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  1. Laika
    early SHAPIRO impressions: - Thick rhetoric - Thin hair
  2. Laika
    oh so you're an idiot
  3. Laika
    I don't see Rowdy on the list.
  4. Laika
    yup
  5. Laika
    no, someone else. pink unicorn avatar
  6. Laika
    What was the name of the poster on the old board that was an outspoken holocaust denier?
  7. Laika
    Press release says permaterim
  8. Laika
    Martin was the 2nd best Blue Jay and a ~5 win player in 2015
  9. Laika
    Just give up an extra 5% of your paycheque so my kids can get free marijuana from Trudeau and Ed Rogers and everything will be forgiven.
  10. Laika
    This is a legitimately insane post. You might be very stupid. You should get checked out.
  11. Laika
    Thank you. This means a lot.
  12. Laika
    People ignore the Blue Jays for ~20 years, and then buy a 6ix pack in 2015 and all of a sudden Rogers owes it to them and other fans to jack payroll by $20M, vaulting the team to like 6th in the entire league, while the Canadian dollar bottoms out. Laughable. Rogers has the right to pocket whatever they want off of the Blue Jays. Fans should be very happy with a top 10 payroll. As someone who belongs to the $/WAR religion, I actually hope they slash payroll down to the bottom third of the league. Being a fan actually gets interesting down there.
  13. Laika
    I want to thank this 10000000000 times
  14. Laika
    Hopefully not every question will be about Anthopoulos. Focus on the future - what Shapiro is about, what he wants to do, etc.
  15. Laika
    but it's likely. Outside of shorstops and catchers, defense first players seem to carry disproportionate trade value compared to offense first players. Seem to. Possibly not though. Might be worth studying.
  16. Laika
    He seems like a hippy poser to me.
  17. Laika
    Why? Because he has instagram, a van, and loves Jesus?
  18. Laika
    With Sanchez and Hoffman it was mechanical. The Blue Jays made them go to these kind of simple and less athletic "tall-and-fall" deliveries, which in Hoffman's case impacted his stuff. There was a lot of talk about that by some scouts, how Hoffman's delivery didn't look as electric with Toronto. Most saw it as a deliberate attempt by Toronto to reduce his injury risk. Stroman's drop in K's doesn't bother me, since he's still been very effective. We should expect big drops in strikeouts from AAA/AA to the MLB level anyway. There is some level of K% for GB% tradeoff that would be good. I'm not really sure who else there is. I guess Hutch's K rate tanked this year.
  19. Laika
    Just a normal college guy - not a senior. That was also 2011, so before the new CBA changed the draft and Toronto decided to go to this strategy where every pick from rounds 6-10 was a college SR who would sign for peanuts, freeing up a few hundred thousand American dollars to attempt to sign a single fleeting high school talent who would fall due to signability reasons. That's what makes the Kendall Graveman pick particularly cool. $5k for a back end MLB starter is kind of like having your 40th round pick develop, when you only picked him for nepotism reasons. Boyd was $75k. Still underslot but they thought of him as more of a prospect, obviously. Girodo was $5k. Pillar was a $1k signing - an amazing story and probably the best (or luckiest) draft pick in recent Blue Jays history.
  20. Laika
    JuCo guy
  21. Laika
    Definitely. Well, 2013 was insane at least. Did I miss anyone below? 2011: Pillar!!!! 2012: nobody. 2013: Boyd Graveman Girodo 2014: McBroom?
  22. Laika
    Yup 100%
  23. Laika
    well he was one of those guys that Toronto signed for like $5 and a fridge magnet as a SR out of college.
  24. Laika
    How is a sports hernia serious? Any 30+ year old athlete will have a string of hamstring or quad strains on their resume. I don't think Edwin's finger injury from this year sounds like anything that will persist. The thing to be a bit more concerned with IMO is Bautista's mysterious weird shoulder thing from earlier this year. That thing went on for weeks and weeks and was even characterized at times as a "quality of life" issue than rose above baseball.
  25. Laika
    There isn't really a discernible offensive difference between LF and RF, and the defensive positional adjustment is essentially the same. Between LF and RF, the guy with the better arm should be in RF and that's just about the only relevant consideration. I've seen plus grades put on Pompey's arm. If Bautista's shoulder injury from this year becomes a chronic thing then maybe it would make sense to have him in left and Pompey in right. If his shoulder is healthy though then he should stay in RF. His arm is his best defensive asset, so they need to align the defense to leverage that.
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