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  1. John_Havok
    Pretty much. Bellinger would have been preferable to KK imo, but there was no way Toronto was paying what his asking price was early on so they pivoted early to a guy who they knew wanted to be here.
  2. John_Havok
    2, 3 and 4 hitters today are Kirk, Vogelbach and Schneider. Probably not gonna see many hit and "run" attempts up there. More like hoping for single, walk, Bomb
  3. John_Havok
    It's a month early to be saying "i know it's early"
  4. John_Havok
    The extension he turned down from TO was rumoured (though not confirmed) at a 4 or 5 year extension worth 100 million.
  5. John_Havok
    Hard to say, I doubt these agents get an offer from a team and then just call every other team saying here's what I have in hand...beat it if you want. I know it's easy to point and say "why didn't the Jays sign this guy for that?" The dynamic at this point is probably Chapman picking a team that he wants to play for and getting a s good a deal as he can. To be fair, if he opts out after this season, he took less money than the QO was.
  6. John_Havok
    Opt outs ..it's basically a 1 year deal. Means he was never a real option. Guaranteed he was offered more at some point early on
  7. John_Havok
    I definitely thought the trot was slow. Like...the camera followed the ball off the bat as best it could and even lingered in stands for an eternity and he hadn't hit 2b yet
  8. John_Havok
    Just love Barger's hacks. Murderous intent every time.
  9. John_Havok
    I don’t think I’ve heard a correct pronunciation of any Jays name so far. These Yankee ST casters are very underprepared
  10. John_Havok
    What a s*** PA from everyone after Barger. Nobody ready for middle cut fastballs.
  11. John_Havok
    Barger is a f***ing unit….really hope he learns to make enough contact to make it
  12. John_Havok
    96 inner half and he pulled the s*** out of it. No bat speed issues there… 29/30 parks it’s a HR…Fenway maybe held it?
  13. John_Havok
    My guess says about 75-80ish % of the time. 550-570 PA unless he really struggles with the bat.
  14. John_Havok
    Wasn't very subtle about hinting...he pretty much said it without directly saying it
  15. John_Havok
    Yep. Cooke could be a guy that fills a need of swing and miss, Danner if he's healthy will certainly get another shot. Any of the LHRs in the upper minors could get a look. Troy Watson is a guy who could get there too. On the older side but he doesn't have to be 21 to be an effective reliever. Complete nothing burger from his draft all the way through 2021...k rate of like 4.5. then in 2022 obviously something was adjusted as his K rate spiked as high as 14.1
  16. John_Havok
    I know thats pretty standard in a lot of forums but ... our comments are pretty well moderated for the most part. Casual bickering will always happen and can be cleaned up. It's really the spam threads that get tedious to deal with
  17. John_Havok
    Would it be possible to moderate new accounts for putting up threads rather than posts? Like, a bot signs up to make a new thread, they have to be approve before a thread can be started, but if it's a new account signing up and it's just a comment... that's okay? Seems to me the vast majority of first posts are people and first threads are bots.
  18. John_Havok
    There might be a universe out there that exists where he does, but I don't think it's this one. Early ST setback (not serious) plus a very obvious innings cap from last year to this one...it's doubtful. Unless the Jays want to specifically use him as a 3 inning opener rather than carry a true 5th starter. I'm guessing that's not what they are planning and they'd rather have tiedemann getting the bulk of his innings towards the end of the season if he's up with the club Injury caveats to other pitchers nothwithstanding of course
  19. John_Havok
    Would cause far more problems than it would hope to solve
  20. John_Havok
    That was already reduced a few years ago to maximum 5 times per season.
  21. John_Havok
    Yes even more of a thing with an elite CF in place.
  22. John_Havok
    I think it makes sense completely why you wouldn’t save as many runs or have as quite a high OAA in LF or Rf. The biggest factor would be that you’re deferring to the CF on balls hit where both of you might make the catch, most of the time. That could make a big difference over the course of a season.
  23. John_Havok
    Will never get a cut back of roster players with a players union around. There also the issue that guys being optioned up and down is now capped at 5 times per year, so trimming the amount of pitchers on a roster would be greatly impacted by that cap
  24. John_Havok
    Especially in a game where the wind is swirling in all kinds of crazy ways and the Rays 3b nearly muffed a simple pop up the inning before. In The RC he makes that play 99/100 without even needing to dive. It’s Florida in spring, the wind is nuttier than baseball players pics in the new pants.
  25. John_Havok
    Pfft. Manfred is destroying baseball again! Scherzer has a completely weird take on it though…they aren’t “too scared to let pitchers fail” like they’re trying to protect the pitchers ego or something, they’re doing it because they don’t want to give up any more runs… which happens a lot more often the third time through the order for almost every pitcher in baseball except the very best. It’s always been that way. Now teams just realize it’s better to take a guy out sooner rather than later when it comes to winning games. The quote from Dave Roberts sums it up perfectly… “From a fan perspective, yeah, to see a guy in there to go seven, eight innings, I absolutely get it. Doesn’t necessarily help you win baseball games, and I’m in the business of winning games."
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