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  1. Laika
    I was actually looking for one the other day. I found this site: http://www.sportsdisplays.net/baseball/posters
  2. Laika
    Toronto went over their budget for Vlad Jr. They are already locked out of any big names on next year's market, which starts July 2nd. If they sign Lazarito too then they would be more than 15% over, which means they wouldn't be allowed to sign anyone for more than $300k for the next TWO international market periods. I think signing him makes sense, if they have the money. The extra year of sitting out of the international market shouldn't be a categorical deterrence. If you think he's a better prospect than Vlad Jr., well you've already shown that Vlad is worth sitting out a year so Lazarito must be worth sitting out one more. They probably won't compete for him financially though. CDN dollar and cheap ass corporate shill Shapiro and all that. Dodgers have to be the odds on favourite. They have infinite money and are already about $100M over the limit.
  3. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    What's the big appeal of Hamonic? I don't get it. 20 games for Wideman seems like a bit too much. I thought closer to 10.
  4. Laika
    The product of us collaborating might be too much for most owners to endure
  5. Laika
    Sunday. Any cuts made after Sunday could carry discretionary, unilateral penalties as made by me, a terribly vindictive and sadistic person.
  6. Laika
    mods
  7. Laika
    Time for some Nyquil and a pillow, Big Red. It's getting late early
  8. Laika
    dicks are literally Spanky's favourite thing
  9. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    No they don't. I didn't say they have nobody. They have Kadri and 2 or 3 good prospects.
  10. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Pastnak is so good. I love how Boston can be good for ~6 years and still end up with a player like him, meanwhile the Leafs have been a joke and they struggle to find any useful forwards.
  11. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Kind of funny to me that they're going back to the 1938 logo. The Markham Waxers AAA logo is the same leaf. http://www.alwaysadvertising.ca/hockey/Images/Waxer%20Logo.png Stamkos played for the Waxers. Illuminati confirmed?
  12. Laika
    good name
  13. Laika
    Good front offices don't deal in unproven theories. There are certain biomechnical indicators or patterns that have observable and measurable effects on injury chance. Some of it is publicly available if you do an academic search with keywords like Tommy John and "early trunk rotation", etc.
  14. Laika
    But maybe cleaner mechanics? I dunno.
  15. Laika
    Not to mention, paying Storen $8.4M to save a few bucks a few years from now is nonsensical. I always find it funny when a team brings in an arb3 / FA salary closer and some people say "this will help keep Young Holds Guy's arbitrations down!". Nutshell thoughts don't get much tinier.
  16. Laika
    Stuff wise, it's hard to see why he couldn't start. 95.5mph touching 99.4 as an RP probably becomes 93 touching 97 as a SP, so still very good. Command is obviously there. The slider and the changeup both look good to me. Slider seems to get an elite whiff rate. Fastball gets an above average whiff rate in the pen. He would profile/project well as a starter, I think. The entire thing hinges on mechanics. If they have good reason to think he won't hold up as a starter then they should leave him be. I think he does have ugly mechanics... but I don't know anything. There's also maybe some hangover from concerns surrounding him as a prospect. He was always referenced as someone with a "bad body", and then he ended up getting hurt. Not that he's out of shape anymore. It's really not a cut and dry question and I don't think anybody from "outside baseball" can answer it with any competency.
  17. Laika
    Is Jed! still available? Why would Boxy take Didi over Jed!
  18. Laika
    He's like a fat Mo Bryan Shaw (Spanky obsession) tries to be the same cutter god but it doesn't quite work
  19. Laika
    You'd think the robot that invented TIPS would have a better understanding of what pitch level data means
  20. Laika
    also too many labrums
  21. Laika
    Oh, weird. Seems like a perfect Boxy man-crush guy.
  22. Laika
    Castillo is a really good pick this late. .241 ISO with Arizona last year!
  23. Laika
    This is the specific guy I was thinking of at first when Boxy took Didi and we were saying there are still people with real upside on the board. Lamb could be huge. Could be a top 10 3B. He plays in Arizona and had like a 1.000 OPS in the minors.
  24. Laika
    It's true, I am terrible. Good thing it apparently doesn't matter.
  25. Laika
    I don't think it really kills position player careers. Troy Glaus and Shawn Green have had them, google tells me. Both about a decade ago. Green was never as good after but he was also 30 at that point. Glaus returned to form
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