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Oh weird Well he probably tweaked it a few games ago when he did THE SPLITS LAST TIME STOP DOING THE SPLITS YOU WEIGH 300 POUNDS!!!!!!! JUST EAT AND HIT THE BALL IN THE AIR THAT'S ALL WE WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay time to stop doing the splits splits are not cool anymore

i dunno about torching he might pull a few singles through the hole

Arjun Nimmala really turning a hot start into a bad year, somehow. Completely lost. Has been bad since June began. Now flirting with an OPS under .700 on the year. His K and BB numbers look fine right now and fine in the last 30 days. So it's not your typical "can't hit" problem. Probably a big batted ball profile problem though. Is he trying too hard to not strikeout?

I think it has been a mini market inefficiency and teams will continue to look for it but it might become too popular, like, immediately. Not sure I would put King in that bucket. Wasn't his more of a long term rehab thing? It's a thing that has always happened at some level. It's more about identifying arms that could do it than jumping on a trend. It will probably always be a trend at some level because our understanding of what makes a good pitcher, and therefore a good SP, changes over time and some teams have differing opinions. The Rays do it all the time. E.g., Zack Littell was not starting when TBR acquired him and he became a full time, good SP. When they trade for guys like Bryan Baker I always half expect that to be a SP candidate the next year. Ostensibly Baker has a decent FB, two decent offspeed pitches, and good command. Why not? CJ Wilson was a huge success conversion 15 years ago. Texas then tried to do it with Neftali Feliz and it ruined his career. A couple of years before that, Ryan Dempster successfully went back into the rotation after 4 years as a RP. Derek Lowe did it even earlier, at 29 years old, with great success. Shaun Marcum was a full time closer in College and was abruptly converted into a SP in the minors.

Players like Albies, Olson, Harris, Schwellenbach, Sale, Acuna, etc. could bounce back, get healthy, or stay healthy, but that does not cure the systemic problems that Atlanta has. Poor prospect acquisition. Bottom 3 farm by every evaluator. Learn to draft. Too aggressive RE: pitching development? They rode Reynaldo Lopez so hard on the RP-SP conversion and he broke. Spencer Schwellenbach was promoted like a prodigy and his elbow just broke. Strider, TJS two years after some aggressive promotions. Didier Fuentes - promoted like crazy this year then had his soul broken in MLB. Waldrep and AJSS - fair to ask if their development or health was negatively impacted by aggressive promotions. They are also presently doing it to JR Ritchie who they flew up to AAA after just 8 AA starts following his significant elbow injury. Too traditional RE: position player usage? Do they ride guys too hard? Is it time to modernize and run more platoons, time shares, and maintenance days for veterans? Some of the "too aggressive" idea could apply to bats too. What is Harris like if he gets more MiLB seasoning? How does he age if he does debut so quickly... Front Office has chronic roster depth assembly issues. When Bryce Elder is your SP6, you are going to have a bad time. Lots of rotten process going on. It will take a while to fix the prospect pipeline and get a proper assemblage of healthy pitching depth.

How can someone be "too old to get into the stock game" but not see themselves as too old to get into the speculative sports card investment game? Head, shake it. Learn 2 stock Not sure why you would go 30 year am

Extremely pathetic to: Think a -0.8 fWAR 1B upgrades your roster on August 18th AND Make no trade for a bat at the recent deadline They are admitting they have a black hole at least on one side of a platoon and they didn't trade for a bat. LMAO.

Will be fun to watch Skenes even if Toronto gets dominated He gave up 4 ER in two of his last three starts, so maybe he is tiring a bit Even if he holds Toronto in check he has been going just 5 or 6 innings max in lots of recent starts

Thing with Toronto is the flights are so short anywhere on the east coast Cleveland/Detroit - 1 hours 15 minutes Baltimore/New York/Boston - 1 hour 40 minutes Chicago - 1 hour 55 minutes Tampa - 2 hours 50 minutes It doesn't seem to matter much for the Jays. If they end up in a division that does not have Boston, New York, or Tampa or Baltimore, it will be because of travel from the OTHER team's perspective. But most of the northeastern teams don't have heavy travel loads as far as I remember. The teams that get screwed are mostly west coast teams.

