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  1. Laika
    Peters is house money for them. He was a Savannah Banana. It's a fair trade one for one. They are basically dead last in C WAR this year and in projected Catcher WAR rest of year. They have some young catchers but Teel is probably done for the year and the others don't seem ready for the show. The permutation is they also acquire Varsho for a prospect.
  2. Laika
    Romo sucks, Teel is out for the year (probably.) They would all have options next year anyway.
  3. Laika
    Brandon Valenzuela for Tristan Peters?
  4. Laika
    It will be the same MO as the 2024 deadline. The chance for a splash is if they can a controllable CF but that's more likely an off-season move
  5. Laika
    He is a consistent / elite contact bat who WAS a dynamo 3B last year and set playoff records. I think someone is going to really want him as their finishing touch. Could make a lot of sense on a team like the Brewers
  6. Laika
    Lots of key prospects would be MLB relevant depth for the first time though If they sign a couple of guys like Arozarena and Bubic/Gray it probably becomes an 86 or 87 win projection CF is a big issue though and there is nobody to sign other than Varsho. Ugh. They'll be forced to make a negative value trade just like back when they acquired Varsho.
  7. Laika
    I fear it will be an underwhelming trade deadline from Toronto. No takers for Hoffman and Bieber. Gausman for a Pinango type or two. Varsho for whatever. Springer for almost nothing. Maybe Lukes for something.
  8. Laika
    They will certainly try to run it back next year so I can't see them trading Varland or Clement
  9. Laika
    It will at least be nice to have another top 7 pick to come up right behind Parker etc.
  10. Laika
    Meanwhile the Rays have multiple hits on 65 mph pokes
  11. Laika
    How many times this season has Vlad swung at a meatball and somehow inside-outed the thing meekly to right field or pounded it hard but directly into the ground? 150 times?
  12. Laika
    I am at a loss. The most frustrating thing is that it does not make sense. 30th in baseball in runs scored. Dead last. In 2025 they were 4th. From May 1 2025 to the end of the season they were #1 in baseball in runs scored. FIRST TO WORST. And the one significant move worked out. Okamoto was a good signing. He is hitting better than Bo. I guess the only real mystery is Vlad. Barger is injuries. Kirk is a significant injury + he has not always been a consistent hitter. George is so old. Varsho is within his normal variance of overall offensive performance. So I guess it does mostly make sense and it's just the cumulative effect of a string of underperformances and bad luck. But Vlad. He makes no sense. The Anchor. El Ancla.
  13. Laika
    Here is the COPIUM you need on this depressing Monday. Perhaps this horrendous season is what Vladimir Guerrero Jr. finally needs in order to change his swing and approach? Maybe he will show up in the spring with more tilt and not such a stupidly steep bat bath. We can dream...
  14. Laika
    Trout will remain an Angel into the last year or two of his career, when he is 38+, and he will then end up on the Dodgers in some kind of overpaid shortside platoon role getting maybe 350 PA. But he will beast out and everyone will love it and win a World Series.
  15. Laika
    Lukes is an emergency CF at best. Clase can't hit and probably is not a CF either. I don't think they'll keep Straw. Shake his hand and wish him well. Maybe sign him back for $4m or so. It's such a limited skill set. I think given the landscape they'll make some sort of attempt with Varsho and then consider trades. Overpay for one year of CF Stevie Kwan?
  16. Laika
    I guess if two teams have a CF black hole he could leverage that into a tidy 5 year deal We will see! I am not super interested. Sadly, Toronto seems to be one of the teams with no CF anywhere on the depth chart until you get down to Low A.
  17. Laika
    There are not many good recent comps for a Varsho FA Players tend to reach FA in one of these buckets: Can still really hit but is not actually a CF anymore. Nimmo, Bellinger, O'Neill, Springer, etc. They tend to get paid unless they are terrible defensively. Is still a real CF but the offense is quite questionable. Bader, Kiermaier, Jackie Bradley, etc. All skills seem to be in decline. Can sort of hit and sort of play defense. Mullins. Before 2026 you would not have thought about comping Mullins and Varsho, but if you focus on just the 2026 stats for Daulton it's uncomfortable close. He's really f***ing himself and his free agency case by not hitting for power. He's going to enter free agency with maybe a 100 wRC+, 2.6 fWAR projection. Something like that. Not sure anyone is backing up the truck for someone who might have a 90 wRC+ over the life of his FA contract. He actually might just sign on Februrary 27th for $15M or so like butthead says.
  18. Laika
    No, it just never happened. If anyone ever said something similar to that they were being facetious or joking. People were worried Moreno would become a superstar since he was arguably the #1 prospect in baseball, for a blip in time when other elite prospects had graduated and stuff. Everyone knew it was a risky trade and Toronto was not likely to "win" it on paper unless Moreno outright busted. Any ostensible celebration about Moreno's flaws was just toxic fandom being happy that Toronto did not actually trade some kind of franchise superstar for Daulton Varsho. Or more about Kirk vs. Moreno, which has nothing to do with analyzing the trade in a nutshell but everything to do with Toronto's justification for doing the trade. Varsho leaving does not really change anything. Should Toronto even want him into his 30s? I don't understand why you feel the need to insert a historic lie into posts like this. You do it all the time. Everyone used to say that you have six toes and now I believe them
  19. Laika
    Narrator: Nobody claimed this
  20. Laika
    This is insane. I can't believe Yesavage just completely sucks.
  21. Laika
    If they lose to Walker Buehler then I support moving the franchise
  22. Laika
    Pleb diatribe If he had the ninth inning yips it would show up in tons of peripheral stats and not just surface level garbage like ERA and blown saves
  23. Laika
    Because the sample size does not let anybody conclude this Your definition of "worse" is statistically carried by obviously random variance in things like BABIP and HR rate Basically we are scientists and you are pleb
  24. Laika
    Don't understand holding Springer there at all He was ten feet behind Vlad
  25. Laika
    Maybe we can get the now completely broken / dead Khal Stephen back
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