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  1. John_Havok
    Well, what were your specific expectations about any player going there?
  2. John_Havok
    Heineman was waived and claimed by the Mets so no chance of that either way
  3. John_Havok
    Signing Hader would probably be an October move
  4. John_Havok
    You’re not wrong in that IKF and a Espinal are basically the same type of player and a Espinal is cheaper. However, if you can flip Espinal as part of a bigger package to land a player or players you need and you end up paying a few more million for IKF to fill Espinal’s role…you gotta do it.
  5. John_Havok
    Probably a good way to look at it. Super utility guys that can come off the bench and cover virtually every position between them and pinch run when needed. ~400 PAs each
  6. John_Havok
    There was really only 1 “real player” on the market this offseason and he got the biggest contract in sports history. I’m not a big fan of the remaining FA targets for anything other than DH so a trade or two is probably on the way
  7. John_Havok
    He likely won’t be a starter so he won’t get close to that anyways. He’s a backup
  8. John_Havok
    Any inkling as to the team that might be involved? Like…Cease and Robert from Chicago would be nice, though it would probably be more like Espinal, Manoah, Orelvis, Santos, Barger….pretty much anyone not named Tiedeman, and I probably wouldn’t even mind if he was included tbh. May as well just load up for the final 2 years of Bo and Vlad
  9. John_Havok
    As long as he’s a bench piece and not a starter…I’m cool with it, but I don’t see why they felt the need to sign a noodle bat defense-guy for more money than our current noodle bat defense-guy. I guess Espinal is about to get punted into the sun or traded, no reason to keep him at this point.
  10. John_Havok
    Isn’t Rosario just Espinal with slightly better speed?
  11. John_Havok
    My sources are telling me it's Ohtani. He requested a trade because he felt so bad about the whole plane thing and wanted to make it up to Canada. Return is apparently Espinal, Manoah, all the Jays international money for the next 10 years and a lifelong subscription for Friedman to the Jelly of The Month Club.
  12. John_Havok
    He’d be fine defensively there but then all of 2024 is the broken record from 2023, where’s the power in the offense? A bounce back from Vlad and regressions to the respective means from Varsho and Kirk still doesn’t really strike fear in hearts of pitchers everywhere. The only real 30 HR threat on the Jays right now would be a Vlad.
  13. John_Havok
    The voices in his head.
  14. John_Havok
    The move is one of those ones that makes sense and doesn’t make sense at the same time. There’s no doubt adding KK to the current roster makes the team better overall, but at the same time….not by a whole lot. The overall optics of this signing won’t really be clear until the solutions are for LF and 3b are known.
  15. John_Havok
    With Verdugo, Soto and Judge already out there and Stanton needing to be the primary DH...Rizzo at 1b. Where would he play?
  16. John_Havok
    Ok.
  17. John_Havok
    Yes, but just because one pro sports league does something doesn’t mean it’s remotely likely in another. Yes, I concede that it would be possible theoretically if Japan and Korea suddenly decided they wanted to have virtually no good baseball players left in their leagues, but I tend to deal in changes that have the chance of actually happening. It’s fine to just say “they should do X because it would be more fair” and that may well be true, but if the chances of something like that happen ending are between 0 and 0.1%, there not much point in entertaining the idea.
  18. John_Havok
    If they’re 18 …sure, they can already be signed as an international amateur free agent subject to international spending limits if they player agrees to not declare themselves eligible for their own countries amateur drafts to the pros. Ohtani almost that when he was 18 coming out of high school. Bi you can’t implement a draft of professionals from other countries pro leagues. You’d never get an agreement from other leagues to let that happen. Even kids that go undrafted from high school and college here and have never played pro ball become free agents, they don’t just keep remaining draft eligible. It’s like you want to lump every single player that isn’t from the US and Canada as a draft eligible amateur.
  19. John_Havok
    They’re free agents because they’ve played professional baseball in other countries for years and thus are not amateur draft eligible If you’re thinking an international draft solves international free agency with respect to the KBO/Japan thing, you have a faulty understanding of how that system differs greatly from the one that signs 16 year olds out of the Latin American and South American countries.
  20. John_Havok
    They’re free agents. What change to the free agent system would make any difference other than a hard cap and floor?
  21. John_Havok
    As another hockey fan, the cap is bloody amazing.
  22. John_Havok
    10:37pm: There’s a $50MM signing bonus, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today (X link). The deal does not contain any deferred money, according to Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic (on X).
  23. John_Havok
    I see so theyre trying to make it so the one team doesnt send a a guy back out after finishing the previous inning, then warming up, only to have the opposing manager put in a pinch hitter, and then change pitchers again right away. Not sure what that changes since they can just change pitchers after the first hitter and still take up that time for the pitching change.
  24. John_Havok
    He could be a perfect candidate for an including an opt out clause after 2 years. Front load the first 2 years, then make the last 6ish years at lesser value to almost "encourage" the opt out if he wants to hit FA again. Something like 8/200, but make the first two years 30 million each, then the last 6 would average 23.33 per. The opt out keeps him here for the final 2 years of the Vlad and Bichette arb years, and then he can choose to either opt out and test FA again if he has 2 good/great years, and if he only have some average years, then the last 6 years are at lower AAV and doesn't really hamstring the Jays financially since he and Berrios would really be the only 2 big tickets left on the roster by that time.
  25. John_Havok
    The fact that any pitcher warming up prior to an inning MUST throw to at least 1 batter is interesting. Like, what would happen if you have 2 guys warming, but the first guy that goes in gets all 3 outs because the other guy was only intended to throw to the #4 hitter up that inning if it got that far? Would that mean that they would purposefully have to wait to start the second guy warming until the start of the inning? What if the first guy gets two quick outs and then a 1 pitch single? Will the second guy then have to come in without being ready or would the manager then have to just let the first guy try and get #4 in what's likely an unfavourable matchup? I have trouble understanding the purpose of that particular change.
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