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  1. Laika
    Always possible the players decided to bunt themselves. I don’t think that managing to efficiently win games is the top priority right now
  2. Laika
    Yeah it must mean something. I'm thinking that is what his SF OPS will be.
  3. Laika
    I had a dream that Pillar got arrested with 581 grams of cocaine in San Francisco. Then he had an interview where he cried and was really sorry for letting down the Giants.
  4. Laika
    his face
  5. Laika
    Grichuk. Acquisitions like McKinney, Hernandez, Drury, Paulino, Merryweather, Thornton, Perez, Espinal, Spanberger, etc. need to be given a few years before they can be judged. Bautista was mediocre his first ~500 PA with Toronto. Edwin 900 PA - to the point that AA literally waived him and got extremely lucky to get him back from Oakland. Kind of weird that you would even reference players like Lawrie, Morrow, Rasmus, Yunel when they had nothing to do with Toronto's playoff teams. I guess they were exciting value-based acquisitions. Atkins has made different forms of value-based acquisitions though; their whole MO has been value-hoarding at all levels of the org.
  6. Laika
    s***
  7. Laika
    Whoa whoa whoa, the Orioles exist.
  8. Laika
    So to be clear.... A list of really bad / retarded things that Ross Atkins and Merv Shapiro have done: 1. Draft Bo Bichette 2. Draft Nate Pearson 3. Sign Eric Pardinho all bad. really stupid and bad moves. should of just drafted nobody
  9. Laika
    Bet it on the Marlins.
  10. Laika
    Yes tercet, good job including Pearson, Bo, and Pardinho in the list of "stupid/really bad things". How f***ing dare Ross Atkins draft/acquire Bo Bichette! Ugh!
  11. Laika
    They also deserve credit for a lot of under the hood stuff that is going on. The organization is improving from within with better systems, better coaches, better minor league pay, etc. You're probably going to see and hopefully enjoy better business practices at the ballpark. Dunedin is getting a massive upgrade. Hopefully the Dome can see one some day soon. Barry Davis is gone and now has a Tom Petty cover band. Hopefully Buck and Pat are gone when their contracts expire. These are all Shatkins things - Shatkins successes. Shatkins, Shatkins, Shatkins!
  12. Laika
    Good thing Toronto has a mother f***ing AAA affiliate and they can, you know, keep both of them and hedge their bets. Jesus christ.
  13. Laika
    Biggio has literally played one game in AAA and he had a 26% K rate last year in New Hampshire. The thought process towards even thinking about beginning to think about complaining that he is "blocked" is just... mind boggling.
  14. Laika
    suck farts, Red!
  15. Laika
    Alford broke his hamate in like, May 2017. Hamate injuries can linger but giving him a full mulligan on the entirety of 2018 is kind of stretching out the grace period. He also wasn't dogshit in 2017 after the injury. People are also wayyyyy to quick to scream breakout as soon as a toolsy player looks good. Fact is, Anthony Alford tends to always look really f***ing good unless it's August and you know what his slashline is. Nobody should think Alford is actually figuring it out until it starts to show up in the somewhat stable regular season stats. Sure, players like Alford can flip a switch but the majority of them never do.
  16. Laika
    So apparently Big Nate is too good for minor league umpires.
  17. Laika
    So Socrates Brito seems like a disaster at the plate. As does Hanson. Tons of fun here in Blue Jay land.
  18. Laika
    Yes Todd, that's the problem. Order matters so much when you are getting literally zero hits.
  19. Laika
    I mean it's just an outside link - there is no in-app gameday. It's better to just bookmark this on your phone: https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/prospects/stats/affiliates Every affiliate box score on one page
  20. Laika
    Am I missing something? This app sucks. I don't even see how to view a box score, or follow a Gameday type thing.
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  22. Laika
    Wow, my boy.
  23. Laika
    That's literally what the positional adjustment does, Olerud. If a player moves to a more difficult position they get a positional adjustment - a bonus - applied to their WAR calculations as a credit for manning a more difficult position. There is an implicit assumption that they are able to man that more difficult position. Their WAR will only fail to go up if their defensive talent at the new/harder position is worse than their defensive talent at the old/easier position to an extent that is exactly equal to the positional adjustment. Which is, in most instances, actually the case. But talent is compared to the average player at the position, so if a player simply cannot handle the position (imagine Bautista in CF, or Vlad at SS, or whatever) they will be a lot worse there than the positional adjustment will assume and their WAR would in fact go down (which kind of proves your general point).
  24. Laika
    The positional adjustments are based on data from actual players switching positions, not absurdities like Kendrys Morales playing CF. Of course it matters where players play; specific players often have a best position. In real life, players also don't typically slide from DH to SS or CF. The positional adjustment scale assumes a neutral CF will be a +10 RF. Sometimes, for player specific reasons, a +10 RF might be a +5 CF; this player would benefit a bit from a positional change to CF. But making the assumption that a specific player is special and has characteristics that trump the adjustment scale is often a trap. Defensive metrics take a long time to stabilize, so be wary of working from past data without heavy regression.
  25. Laika
    Thank you for this reasonable post. Buffalo's seasons starts tomorrow. A brief cameo in Toronto is better for Alford than sitting in Buffalo for ~2 days waiting for the AAA season to start.
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