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  1. John_Havok
    Short answer is because Andrew Friedman is probably the best GM in baseball in recent memory and has the right people doing the right things in the right places. But even a quick glance at their roster... 17 home grown players on the 40 man roster. Jays? 17 homegrown on the 40 man roster. I'll get a bit more deep into it in a few posts to compare the respective home grown players on each team.
  2. John_Havok
    Bauer is really enjoying this I'm sure.
  3. John_Havok
    Pearson is just so damn good when he’s on. Those few outings last season when he did command his curve he was utterly untouchable. Him being a SP is a pipe dream for sure. Hell, even him being a bulk reliever would be fantastic right now. The talent is so obvious, but the consistency is nonexistant
  4. John_Havok
    Yes, and it’s also important to understand it’s never going to be successful for everyone. Fine tuning is a good way to put it. I also neglected to mention that the facility has only been going for what…3 off-seasons now and probably just now are getting close to having it fully staffed with all the people they want. No way it would have running at full steam from day 1
  5. John_Havok
    No flippancy intended, but it’s hard to provide a potential perspective without a specific statement to know what yours is. You just saw Schneider (28th round), and Horwitz (24th round) play roles on the bid league club last season. Tiedemann took a massive leap forward in his first season after being drafted. Even guys like Connor Cooke, Palmegiani, Jimmy Burnett, Jeunger…Dallas, Santos….the fact these guys are even relevant in the Jays system just 2 full seasons after being drafted shows the complex is doing pretty well. The true strength of the complex isn’t going to be taking some guy from out of nowhere to being a star (though that would nice admittedly), it will be taking guys that otherwise would have flamed out in AA and getting a few good seasons out of them wherever they fit in, whether that’s a middle reliever, #4-5 starter, or even a bench guy. That’s where the real value is
  6. John_Havok
    How anyone arrives at the conclusion that Varsho is expendable because they signed KK just doesn’t get it. They ended up with nearly identical fWAR last season, but to do so the mid thirties guy over performed his offense, while the 26 year old drastically underperformed his. One thing you got backwards though…..Varsho is not the KK insurance policy, KK is the Varsho insurance policy
  7. John_Havok
    The move , in a vacuum, is not a “good move.” It’s kinda sideways and slightly backwards when dollars are considered if all you do is compare IKF to Espinal. But, this move can’t be evaluated in a vacuum. IMO it’s clear they have a trade worked out and Espinal is part of it, they knew they needed to find a replacement, and it just happens that the signing is being announced before the trade. At least, I hope that’s what it is because if that’s not the plan, the move doesn’t make a ton of sense.
  8. John_Havok
    Well, what were your specific expectations about any player going there?
  9. John_Havok
    Heineman was waived and claimed by the Mets so no chance of that either way
  10. John_Havok
    Signing Hader would probably be an October move
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. John_Havok
    He likely won’t be a starter so he won’t get close to that anyways. He’s a backup
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. John_Havok
    Isn’t Rosario just Espinal with slightly better speed?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. John_Havok
    The voices in his head.
  21. 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.
  22. 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?
  23. John_Havok
    Ok.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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