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  1. Laika
    I love this stat. 4 ER given up all year and 5 RBI now. Lmao
  2. Laika
    Uhhhh this is insane. Wow.
  3. Laika
    I imagine they just use like, a teeny tiny bit of the residue of the stuff on the pressure point of their spin finger(s).
  4. Laika
    People have been very excited about this guy since the moment Toronto signed him.
  5. Laika
    My thoughts exactly, last night. The average 12 year old has better routes to balls over their head than Gurriel.
  6. Laika
    Deadpool, you should know better. Posting the article is fine but the "lunatic" commentary is political and just bait for anyone of a different slant than you.
  7. Laika
    He's getting worse in the OF, though. The guy has been playing baseball his entire life. Couldn't handle the infield. Getting worse in the OF as time goes on. The worst qualified OF in baseball by OAA. It seems like he just has terrible defensive instincts. I guess he only has like 200 pro games (all leagues/levels) in the OF though. That's not a massive amount of reps. Still, he's a DH when Springer is back.
  8. Laika
    Mitch Keller is awful lol
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  10. Laika
    Timmy!
  11. Laika
    WTF, they won yesterday? After the White Sox took a 2-1 lead I turned the game off and watched anime. s***.
  12. Laika
    The FB velocity seems inconsistent. 60th percentile velocity and spin on the FB. That's fine but more of a 55 grade pitch than even a 60. I wonder if his effective velocity is a bit better because of how big he is (extension, etc.)
  13. Laika
    It's a stupid opinion. The teams all care about adjusted/relative production, anyway.
  14. Laika
    It's an antiquated rule. The intent of it was to prevent baseballs from getting ruined by pine tar, literally to save costs so the teams don't have to throw out and buy as many baseballs. This was all stated publicly around the Brett incident.
  15. Laika
    Current pen: Romano - good but not wholly proven and has had trouble staying healthy Dolis - okay but not good this year, control problems, terrible viewing experience Chatwood - unreliable and not performing recently Castro - waiver claim, pitching fine but replacement level projections Mayza - replacement level or close to it Thornton - replacement level or close to it Payamps - replacement level or worse CEJ - replacement level or worse Beasley - replacement level or worse A complete nightmare. Probably one truly good reliever in the lot, maybe two or three if Dolis and Chatwood can right the ship. Four of the team's five best RP are hurt. Two of them are definitely done for the year. Who knows if Merryweather and Borucki will return and stick. At this rate, Pearson might be in the pen out of necessity in the second half.
  16. Laika
    God this is depressing
  17. Laika
    Hmm Manoah's stuff doesn't seem as impressive
  18. Laika
    I think the model would be very easy to build. Modern pitching science can get you all of the inputs. The problem in practice would just be getting all of the information from specific players. Who wants to measure fingers and submit to grip analysis and all that. Easier to just have someone check during games. You would do random testing by like, stopping the pitching during their windup (ump calls time) and then checking their fingers and the ball for foreign substances. Surprise - stop and frisk
  19. Laika
    In light of this, I guess I'll put that Sam Long guy on debut waivers
  20. Laika
    It's awful! hitters - you can get a decent option at most positions rp - there are like 100+ holds available sp - chase anderson or matt shoemaker
  21. Laika
    In his defense, the league has been turning a blind eye to this problem for a few years. It has obviously become part of pitching culture. Kind of hard to hate on specific players for going with the culture. That's an impossible question to answer in a satisfactory way. ALTHOUGH can Gerrit Cole reasonably blame pitching culture etc. if he is one of the biggest influencers and trendsetters for that culture? A younger player, sure, but he's a face of baseball and a true Ace - one of the guys that CREATES pitching culture.
  22. Laika
    I'm surprised the Astros don't get dragged even more with all of this foreign substances talk. If they were banging on trash cans then we can assume they were at the forefront of foreign substances cheating. I mean, they clearly were. Just look at Cole's spin rates when he got to Houston. The depths of cheating in Houston probably go much further than we publicly know. They are a piece of s*** organization and they deserve nothing.
  23. Laika
    Baseball is so hard. Andrew Vaughn, insanely good college hitter and #3 overall pick, is hitting only .230/.312/.412. Did you all see the pitch he took out? 96.6 mph, almost a perfect pitch on the outside edge of the zone, probably wouldn't have even been called a strike.
  24. Laika
    People always cry about coercion and manipulation and power imbalances when players sign extensions before they debut, but we've seen enough of those guys flop at this point to prove that teams are legitimately taking big risks when they do this. Kingery, Evan White, the pot head 1B in Houston from several years ago. Singleton.
  25. Laika
    Yeah, and it was fine for a bit but it went off the rails. A lot of the time with COVID, Jimcanuk is the culprit. Seems like he just can't help but make some generalized political comment.
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