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It looks like Eloy thought he could bounce off the netting, wrestling ropes style.

Tons of strikeouts as a minor league reliever last year. Old for the levels though. You should have known him!

This is a math question. You might be completely correct. I'm just not confident the team is even doing to math. It seems like there is no plan and this was just a random decision by Charles.

Robert and Eloy aside, the White Sox are just way further along. It's a lineup of veterans and young veterans with a couple of kids playing well. The Blue Jays are a lineup of babies with a couple of crummy young veterans. Moncada alone has more career PA than Bichette, Vlad, and Biggio combined. EE alone might have more career PA than the entire Blue Jays roster. Player (career PA) Blue Jays: Vlad 556 Biggio 474 Jansen 507 Bichette 245 Gurriel 641 Tellez 511 Teoscar 1234 Grichuk 2498 Shaw 2251 Sox: Robert 57 Eloy 549 Engel 1071 Moncada 1516 Garcia 1597 Anderson 2192 Grandal 3341 Abreu 3965 Edwin 7978

I have thought about the Teoscar - Panik thing and have decided that it is not egregious in a nutshell but it is utterly confusing based on what else has happened this year. The central question is - is the team trying to win in 2020 or treating it as one last developmental year? When the team signed Joe Panik I thought it was a nice little pickup. He had been bad for two years but was quite good before that and is only 29. Panik and Teoscar actually have the same projected wOBA by Steamer. Let's just agree that 2020 statistics are not meaningful yet. People tend to under-appreciate how important the platoon advantage can be and casual observers are just not capable of mentally processing how to properly regress platoon splits. I am confident that, on paper, Panik over Teoscar improves the team's projected performance against a right handed pitcher. A team like the Rays would almost certainly play Panik over Teoscar if it was a binary choice in that context. However, we have already seen 11 PAs go to Santiago Espinal this year, and 7 PAs go to Anthony Alford. I believe they have both started multiple games when there were other options and it was not necessary. There is no projected scenario where either should be on the field if the team is trying to win, unless they are coming in as pinch runners or defensive replacements. This is a signal that the team is trying to give playing time to young players and prioritizing development over 2020 winning. Clearly if development is the goal Teoscar should play every day. I'm just not sure what the plan is and what is going on.

I can ban you now you know

All of the plate appearances against Toussaint have been awful. It's like they have no idea what they are doing, no plan whatsoever and no idea what Toussaint throws.

someone shoop this

I will be very triggered and it will ruin my night if Toronto gets dominated by Touki Toussaint

f*** Barmer has more holds than strikeouts. Wild.

Did he really? Good. GOooo.d

Yankees' boosters would say something like knowing when to give up on a player and get some value for them is part of being perfect. Maybe a better example though is Clint Frazier. All the tools in the world, they've had him since 2016, and they haven't been able to turn him into a good enough baseball player to even be on their roster right now. I think the only person who really deserves credit for Gio Urshela is Gio Urshela, as far as we know. Might just be dumb luck on the part of the Yankees that they happened to be holding the guy when he got good. Luke Voit is more scouting than development. Looks like he was always a good hitter. On the prospect/pitching side a lot of the Yankees developmental success is really just monetary success because they can outspend other teams on the international front. The glaring signal for a good system though is Aaron Judge. That's a high risk prospect who performs at the top of his possible outcomes. In shittier organizations he probably looks like a very different player. Maybe.

But it was Buck Farmer, spanky. You traded a 3rd round pick for Buck Farmer. Buck. Farmer.

*** elite reliever crazy stuff vs. projected below average hitter.

Baseball organizations are so huge that you just can't look at specific players like Urshela and get any information from their path about an organization's competencies. A good org will have developmental failures and a bad org will have successes - you need to look at the total picture. Toronto is clearly on the right path, as you say. You can also point to players like Kirk, Pearson, Hatch, Kay, Borucki, Font, Thornton, Groshans, etc. In one way or another guys like that are success stories. You need to balance out all the stories and see which side is heavier and recognize that the majority of players will fail no matter what the org does. On the bad side Toronto hasn't had success with SRF, Alford, Drury, McKinney, Hector Perez, maybe Kevin Smith, to name a few.

Keith Law was so emphatically right on that point that it should legitimize his entire operation. We should all subscribe to The Athletic to see his work.

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Yeah I thought they'd option McKinney because he's not even being used and Espinal was getting some chances. Being said, maybe the fact that Espinal was getting some chances inspired the smart front office to remove him from Charlie Buntoyo's tool box. There's some logic there, if you do a handstand and squint directly at the sun.

I just decided to grow up and BE the change I wanted to see. Take notes.

After playing 2 games and hitting .333/.500/.500?

Very excited to finally have these powers. Spanky's reign of terror will soon be over

Look at Sean Manaea's velocity trend: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/sean-manaea/15873/graphs?pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2016&end=2020&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax= Guy came up as a power lefty in 2016 and now he has less velo than 33 year old Ryu

I don't get why Borucki didn't just get the 8th.

I very much like when the team has so much SP depth that good young arms end up in the pen. RP versions of Hatch, Kay, Borucki are very watchable

New rule: The DL is unlimited. New rule: Adding any player with a red flag is illegal. These may be temporary for the Covid season only. I can't set red flag add restrictions in a free Fantrax league but if you get noticed doing it you have to donate $50 to BLM.