Laika

"Janson Junk will be called up to the Angels on Friday, MLB.com freelancer Matt Kardos reports." Is there a better pitcher name in the game than Janson Junk? Hopefully he throws 88 mph poo

He lost his slider. It's kind of weird. Velocity is not down but the break on his slider and the whiff% changes last year. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-potential-fix-for-patrick-corbin/ He might be fixable!

with what?

He wasn't s***, he was just mediocre with Washington. Still an above average reliever so it was more than reasonable to assume he would be able to help Toronto. And his velocity was even up which was kind of interesting.

Yeah but I think his 2021 salary was already being covered by Washington

Right. Not "whichever is crossed first" but when both requirements are met. Example: A player shall enter free agency in the offseason following the regular season period in which both of the following requirements have been met: a) the player is 29 years and 6 months of age for at least one day of the regular season the player has accrued 4.000 years of service time by and including the last day of the regular season Something like that would mean most players reach free agency after the age threshold but some late debut guys would reach free agency a little bit later. You'd still need to figure out how arbitration or salary escalation will work in relation to this but that's not impossible. It could still be based on service time and just go on in perpetuity. So someone who only has 4 MLB years before free agency only goes through arbitration once, in year 4. And someone who debuts at 19 and is under control for ten f***ing years goes through "arb 3" seven god damn times and probably makes something close to free agent AAV in all of those years anyway. I like it. I really like it. Anything that would incentivize teams to promote players is better than the current system.

It's a suit jacket and it's also a nod to the internationality of the team. I don't mind it at all.

I am not sure about the specific age proposed but I really like the idea of an age for free agency because it would incentivize bringing players up earlier. They would still need some exceptions, probably, for exceptional situations. Imagine a college pitcher who has multiple surgeries and debuts at like 27. Merryweather for example. Free agent at 29.5 would be kind of BS.

I think so. Happened to me earlier and I emailed Fx about it and I believe the makeup day stats ended up counting for the original day. Although the makeup game was the next day and it was within the same week so it didn't matter.

Feels like that's the season. I know, dumb post, but c'mon. Keegan Akin just beat Ryu at this point in the season...

Uhh

The trade sucked. Continuing to roll Brad Hand out there out of stubbornness would have been compounding a bad decision. He really sucked. Bad trade, good DFA. I hated this trade from the jump, look it up.

wow

But was it all tongue in cheek? We will never know

Anyone actually selling? Crickets?

Just wild that the organization finally got rid of the impossible-to-enjoy-at-the-plate Kevin Pillar, only to replace him with a shittier and more expensive version.

well my prediction is going to be very wrong

Need to handle these dudes like fine china. If you rush Julian Pearson by even one day their arm might fall off.

I imagine it was frustrating for the teams who made reasonable offers for Bard.

There is a difference between "this minor league guy is interesting" and "they should call this guy up our bullpen sux!"

Yeah people need to understand that most of these MiLB guys putting up decent numbers and throwing hard are probably worse than guys like Joel Payamps who have already been cycled through. And Toronto HAS given opportunities to most of the deserving AAA relievers so far this year. The results have not been that great.

Poor man's Frank Schwindel

Yeah he's good. Now has a higher OPS than Frank Schwindel, barely.

Not me.

What about him