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  1. Laika
    Bizarre.
  2. Laika
    All I know is that I'm suddenly really liking this discussion
  3. Laika
    LMAO look at these historic Presidential first pitches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBpdu5X_0xc Up until LBJ the Presidents just sat in their front row seat and chucked a ball at the players. The players fought over the ball like a bunch of desperate/single bouquet catchers.
  4. Laika
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BSOjrh_FRLG/ get a job!
  5. Laika
    Imagine a Boyd-RichHill-Nicasio-Morton-Musgrove-Tomlin staff. They would lose K/BB nearly every week.
  6. Laika
    Yup and I'm pretty sure they would. There have been weeks before where the one owner went into say day 5 with no walks - their K/BB displays as zero and the other owner's K/BB is bolded and counted as a leading stat.
  7. Laika
    Gose still produced like a 4th OF --- 2 fWAR in 372 career games sucks but it's above replacement level. Of course you're right, that's not an excellent 4th OF at all. I think Gose is a cautionary tale in one specific thing - scouting defense. If he was actually a plus defender like he was supposed to be, he would be a great 4th OF, all other things being unchanged. Is there a mental component to his disappointing defensive metrics (or his poor baserunning value)? maybe. Mental assumptions/conclusions are hard to make though. Kevin Pillar is obviously a good comparison. In terms of raw tools, Gose is probably better. But KP has one of the best mental games out of anyone in baseball.
  8. Laika
    Dividing by zero is impossible, so you lose. Sorry.
  9. Laika
    Bullpen is actually solid IMO. Giles, Neris, and Ottavino are all good and could close this year. Obviously your team is stacked. Bryant+Machado+Schwarber+Lindor is insane for the next 5+ years... rotation is also good enough
  10. Laika
    Is two SP-eligible-RP overkill? I also love JUAN NICASIO but I already own RAISEL IGLESIAS. Also, I just bought Greg Bird in a keeper auction. I am ready. Also also, Charlie Morton is going to single-handedly save my LoD rotation.
  11. Laika
    Cahill I consider a suuuuper deep sleeper. Chacin I guess has enough talent to fluke his way to a 2 win season?
  12. Laika
    Turner
  13. Laika
    Still not doing baseball stuff. What a weird way to get a conky
  14. Laika
    "He was just the best, a good athlete, a great athlete," Levine told Business Insider. "He could have probably played pro ball as a pitcher. I think he threw 80 miles an hour. I was the catcher. He made my hand black and blue every day . . . Could he play football? Could he play soccer? He could do anything he wanted. He was physically and mentally gifted." Source: internet
  15. Laika
    Donald Trump was athletic? I guess he wasn't always this shape
  16. Laika
    Don't forget about Jarred Cosart (more walks than strikeouts) and Trevor Cahill (4 starts in the last two season). Is this the most obvious example of tanking we've seen in recent history? Is there a Bryce Harper type in the draft in 2018?
  17. Laika
    You could argue that he needs to STOP listening to coaches. When he first came up he had a 45% FB rate and he hit a ton of dingers. Ever since, he has been like a 33% FB guy who just beats the ball into the ground. And he's been bad. Every year, he probably has listened to his hitting coaches, done his cage work, his BP work, focused on hitting the ball up the middle like everyone tells him, and it's made him worse. It's time for Brett Lawrie to go back to when he was 21 years old. He needs to get LESS mature. He needs to get MORE self-confidence, if that's possible. f*** coaches. EMBRACE THE STUPID.
  18. Laika
    You're making a lot of assumptions. Players with talent + great personalities fail all the time. Brett Lawrie is a douche but his failures at the MLB level might not have anything to do with his focus or passion. IMO he has just been weirdly indoctrinated by traditional baseball coaching that has morphed him into a skinny ground ball slapper and not the beefy slugger he should have been.
  19. Laika
    You forgot God
  20. Laika
    Yeah, theoretically. Give the guy some gumption and a Driveline offseason and it would be interesting to see what happens. I mean it could also be injury or mechanical decline, which can't really be fixed. IIRC he did deal with some injury scares with the Reds at one point.
  21. Laika
    He was NINTH out of all qualified SP in fastball velocity back in 2010!!!
  22. Laika
    Maybe being grossly out of shape and a disgusting lazy blob had something to do with him losing two full scouting grades off his fastball before 30. Maybe!!!!
  23. Laika
    eh? http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2016&month=0&season1=2013&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=2918,3123 I dunno.
  24. Laika
    Well the restriction was on $$ to any individual player. They probably decided to simply redistribute a lot of the fund to a truckload of penny stock players.
  25. Laika
    Looks like he pitched effectively for the rest of the year after a 45 pitch relief outing (with a ton of off days surrounding it). 40 pitches is rare but it's not unseen. Betances threw 40 pitches against Toronto last year, in September, in the second game of back-to-back appearances. Meh. Most teams ask their depth relievers to wear the odd game. I bet Bo Schultz has had a few 40+ pitch Blue Jays outings.
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