John_Havok

Also true

Right now, just looking at the numbers...who's gonna sign to be a 4/5, for less than Yariel.makes and pitch as well as he has? Right now Yariel is pretty much on par with Bassitt as far as fip xfip xERA etc all go. Sure Bassitt is having a down year for him, but...the point stands. I think pushing either Francis or Yariel to a pen role just doesn't make sense unless the numbers of the new guy are demonstrably better. Otherwise you're just shuffling chairs on the Titanic.

I think we generally agree that adding to the bottom of the rotation doesn't move the needle. If anything they need to add to the top.

Right now, if you make the assumption that Yariel and Francis are the 4/5 starters, they have the back end of the rotation covered for just over 7 million. Both are proving (so far) to be capable back end starters. Why sign another guy, for more money to pitch like a 4/5 when there's already two options in house for cheaper? They don't need improvement at the back end, they need improvement at the the top and middle

Focus on Soto, but keep Santander as the pivot fallbacknplan. Alonso would be fine too, but I shudder to think of the IF defense with Vlad at 3rd, Bo at SS, Horwitz atv2b and Alonso at 1st. That might be Greek tragedy level s*****

A guy like him has to believe he's the best, even if he demonstrably isn't. He's not taking a discount, never was. The Jays can afford to pay him market value, the trick is getting him to realize his market value isn't higher than Judge, or whatever Soto gets, or even really comparable to them from an AAV standpoint. If he isn't willing to accept that, then they have to part ways. If Vlad thinks he's worth 40 million per season, he has to hit like Judge for more than 2 months.

And if the Jays kick Boston in the nuts this series grant will be Masterbathing for a month

Kinda makes ya think the Jays better not completely turf defense next season, or this could be them next August

I know right... he checks every box they want to check in a position player, it's just that he'll have so many teams in on him. Way more teams will be on him than there were on Ohtani. Washington, San Fran, both NY teams, of course the Dodgers, Seattle should be, Toronto. And of course Team X will be Biggest kick in the dick would be Baltimore finally paying for a real FA.

5th. The 1st game technically counts as a June game.

We don't need back of the rotation piece, need top end to push other guys down.

Checked the rulebook to clarify: When a batter leaves the game with two strikes against him, and the substitute batter completes a strikeout, the Official Scorer shall charge the strikeout and the time at bat to the first batter. If the substitute batter completes the turn at bat in any other manner, including a base on balls, the Official Scorer shall score the action as having been that of the substitute batter. So basically of its a 2 strike count and the su stature batter strikes out...it's charged to the original hitter. If anything else happens, it goes to the sub. Rule 9.15( I take the L

Yeah, according to tye rules, if a hitter is replaced mid PA and a the substitute gets on base...it counts for the first guy. But if the sub hitter gets out, it counts against the sub

If that's the case then there's no rush at all on him. Did the Covid thing grant an extra year of control for all those kids?

Roden must be Rule 5 eligible this offseason right?

Well, tyhe fun thing about it, since the Sox put in Jansen to catch, he was behind the plate for his own pinch-hit PA. Had Varsho hit a HR, it still would have been credited to Jansen, who then would have been behind the plate for his own HR.

What's weirder is that the King of everyone's steroid butthurt, Bonds, only topped 50 once when he hit 73

Weird...

He's also not on the 40 man, so they'd have to DFA someone. Not that they couldn't find a reliever to turf easily enough, just sayin.

What was the score at the time?

Soto - Judge - Stanton go back to back to back today. Judge with another 2 HR game.

What did I miss? I was out running errands.

Same reason as all the other Buffalo players, auditions. They could do worse than having a switch hitting back-up CF with plus plus speed on the bench. Even with his garbage bat so far he's a positive contributor thanks to defense and baserunning. That said, he does need to show more with the stick than he has. Needs the wRC+ to be minimum ~80-85, 55 so far.

Was is a risk? Sure. Judge hitting 60 bombs, while... surprising on some levels, wasn't all that surprising if he stayed healthy for a full season. The entire league could see that. Dude is walking mountain that could fall out of bed and hit 40 HRs by accident.

You're technically correct, but also downplaying the significant impacts of Vlad's bad baserunning and defensive liabilities. I also think you're really down playing the significance of 70 bases per season. That's 17 HRs worth of walks. Sure, 70 walks isn't directly equal to 17 HRs, but it's quite a large difference in the totality of a season when you combine it with the bad D and bad baserunning. You're other question about whether front offices care... of course they do. It's just a matter of how much they care about those other factors limiting the value of the player vs the rest of the team. A team with overall great D and great baserunning wont give 2 shits about Vlad bad D and baserunning as long as he's hitting 40+ HRs per season. Maybe that's a general truth for any player. Here's how I look at the situation. If I'm a GM and I have Soto and Vlad as available, at the same time, in free agency, which guy am I going to prioritize if both positions they play is an area of need? My answer is Soto based on the total package, 10 times out of 10. That's not a slight on Vlad either, it's just the reality that Soto is a much more valuable player on the field than Vlad is when you're looking at total wins.