Laika
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I guess there could be a surprise here. Hoglund had TJS, who knows, maybe he has already indicated he would sign for less than the slot at 19. Maybe the high school guys are not expensive and Toronto can scrape together some scratch to make a half decent offer to Holman. -
Adam Wainwright's career resurrection is a massive victory for modern medicine and FIP. Most importantly FIP. ERA and bWAR dogmatists would have declared him dead after 2017/2018 but FIP guys knew he wasn't necessarily toast. FIP guys knew.
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The Holman pick is probably just insurance. If Chad Dallas loses all of his toes tomorrow in a noodling accident then they could sign him for $1 and offer the savings of $473,699 to Holman
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I can't for the life of me understand why it matters if an athlete speaks English. I don't want to see their interviews, anyway.
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Evan Longoria sitting at 57.4 bWAR and 53.4 fWAR. He's going to end up painfully close to a Hall of Fame career. Probably will be one great season short of the optical WAR thresholds and a little light on hardware.
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3B is relatively deep. A guy like Matt Chapman is only the 15th best projected guy at the position. Machado is good but past his prime age and not elite there like Ramirez or Bregman. Not super sure you are going to find the primo return unless there are a couple of competitive teams with glaring holes
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No, don't. Read a book
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Lol it looked like his arm was too stiff for a normal throwing motion for sure
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Did Peyton Manning just bounce it? Lol
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Craig Holman, uhhhhh, really showing all their cards isn't he?
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Good to hear.
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Baseball Metrics - what do you rely on?
Laika replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I mean, you're doing significantly more work at this point than just looking at WAR. And this is not how people traditionally used pitcher wins. They just counted them. You would rarely see arguments made like "yeah he only won 15 games but his team was bad". It was more like, if you don't win 20 you're not in Cy contention. The only people who dug into things and looked at run support etc. were the future saberists, probably. And nowadays even the people who don't love advanced stats can't help but view wins and losses through a more modern lens. I also need to comment on this line "None of the rate stats would tell you about his dominance both in quantity and quality" just to say why the f*** would rate stats tell you about the quantity of his performance??? -
Way easier to scout pitchers in small sample sizes. You need a couple of games to evaluate a pitcher's stuff - velocity and spin. You need a large sample to evaluate a hit tool, defense, etc.
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Old format was kind of boring though. No drama. They have had big viewership increases with the new format and when it first debuted it was considered a big success. The problem this year seemed to be mostly on the production side or maybe a loosening of some of the rules about not throwing the ball until the previous one lands. But the rule about not pitching until the first ball lands was stupid to begin with because it penalizes moonshots! Honestly, the whole thing would be solved with proper TV production. It was like they just didn't know how to do the camera work right. The event is probably fantastic live and in person.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I could see that. The ideal body for pitching is someone who is in shape, obviously. But he's pitched fat for a while so it's probably a bad idea for him to change his body drastically. Tighten it up a bit, sure. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
People come in all shapes and sizes. Maybe he's just very thick and meaty. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I don't see any obvious reason why pure weight loss would help him add velocity. I'm not so sure he's even that fat under his uniform. -
This TV production is s***** though. You can't even watch most of the home runs.
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Soto hunting those pitches is more his style. Cool
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I really like a lot of these picks. BUT with last year's short draft I guess it's expected that this one would seem deep after day 1
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LOL Duncan Keith f***ing sucks now. The Oilers must have seen Weber, Perry, and Staal on Montreal and thought old farts were the market inefficiency.
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Fangraphs had him 68th on their board but only had this short note: "A 6-foot-4 lefty with decent command of three average or better offerings, Tiedemann frustrated and at times confused scouts with his inability to keep runs off the board at the junior college level this spring."
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Still only 18 years old
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It's all about suppressing player contracts I guess. Still dumb as s***. Toronto goes outside of their comfort zone and signs a big free agent for the first time ever and the league penalizes them for trying to win. Uh huh!
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Not having a second round pick suxxxxxx remind me again what the f***ing logic is for free agent compensation and pick penalties?
