure, and was the butt of many jokes His play by play was awful lol

Decent turnout. That's Matt Davidson in the DH spot. Maybe Black gets those PAs though. Sucks to not see Freeman, Brash, Pivetta, Cade Smith, Sabrowski and I guess even Romano. Jonah Tong was a long shot. The bullpen looks very weak.

The Fangraphs tracker uses the present value. But we don't know what the deferrals are yet for Framber's deal. No matter how you chop it up, Cease's AAV looks great in comparison to others. The only real wrinkle with his deal is the 7th year. Framber Valdez SP R L HOU 32 6.163 4.0 3.6 5 $140.0M $28.0M ❌$22.0M DET 3 $115.00M $38.33M 📝 Dylan Cease SP R R SDP 30 6.089 3.4 3.8 5 $130.0M $26.0M ❌$22.0M TOR 7 $210.00M $27.02M 📝 Ranger Suárez SP L L PHI 30 6.112 4.0 3.4 5 $125.0M $25.0M ❌$22.0M BOS 5 $130.00M $26.00M 📝 Michael King SP R R SDP 31 6.004 0.8 3.1 4 $88.0M $22.0M ❌$22.0M SDP 3 $75.00M $25.00M 📝 Brandon Woodruff SP L R MIL 33 7.161 1.8 2.9 3 $66.0M $22.0M ✅$22.0M MIL 1 $22.03M $22.03M 📝 Shota Imanaga SP L L CHC 32 2.000 0.9 1.8 2 $38.0M $19.0M ✅$22.0M CHC 1 $22.03M $22.03M

Silly opinion though. Aging curves get steeper as players get older! The expected decline is more intense AND there is a higher risk every year of completely being done.

Trading Gausman is possible. Not likely and it would not be popular but if you ignore popularity it could make sense. Jays need SP from 2027 on, hence signing Framber (32) for several years Gausman (35) is more of a year-to-year guy given his age and bag of pitches (fringe velo, two pitches) Gausman in 2026 has surplus value. 3 win projection + durability and resume for a tidy salary. Signing Framber and trading Goose is still a mild SP upgrade Trading Goose could fetch a big upgrade elsewhere. I won't speculate, but they could get creative and package him with various players for a big upgrade on the position side and/or in relief.

Don't they do dynamic pricing? I believe they do so prices would get updated periodically maybe even daily

Framber would be sweet. Wonder who they would trade. Berrios is the one everyone mentions but he's such a dead weight, negative asset.

Doesn't make sense to compare Santander and Suarez. Every FA market is its own context. Santander was projected for 4/$80m and got 5/$68.6m, as a 30 year old. It was not a bad contract at all, they weren't paying him to be that good, maybe hoping for a 2 win player for 3 years. Obviously year 1 went as bad as possible lol. Suarez was projected for 3/$60m and got 1/$15m but probably turned down something like 2/$30m from the Pirates. At 34 years old. Interesting to see that all of Suarez's projections have nose-dived as he is a DH on the depth chart now. Not a single 2 WAR projection. It's pretty clear that teams think he is a butcher at 3B. So there is big disconnect between his expected 2026 value and his 2025 and prior WARs.

I wonder if Ben Williamson is better than Brendan Donovan

Wow Suarez really capitulates 1/$15m to the Reds I think most lists guessed 3/$60m for him He has 2.0+ WAR projections so on paper it's a great deal for Cincinnati Obviously what happened is the industry does not think he's a 3B anymore while the projection systems are still giving him some credit for the defensive side.

Jacob Wilson is pretty similar to Ernie a guess Not as good with the mitt but not quite as aggressive with the stick either

Just think of us as a loss-leader Your money making sites will benefit from our traffic and high quality content. Somehow. I'm not sure how. Somehow.

