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  1. Laika
    Yes there should be a rosin bag + a tube of firm grip (or whatever) behind the mound. Let MLB pick the product or design the product, something that provides a bit of grip but isn't excessive.
  2. Laika
    MLB openly invited this type of ******** when they turned a blind eye to foreign substance cheating all of these years. And guess which team was front and centre on that front before all this! The Astros! The league needed to legalize a mild form of pitcher grip tack (or whatever) ten years ago and outlaw all others.
  3. Laika
    The financial + draft pick component seems appropriate. Those picks are worth a ton of money. I don't understand how the 1 year suspensions will work in practice. Are they just stepping right back into their old jobs after a year like nothing happened? You'd think that the owners will want to go a different direction. I also don't understand how tampering in the 14 year old market in Latin America = a lifetime ban but aggressive cheating at the MLB level = a one year break.
  4. Laika
    Not a big fan. That's the umpire colour scheme, lol. Black and powder blue is some emo sweet 16 s***.
  5. Laika
    .290/.355/.500 with like 25/85/85 if he stays healthy. huge variance though but 2019 is a not terrible floor from a 3B in fantasy
  6. Laika
    I wish I made the account. Friend, I know parades are cool. Take a look at the thread we are in that I started. Do you think I want this team to clutch it’s prospects forever and chase the $/WAR title? And you don’t know me if you think I don’t need to reply. You will not get the last stupid word in on me, I will get the last stupid word in on you.
  7. Laika
    Imagine being so annoyingly wrong that people literally make accounts to tell you how wrong you are? Just phenomenal stuff here on bjmb
  8. Laika
    Teams have more advanced ways of measuring fatigue these days. Fans should just use innings as a proxy. They won’t literally count his innings but I would not expect him to just chuck it all year long with a full MLB starter workload - that would be kind of stupid. If they wait until the metrics dip that means he’s probably already hurt and it’s too late.
  9. Laika
    Yeah I don't think they'll let him throw 200 innings in 2020. Maybe try to limit him to ~160 at the most this year.
  10. Laika
    Why make this assumption? It's incredibly dishonest. You have no idea what they could get for Giles. The irony of this sentence; neither does an extension. They can (and should) trade Ken Giles and still spend the money that would have gone to him on the MLB roster. Yet you think extending a guy like Giles is going to be cakewalk and Toronto is going to come away paying 70 cents on the market dollar? There's just an incredible amount of wilful blindness, dishonesty, and incoherence in most of what you are saying. Plan A needs to be to trade Giles. If there is no decent return available, maybe the team pivots to extension talks, but that should be the clear Plan B.
  11. Laika
    That's not "risk tolerance"; it's ignorance. Toronto could trade Giles at the deadline for a player or players who can contribute over the next ~6 seasons, then make a point to sign a lockdown RP in free agency before 21. The MLB team would be in substantially the same position for 2021, financially and in terms of talent, had they extended Ken Giles, but they would have ~47 exciting years of control over players in addition to that. Your idea doesn't accelerate any process, in theory. It just misses out on value. It has nothing to do with optimism. Are you Ken Giles or something? Enough of this in my Mookie thread though.
  12. Laika
    The planet where Giles is a f***ing reliever who could explode at any minute and they should be able to get a premium return for him. Then they can just sign a free agent reliever! You’ll never get it, clearly, but it is what it is
  13. Laika
    Even substantially worse relievers have returned some interesting, valuable, and in most cases MLB-ready or near MLB-ready returns in recent years. Shane Greene got Joey Wentz and Travis Demeritte Chris Martin got Kolby Allard Sergio Romo got Lewin Diaz Keona Kela got Taylor Hearn Roberto Osuna got Giles himself + other pieces Chasen Shreve + Giovanny Gallegos got Luke Voit Brad Hand got Francisco Mejia Tony Watson got Oneil Cruz (wasn't close to MLB but a great return) Justin Wilson got Jeimer Candelario and Isaac Paredes David Phelps got Pablo Lopez Sean Doolitle + Ryan Madson got Blake Treinen, Sheldon Neuse, and Jesus f***ing Luzardo This isn't really rocket science. Not trading Ken Giles probably makes the team worse over time and even has a chance to make the team worse in the mid/short term.
  14. Laika
    Has there been an elite reliever trade in recent memory that has not returned a "difference maker"?
  15. Laika
    Let’s also not forget the reports/rumours that Toronto made offers or overtures to Strasburg and Cole...
  16. Laika
    Wow, aggressively ableist language from someone with a disability!!! Shocked I am
  17. Laika
    We live in a post Ryu world. You should have a shred of faith at least!
  18. Laika
    Just making this thread so we can start getting excited about Toronto landing Mookie Betts next offseason. - they'll have all the payroll space in the world - there will be a wide open spot in the OF in all likelihood - the team will be ready to win - the organization will be ready to spend - he will plug one of the biggest systemic holes since the organization does not have premium OF prospects - Boston won't be able to afford him - Some other big money teams might be at or near their payroll limits It's nearly time for Rogers to hand out the biggest contract for a position player in MLB FA history. Mookie is the one to do it for.
  19. Laika
    Urena is going to hit .350 in April isn't he?
  20. Laika
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  21. Laika
    Six years ago!? What is this, Jumanji? Peralta projects better than Calhoun which is all that really matters, but he projects better because he has been more consistently good recently. What happened from 2014-2016 might as well have been done by Kole Calhoun's grandpa for all it's worth.
  22. Laika
    I don't love the comp. Peralta has been basically league average even in his down years, whereas Calhoun has oscillated between replacement level and league average over the last three years. Peralta is the better projected player. Peralta was projected to get nearly $9M in arbitration so he's only tacking $13M guaranteed onto that. I think even if he has a down year for David Peralta he'd be an attractive enough commodity to get a Calhoun type free agent deal. Sure, he could suffer a huge injury but everyone in baseball has that risk. I'm sick of you f***ing pussies saying that every player taking guaranteed money is doing something smart. Have a sack with two testicles in it, for f***s sake. Try to think about these things like a multi-millionaire with a pair of nuts would, not like some Canadian civil servant making $50k a year with s***** benefits and two weeks vacation.
  23. Laika
    Seems like a bit of a raw deal for Peralta. I don't know if he really gained anything; he gets that money in all likelihood even if he has a pedestrian season. But this extension kills his chance at a much richer contract, and this guy has two 4 win seasons on his resume.
  24. Laika
    They won't use him as a post-opener. Glasnow has been used in that role by Tampa Bay in part because of his early career struggles; with Pittsburgh Glasnow looked like a SP bust and he was being resigned into a pure relief role. Toronto is going to hope that Nate Pearson is a Power Horse MLB SP a la Syndergaard, Cole, etc. and they will develop him like that to the point of failure.
  25. Laika

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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

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