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  1. Laika
    Why the f*** is this Brian Kenny guy calling the game? Or whatever his name is He's a talk show host. Does not know how to do play by play. Pretty bad stuff here
  2. Laika
    Right, and the guy Masai Ujiri tickled suffered career ending whiplash and a herniated anus. Her story seems like ********. So he choked you out and raped you in the butt and then you met again? f*** offfff It's pure entrapment. A cash grab. Or deliberate attempt to ruin him.
  3. Laika

    NBA Thread

    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    I'm very down on Siakam as a core piece. Would totally be on board with shedding him, particularly if they think there is a difference maker available at #7.
  4. Laika
    I don't think player A exists unless Jim made a typo or that is from a different season
  5. Laika
    lol
  6. Laika
    Yeah I would not do that
  7. Laika
    Kirk > Groshans Groshans hasn't done much in pro ball other than look handsome. Kirk, the opposite is true. I'll take the little meatball who demolished the entire minor league ladder over the Adonis who can't stay on the field, thanks.
  8. Laika
    I might care more about the term than the AAV. Not sure I would want to marry him for 5+ years but I'd certainly be willing to pay him $20M+ per season. He's worth that AAV. I do however think Toronto would entertain a reasonable extension even with all the infield prospects on the way. I don't think they are counting on Smith or Taylor to be starters. Longshots for that, at least. Groshans and Martin could slide into the OF and 3B if they both work out. Biggio could be a super-utility playing LF/RF/2B/3B/1B. Orelvis and Hiraldo are a few years away so not really relevant to this. Generally speaking, giving big money to bats is safer. I have always liked the idea of spending on bats and developing / churning out pitching prospects.
  9. Laika
    Sad
  10. Laika
    Very likely that Vlad will be over .300 and Ohtani will be under like .280, so I think that one is already decided. BUT if Vlad somehow finished over like, .350, that's a brownie point with the old voters.
  11. Laika
    And a gold glove. If season ended today Ohtani wins it and I think easily. But this one could very well come down to other things like playoff teams or even something stupid like round numbers (what if Vlad hits 50 dingers and Ohtani stalls out at 41, etc.) Lots of season left.
  12. Laika
    Yeah there are "video game numbers" and then there is "we would have to recode the f***ing video game to even allow you to create a player than can do this numbers".
  13. Laika
    If Ohtani stays healthy it's his, regardless of how to final WAR lines up between them. We've seen triple crown winners before and we've seen hitters dominate like Vlad. Nobody alive has ever seen someone do what Ohtani is doing. Ohtani has a chance to do this: .270/.360 50+ HR 100+ RBI 100+ R 20+ SB 7+ fWAR on offense 25+ GS 130+ IP ERA under 3.00 FIP under 3.50 K% over 30% 3+ fWAR as a SP
  14. Laika
    Better than Babe This is my MVP. Sorry, Vlad. They are tied for the MLB lead in fWAR now with 4.7 each
  15. Laika
    Probably not an AAV quite that high. DJLM is a recent comparable and he got 6/90, so a $15M AAV. Semien will be one year younger. Could certainly see a $20M AAV happening.
  16. Laika
    I think he does have more upside. The foundation is so strong - a lefty who can sit 95+ and get by throwing fastballs like 60% of the time. The guy literally only needs one more wrinkle in his repertoire to start limiting home runs. Just something, anything, to get the hitters off his fastball just a bit. Doesn't even have to be a changeup. And he has so much experience, he has used curveballs, changeups, and sinkers more often at various points in his career, so it's not like he is starting from scratch on anything; he knows what works and what doesn't, for him. Just go back to the lab in the offseason and find one more wrinkle.
  17. Laika
    6 against the Rays before the ASG in July and then 7 against Boston that month after the ASG. Put your big boy pants on and win a bunch of those games. Win the division.
  18. Laika
    Well, nobody has ever accused Donaldson of being classy.
  19. Laika
    Semien signed here as a 2B with the intent of testing free agency. Really hard to see him agreeing to an extension. Decent s*** with Ray though. Good vibes there.
  20. Laika
    Dude has pretty bad pitch recognition. He is what he is. It's a small miracle he is able to avoid striking out 30% of the time
  21. Laika
    Lmao at that swing by Reese. BABIP luck went straight to his horny head
  22. Laika
    control f "reached on error" https://www.mlb.com/news/ted-williams-boldness-paid-off-in-406-season-c203704716
  23. Laika
    lol so is the implication that he would have only hit .390 or whatever by today's scoring standards? makes sense actually seems wrong though i just can't see that being true.
  24. Laika
    The rejection of that comes from ignorance though. Or an immature worshipping of randomness. Imagine they did miss the playoffs by one game and they ran Joe Panik out there all year long and he ended up at -0.1 fWAR and -0.2 bWAR. Would you look at that as a missed opportunity, not upgrading on him with say a useful platoon player? Of course you would. Or would you instead say, hey remember that walkoff single Panik got on May 22nd? WAR is wrong and he was worth a win this year, so it was fine to carry him. You can't expect a bench player to be worth two wins. No, of course you wouldn't. That would be retarded.
  25. Laika
    It's not my fault that you don't understand the difference between WAR and WPA. Do your own research, meat. https://library.fangraphs.com/misc/wpa/ Now go look at your original post in this thread and think about it some more. What is the point of your post? Go get hired as a GM and bring in a bunch of guys with good WPA or large RBI totals in the past, and see how you do. Hint: the teams that focus on acquiring projected WAR will leave you in the dust. It's perfectly valid and sensible to say that acquiring Dickerson increases their projected future WAR by 1 win and that's a good thing. We can't predict his future WPA or RBI totals so what is the point in thinking about it? He could literally hit five walk off homers and be worth way more than one win in the win column, but that's random.
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