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  1. Laika
    f*** Barmer has more holds than strikeouts. Wild.
  2. Laika
    Did he really? Good. GOooo.d
  3. Laika
    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.
  4. Laika
    But it was Buck Farmer, spanky. You traded a 3rd round pick for Buck Farmer. Buck. Farmer.
  5. Laika
    *** elite reliever crazy stuff vs. projected below average hitter.
  6. Laika
    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.
  7. Laika
    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.
  8. Laika
    (no)
  9. Laika
    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.
  10. Laika
    I just decided to grow up and BE the change I wanted to see. Take notes.
  11. Laika
    After playing 2 games and hitting .333/.500/.500?
  12. Laika
    Very excited to finally have these powers. Spanky's reign of terror will soon be over
  13. Laika
    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
  14. Laika
    I don't get why Borucki didn't just get the 8th.
  15. Laika
    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
  16. Laika
    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.
  17. Laika
    Yes I'll make it the first week of September instead.
  18. Laika
    It's 2020 and he's remarkably only 25 years old. I think he has one more health bar.
  19. Laika
    The other day I learned that there are different flavours of Jelly King. The labels are so similar that you barely notice.
  20. Laika
    Your wife stole your porno? I didn't know she was so into ebony bushes
  21. Laika
    Jacob DeGrom's fastball is averaging an obscene 98.6 mph this year, about 2 mph higher than 2019. His average FB velo is higher than almost every reliever with an 80 grade fastball. Airing it out in a short season? Freak of nature gets better? About the have his arm fall off?
  22. Laika
    You've jerked off in an alley?
  23. Laika
    Lucky me that absolutely nobody wanted Gio Urshela this off-season. A stud monster
  24. Laika
    How is nobody taking this?
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