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  1. Laika
    The real question with robotic strikes & balls is will they redefine the strike zone? If they don't the game will fundamentally change because pitches that currently get called strikes more than 50% of the time will be balls, and some pitches that are almost never called strikes will always be called strikes. This will have a huge effect. Certain players will be from good to bad, or bad to good, overnight.
  2. Laika
    What did Montoyo do wrong? I can’t see anything
  3. Laika
    Hey guys this game sucks
  4. Laika
    Braves just optioned Touki Toussaint. 2020 against Toronto: 6.2 IP 9 Ks 0 BB 2020 against every other team: 15 IP 19 Ks 13 BBs Funny how in baseball a guy who just cannot throw strikes can, for one complete start, just randomly throw strikes. Zone% by appearance: 38.8 40.5 50.6 --> Toronto game 37.2 35.6 28.9 He has only thrown strikes 50% of the time or more in one other MLB appearance, a 2019 relief outing. His career Zone% is 36.9%
  5. Laika
    The point of the rule is really just about naming the player. Players not on the 60 should not expect to be shuttled around if they are traded, so they will be PTBNLs. No big deal. Yes, a team could add a player to their 60 and include them by name in a trade but they'd only do that if the receiving team really wanted to add them to their 60 too for some reason. Can't see that really happening. We should see a lot of PTBNLs.
  6. Laika
    Or they will be affected by bias and target their favourite pet prospects. This can cut both ways.
  7. Laika
    I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. There are teams that don't even have a catcher on their top ~30 prospects list while Toronto has a handful. Moreno's best use to Toronto might very well be as trade bait. Fangraphs lists: LAA - zero C PIT - zero C SEA - two C SFG - two C including Bart CIN - two C including Stephenson TOR - five C (Kirk, Moreno, Adams, D'Orazio, and McGuire) plus a decent young MLB catcher in Jansen.
  8. Laika
    I clearly admitted that comparing their swings was silly by saying I should ban myself. They do look similar though. Someone could put together a gif side by side and on certain swings it's uncanny.
  9. Laika
    Now it’s clear - you have the reading comprehension of a parrot and think I said that Rowdy Tellez is good.
  10. Laika
    watch some tape, meat stick. the swings are hilariously similar
  11. Laika
    Probably easier to break a hand, yeah, but we've seen players seriously f*** up their knees or ankles on aggressive feet first slides at home too and it's much harder to sneak a foot onto the edge of a plate. But it's true that injury is more likely on a head first https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0363546517704835 "The estimated overall frequency of injury in MLB was once per every 336 slides, and the rate of injury for head- and feet-first slides was 1 in 249 and 413 slides, respectively (P = .119)."
  12. Laika
    Tanner Roark aka Grindr.
  13. Laika
    I've always thought that Tellez' swing, physically speaking, looks like David Ortiz'. Banning myself for saying that in 5 minutes
  14. Laika
    His velocity is way down so I'm not expecting him to get better this year. Hopefully it just has to do with the shortened season.
  15. Laika
    Still waiting for the real Tanner Roark to show up. His ERA, FIP, xFIP, are all over 5.00. He has always been able to throw strikes with okay stuff. For some weird reason he can't throw first pitch strikes this year. Always pitching from behind. That's not him at all.
  16. Laika
    Oops. One swing and Roark's okay start all of a sudden looks like another stinker. 2 HR 2 BB 2 K.
  17. Laika
    Yoshi Tsutsugo can't hit an MLB fastball. Lucky for him Roark doesn't really have one.
  18. Laika
    His in Rochester right now working. Probably soon?
  19. Laika
    Mostly true. Rowdy is making more contact this year though so his K/BB is significantly better. Vogelbach is actually extremely passive. Fans of the M's will probably tell you he is too passive. It's interesting because there is some utility to being aggressive. Bo Bichette is extremely aggressive and Cavan Biggio is the opposite and both are quite good. Tellez and Vogelbach are similar to those two when it comes to some plate discipline stats.
  20. Laika
    His velocity is down a lot. 96 to 93.7 mph vs 2019. Not sure I would be interested after seeing that. Whiffs are way down too.
  21. Laika
    Probably need to take like 8 of those games. If they lose today that would make them 21-19 going into the tough stretch with 17 games in like 18 days including 10 against the Yankees. Even going 7-10 in that stretch would still leave them with a good shot at .500. But a sub-.500 team could very realistically get the 8th playoff spot this year.
  22. Laika
    Man, why is Brandon Drury even on the team at this point if Joe freaking Panik is playing 3B over him against a LHP? Surely there are a few superior bench options looking for work. Cough Brian Dozier. Or just call up Kevin Smith. He sucks but at least he might run into the odd homer or could be useful as a pinch runner.
  23. Laika
    Strongly disagree. Give me a big fatty any day over some light hitting non-shortstop like Drury or Panik.
  24. Laika
    This is reductionist of course but if anybody thought Dozier could play shortstop he'd probably be employed, right?
  25. Laika
    Yeah they would need someone with more defensive versatility than Dozier if it meant cutting Panik or Drury. They already have a bad defensive team.
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