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  1. Laika
    I disagree with you. Pillar made almost $6M in arb2 this year. It would not have been worth the money and the roster spot to keep him through 2019 on the chance that he would project to retain enough skill through 2020 to be a viable 4th OF standing to make about $8M. Recent free agency markets demonstrate that a team can sign a similar 4th OF for less than that. No sense staying married to Pillar. It doesn't look like they got any player talent back for Pillar, in hindsight. That's unfortunate but at the time of the trade there was a reasonable chance that Law could have been a decent RP with control or De Paula could have been some sort of pitching prospect worth keeping. There's also opportunity cost to keeping Pillar. Toronto found out this year that Gurriel looks like a good outfielder, in part because the outfield was wide open and there was room for him. They got to trial Grichuk and Teoscar in CF. They got to give guys lots of playing time in the OF and evaluate talent. Pillar's presence awkwardly gets in the way of some of that.
  2. Laika
    Cap leagues f***ing suck Having a rich teams to hate on is actually good for the sport
  3. Laika
    I'm not sure that reasoning from anecdotes is actually a "good approach to these kind of questions". If you go back to the beginning of time (2006) here are some notable A or A+ names with K rates over 35% in 300+ PA Lewin Brinson - made the majors, sucked, will probably always suck Bobby Dalbec - has cut the K rate by a lot in AA this year, will very likely make the majors, we will see Joey Gallo - we are not worthy Travis Demeritte - made the majors, we will see, will probably suck Tommy Pahm - hey now? did not expect this guy's name Austin Beck - 95 wRC+ in A+ this year, Fangraphs has him at a higher FV than Conine. Not sure why I put him here. And of course there have been oodles of prospects with K rates approaching or above 40% who never made it.
  4. Laika
    Probably just skating home from the gastropub on his longboard, dude
  5. Laika
    Early playoff dividends from Syndergaard
  6. Laika
    Interesting scores right now... featherD with 1 category against p2f! Thehurl with a huge lead in his matchup!
  7. Laika
    Todd The Mod He has a great bod
  8. Laika
    They are kind of like the Angels. Just pathetic.
  9. Laika
    They should actually shrink the seats and make some standing room only sections so the capacity is 80,000. Think of all the additional revenues!
  10. Laika
    No it's f***ing not. Even in 2016, the average attendance was like 42,000. What is it this year, 20,000?
  11. Laika
    It's downtown toronto though - there is nothing green around it. It was also originally called the Skydome and the most "natural" the landscape gets from the inside looking out is when the sky is clear blue, which is an effect exaggerated by the blue seats which become contiguous with the sky. I get the green seat thing mostly because it's toned down, but I think it makes more sense to just tone down the blue a bit for the updated seating for the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Stadium Dome. The current shade of blue is pretty stark when the seats are empty.
  12. Laika
    If Todd is right he gets to be a mod
  13. Laika
    So you got like six plate appearances against the same pitcher? Okay.
  14. Laika
    The Amazon is burning. Who cares!
  15. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Carolina having won the Stanley Cup always surprises me.
  16. Laika
    Yeah that looks like some solid relief stuff. Or opener stuff!
  17. Laika
    /thread /poster /forum
  18. Laika
    I dunno, you had a lot of NA players for most of the year. It almost seemed like self-sabotage. Deep down, are you sure you even really wanted to be successful?
  19. Laika
    He's jumping the gun. She could still run
  20. Laika
    I have a mental image of two people of Walmart fighting on their scooters
  21. Laika
    Fangraphs takes a pretty big exposure risk with doing the Board. The amount of information they endeavor to display can only serve, at times, to highlight the fact that they just do not have the manpower to truly verify all of that information. It's inevitable that they will miss grades, screw up ETAs, rank certain players horribly wrong. That's not to say there is anything wrong with what they are doing! The reverse is perhaps even more annoying - the all text top 100 lists that don't even attempt to describe the tools of the players, so the list contains zero granular data other than the order of the prospects. That's even worse.
  22. Laika
    I don't think teams tend to game pitcher service time. No f***ing point with how unpredictable arms can be. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
  23. Laika
    Juan Soto 2016 GCL age 17 .361/.410/.550; 45 games; 5 HR; 25 K's and 14 BB. Orelvis Martinez 2019 GCL age 17 .275/.352/.549; 40 games; 7 HR; 29 K's and 14 BB. Not quite as hitterish as Juan the God but almost as impressive.
  24. Laika
    Just to put this in context, the league leader in 2018 had 8 HR in 47 games. There aren't a lot of homers down there. 5 dingers in 8 GCL games is bonkers.
  25. Laika
    nu uh i think more like .301/29/92/9,1000+
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