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  1. Laika
    I guess we need some... safe spaces
  2. Laika
    He should fire his agent lol
  3. Laika

    NBA Thread

    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    He probably gets less Love because he won't play the Cavs as much
  4. Laika
    I'm not, I just don't see the appeal to signing a 36 year old Free Agent to a sticker price contract so that the team can maybe lose the division by less than a double digit gap. And I don't really assume that Happ would be keen on coming back anyway, not unless Toronto is making some type of push that doesn't seem likely or smart. I'd rather just give Dad a cheap one year deal to eat up some innings. He's more likely to want to come back to Toronto - seems very comfortable. Zeuch, Pannone, Borucki, Romano, SRF, Harris are all going to be like, 25 years old anyway.
  5. Laika
    2020 and beyond lol Younger players lol
  6. Laika
    You're overthinking it. He'll be 36. The team won't be competing. Spend the money on other s***. Tank!
  7. Laika
    Or, how about this - trade Happ and then DON'T sign the age 36 version of him.
  8. Laika
    Last year Stroman was on that list. Now he's an untradeable clubhouse cancer who isn't worth as much as his shoe collection!
  9. Laika
    I don't think anything has changed. He's a good hitter so he's hitting, but he doesn't have any tools (40 speed, 40 power, LF/RF). He's probably, truly, a plus hitter so maybe on that alone you can assume that some day he will have some type of MLB role. I guess that makes him a "prospect".
  10. Laika
    Well you were wrong
  11. Laika
    Yeah for sure if they are getting Donaldson. Probably need Allard or Anderson. If it's just Happ, I might even feel fine about something kind of boring like a few of Wentz, Weigel, Muller, Wilson. I wonder if they would even entertain Soroka for the pair, considering he's done for the year.
  12. Laika
    Sure. Lots else to like in that system. Allard, Pache, Touissant, Gohora.... Weigel, Wentz, Wilson, Muller, Willy Contreras.... a lot of other names. You know AA would be willing to throw a handful of decent prospects into one trade if he can get multiple MLB pieces back. Maybe they would also want a reliever like Tepera (although I can't really see the need).
  13. Laika
    Man, I thought he was soothing and kind of insightful.
  14. Laika
    You know what, I kind of like it a lot more now that I've read these points and I better understand the purpose of the exercise. The process is nearly congruent to what I do implicitly, and the factors I weigh, when our annual DDL draft comes around. It's no coincidence that I drafted Jose Suarez and Enyel De Los Santos this year and also gave a lot of the other names on this lists a good, long look. If I could automate that process I could save myself a decent amount of time each summer. I would just have names to cross-reference with scouting reports, rather than have to find my own names by sorting through MiLB league level stats on Fangraphs and BR (which is actually kind of fun, mind you). Of course what he says about Chris Paddack makes the list/exercise fundamentally and irrevocably flawed from any rigorous/statistical perspective.
  15. Laika
    Matt "Surplus Value" Boyd out pitching every Jays SP not named Happ sure is something. The Tulo injury this year is just so weird. Weird timing, weird lack of information or publicity about the whole thing. He's going to miss the entire season and the extent of reporting will be reports from Mike Wilner every other months that he hopes to return this year.
  16. Laika
    It's relatively rare I guess, mostly because pitchers are so fragile that when they cut their nails too short most teams just DL them immediately. I dunno. Yahoo is so stooped tho.
  17. Laika
    I guess hockey is different because a player could be DTD for like an entire week before a team even needs to make an IR decision. In baseball that's pretty rare because they play every day. Although it does happen with SPs sometimes where they are DTD for 5 days and then end up getting DL'd the day of their next start.
  18. Laika
    At the very least they should have a DL+ that lets you plop in DTD players, and a guy who can't pitch for injury should be listed as DTD even if active as a hitter.
  19. Laika
    The Book says an actual roster spot is worth more than a DL roster spot.
  20. Laika
    Oh man, the Shohei Ohtani player partitioning decision by Yahoo is rearing its ugly butt in year 1. If you own SP - Ohtani, your dead Japanese import SP is now off the DL in Yahoo but not pitching. Incredibly annoying roster clogging situation.
  21. Laika
    Literally anybody could have never made the playoffs, shed fans like dandruff for a decade, and then handed off a turd of an organization with catastrophically awful jerseys to their predecessor.
  22. Laika
    JPR was a replacement level GM. It's so obvious. To say that the team could have done a lot worse is not a compliment. You can also do a lot worse than Ryan Goins on the field and at any given moment he could be one of the absolute worst active position players in the league. You can also, I'll add, argue that it's not even appropriate to just look at their year-to-year win total. The team probably needed a nuclear winter type blow-up during his tenure and he didn't do it. Winning 82 games and finishing 15 back for 9 seasons in a row is arguably one of the worst possible things you can do in this league.
  23. Laika
    Do you think she's a psychic? There is no other reasonable way to answer questions like this. If you want irresponsible and firm predictions that nobody has the information or intelligence to provide, get off Fangraphs.
  24. Laika
    He would have been complicit in that though, at least to some extent. You could argue that it's any GM's job to advocate up the chain for appropriate types of funding.
  25. Laika
    TINSTAAPP caps
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