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  1. Laika
    They are all good teams. Not sure how you pick a preferred opponent among them. Rays: Snell, Glasnow, Morton + 11th best position player assortment in MLB + #1 bullpen (well rounded opponent) Indians: Bieber, Carrasco, Plesac, Civale + #3 bullpen + 17th position player assortment (great pitching) White Sox: Giolito, Keuchel, Dunning + #9 bullpen + #2 position player assortment (great lineup and two good SP) Twins: Maeda, Berrios, Pineda, Hill + #5 bullpen + #7 position player assortment (well rounded opponent) Toronto is #16 position player assortment, #12 bullpen, + Ryu and crap. Clear underdog against any of them. Need to rely on players who did not really help them much during the regular season (as far as total fWAR is concerned) like Pearson, Ray, Kirk, Villar, Stripling, Shoemaker, and Vlad.
  2. Laika
    Toronto just doesn’t care if they finish 8th or 5th. Right now New York would play Cleveland. I’ll take the Rays, thanks!!!
  3. Laika
    You’re exposing yourselves as a bunch of insecure little twerps. Ross could be in a Just For Men ad. This is a man, father, husband, leader.
  4. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    I imagine that this will go down as the least watched Stanley Cup finals of the era. Just a terrible matchup. And competing for viewers with every other sport
  5. Laika
    Anyone who ever called him a Beta needs to apologize to Ross. Look at this man.
  6. Laika
    Definitely thread worthy
  7. Laika
    Huh, no structural damage for Clevinger. Might pitch again this year.
  8. Laika
    In baseball a team controls a new player for their first six full MLB seasons. Players also make only the league minimum salary for the first three years, and then get gradual increases in salary for the next three. Because of this good young players are extremely valuable... an okay rookie is often "worth" more than a very, very good veteran. Yes, it is likely Toronto does not trade a piece from their young core for a while. They would only really do it if they are getting back another young, controllable player OR an elite player in a playoff push.
  9. Laika
    I'm not sure it has been confirmed just yet that Huckaby or Hentgen are gone. I think they were offered part-time coaching positions. Although, they will likely turn those down for obvious reasons. It's worth noting that basically every MLB team has been trimming their operating costs top to bottom this year. Most have been firing large numbers of scouts. Not sure we have seen a story yet of Toronto canning a dozen professional scouts, so maybe this is part of a slightly different approach. Lots of reasons here. Decreased revenues this season, changes to the minor leagues on the horizon, rapidly changing opinions on player evaluation and development.......
  10. Laika
    It's inevitable when a short-sighted GM sells most of the farm to build the oldest team in baseball.
  11. Laika
    I don't think so. Tampa will use Snell, Glasnow, and Morton probably in that order. They won't pull Snell early if he is pitching well. They will only pull Glasnow early if there are warning signs. In game 3, if it gets there, I guess I could see an early hook for Morton being part of the plan. If Tampa advances then you might see some shenanagins when they have to use other SP.
  12. Laika
    Mostly you're just seeing things. I don't even know what "what we saw" is trying to refer to. Are you also mad that they traded Kevin Pillar without sending him a nice enough gift basket?
  13. Laika
    Why is there a perception that the end of the employment relationship between Toronto and Jose Bautista, or between Toronto and Josh Donaldson, was a "bad breakup"? Donaldson was hurt and it was awkward but I don't think I've ever read any proof that him and the organization were mad at each other. Same with Jose. He wanted a huge extension that Toronto did not provide, then his last season with Toronto was awful and he went elsewhere. Why is that a "bad breakoff"? What the f*** else would anyone want the team to do? I don't even think Jose is mad at the org. Stroman was mad when he got traded to the Mets and there was a story about him (presumably him) screaming in the clubhouse. It's not Toronto's fault he's a baby who got the CN Tower tattooed on his butt during his rookie season.
  14. Laika
    I can guarantee you that "killing any relationship the Jays had with [their] former players" is not a motivating factor.
  15. Laika
    So he’s done. Nice trade, Whale’s Vagina.
  16. Laika
    Explain to me how Toronto takes the $12M owed to Roark and does anything with it other than pay Tanner Roark, you absolute f***ing genius you.
  17. Laika
    People will get more upset about this than they should.
  18. Laika
    Sure, if you're actually trying to create fair comps. But if the goal is to just lump Jansen in with a short list of really good names to bug Boxcar then you just do what I did. I think even if you expand all the buckets though, you'd just be scooping up a few more solid names. It's rare to walk that much, hit for some power, and avoid strikeouts.
  19. Laika
    Danny Jansen right now through 136 PA: 14.7% BB 20.6% K .191 ISO 2020 hitters meeting all of those checkpoints (before tonight): Freddie Freeman, Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, Joey Votto, Anthony Rendon, Brandon Nimmo, Jason Heyward. 2019 qualified hitters meeting all of those checkpoints: Trout, Bregman, Soto, Carlos Santana.
  20. Laika
    LMAO that's a five star play by Vladdy
  21. Laika
    Lux is one that it is definitely too early to freak out about. He hasn't produced but the sample is still small, the K rate is not through the roof, and the minor league numbers were just soooo convincing.
  22. Laika
    Yeah Adell seems rushed. Angels called him up as a desperation move and now he's already been supplanted by Ward and Walsh. Still, early shades of Brandon Wood AND the teams that guess right early on big busts can extract substantial surplus value from a sinking ship. E.g., the Yankees made an insane profit dumping Montero for Pineda. Robles reminds me of Profar in some ways. A well-rounded game but just... weak!
  23. Laika
    Jo Adell at -1.4 fWAR, 27 wRC+, 41.6% K rate. Projections don't like him much (minor league stats were not convincing for his uber-prospect status). Is anyone buying him in dynasty? What are his odds to bust completely? Similar concerns for Carter Kieboom. Not as drastic there though. It's interesting that a prospect like Ke'bryan Hayes can hit the ground running in comparison to those two after putting up pedestrian MiLB numbers. I think it shows the importance of indicators like K and BB rates and that raw offensive numbers can be misleading. A hyper athletic hitter can hack his way to a great wRC+ in the minors.
  24. Laika
    I 100% agree with that poster from earlier today who said Vlad is visibly thinner. I think he's dropped like 15 lbs since the season started.
  25. Laika
    Hard to say. The FA market has not been friendly to average-ish players like him in the last couple of years.
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