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And being an Upstate NY kid

He’s been good for a little under 1.5 WAR/per over 2+ seasons for the Jays (with nothing weird).. so you could say he’s a little below average at worst. But close to average is best description maybe

You make it sound like “ho hum if his career ends he’ll just go into teaching”.. He’ll also leave $100+ million on the table.

It should be noted that the weight loss didn’t help him then. For all the Vlad haters

Ah, I rarely swing-and-miss but seem to have there

He had a .550 OPS in fairly regular ABs with Cleveland lol Good eye scouting though

Yikes

“Perfectly acceptable” may be a bit strong way to put it

Smart money would be on Bauer taking a 4-5 year deal and getting bank. Would be insanity not to for what he’ll likely get. I’ll make you a gentleman’s wager on that He’s 30, not a spring chicken anymore. There’s a time to be young and cocky and a time to be smart. I’m sure everyone in his life is telling him this

You forgot to sign in under your Abom account

Think the board agreed on Springer w/Gri being the 4th OF

Wow. I remember them always rolling over for Yanks and such but didn’t know it’s that long. That’s crazy

Was serious

Better to lose Game 2 like this, or lose nail biter till end? I’d take the latter

I really thought Bieber was an automatic loss and so wasn’t rooting for Jays to win last game

I meant just to troll. I don’t actually think that

Honestly hopefully cheap ass Jays make a splash like Bauer. Lots of fair weather fans like me ready to fully hop on the bandwagon when it’s a playoff team

I’d talk about the importance of winning Game 1 for momentum but I don’t want to get a ban lol

Haha me too

Holy shot. Didn’t realize game was on lol. Thought 5 again. Would’ve have wrote the long post sorry

Your (and your kins) problem is you’re so adverse to anything “old school” even if it makes sense. There’s no doubt analytics are vastly important to judging pitching. Being able to break down a pitcher’s ERA and WHIp etc to determine luck and try to predict future performance are no double critical and anyone against it is stupid. But I can even tell you from watching my son and his teammates pitch for 10 years... Some days you have it and some you dont. It doesn’t change at any level but obviously the guys that are most consistent are the most successful. Obviously there’s other things at play like going through lineup second time. Like you said, there’s times where someone looks great and then blows up, it happens. And you should prepare for it but when you have a guy with everything working, you should ride it at least a little if your alternative that you’re handing ball off to in gas can that’ll prob be on 6 teams in the next 8 years. If you’re a team with a really good bullpen, maybe it makes sense to not ride the hot hand and in that case, I could support giving the ball to a guy you can trust with good reason. AJ Cole is not that guy. I’ll take the percentages with the hot hand all day

Well, that’s the center of it. If you’re Tampa and you put your SP on a hard limit or pull him early and hand Nick Anderson the ball, you’re smart. If you’re handing it to AJ Cole you aren’t

W/E.. imo you’re playing with fire bringing in a 5 FIP gas can. And look what happened, came in, faced a few batters and hung some juicy pitches

Yeah, basically they’re trying to be smart like the Rays without having the personnel for it, so it’s just stupid

If you want to make it about Shoemaker is he goes a little longer, between him and Ray you never see Cole. The more times you throw a gas can put there, the more chance one of them is going to be the 5 FIP guy he is. You ride the guy that’s dealing within reason (first sign of trouble)