Laika
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What about his *******?
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Laika ballot 1. Barry Bonds 2. Jonathan Papelbon
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Blue Jays decide to upgrade RC instead of building new stadium
Laika replied to Terminator's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Don't even care about real grass anymore. Just make the seats better -
Jays top 10 podcast by BA dropped today
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what about the hall of fame candidate who murdered someone or committed horrible DV still easy?
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Yeah I dunno. I think it's a hardware thing with Edmonds? Never an MVP or even a runner up, only an all star four times. Edmonds was probably always overshadowed by someone, in some way. Never would have been the best defensive centre fielder active in a given year. Perhaps only arguably the best centre fielder active for a season or two. Didn't get 2000 hits. Didn't get 400 homers. Injuries really hurt him in terms of counting stats and career WAR. I think people also didn't "like" Edmonds. Look at this quote: “If you don't look at him between pitches, he plays hard and has great instincts," said Angels general manager Bill Bavasi in 1996. "I told all my scouts not to watch him between pitches, because that body language will only frustrate you."
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Yeah this is probably the bulk of it. Jones was highly regarded by the eye test - everyone knows he was elite, people in context knew he was awesome out there. But people don't necessarily accept the run values that the defensive metrics give him, as gospel. I don't know if this is true (would have to run a simple regression) but I feel like, historically, outside of a small amount of shortstops and maybe a couple of catchers, not a lot of players get into the Hall with the bulk of their case built on defense. A good amount of players in there are elite hitters. A good amount of players in there are great hitters + good defenders. Comparatively less are perhaps great defenders + just good hitters. Jones has a 111 career wRC+. That's just good. That's it. He has more than twice as many lw runs from defense in his career. 121.6 hitting and 276.4 from defense. It would be interesting to see how this compares to, say, hall of fame outfielders. The ratio.
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Jays 2021/22 General Off-Season Discussion
Laika replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
And most of the 10+ year deals were for free agent players or elites approaching FA. The trend of locking up babies in their young twenties for 10, 12, 14 years is pretty new. -
He was a standout defensive player though. I guess your point is that he was a smooth defender rather than a flashy guy doing Kevin Pillar suicide catches every other day.
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Beltran was good, Jones was great. Beltran also bled out a lot of his career defensive value in his late 30s. Jones retired after 35, Beltran played five more years and accrued negative 60 defensive runs or whatever. Jones wasn't even a negative defender by UZR in his final years - it was just the positional adjustment that flipped him negative since he was no longer patrolling CF
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Cruz first
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f*** Ruiz and Melendez, you have Moreno.
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they are like, all the same toolsy players, premium positions, some risk on each Abrams and Witt aren't on very different timelines Witt will probably debut earlier but he has hit tool risk so he might suck in 2022 in the MLB Marte is a couple of years away I dunno, all the trades you are posting seem to be burning a lot of value and might be kind of forcing the issue
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I'm not sure CJ Abrams is even worse than Bobby Witt
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Yeah
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13th best well you see, he sucks. he's kevin pillar with a better name.
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Yeah I like him as a possible contributor. He seems versatile and has some tools including the most important one.
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I mostly operate under the assumption that there is no such thing as a hockey prospect. For fantasy. The elite players go straight from junior to the league. The minors is for grinders, support players, weird big defensemen, and goalies. This is not categorically true but is probably good heuristic.
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I don't think Otto Lopez had anything to do with the decision to trade Martin. Martin - you are hoping he can be a cornerstone player. Lopez - you are hoping he can find any type of MLB role.
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Why is Alexis Lafreniere so f***ing bad????
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I don't know most of these players but this seems f***ing horrible lmao William Eklund Stuart Skinner Anton Lundell Morgan Frost Filip Zadina Nathan MacKinnon Matthew Tkachuk
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completely f***ed my season with inattention, sorry guys. will be entertaining offers for older players from now on.
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aha. there it is. the puig mystery has been solved.
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Barry Bonds is a god. He headlines my Hall of Fame.
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Bit of a logical leap there. You cannot say "if you didn't compete against black athletes you are not the best of all time". The most you can say is what Jim did "no one can conclusively say "this player is the best all time"."