The tip is to just not do it. At your age, no part of your retirement plan should involve gambling on sports cards or other types of cards. If you were to get into Pokemon cards you would probably be buying the top. It's pretty overheated. You can't even get cards at retail. I think sports cards are sort of doing the same thing, to a lesser extent, although the market is a bit more complex. And Topps is jacking retail prices so the new sets aren't flying off the shelf. Ripping packs is strictly negative. Trying to pick rookies and pre-stars and speculate on price increases is gambling, obviously. It can be fun as a hobby and if you think about it as collecting with the side benefit that sometimes the cards appreciate in value or hold their value. But it's not going to make you money unless you get lucky. It's going to be a money pit more likely. And liquidity is a massive problem. Your options to sell are EBay and you lose the EBay rake and deal with shipping issues, or sell at a show for 80% of market value, or sell at a card shop for 60% of market value. So the only reasonable way to do it is to just budget a bit of money a year as gambling money, essentially, and take your shots. If you do that, buy single cards rather than rip packs. Maybe rip one box of packs a year to scratch the itch and have fun - if your idea of fun is spending $80 to pull one holographic Davis Schneider parallel. What platform are you using for fractional commercial real estate investing? Can be a good idea I guess if it is closer to a REIT ETF but if you are talking about some weirdo app saying 20% annual returns and microfractional ownership, you are also just gambling and it might be a scam. Just do the boring thing man. 1) debt free 2) max out your 401k and other tax beneficial retirement investment s*** you can do 3) buy broad ETFs and be patient 4) if you ever see headlines about Bitcoin being "dead" again, load up on some Do you need to try to make multiples for any reason? Shouldn't your investment goal from here on just be to make sure you never go broke and can afford a good retirement home / vacations?

I think you keep your playoff SP mostly on turn. Bieber, Gausman, Scherzer. Bassitt Berrios and Lauer get some non-traditional use from here on. Whether that is shorter outings, long relief, piggy backing, I'm not sure. But these guys may be tiring and they aren't starting a playoff game anyway, ideally, other than maybe one game in a 7 game series. Bassitt has been pretty bad in like 3 of his last 4 starts.

Okay this is a tough one. Same keys as usual, to victory: 1. Berrios needs to stay in it. Solo homers only. 2. Stay close and destroy their relievers

They have obvious 40 man moves if they don't want to DFA Nance for Bieber (Yimi 60, Pina DFA) but the 26 man move is less obvious. Maybe option Fluharty for a bit.

Budget isn't going to go down after a first place season They can buy a bat

Could be an option but not the #1 option after his lost season

Literally the playoffs will be easy to make

Biebs and George also dominated in AAA. Springer back tomorrow. Huge boost.

Top 5. There have been a lot!

Holy s*** Jeff Hoffman

Why? Because feelings? Projected ERAs in the pen. This is FGDC ROS: 1 Jeff Hoffman TOR 1 1 7 16 0 16.0 11.44 3.00 1.07 .280 76.4% 3.20 3.24 0.4 2 Louis Varland TOR 1 1 0 15 0 15.0 8.57 2.33 0.98 .282 74.9% 3.31 3.51 0.1 3 Trey Yesavage TOR 0 0 0 2 0 2.0 10.89 3.30 1.01 .285 76.1% 3.33 3.36 0.0 4 Brendon Little TOR 1 1 0 14 0 14.0 9.72 4.60 0.67 .297 75.8% 3.34 3.57 0.1 5 Seranthony Domínguez TOR 1 1 1 16 0 16.0 10.65 4.11 1.02 .276 75.6% 3.50 3.69 0.2 6 Yimi García TOR 1 0 0 8 0 8.0 10.05 3.21 1.08 .287 73.7% 3.65 3.67 0.0 7 Braydon Fisher TOR 1 1 0 15 0 15.0 9.97 4.18 1.03 .290 74.2% 3.84 3.92 0.1 8 Tommy Nance TOR 1 1 0 13 0 13.0 8.46 3.08 0.97 .302 72.0% 3.91 3.82 0.0 9 Robinson Piña TOR 1 1 0 9 0 11.0 6.96 2.85 1.20 .278 73.1% 3.97 4.42 0.0 10 Yariel Rodríguez TOR 1 1 0 14 0 14.0 9.39 3.84 1.09 .288 72.4% 4.02 4.05 0.0 11 Nick Sandlin TOR 0 0 0 4 0 4.0 9.45 4.03 1.21 .278 73.0% 4.07 4.31 0.0 12 Mason Fluharty TOR 1 1 0 12 0 12.0 8.85 3.49 1.18 .291 72.9% 4.08 4.17 0.0 He's an okay reliever but his present use is appropriate. There are better RP in there now because the pen is good. He has a 4.22 FIP on the year. And declining velo/stuff. He can hang out with Nance in low leverage.

He was over his skis earlier this year

69 wRC+ against LHP. I wonder if this will be PCA's career season. Probably. The stick has issues. He is sort of a Varsho clone!

His K rate is a slight problem .343 xwOBA is solid 113 maxEV is good. Barrel rate is better than good. Walk rate is good. Defense is good. yeah I dunno. somehow the sum of the parts is not a superstar, yet. is it just the strikeouts that are holding him back? Evan Carter even more disappointing