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  1. Laika
    Yeah I think most moves will be relatively minor. Toronto has no pieces of real value to move anyway
  2. Laika
    Giles - they won't get offered anything. Panik - nobody will want him. Shoe - okay chance he gets dealt. Bass - okay chance he gets dealt. Shaw - small chance he gets dealt? Anderson - small chance he gets dealt.
  3. Laika
    He didn’t say you’ve changed your opinion. Relax.
  4. Laika
    Not to Teoscar's current extent. Right now his BB/K ratio is a tiny 0.11 and his wRC+ is 158. No players since 1945 over their career have had a BB/K that low and been an above average hitter. Javier Baez (0.17 and 104 wRC+) and Tim Anderson (0.13 and 99 wRC+) are the closest. When you think about great hitters with s***** BB/K ratios, it's players like Matt Kemp and Jose Abreu who are examples. Both have better BB/K rates than Teoscar but he could do something similar if he could just walk a bit more while maintaining his current K rate.
  5. Laika
    Definitely better than Albert Almora
  6. Laika
    Acuna is a different type of hitter than Bo. More swing and miss with some contact vulnerability in one quadrant, but huge power in all quadrants (and more walks).
  7. Laika
    If you want to see something that is simultaneously amazing and depressing, compare Vlad and Bo's isolated slugging per balls in play heat maps. Vlad has a cavernous hole up and in. He appears to this point to be physically incapable of driving a pitch up and in. He also has not learned to at least hit pitches on the outer half or pitches that are generally up with regular authority either. Bo on the other hand murders pitches that he should, pitches up, even pitches out of the zone, and he has the elite contact skills to put the ball in play for hits even in areas where he doesn't drive it. Think about the above Vlad contact heat map in relation to the ISO/BIP heat map. He makes contact with pitches up and in 90+% of the time, almost every time he swings, but he never hits them for power. It's an automatic groundout. He's a f***ing soft groundout machine when you put the ball there. A double play God.
  8. Laika
    He swings a lot and doesn't walk much but I haven't seen any real holes yet. He can barrel pitches anywhere. I'm not sure how he could be exploited - he does seem to have a decent eye so he doesn't often swing at complete trash. Even if you compare to Vladdy who in theory should be just as good at making contact, Bo looks far superior at putting the bat on borderline pitches everywhere; Vlad has a soft spot low and away and gets cold on borderline pitches low. BO VLAD
  9. Laika
    Man, I just gave you a warning for openly criticizing a mod. Careful what you wish for.
  10. Laika
    Yeah, one draft every year. A New Player Draft in Feb/March. Any signed player without MLB experience is eligible so it covers rule 4 draftees from the prior year, July international free agent babies, and even bigger offseason IFAs. The NPD in 2021 will be super weak and weird as the 2020 MLB draft has already been picked over AND we haven't had a 2020 MiLB season to get data on prospect risers/fallers. Full dynasty so you can add/drop eligible players freely all 12 months of the year. No more cut-down deadlines. There are some mandatory promotions out of the minor leagues at the time of the NPD if a player on a minor league roster has a lot of MLB experience (higher thresholds than we used before, check the new Rules section). Some minor roster rules are a little bit in flux. We might do something like limit the IL during the offseason so teams don't hoard a gross amount of IL players all winter. We might expand MiLB rosters a bit before the 2021 NPD.
  11. Laika
    Deleted all of that trash. It's the f***ing Miami Marlins - no need to get heated. Open insults directed at the mods can result in swift bans. Public warning.
  12. Laika
    This is all baked into the projections though, and they’re pretty damn close
  13. Laika
    Is Acuna better? Career fWAR per 150 games: Bo = 6.47 Acuna = 5.21 Projected fWAR per 150 games (Depth Charts, i.e. Steamer + ZiPS): Bo = 4.02 Acuna = 4.29 Kind of just comes down to how much you believe in Bo's small sample size MLB career. Projections are so close. Bo is already a top 20 projected position player in baseball. Anyone who feels sad about Vladdy right now should just think of Bo!
  14. Laika
    Fangraphs has a live updates line. MLB Gameday updates stats including OPS during games. Just saying, if you glanced at the lineup on Gameday during the game but before the home run by Vlad, his OPS might have been the worst in the lineup.
  15. Laika
    The guy's post might have been pre-homer, at which point Vlad's OPS may have been the lowest of every starter on the team.
  16. Laika
    Jonathan Singleton without the weed
  17. Laika
    that's weird. i guess we'll just do the 8 team playoffs since that's a slightly quicker fix than manually entering matchups for the final regular season week
  18. Laika
    The "savage takedown" words were sarcasm. It doesn't matter much either way. "The play you are so up in arms is probably taking things to the 5th decimal point." that's just... how many decimal points were produced by the basic multiplication. truncate it at round percentages and it doesn't change the point. not sure why people are getting offended at the number of digits. 89438594375894375894375893758943758937458975439 spooky!! I'm comfortable assuming Jansen is not an above average bunter. There are lots of little considerations that it was impossible to work into the simple mathematical example. Most of those other hypothetical scenarios would have little influence next to the broad, prevailing scenarios used in the comparison because they are just very rare. Jansen's chance of bunting for a hit or forced error would be incredibly small. He's slow as s***. You could include something like that with the other bullet points of possible outside considerations but I don't think it changed the point.
  19. Laika
    he does look like a skinny scumbag steve
  20. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

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  21. Laika
    The Charlie Buntoyo experience continues. Here is my savage take down of the decision to have Jansen bunt last night: https://www.radioscouts.com/danny-jansen-should-not-have-bunted/
  22. Laika
    I don't feel like Bass. When is the Trout auction?
  23. Laika
    Yeah, I think we might see a lot of one year pillow contracts.
  24. Laika
    I don't even know how to fathom a guess at this in a post-Covid offseason. Teams will use "losses" from 2020 to negotiate against free agents. In Stroman's case his opting out won't help him.
  25. Laika
    Yeah the angle was not great but I could probably live with it for ~25 games (or whatever they have there). It did not help that the ump last night had a very tight strike zone. Screwed over both pitchers multiple times.
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