Laika

Yes Also, you have commissioner privileges FYI. Like, 11 of us do.

It's just sound physics. Skinnier players hit more flyballs. That's why you never hear someone say "lazy flyball"

He looks a lot better. Don't be a stooge.

starliever

Royce Lewis tore his ACL. Brutal. The 2017 draft is not looking that hot.

Noda is still a bit interesting because the exit velocities are apparently high. So it's elite walks and good power. Strikeouts and age make him a likely bust, but still, tacking him on to Kendall Williams makes the trade spoo00oo00oOoooky especially when it's the Dodgers selecting those two prospects. Stripling needs to produce.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer

Shi Davidi @ShiDavidi The #BlueJays are adding right-hander Hobie Harris, selected from the #Yankees in triple-A phase of 2019 Rule 5 draft, to big-league camp, per source. Interesting power arm. Fangraphs: Harris is a late-bloomer who only first touched 90 mph while in junior college, and at best sat 90-94 while he was later at Pitt. His velo didn’t really pop until later in pro ball, and Harris sat 92-96 in 2019. The Yankees have been pretty good at developing pitchers for a while, so they lose several of them every year during the Rule 5 draft. Harris was a 2019 minor league phase pick by Toronto. His delivery has changed a bit and he showed up at instructs with a different one, one that better utilizes his lower half. He’s now parked at 96-98 and has been up to 101 out of the bullpen. Harris will still need to find a secondary pitch and his splitter, which he first learned as he entered pro ball, might also blossom late as he’s only recently begun to use it against both-handed hitters rather than try to get righties to swing over his curve. He’s got a shot to earn a bullpen spot at some point in 2021 if he can throw enough strikes in the minors. (Fall Instructional League)

Adam Duvall available for a 2022 pick or a pick upgrade in this draft on any of my first three picks. 16 dingers in 209 PA last year, starting job, he will cruise past 40 home runs in 2021.

Hogan was almost a decade younger. Tiger's has had so many surgeries...

No. This seems like the end of the road for Tiger.

I think those are tough deals to evaluate. In both the big bat is the single best asset - Yelich and Ramirez are studs - but the Buehler + Gore package is substantial. I'd probably take the big bat but letting Buehler go would not be easy.

Really don't know. I think Fantrax considers every offseason transaction to take place for the first day of the season, so it probably doesn't matter whether the drops are made on the morning of March 1st or the last day of February, but I would advise everyone to clear room on February 28th just to be safe.

We are still a go for March 1st, unless there is something I'm not aware of?

Gavin Lux or Austin Martin???

Giving up the specifics around some of those player negotiations is just so, so, so bad as far as almost anybody in the industry would be concerned. The players would be insulted and feel betrayed, and the management side would be shaking their heads at the lack of discretion and disclosure of, really, in-house information.

RE: Tatis and the numbers: This is likely a true superstar. 6.5 WAR in 143 games before he turned 22. At some point a player becomes so good that locking them up for as many years as possible becomes more important than the dollars on the contract. Sure, dollars matter, but if this is the point in time when Fernando Tatis Jr. is willing to commit 14 years of his life to the team and ownership can afford it then you just do it. If the question is "why not just wait until he is approaching free agency and if he is still this good offer him something similar to the last 10 years on this contract?" The best answer is probably that you don't know if Tatis Jr. will want to sign a mega deal with the org in a few years. People change and teams change. If Boston had made a similarly serious offer to Mookie Betts in 2015 or 2016 then he's a Red Sox player for life, but they didn't and a few years later the relationship wasn't there to find agreement on an extension. But the salary is not even that important. Superstar players don't even get what they are "worth" on the field because of certain anchoring dynamics in the market. Timing and term are the key features.

Yeah this is probably as trim as he can/will/should get. It's fine. Lots of pudgy sluggers exist.

Not sure it makes any sense to read anything at all into Blue Jays rumours. They call everybody about everything.

We'll see how much of that group even reaches FA. It might only be 2 of the elite guys. Toronto has a lot of infielders on the way with SS chops so I don't think they will be interested in backing up the truck for any of these guys. Part of the justification in signing Springer was that the organization was very light on high end OF prospects. The same will not be true of the infield; there will be so many infielders comping up that some of the good ones are going to end up patrolling the outfield, actually.

Yeah when Semien came to terms with only being able to land a one year deal this offseason his camp may have looked at next year's SS crop and figured showing positional diversity in 2021 could be important as a way to stand out from the crowd and perhaps not compete directly with them.

I do not think Toronto will be chasing any of them, at least not to play shortstop, unless Bo craters this season defensively. They might be interested in retaining Semien long term to play 2B even if Bo secures SS. Of course a lot can change this year.

I would say 30% chance you get lucky with health and make the playoffs this year but 70% chance you are selling the oldest guys at the deadline Hard to believe Travis d'Arnaud is already 32

You have lots of players 32+ that need to stay healthy

Agree with you on some fronts but not all