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  1. Laika
    Lmao at you all immediately analyzing the sixth year. Who cares!!!
  2. Laika
    I know several Jays employees so it's possible
  3. Laika
    No doubt in my mind anymore. Springer is a Blue Jay. Also - Kolten Wong is retweeting Blue Jays news (Yates signing).
  4. Laika
    Here is the deal: None of these guys/girls are liars. They have people who work for the Jays (or whatever) who tell them stuff. That's not a big deal. These twitter people are honest and they are right when they go out on a limb. What they DON'T tend to do is follow journalistic standards... someone like Rosenthal will wait until something like this is verified by two independent sources, or he has been told by someone who would absolutely not be wrong. So it's possible these Jays twitter people are being mislead. That's the problem.
  5. Laika
    This is the woman who posted the first tweet about the Donaldson trade, FWIW. Something like "I hear something big is happening" on the morning of the trade.
  6. Laika
    Rosenthal was wrong!
  7. Laika
    Bit of an overpay IMO. He's probably only worth 7.89M
  8. Laika
    I don't know how this person would know but... This guy is not a reporter or insider. I think just a blogger type. But he's always seemed like a straight shooter
  9. Laika
    Kind of hoping it's a two year deal and I don't care about the money, within reason. They aren't going to be up against any actual payroll ceiling next year either. Yates is old enough that he might not be thinking of a pillow contract. He might be looking to just lock in the biggest guarantee he can. Guarantee him an extra mill or two to get an option on year three while you're at it. Why not?
  10. Laika
    Seager > Lindor >> Correa > Story >>> Baez Baez is clearly the 5th talent. He is in tier 3. Story is a bit overrated as a hitter (Coors) and there are mild K concerns as he ages. Correa has scuffled a bit in the last couple of years and had injury problems. I think he's fine but that puts him below Seager/Lindor. Correa is two years younger than Story though, which is the main difference for me between then. Not a huge gap for me between Correa and Story - they make up tier 2. Lindor is an excellent defender and well-rounded, without glaring injury or strikeout concerns. Has the best single season of the whole bunch. I have a lot of confidence that he will age gracefully. I think Seager is the best all things considered. I think he's the best hitter of the bunch. He's still only 26. I don't really care that he probably moves to 3B at some point - he might be a slugging 3B when Lindor is a light hitting shortstop. Seager and Lindor is super close. Near coin-flip.
  11. Laika
    Do you mean in AAV? The total of Hand + Yates' contracts might be like half of what Hendriks was guaranteed.
  12. Laika
    Barfield had the talent to be a Hall of Famer, with better luck and aging. He was so bad in 1992 that his career swiftly ended. Wikipedia will tell you that he sucked in 1993 in Japan because he only hit .215, but he hit .215/.357/.477 which we would recognize now as a solid enough line. That was 15th out of 68 qualified hitters in the JPCL that year. Makes you wonder if he still had enough juice left to be a platoon OF in MLB. His OPS that year in the JPCL was better than a 19 year old Hideki Matsui and a 25 year old Matt Stairs! I don't know how Stairs ended up in Japan that year but it seems like the Expos sold his rights to Chunichi Dragons and then later sold him to the Red Sox. Stairs would play 1895 MLB games, 467 more than Jesse Barfield (1428 games). In that many less games Barfield's career WAR of 39 is almost 27 full wins higher than Stairs'. There's a different cosmos where Barfield has one more elite season in his 20s and then plays a productive but average corner outfield until his late 30s, adding WAR and counting stats, and then he ends up in Cooperstown by a hair.
  13. Laika
    Really nice to see the organization making a good impression on pitchers. That's two obvious ones now - Ray and Walker.
  14. Laika
    Dick Fiasco is a great name.
  15. Laika
    not sure that's exactly what they mean when they call you little piggy
  16. Laika
    Porter said the dick pick wasn't his dick. Maybe it was Springer's agent's dick!
  17. Laika
    Tim Mayza might be the first one up from Buffalo this year
  18. Laika
    Funny how different baseball was a few years ago. Chatwood got like 3/$40M coming off a below-average season because the Cubs thought they were geniuses and evidently a bunch of other teams also thought Chatwood was sneaky awesome too, driving a weird money rush. That's like Martin Perez getting $40M this offseason.
  19. Laika
    2021-01-19 Yates day
  20. Laika
    Yates would be Grate. The pen would be essentially done: Romano Merryweather Yates Dolis Chatwood Borucki Stripling? Mayza/Hatch/Kay/Gooch/Cole/Thornton/Murphy/SRF/Perez
  21. Laika
    Are you Jake McGee's agent? He had an elite season and could be asking for a lot
  22. Laika
    hmmmm
  23. Laika
    Well you better get your tissues ready because this dude is going to OPEN like ten games this year
  24. Laika
    This is how you get good relievers without giving them big stupid multi-year FA deals, by the way.
  25. Laika
    Tweaked his pitch mix in 2020 and had interesting results: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/tyler-chatwood-and-strikeouts-have-a-meet-cute/ Sleeper signing. Probably better than Taijuan Walker. Nice thing about Chatwood is you can imagine him being a setup RP or a useful SP. Some pretty filthy stuff: https://www.mlb.com/video/search?q=Player+%3D+%5B%22Tyler+Chatwood%22%5D+Order+By+Timestamp+DESC
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