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  1. Laika
    watch some tape, meat stick. the swings are hilariously similar
  2. 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)."
  3. Laika
    Tanner Roark aka Grindr.
  4. Laika
    I've always thought that Tellez' swing, physically speaking, looks like David Ortiz'. Banning myself for saying that in 5 minutes
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Laika
    Oops. One swing and Roark's okay start all of a sudden looks like another stinker. 2 HR 2 BB 2 K.
  8. Laika
    Yoshi Tsutsugo can't hit an MLB fastball. Lucky for him Roark doesn't really have one.
  9. Laika
    His in Rochester right now working. Probably soon?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Laika
    Strongly disagree. Give me a big fatty any day over some light hitting non-shortstop like Drury or Panik.
  15. Laika
    This is reductionist of course but if anybody thought Dozier could play shortstop he'd probably be employed, right?
  16. 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.
  17. Laika
    He was dogshit in the second half of 2019 so it’s not just a slow start after a solid season. It looks more like a flash in the pan good first half last year. Tellez vs Vogelbach is an eventual decision. It’s good for Tellez to have some competition
  18. Laika
    In the short term he isn’t even displacing Rowdy. There is room on the bench for Vogelbach, at least until some people come back from injury.
  19. Laika
    This would be such a tough sell to Rowdy and the rest of the team. And the fans. You might be right though. They don’t even necessarily have to like Vogelbach more than Tellez to just see this as a 40 man upgrade in some way.
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  21. Laika
    Um okay.
  22. Laika
    Boxcar has added BlueRocky as a co-manager. You can probably PM BlueRocky if you want to talk trade.
  23. Laika
    Zero chance they add either to the 40 before giving allllll of the names ahead of them a chance. Murphy is on the 40 and is the only interesting, non-roster spot start option.
  24. Laika
    I guess the key point is "when he connects." The K rate is very bad. His exit velocity being up so much vs. career norms is very interesting though. At this point in the season both the K rate and the EV are starting to cross the line in the sand where we can say they were probably descriptive of his actual talent level, to some extent, during his first 19 games (it can no longer be assumed to be mostly random variance.) With his new 33% strikeout rate characteristic he might need to hit the ball like Sano or Schwarber to be an average player.
  25. Laika
    Wow, I had no idea Shaw’s statcast stuff was good. I was just looking at his K and BB rates and his ISO. Groshans or Martin will solve 3B in 2022. Kyle Seager would be a great option if his stupid option for 2022 did not become a player option if he’s traded. Really just need a guy for 2021 and this year. I think Jansen walks enough and is good enough at D that I’d just roll with him. Kirk should get some chance to steal part of his job though
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