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  1. Laika
    Yeah, everything from the shoulder to the fingers is connected and when it comes to pitching injuries the problems are rarely isolated. A weak elbow structurally will put extra pressure on the forearm.
  2. Laika
    informed consent, man this is a guy who punched himself in the face on the field. I'm sure he's into this kind of abuse.
  3. Laika
    Ken Giles back to the IL (elbow) Anthony Kay optioned Derek Fisher to IL (hit on knee by Matt Shoemaker during live BP) Waguespack back Hector Perez selected!!! Teoscar activated but won't play tonight
  4. Laika
    It's not possible to give every fringe player 1000 plate appearances. Do you think they should make Derek Fisher a starting OF next year and not give up on him until he fails through 1000 PA? Should they have done the same thing with Billy McKinney? Do you think they gave up on Anthony Alford 925 PAs too soon? Plate appearances are not unlimited!
  5. Laika
    Not worse. I have read that the MLB, NBA, and NHL season lengths are all roughly equivalent at separating good teams from bad teams. Baseball needs more games to do that because each specific game is more random. If MLB goes to 8 team playoffs it will become the same as the NHL and NBA. In the NBA 8 team playoffs still seem fair because better teams have such a large on the court advantage. MLB needs to find a way to at least give the higher ranking teams a significant advantage. It won't come from talent alone so it needs to be structural with how the playoffs work. If they have 100 win teams facing 81 win teams in a 3 or 5 game series, with nothing else on the scales, it will be a f***ing disaster.
  6. Laika
    This is my point of view too. Other ideas: - Division winners have all home games in the first series - Division winners can pick their first round opponent from the other 5 teams As a general baseball fan I don't love this but as a Toronto Blue Jays fan I think it's good. We should almost never see Toronto enter a sad rebuilding phase in the future if 8 AL teams make the playoffs.
  7. Laika
    Today on BJMB we discuss mind-body dualism. Is it a mental error if something is physically wrong with the player's brain?
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    NBA Thread

    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Paul George was worse than Siakam!
  9. Laika
    With the tight playoff schedule teams won't be able to rely on 3 SP like playoff teams have been able to do in years past. They will need 4, and might even have to use a 5th SP if a series goes long. Toronto really has to use Walker even if Pearson is back. If Pearson is back he might be best utilized as the second guy of a piggyback situation. Looking at the depth, if everyone is healthy... why not... 1 - Ryu 2 - Merryweather + Kay or Hatch? 3 - Ray + Anderson? 4 - Walker + Pearson? 5 - Stripling + Kay or Hatch? Any of the starters and followers could be flipped around or mixed up. Stripling, Walker, Ray, Pearson, and Anderson are all strictly not allowed to face an order for the third time. Moot point with Merryweather who won't be able to throw that many pitches anyway. I don't recall if Shoemaker has any chance of pitching again this year. Roark can sit alone in the stands and smell his own diesel engine farts.
  10. Laika
    I know the reply will be something nonsensical like "all of those runs are Fisher's fault!" but hopefully seeing Taijuan Walker fold like a cheap lawn chair and get his depressingly mediocre pitches demolished by the Yankees has convinced a few people that he's not worth investing in after this year. It's just not a good bag of pitches. It works if you're looking for a back-end SP who you'd never want to have start a playoff game.
  11. Laika
    Hello I posted two polls in Fantrax. One is for expanding the bench by one slot and the other is for expanding the minor league roster by two spots. I personally do not care if either change happens but I said we would vote on both. Also, I have decided to change our debut waivers rule to mirror the other leagues. This will start in 2021. Players will then be freely addable at 8PM two days after their first MLB game played. This would replace the current timeline of 8PM following their first day on the roster. The reasoning is: consistency between leagues, it's not as easy as I first thought to find out when a player was on the roster, and it seems that in this league there is not a need to put the vast majority of players on waivers anyway.
