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yeah not an excuse, but a reason most of the people who do this only plan on having 1 or 2 drinks then stay longer and have 1 or 2 more then make a dumb decision when lightly buzzed

Flash in the pan MVPs are so weird.

Lmao oh wow

It's almost like being a bit drunk impairs your judgement!?

What happened now?

"Deputies said Walker failed his field sobriety tests and admitted to drinking four beers at a “bar/eating facility.” eating facility sounds like it was a Blue Jays facility lol oops f***

Last call! We have 11 but have room for a few more. I'll cap the league around noon hour ET.

This turned into my all time favourite thread

I mean... they added $10M and got back a kind of gross slap hitter who has been replacement level most of his career soooooo

bump, could fit in a few more for tomorrow

yeah this was probably plan Z for Toronto so I doubt they are thrilled about this deal or anything

yeah that might be the most likely explanation some mail clerk in the mlb or blue jays basement clicked on the wrong dude

wtf

Almost certainly not. You need to go down the depth chart quite a ways to find a viable CF. Chavez Young might be the first name where it's like, yeah he can play CF for sure. Samad Taylor and Otto Lopez might be able to hang there, but who knows. Zac Cook had big numbers in 2021 and played CF. There are a few other names like Cameron Eden and Dasan Brown, but they will never make it. It's a pretty big gap on the farm.

That's true Also, and this is a razor's edge as far as the convo going off track, but I am sure there are a few right wing baseball players who were shocked by Canada's emergency decision to let banks freeze people's money if they had any whiff that they were connected to that trucker protest. There might be players who see things like that and decide they will just never play for Toronto. It does work both ways though. Maybe certain players would prefer to play somewhere where mask wearing is not as socially ostracized?

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Also, despite what the average sprint speed is Tapia has a better top gear. He accumulates a few "bolts" which under statcast are sprints at 30 feet per second or greater. Grichuk has none of those in 2021 or 2020. The whole point of this is that sprint speed percentile is probably not a great measure of baseball game speed.

So speed in the statcast era is somewhat interesting to measure, if you guys didn't already know. Sprint speed =/ basepath functional speed That is to say, home to first times are or can be a better predictor of stolen bases (and baserunning) than raw sprint speeds. I think I have heard and read this from smart people. Acceleration is key for baserunning. By average sprint speed Tapia is 132nd and Grichuk is 157th But by home to 1st times, Tapia is 40th and Grichuk is 241st Both numbers from 2021 Pretty interesting eh

lmao

We are at 10 so the draft is a go. I'm open to any tweaks you guys think make sense. Look at the stat points and player values from last year, let me know if anything should be rebalanced. Also, I think we might do DAILY auto lineups instead of WEEKLY. The default just had weekly but that's a bit articifial.

Hey friends, I made a best ball draft and hold league drafting tomorrow. Draft is 1:30 ET on Fantrax. There are 6 people signed up right now and we need at least 4 more to make it worthwhile. But we can accommodate up to 14 more. How it works: - All you have to do is draft. There are no trades, and no add/drops. No year long commitment! - You draft a 40 man roster. The pick clocks are 30 or 45 seconds so the draft will go fast. - Each week the league automatically uses your optimal players. That's what best ball means. So if you have Kirk and Jansen and Kirk has more points, he is used as your C that week. - The points system is crudely based on the value of real world stuff. Very crudely. Like, I took Fantrax's default best ball points system and just added categories for other events. But all you really need to do is draft good hitters and good pitchers and you will do well - it should NOT require hardcore thinking. The cool thing about a best ball with 40 man rosters is you get to try to make a 40 man roster that will survive the season and thrive. https://www.fantrax.com/newui/fantasy/joinLeague.go?leagueId=5vm65ewtl0q5fprw That is the invite link. Current players: Me, thehurl, jaysblue, L54, Northof49, EZe1, the cats ass

Grant is going to say he was talking about the "smarter" part But BsR is all that matters. Stupid and +5 is better than a smart and calculated zero.

Even these quotes could just be players kind of regurgitating stuff. With legit young guys it's all about arb trajectories and big contracts. Whether they make 750k or 700k in these league min years is just irrelevant. So I think some agents must have the opinion that these league min years are best used posturing. And s*** like this is what they think is effective at, I dunno... showing strength? showing that you are 100% committed to your own paradigms of self-evaluation?

Also, Tapia has a lot of tools and the Rockies are s*** at player dev so maybe there is something to unlock. He wasn't actually scouted as a pure slap hitter, remember. His profile was more like 60 hit, 60 speed, fringe average pop, 50 defense.

Last two years combined: TAPIA 1.8 bWAR 1.2 fWAR 739 PA GRICHUK 1.2 bWAR 0.9 fWAR 776 PA Toronto was on the hook for $20.66M for two years of Grichuk. He had negative value. Now they are eating $9.7M and paying Tapia $3.95M for 2022. This is a slightly better player + $$ position. If Tapia sucks, they just cut him and they save about $6M across the two years and have a whatever prospect who had good rookie ball numbers. If Tapia is good though, they can keep him for 2023 (final arb) and get a player upgrade for about the same money they would have paid Grichuk across the two years. Tapia at 28 and two years younger than Grichuk probably has a better chance to improve. This will be a season in his physical prime. Grichuk is squarely past his prime. I understand that Grichuk appears to project slightly better buuuuuuut we are talking about fractions of a win. That doesn't mean much to me. Most importantly, perhaps, Tapia just fits the roster better. As a LHH 4th OF with speed he should help Toronto more than Grichuk would as a RHH 4th OF whose best trait is power (which the Jays have in spades). And FWIW Toronto might benefit from not awkwardly having to bench a veteran making big money.