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  1. Laika
    Finish line is approaching. 82 TCA 83 pendelton4life19 84 jays_fever 85 torontofan 86 KingKat 87 jaysblue 88 pendelton4life19 89 SpeedyGose fin.
  2. Laika
    Sir Anthony Dominguez is a fun name
  3. Laika
    This is a fantastic article and I implore everybody to read it. The video within is also very nicely done. I had no idea that Japan was having such a big impact on Brazilian baseball. What an interesting melting pot of influences. I love how the Nippon Blue Jays have the old T Bird Jays logo on their jersey.
  4. Laika
    12 team h2h redraft league. Would you do this trade? Get: Belt and Trout. Give: Carrasco, McCutchen, Smoak, and Addison Reed. It's 7x7 with the extra categories being OPS and XBH, and BSV and L as negatives. I'm not actually in this league but someone asked me if I would do it. Not really sure!
  5. Laika
    Good job, scouting department. I might have to hire you guys full time. Albies is owned on Yahoo by Gibbers
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  7. Laika
    Jonah, PM me when you see this. http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/curious-case-troy-tulowitzkis-low-k-rate-missing-bat-speed/
  8. Laika
    It should be noted that moving Donaldson from 2nd to 3rd is a negative, based on The Book. The 3rd spot is where your ~5th best hitter should be. It comes up too often with 2 outs. It would be a good space, politically, to stash Morales. Ideally, your high OBP hitters can come up with nobody out. Bautista Donaldson Morales Smoak Pearce who cares about the rest
  9. Laika
    Should have distributed that money across a basket of international 16 year old! Think of how mediocre Lansing could have been in 2019...
  10. Laika
    You can probably tie the fact that AA did NOT get Aroldis Chapman directly to the organization currently having Vladito. AA said that he saw Chapman before he signed and loved him, but they missed out on him by a few million dollars and he always regretted not just writing the cheque to get the elite talent. Based on the price tag for Vlad and the moves associated with increasing their international budget to get him, I'm guessing he learned from his own history and simply wrote the cheque to get the dude.
  11. Laika
    I actually read Donaldson's comments about Bautista/Morales' OBP as a backhanded way to complain about Pillar in the leadoff spot. He wanted to make a point about low OBP guys hitting too high. It's not a good move to directly chirp his teammate. So, he mentioned two other guys that can take it. And the obvious way to move Smoak up in the lineup is to have Bautista leadoff and slide Smoak up to 3rd or 4th, so opining that Smoak should slide up is an indirect way to advocate for Pillar going to the bottom of the order.
  12. Laika
    Just get hyped man. If it's Travis Snider 2.0, at least you'll be numb to it. whispers: Vlad seems to be objectively better than Snider though...
  13. Laika
    I think it's one of those things where if you've ever seen him play, or talked to a scout that has seen him play, those typical reservations just get thrown out the window. The HR derby videos from two days ago are absolutely insane. He was hitting laser beams that less than 1% of professional hitters, at all levels, are capable of. Also, calling him #1 has a lot to do with some of the other prospects in baseball that have graduated (ex., Bellinger, Benintendi, Swanson) or taken steps back this year (ex., Meadows). Of course you can still very much opine that Robles, Torres, Rosario, Moncada, Mejia, or Senzel are probably better at this moment in time. Rodgers and Jimenez in the top tier. Devers in that tier too. I think Kyle Tucker is top 10. Bo Bichette is the best prospect on the planet. I guess the argument for calling him #1 so early is plainly that his hit/power combination is unrivaled in minor league baseball. This is a possible Miguel Cabrera. You can't say that about any other player in the minors right now.
  14. Laika
    Tulo's decline hasn't seemed quite as abrupt. It was also masked by the trade and various injuries and that the team was winning
  15. Laika
    Tulo is definitely having some mechanical problems with his swing. He's barely striking out (well below his career rate, actually) and his BB% is steady with the last two seasons. But... His GB% is a career high. His FB% is a career low. His GB/FB ratio is a career high (obviously). His LD% is a career low. His Infield Fly % is a career high, and an alarming 16.7%. It seems like he pops out all the f***ing time. Making contact but hitting weak ground balls and pop ups. He's Kevin Pillar. I'm almost certain it's mechanical. He probably needs to make some kind of adjustment like McCutchen just made a month ago. It's time for a lesson from the team's best hitters, JD and Smoak.
  16. Laika
    6th rounder Brock Lundqvist has signed. https://www.instagram.com/blundy33/ Also, he has a nice moustache. And he works out. #Talent http://i.imgur.com/meEG6WC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GWMStne.png
  17. Laika
    oops bye
  18. Laika
    Donnie!
  19. Laika
    Zeuch isn't comparable to them. His FB is a full grade worse (still a 60) but he's more likely to project with 3 average or better pitches and average command. He's also notably taller than either Greene or Sanchez, for what that's worth. Greene is like Sanchez if you switch the curveball and changeup grades. Although, Greene's CH doesn't seem to grade out quite as well as Sanchez' CB does/did. Greene probably isn't as extreme with respect to groundballs. Don't expect Conner Greene to be as good as The Sanchize.... we should be happy if CG is a decent late inning reliever. The developmental leap that Sanchez took at the big league level is extremely rare.
  20. Laika
    Hi guys. Slow draft this year. Reminder - please PM pendleton instead of me. He is running my draft.
  21. Laika
    Yessss DJ Neal is a really great signing. Probably will bust put there is actual upside.
  22. Laika
    I would assume and bet that this approach is actually to maximize their playing time, read: reduce injury risk. It would be fun for Lansing fans to see Vlad bat leadoff and play 3B every single day, but not so fun when he goes down with a wear and tear injury and misses a month. This front office wouldn't likely implement anything like this without data to support it.
  23. Laika
    Atlanta should be incentivized to dump him so they can play Micah Johnson and Albies in the 2nd half. But Phillips does appeal to a certain group of fans and Atlanta specifically acquired him to help garner some fan excitement this year. I would guess some C+ prospect outside the org top 25.
  24. Laika
    It's been stated that the org's plan for both Bo and Vlad this year is four games on, one game off. Hard to argue with the plan in light of the fruits so far. I'm guessing it's intended to be a mental break more than anything.
  25. Laika
    Bichette knocks a two run double to RCF to make himself 6-6 on the day. Best prospect in baseball.
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