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  1. Laika
    I want to thank this 10000000000 times
  2. Laika
    Hopefully not every question will be about Anthopoulos. Focus on the future - what Shapiro is about, what he wants to do, etc.
  3. 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.
  4. Laika
    He seems like a hippy poser to me.
  5. Laika
    Why? Because he has instagram, a van, and loves Jesus?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Laika
    JuCo guy
  9. Laika
    Definitely. Well, 2013 was insane at least. Did I miss anyone below? 2011: Pillar!!!! 2012: nobody. 2013: Boyd Graveman Girodo 2014: McBroom?
  10. Laika
    Yup 100%
  11. Laika
    well he was one of those guys that Toronto signed for like $5 and a fridge magnet as a SR out of college.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Laika
    Edwin is becoming an injury risk? Jose is the guy who had the more serious injury in 2015, in a long-term sense.
  15. Laika
    Not 100% sure but from the little bit of info out there, think Aaron Loup with less velocity but more command. Side arming lefty, sits maybe ~89mph (with sink), slider. Better minor league numbers than Loup.
  16. Laika
    Girodo is extremely interesting. We could see him get a chunk of MLB time next year.
  17. Laika
    Verducci seems impartial. Buck might have a slight bias for the Royals. Harold Reynolds might as well be wearing a Royals jersey. It's embarrassing.
  18. Laika
    yeah don't be dumb
  19. Laika
    Not exactly. Butler actually had a near career high LD% last year, when he sucked. But his batted ball profile has changed. When he got bad he started hitting more groundballs. Obviously, this is terrible when you are the slowest professional athlete that isn't playing darts. BABIP fell and so did his power. Anyway, nothing looks problematic in Edwin's batted ball profile.
  20. Laika
    RC adds 10% to HR by RHB Angel Stadium decreases 7% of HR by RHB For doubles, basically the same but 1/2 the percentages. Trout gains ~3 HR and Donaldson loses ~4 HR Donaldson loses ~2 doubles. Trout gains 1 double. Trout would obviously run away with the MVP, with that 44 to 37 HR gap. Also you could almost flip their RBI numbers, obviously (Donaldson was slightly better in RE24 and WPA/LI s*** - not sure how exactly that would affect RBI counts but it would a bit).
  21. Laika
    Have you ever even looked at his stats? He's phenomenal. Everything the Nats could have hoped for, honestly. They'll end up getting over 20 WAR from him in 6 years, maybe as much as 24. Can't dream of much more than that from a pitcher in 6 years of control.
  22. Laika
    Stras could actually be a steal as a free agent. By talent, he's probably a top ~5 pitcher in the game but he hasn't achieved a reputation anywhere close to that because of the injuries and the narrative.
  23. Laika
    Through 2020, with four arb years.
  24. Laika
    I've always thought Jose Ramirez was a pretty solid MIF prospect, and underrated / overshadowed by Lindor. I would like to get my hands on him (and then try to sell high on Goins!). I dunno what else. Not sure how much value Bauer has, or how good he even is. Tomlin would interest me as a 3rd piece. Justus Sheffield is a good prospect. McAllister would interest me as a 3rd piece. I love Francisco Mejia's profile. Cody Allen is elite and has three years of control left. Tyler Naquin is completely expendable for them. I'm sure something could be put together by Shapiro and his old buddies.
  25. Laika
    The Indians would probably love EE
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