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Do we need to realign division? Every team in my division is better than the entire Reuben...

IMO Kevin Smith should be a 45+ FV prospect at the minimum. He might even be a 50 FV prospect which would mean backend of the top 100 territory. 45+ FV would mean more like a top 150 prospect. So he is about as valuable as some guys like: Ryan Vilade Clarke Schmidt Drew Waters Travis Swaggerty Taylor Walls Ezequiel Duran JJ Bleday Of course most of the guys with a 50FV on Fangraphs I would clearly take over Smith. I just listed a few who he might comp to. 45+ puts him over Hoglund and Hiraldo in Toronto's system. 50FV could even place him in the same spot ordinally, in the system since it has no 45+ guys per Fangraphs. Keith Law thinks he's a league average position player now if I am remember a recent comment correctly

Yeah those are good. Also hit the "top prospect" part of the profile. India is actually having a great year while Benintendi seems almost done.

I let it sit there for a while but didn't see the angle in the end. Hendricks still seems better for our league settings right now.

I think it's mostly lag. Evaluators haven't updated their info this year or have not even seen him for whatever reason. And then Baseball America completely whiffed in the above list. They misplaced him IMO.

He's still a True Cardinal, shockingly.

lmao

And if you click on this guy's tweet and read the replies, it is 1000 of the whitest knights saying they hear the N word This may be right but I’m straining to hear a “D” and can’t hear it at all. And I listened to it 20 times. The conclusion people drew while watching it in real time is fair. It sure would be nice if that guy came forward and explained himself. Who was the genius that decided the team's mascot needed a name that ends in "inger"? Don’t rush to the defense of a racist, bro As much as I'd like to plead plausible deniability I'm hearing a "N" I hear it loud and clear. Anyone who thinks it's "dinger" should get their hearing checked. if you think he’s saying dinger, you’ll hear dinger, and vice versa with the n word. As much as this does make sense, this could be the his "cover" for his "joke". Plausible deniability. I hear n word way clearer than Dinger I think you may be mistaken or perhaps are joking. Definitely not 'Dinger.' I can hear the 'N' at the beginning of the word. I can hear the hard 'G' in the middle of the word. Doesn't sound like 'ing,' sounds like 'igg.' Close your eyes and just listen. Absolutely not. That is not the fan shouting it. It doesn’t match up. Nice try though. I’m specifically listening for Dinger but I’m not hearing the “i-n-g.” I am, however, hearing the “i-g-g.” There is NO D sound! unless the D in “Dinger” is silent ! If not Stop define this BS! Bro, can't you HEAR? Rolling on the floor laughing I mean this video has sound. He's CLEARLY saying the N word. I tried giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, but upon further review, he's saying the N word. I even replayed it numerous times TRYING to hear "Dinger" & nope! 1st letter is definitely an N. This is not correct at all. The guy yelling was not sitting behind home plate and if you listen to the video again, the guy is CLEARLY not saying “Dinger” The words sound nothing alike and what he's shouting clearly doesn't start with a D Absolute f***ing psychopaths. A really good and clear-cut example of how you can just straight up see the world through your own lens, good or bad. You will quite literally hear different words and see different things based on your politics and psychology. The facts that enter your brain will be different or be perceived as different. Wild stuff. It's like the blue/gold dress thing but it's one word vs a racist word.

That was one of the comps when Martin was drafted but it seems evident at this point that Zobrist had better tools across the board.

As much as I would like to see the Red Sox just lose every game from here on, they are the weakest team of the three so we might need to hope that they take a few wins from the other guys.

The Estate of Roy Halladay essentially declared that he is 50% a Philly with Brandy Halladay's stupid Hall of Fame decision.

What are the comps for Austin Martin, anyway? Try to find some MLB players with skill sets like this: 60+ hit tool with good plate discipline below average game power weak arm average speed not an everyday player at any premium position The three positive examples I can think of are Adam Frazier, Nick Markakis without the arm and from 2009 on, and Howie Kendrick (but Kendrick was an aggressive hitter). Maybe Adam Frazier is the best one there. I guess a lot of hit tool predominant guys like Melky Cabrera could also be comparable. I think in most instances this is a skill set that will spend a lot of seasons around 2 WAR, unless he can figure out how to lift/drive the ball more or how to be a plus CF/2B.

Right, celebrating. But apparently he had done it numerous times before while playing.

Maybe it's not really a physical issue. I mean the guy dislocated his shoulder on a swing. Most normal people would get a mental block going forward if they did that. Swinging as hard as he used to might be scary.

That's the point I think. Reese looks like a rock solid backup C right now but Jansen is probably a better bet to actually be that type of player year over year. Anyway, Jays can get creative and do a lot of different things in the next year or so but the one thing they can't do is keep all these catchers. Certainly they'll be dealing at least one.

How about Jansen for Mitch Keller in the offseason?

Change of scenery trade for another borderline flop. Probably better to sell high on Reese in the offseason and just tell Jansen he's a backup from now on.

I wear my boxers like seven days in a row so that might not be a problem

I literally came in my American Eagle underwear when Springer hit that home run and I still have a half boner

Link?

Alright let's all get drunk and disappoint our families tonight

McGuire hitting over Kirk here is egregious

Dolis looks great.

Albies fits your team better but you're setting some value on fire there. Semien and Taylor are both like, as good as Albies right now. So you're flushing a lot just to age down. Your team can compete in 2022 for sure. You have some studs. Need an Ace, not a younger 2B.

Bad game Morale killer Fan enthusiasm down the drain now, barring a comeback