Laika
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Wow Norris has a fractured spine?
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Also Ketel Marte could hit the mark
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8. Prospects may be kept on an MiLB roster until the following MLB conditions are met: Hitters: 500 career PA Pitchers: 26 career X [where X = GS + 0.5(relief appearances)] 9. Once a prospect has crossed one of the thresholds in rule 8 above, he/she must be promoted to the MLB roster no later than the next February Prospect Cutdown or the next Annual MiLB Draft Prospect Cutdown, whichever comes first. If a player crosses the playing time threshold but is not actively cut or promoted at the relevant cutdown, then they are effectively a free agent and they can be selected in the annual waiver draft or added as a free agent in Yahoo (The Jake Lamb rule).
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We do these all year! They are Dinger's PRs, methodology passed down to the bookish Jew GD. A staple of the DDL. It's like your TV broadcast showing you a player's batting average
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The confusing part is that after just 1 week the stat based z-scores are astoundingly close to some sort of reasonable final standings or team rankings
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It's just performance to date. I had the distinction of facing FeatherD so I know.
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Man, how many times has Jed Jerk-o broken your heart now? Three?
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What is he trying to prove? 37 years old, hasn't really pitched at all since 2012, was throwing 88 at that time, failed minor league deal comeback every season..... -
WTF were you thinking with the Mazara for Tanaka s***? Impulse buy I guess. Gross.
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General 2016 Blue Jays discussion thread
Laika replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah it was a weird throw. Could have slipped or something though. Something to watch. -
Lol he didn't get fired. He's a full time Sportsnet employmee. He would be reassigned other tasks. Maybe its even a semi promotion.
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The crew that they use from year to year can be pretty fluid. I wouldn't consider it a demotion necessarily. Hazel is just keeping the seat warm and squishy until Jackie Redmond gets enough reps and plastic surgeries to qualify as the token sideline female. Barry was only the full time guy last year because he had the lowest Testosterone levels of all available.
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Someone will probably willingly take on his $7.5M cap hit / non-salary in order to meet the floor. I doubt there's any opportunity to get assets.
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Blue Jays place Franklin Morales on 15-DL.
Laika replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He had trouble getting loose and they probably took 24 hours to see if he would bounce back. -
* sends 40 trade offers to TCA
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Fold the Coyotes. Send Matthews to Buffalo and let him and Eichel REALLY save a franchise. The New Penguins!
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It's Edmonton's destiny though
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It seems like every college 1st rounder the Blue Jays take that has the main appeal of being "well rounded" flops spectacularly. Deck, Jenkins, Pentecost, now Harris? It's like the ghost of JP Ricciardi is playing tricks on the draft room
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Jon Harris getting destroyed in the first inning. 0.2 IP 2 H 4 BB 2 K 3 ER Didn't even make it through 1 inning. #OrgGuy
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Better strategy would be try to win, but then make an aggressive trade for the #1 in Beer's draft year if you want him that bad. Like Springer for #1 + a player (or whatever).
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you're probably just happy to be in it right
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I don't think it was an issue of notice. There are several notable scouting types on the twitter that are very bitter Fangraphs didn't go without someone from in the old boys club. It was a purposeful choice by Fangraphs to pick someone who was completely different.
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I've been desperately trying to in the LoD but you won't let me
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No, because I don't think he is even really scouting most of these guys. I think he's reading other material + talking to people + looking at stats + watching youtube videos and s*** and then throwing wildly disparate present - future grades on the players and their tools as a method of hedging his bets. I think Dan Farnsworth has some merit, skill, and ability and I think he could be a good part of a team that does this sort of thing. But as the sole source of 30 team rankings that go as deep as these do, he is simply out of his depth and over his head and it shows. I think he needs help.
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It's not future. The three numbers he lists are: present grade / likely future grade (50th percentile) / ceiling future grade (95th percentile) The concept is decent for SOME tools. I actually like the incorporation of a percentile way of thinking about tool progression. I mean we see MLB players all the time that outperform or underperform what scouts tabbed their future tools as --> ex., guys who were called future 50 hitters reaching their 90th percentile outlook and hitting .300 consistently. It's clear that there is variance on future physical tools or game tools that needs to be appreciated. But Joey Gallo has 80 power, objectively, right now.
