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  1. Laika
    Okay who is their best projected reliever? Keep in mind that Hoffman's projections will carry the weight of his MLB dominance from before. Most other Blue Jays relievers are pop-up guys in 2025.
  2. Laika
    Hopefully someone told this bean head that the score was 13-4 What was Brandon Lowe going to do about turning around a 13-4 game?
  3. Laika
    There is always the chance that a reliever just throws 2 mph harper in October and is that much better for it. Hoffman's fastball really seemed pedestrian towards the end of the year. What if the adrenaline has him throwing 98 again? Dunno if this is likely to be honest from the velo graph he might actually be hurt...
  4. Laika
    I don't think he is stupid. He has made some bad baserunning decisions in his career, but offensively the problem most of the time is almost just the curse of having hand eye coordination that is too good. He will make a bad swing decision and swing at a pitch six inches inside, and groundout. Aaron Judge would just whiff instead and get another chance to homer. Or he will get fooled on the pitch type and swing at a changeup but just through raw talent he will be able to make contact... on the ground. So yeah he needs to strikeout more. It's a weird thing to tell somebody. He could take a lesson from 2025 Springer and come into 2026 focusing on getting his A swing off more often, with aggression.
  5. Laika
    The Blue Jays are a slave to projections. Rightly so. I wonder what would project better as the SP4 - Scherzer or the Varland+Lauer combo?
  6. Laika
    Reds fans use to whine about Joey Votto all the time because he didn't get enough HRs and RBIs The Vlad disdain is similar I get it, you see him ground into a double play on the first pitch a few times in clutch situations and it feels like he is a choke artist. I get why people feel the way they feel. It's wrong but I get it. Most of this is because there is a small disagreement between what Vlad actually is and what people feel like he is or should be. You see him, as a first basemen with his body and tools, and think this is going to be a huge David Ortiz kind of masher. But offensively his comps are mostly good hitting infielders like Machado, Seager, Ketel Marte.
  7. Laika
    Have to go for it This game is worth more than one game in a wild card series. Win today is like winning the entire wc round. Bradish should give the Yankees fits too...
  8. Laika
    Jays can clinch the AL East and the entire AL tomorrow... Crazy.
  9. Laika
    Okay Bieber sucks I guess
  10. Laika
    Bench Vlad
  11. Laika
    Caminero and Stanton homer simultaneously
  12. Laika
    I think his mechanics are just f***ed up AND he is making poor swing decisions
  13. Laika
    Can we just kneecap Chandler Simpson in the warmups?
  14. Laika
    Vlad Glimpsero
  15. Laika
    He has worse stuff than them and costs more and is less of a "trooper" and less likely to be on a playoff roster even in a nightmare (team bus accident) scenario. Like the thought process was probably something like... Ross: "okay, if half of the pitchers get septic hemorrhoids the night before the ALCS and we have to call up SIX pitchers from the 40 man roster, which SIX make it?" And the analyst said "Bruihl, Estrada, Lucas, Macko, Pina, and Tate" so they cut the odd man out.
  16. Laika
    Ally Anthopoulos claims Ally Manoah He should fit in well with Bryce Elder, Walker Buehler, and Erick Fedde in their 2026 rotation
  17. Laika
    I don't think so. Unless we hear something new.
  18. Laika
    I really doubt at this point that the team is trying to make Vlad do anything other than make better swing decisions. I bet they are sick to death of trying to turn him into someone who pulls the ball more or hits more flyballs. Probably got sick of is years ago and are resigned to the realities.
  19. Laika
    Ah yes this is the Apple TV game Sportsnet traded away. At least Mr. Rogers avoided the nightmare scenario where the AL East magic number was 1 and they didn't have the game. The magic number is 3 so no clinching can happen tonight. We clinch tomorrow and then rest Goose on Sunday.
  20. Laika
    I dunno. This just seams fair. Toronto needs to get by a nemesis and New York needs to win some real games too. NYY: Warren, Schlittler, Gil BAL: Rogers, Sugano, Bradish The Yankees have their work cut out for them if they want to sweep or even win 2 of those games. Rutschman just came off the IL three days ago too.
  21. Laika
    Yeah but other than Scherzer none of these guys were likely playoff contributors
  22. Laika
    Varland + Lauer is a way better playoff idea than Max Scherzer
  23. Laika
    Michael A Taylor redemption home run
  24. Laika
    That swing decision by Vlad was so hilariously bad. At least Barger has a pitch to hit when he decides to hack away
  25. Laika
    I dunno man. What if he actually has elbow inflammation? This could be bullish news. Some kind of surgery, rest, or rehab combo and he might have some useful starts left on this contract. Dude touched 97 and sat 94 for his entire career, including 2023 and 2024. This year he started off without any of that top end velo and lost like 2 mph over the year. If you look closely at the below chart this velo drop off may have started at the end of 2024. Nobody is going to want him. Toronto could not eat enough money to make any trade make sense. Unless there is a 1 for 1 bad contract swap for some other player owed a similar amount of dead money. Only hope is that he might have the kind of injury that can actually be corrected. Does he need elbow surgery? Not the worst thing in the world if he does. He was projecting to be an SP6 quality guy anyway.
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