  12. Laika
    Are you talking about Cron or Forsythe? Either way, both of them were not dramatically better with Tampa than they were two years before coming to Tampa. Tampa is good at identifying talent who underperformed recently and buying low on them then giving them the perfect amount of playing time in optimal situations. On wRC+, I believe it is home park adjusted AND league adjusted (AL/NL) but I don't think Fangraphs does any type of divisional adjustment so you might actually have a point. I'm sure some huge f***ing nerd has solved this but it's too complex to permeate the veil of popularity. There is a reason that Dave Cameron used to say that fWAR is not accurate to the decimal point e.g. you can't really say that someone who had 2.5 WAR was better than someone who had 2.3 WAR.
  13. Laika
    It depends on the type of player you are. They are an excellent developmental organization and they are the best team in the sport at highlighting a player's strengths. They have made careers. Here is one example Logan Forsythe has 9.7 career WAR. 6.7 of that came during his time with the Rays. They paid him $3.895 million during those years. His career earnings are $21M. The Dodgers paid him like $18M for 1.6 WAR the two years after Tampa traded him. If Logan Forsythe is never traded to Tampa Bay, who knows what happens. He might never become a good enough player to be awarded $18M total in his final two arbitration years. He sucked the year before Tampa acquired him. Maybe he just flames out in San Diego and barely makes a few million. There are guys like this every season. CJ Cron - parlays 2.2 WAR in 2018 with Tampa (earned $2.3M) into $10.9M over the next two years and he suxxxxxxx.
  14. Laika
    That's Olerud's whole point. Vlad aged 15+ years in two offseasons. He now has the body of someone who should be aging out of baseball.
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    Grant
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    It will never happen but I thought it was a great idea.
  17. Laika
    Often works out that way because they are on a different level, but they get f***ed sometimes for it. Just this past offseason they actually included Jake Cronenworth with Tommy Pham to try to milk value out of Pham before he got too expensive in arbitration. Xavier Edwards could be really good I guess but Cronenworth is a stud and Renfroe f***ing sucks. So that one is nice to see. But it's not just the trades. They do other annoying money saving stuff, like platoon everybody and do weird RP usage in (small) part to suppress arb salaries, non-tender useful players who are set to make a tiny bit more in arb, blah
  18. Laika
    Personally, I love the Rays. I just wish they would move to any other city so they could sometimes have a payroll inside the top ~20 in the league. Keep all the baseball innovation but remove some of the money saving "innovation".
  19. Laika
    This deal aside, if you are poor you can game the Athletic annually and just sign up during the Christmas / Boxing week sale every year. It's 70% off I think. I think the site is worth it even at full price. One of the only online subscriptions I pay.
  20. Laika
    wait, you benched Voit for Danny Jansen and then lost because of that specific decision? pain
  21. Laika
    He looks very different now, for sure. I do think fitness is the main issue. I don't think it's as simple as "fat = bad"; we have seen many of fat power hitters. BUT most of the fat power hitters either came up fat or slowly got fat. Vlad gained a large amount of weight in a relatively short period of time. I think this happened pre-2019 and then again pre-2020. It has to mess up the swing mechanics. If you look at a 2020 HR compared to that Montreal homer, the bat looks a bit slower and he does not look as balanced in 2020. His hips don't clear out properly.
  22. Laika
    I think Tatis was like the 30th ranked prospect in his IFA class. At the time of the Shields trade everyone would have reported Erik Johnson as the first piece going to San Diego. MLB.com's scouting report from his IFA year: Every year a dozen Fernando Tatis Jr.'s get signed as babies. Most never make the big leagues. One every hundred years turns into this version of Tatis Jr. Poor White Sox!
  23. Laika
    They’ll be the same as regular season
  24. Laika
    At least I drank the Kool-Aid right away: I will carry water for Ross Atkins until I die. Or he gets fired.
  25. Laika
    We will have to wait a decade but if we just look at former #1 prospects it's still very unlikely he will be worse than any of Brien Taylor, Todd Van Poppel, Rick Ankiel, Delmon Young, or maybe Jurickson Profar (who was looking like an all time bust due to injuries * hype, but has been a somewhat useful player recently).
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