Laika

Devon Travis with the 7 wRC+ in AAA.

Is low IQ a significant injury? The great irony with Stroman is that he is one of the most arrogant players in baseball, but he somehow lacks confidence with his stuff. Just throw the fastball over the plate, man. Throw the four-seamer up in the zone as hard as you can. 60% of the time he seems to want to place the ball on the corner black like he's Johnny f***ing Cueto. It's very dumb - very few players can pitch like that. Stroman needs to go back to basics - just get ahead and then beat hitters with the breaking ball and power fastballs. I don't think it's a loss of control, he just thinks he's better than he is at the art of pitching.

20 homers, 20 wins some day? The new 20/20...

Can't wait to read this article on Fungraphs! Roberto Osuna, the Blue Jays, and the Limits of Presuming Innocence by Sheryl Ring

Imagine rebuilding in dynasty baseball, owning Juan Soto, and then TRADING HIM in a challenge deal for one other prospect, who is two years older, worse in basically every way, and at the same minor league level.

Kershaw needs TJS

Why does everyone care so much that Stephen Piscotty’s mom died

Doing his best!

Stroman will give up 12 hits tonight

Hashtag competitive walks

Mazara and Soler post hype breakouts make me happy

Soto's numbers are absolutely bonkers, his entire MiLB career. Age vs. Level; more walks than strikeouts; insane slash and legit power creep this year. At this point, it's a coin flip between him and Vlad for who will have the better MLB career. Both are on the way-too-early HOF track IMO. I wonder if Brendan Rodgers will ever beat out Story or DJL for a job in Colorado. He'll probably get traded to the Rays or something and then get hurt a lot and play in a platoon with mediocre ratios, like every other Ray.

Juan Soto for that other guy is going to be one of the worst trades in league history

Corey Dickerson's strikeout rate improvement is really something. https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=10762&position=OF I wonder how precedented it is

It's funny how arrogant some of them get once they miraculously land a $10k part time job and sit in it for a couple years. Having people interact with your tweets must go straight to your head

I don't think people are really grasping the risk/reward with my proposal. Sure he could bust or get hurt. So could anybody. But the reward is massive - locking up a superstar for his ages 20 - 32 seasons, and not having to guarantee him like 350 million (or more) to stick around when he turns 26 or 27. Arguably you WANT to have the right to pay Vladdy 30M when he is 30, 31, and 32. You obviously do not want to have to pay him 35M per year when he is older than that.

What is the top of our draft even looking like this summer? Anything juicy?

It's too pie-in-the-sky the dream about getting team options or any type of extension that would extend team control by a few years. If his agent is any good, the only thing he should agree to is a deal that only covers what his arbitration years would currently cover. Vladdy could potentially be a FA for his age 26 season (if he's up in 2018 or breaks with the team in 2019) or his age 27 season (if he debuts a few weeks into 2019) - the Machado/Harper timeline. If he reaches anything approaching his ceiling then he could be looking at the biggest contract in baseball history when he's 26 or 27. Moving his free agency back at all will f*** with that significantly. So here's the actual fun question - would you offer him a MEGA extension right now? A 12 or 14 year deal. Forget about the cute little Kingery template for now, which is only really on the table if Vladdy's representation is soft. What about guaranteeing something like: $1M $1.5 $2 $6 $12 $20 $25 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30 Negatives: Guaranteeing $277.5M to a teenager!!! Negatives: You'd have to worry if it would f*** with his mental state / development / motivation. Pros: Controlling Vladdy through his age ~32 season (or whatever) - all of his prime years, probably. Pros: You bet Baltimore and Washington wished they had this type of deal with Harper or Machado years ago. Pros: If he hits his ceiling, $30M will probably be under his market value as an elite player.

Should we make Josh Hader illegal?

BA and MLB.com both have both Tristan Pompey and Noah Naylor in the top 41. Big year for Canadian prospects? I love Pompey.

I hadn't even turned my mind to rotating the field. Awesome.

I saw this. The Tulo update came out of nowhere. Man this team has so much f***ing depth.

Large day for Cullen

Lol, the one prospect who doesn’t give you a woody is Acuna? Wtf

Matthews isn't Sidney Crosby. I felt bad for the guy, to see him playing with Brown and Hyman all series. I think he got one shift with Nylander and surprise surprise they both looked great for that shift. Marner looked a bit better but his linemates were just a lot better at hockey. One of the reasons the Bergeron-Marchand-Pastrnak line is so scary is because they are all great.