The answer is that we need more American members And the incumbent Americans need to tape their eyes open and look at the ads

Yeah I did some Googlin' Per capita ad spend in Canada is like 75% lower than the US Advertisers pay less to get the ads so the views and clicks or whatever aren't worth as much This is because Americans are slobbering buffoons who buy more things that are shoved in their faces on advertisements. Canadians are wiser and less impulsive If you can see your data in pennies per ad view it might show this

Weird that Canada would be so different

tjstats always seems to have a mild bias in favour of Toronto I just creeped his LinkedIn and he lives in Toronto, engineer went to U of T

The Athletic did an article on Jake Cook. Sounds like he is doing the right things and the organization thinks he can be more than a two tool player. “I don’t want to be like a speed guy,” Cook said, “where I’m chopping the ball and then running to first and then steal and then steal. Like, yes, it works, but that’s not really how I want to play the game.” ... The Blue Jays shut Cook down after the 2025 draft, bringing him to the club’s development complex in Florida. After two weeks off, ensuring his femur fully recovered, Cook got in the team’s hitting lab. With dozens of cameras tracking every movement, Cook adjusted his bat path. He’d swing, turn to the screen providing feedback, then face the next pitch. His goal was to add more loft and catch the ball out front — a recipe for slug. Rhodes saw the new look when Cook returned to Southern Miss’ facilities over the holidays. The swing had more loft, the bat speed was up and Cook had gotten stronger, Rhodes said. It was everything the assistant coach preached was possible when he talked to scouts in the summer, before Cook tied Jeric Curtis (2022) for the combine’s 30-yard-dash record. “I don’t think he’s even close to, potentially, what he has from a power standpoint,” Rhodes said he told scouts. Cook doesn’t intentionally mold himself after other hitters. However, if he were something like Simpson in 2025, he’d love to be more like Byron Buxton. It’s a lofty comparison, Cook acknowledges, as Buxton likely possesses more power than he’ll ever tap into. The Minnesota Twins outfielder had 63 extra-base hits last year and Cook notched just 20 in his entire college career. But that’s the sort of ceiling he’s searching for in 2026 and beyond. It’s one thing to adjust a swing in an offseason hitting lab and another to bring it to professional games. Cook will have to balance his offensive aims with improved base-stealing while staying healthy during the longest season of his life. But at least he has his speed. He wants to see what else is in there. “I’m excited,” Cook said, “to kind of find out who I am as a hitter.”

tjstats did a top 100 https://tjstats.ca/2026/01/27/2026-top-100-prospects/ Trey #10 60 FV King #62 50 FV Parker #73 50 FV Nimmala #86 50 FV Stanifer #95 50 FV Gage Stanifer, a 19th round pick by Toronto in the 2022 draft, looks like he has found his footing in 2025. Stanifer’s results are backed up by a substantial increase in velocity and overpowering 3-pitch mix. He stands at a sturdy 6’3″ and 201 lb and utilizes a short arm stroke to add a layer of deception into his delivery. He doesn’t get far down the mound with just 6 ft of extension, but he is able to release the ball from a 3/4 slot at a lower than average release point at 5.7 ft. This delivery works well with his ability to generate ride on his fastball that is up +3 MPH compared to last season. Now sitting at 94-95 MPH with over 17″ of iVB, Stanifer throws his fastball over 60% of the against both LHH and RHH. It’s shallow vertical approach angle works incredibly well as a whiff generator because he consistently locates it high in the zone. His slider is one of the nastiest pitches at the level thanks to its “deathball” shape in the mid 80s. His short arm action makes it difficult for RHH to pick up out of hand and its steep drop generates some ugly swings. Stanifer’s final offering is an 86-87 MPH changeup which he exclusively uses against LHH and mainly as a put away offering. It’s large vertical deviation from his fastball gives it an ideal shape to stun batters. While it hasn’t generated many chases or whiffs, it has been his most effective weapon at inducing weak contact. It’s a dependable arsenal filled with 3 potential plus offerings, making Stanifer a safe bet to fall back into a long relief role for Toronto if his command falters. He has showcased improved strike throwing ability last season in tandem with a large velocity bump, although he hasn’t worked deep into game often. His strides in 2025 make him one of the most intriguing arms in the Blue Jays pipeline and a surefire riser in their system.