John_Havok

No.... But, here's the wRC+ leaderboards sorted from the date of Vlad's MLB debut to today.

The Twins received bad news following right-hander Joe Ryan’s MRI, as he’s been diagnosed with a Grade 2 teres major strain that’ll threaten the remainder of his season, manager Rocco Baldelli announced to the Twins beat this morning (X link via Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com). It’s a more serious injury than the Twins initially anticipated, and while Baldelli didn’t entirely rule Ryan out for the remainder of the season, he acknowledged that it’ll take “weeks to months” for the right-hander to recover.

repeat offenders tend to get progressively longer punishments, in all facets of life.

Yes. Any cash received by the Jays counts as payroll they didn't pay. Any cash they send out in deals counts as payroll they did pay.

Jays traded Cam Eden to the Yankees for cash.

What's really interesting (to me at least) is putting Vlad and Soto right beside each other in comparisons. Soto ... going to get paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid. Vlad is just gonna get paid.

New guy from San Diego is already on the way up to cover Cabreras paternity leave

One would hope that him knowing he's the defacto #1 catcher, he's going to put in some work in the offseason. Maybe it's that knowledge of being #1 that will be the light switch going on.

Jays picked up a reliever from San Diego - Blue Jays Acquire Tommy Nance From Padres The Blue Jays announced that left-hander Génesis Cabrera has been placed on the paternity list with right-hander Tommy Nance selected to take his place on the active roster. The Blue Jays’ 40-man roster count was at 37 after their deadline dealings but now jumps to 38. Nance had been with the Padres on a minor league deal but the Jays acquired him for cash yesterday, per Keegan Matheson of MLB.com on X. Though the trade deadline has passed, certain swaps are still allowed. MLBTR’s Steve Adams recently explored the different ways teams can still add to their rosters after the deadline and noted that trades are still allowed if the players involved have not been on a 40-man roster this year. Nance, 33, signed a minor league deal with the Padres in December and had been with their Triple-A club all year until this trade. He has thrown 33 1/3 innings over his 26 appearances in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League with a 4.05 earned run average. He struck out 23.3% of batters faced, limited walks to a 5.3% clip and got batters to hit grounders at a 51% rate.

Hes still working back from an oblique injury. Really only had 3 terrible games this season all in April. May/June he was as good as usual.

Grayson Rodriguez to the IL - The Orioles announced today that Rodriguez has been placed on the 15-day IL with right lat/teres discomfort, retroactive to August 4.

Trade discussion was basically killed by his injury status. No team would be paying full sticker price when they don't know a guy is going to back before September, another season of control or not.

I don't have much to say on Bo, simply because it's very obvious he's going to free agency and there's less than a 0% chance he signs an extension. My rationale: 1) history of negotiations with him. he turned down raises in pre-arb years because he thought they weren't high enough and chose to earn league minimum to make a point (Manoah did too after his big year). 2) recent free agent deals signed by mid to late 20's aged shortstops.

John Schneider on MLB network radio at 11 am EDT if anyone is interested and wants to post a synopsis

I was checking his swing decisions on savant...it's the same thing we saw with multiple players last year, doing f*** all woth pitches over the heart of the plate and is terrible on the edges. 0 swing runs and -5 take runs on heart of the plate pitches. But you're right in that his other major issue is Sweet Spot LA. From ml average in 2022 and 2023 to...bottom of the barrel in 2024

And yet....you still need to score runs to win games. Regardless of the notion that great pitching can shut down great hitting, nobody wins a baseball game scoring 0 runs. Very few games are won scoring 1 run or even 2. Hell even 3 runs you're still on the s*** end of the stick more often than not.

I disagree to a point. Making better swing decisions would likely result in better quality contact and thus...and increase in some numbers. That, and cleaning up the hand movement.

Horwitz at 1b... just doesn't play imo. At 2B he's acceptable, but it would not surprise me to find out that he's not really all that good defensively there. Right now he's holding his own at +1 OAA. Offensively, pitchers have started adjusting to him over the past month (93 wrc+ for July after his scorching 165 in June) so we'll see how he adjusts back. So far in the august SSS he's at 101.

I was arguing with a buddy that he would have to do something pretty special to win the MVP as a DH only player. Looks like he just might.

Another notch in his favour for an extension. There's nothing that execs love more than guys who play every day at a high level. Same with Soto.

I'm not sure I like Loperfido in the2 spot, I think that's much more suited to a guy like Horwitz, whi, despite the lack of power will still take a walk if doesn't get anything to hit and probably set up better for a big inning. Might bounce into afew more DPs though too. That said, Loperfido does have a skillest that makes you think there's possible impact there. Not like Vlad level bat impact, but maybe 3-5 fWAR if it all clicks.

I agree to a few of these points, but it's also part of that hitting coach's and his staff's job to identify the causes of, and solutions to players slipping into funks, especially whether it's a physical change, or a mental one; preferably before they go into season long slumps I get there's variances and sometimes stuff just doesn't fall in for a week or two at a time, but guys like Vlad, Bo, Varsho, Kirk...all these guys have gone through stuff that isn't just explained away by a few weeks of random noise. Injury probably also a factor for Bo, but a few calf issues don't sink you from a 5 WAR guy to replacement level.

I think anytime a sentence starts with "Shocked the Angels (insert idiocy here) ...." it's not overly shocking

Unhappy for the fan that took that HR ball in the face though...

Judge. He's leading in virtually every statistical category. FWAR is close enough to be a wash.