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It's a stupid opinion. The teams all care about adjusted/relative production, anyway.
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Some interesting home run numbers with the new baseball 2021
Laika replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
God this is depressing -
Hmm Manoah's stuff doesn't seem as impressive
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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
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In light of this, I guess I'll put that Sam Long guy on debut waivers
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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. -
Jim 1 Spanky 0
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Tough game to watch slip away. Ray was so good. After Vaughn homered I didn't expect the pen to hold that game within reach so I watched Castlevania on Netflix. Weird cartoon sex scene towards the end of season 3 and now my wife thinks I'm an even bigger nerd. Basically flipped from the baseball game straight into Hentai. Thanks, Netflix.
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Let's not get carried away. It's nice that Smith is turning himself back into a future depth option but that's all he really is - a depth option. Smith has like a 40 hit tool at best. It's pretty likely that Panik is a better MLB hitter than Smith right now and Panik fits the roster better as a LHB. Smith is pushing Espinal on the depth chart, not Panik. Breyvic Valera and Cristian Colon are also hitting down there and if there are injuries those two might get a twirl before Smith.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Laika replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
They'd have to play like total garbage going forward. Can't really see it happening. Worst case scenario seems like a .500 team -
At some point you just start to accept that he has a terrible batted ball profile. Very low true talent BABIP.
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Robbie K
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Wtf Riley Adams is up???!!!
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Yes. Seems like a bit of a problem at first glance but in the LoD this has proven to work itself out over the offseason/spring. The big IL hoarders just run into an inevitable roster crunch and have to drop a bunch of guys.
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Not exactly. It will work the same as LoD. You won't have to cut long-term IL players to get down to 26.
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No cut downs, ever. The only forced cuts are players in minor league slots who have too much MLB experience, and that only happens once per year at the time of the draft.
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uh huh
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What happened in the OHL? Taya Currie getting drafted? She said she wants to be treated like everyone else. If she's not good enough she won't make the team. She played AAA with the boys, maybe she's good enough to play a bit. I know lots of boys from my year who got drafted to the O for no real reason at all, other than personal connections and stuff. They had no realistic shot to play. Co-ed sports at the highest level are only inevitable in sports where there can be a woman physically talented enough to hang. Hard to imagine but there could be niche cases and there would nothing wrong with it. It would actually be v cool. If the basic idea turns you off then you're blatantly sexist.
