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  1. John_Havok
    Why would you not just throw another curve...
  2. John_Havok
    I can't laugh hard enough at the Orioles completely ******** maneuver with this park, when they have nearly all their young guys hitting left handed or switch. It's like... can you be more obvious as to your motives?
  3. John_Havok
    Bassitt is leaving seom crushable pitches in the zone so far... im not encouraged.
  4. John_Havok
    Unless of course he expands the strike zone to include 8 inches up ... just some bad swings there. Got the one he wanted first pitch and just missed it.
  5. John_Havok
    Atkins gamed the system there by sending Francis down for Hatch to have a fresh arm, then recalling Francis knowing Cimber would be on paternity leave.
  6. John_Havok
    June 13 Bichette - 1 Point- LTBF Varsho - 2 Points - Spanky Springer - 2 Points - Jonn Vladdy - 3 Points - wilko, Candy Maldonado, Dylan, bones10 Chapman - 3 Points Jansen - 3 Points - John_Havok Kirk - 4 Points Merrifield - 6 Points Kiermaier - 7 Points - JaysAllMighty Off the bench: 10 Points - Omar
  7. John_Havok
    THing is, this is about where you'd expect Varsho to be given his skillset, sure maybe a slight disappointment in overall hitting, but the D and baserunning is as good as advertised. Vlad is such a massive disappointment that it's ridiculous. He had a lightbulb moment in the 2020 offseason and came into 2021 slimmer, better and focused, then decided no more effort was needed after his MPV caliber season. He's been coasting since then. The fact that Vlad's ISO is .169 is so far past terrible I don;t think there's an English word to describe it. He should be a right handed Freddy Freeman, instead he's a right handed Josh Naylor.
  8. John_Havok
    Yeah, it's frustrating for sure to be where the team is right now, especially when you can see guys like Vlad who should be a perennial MVP candidate with 6+ fWAR, and he's hitting like an average 1B maybe putting up 2.5, Manoah falling off a cliff... hell, just those 2 things alone has probably cost the Jays in the neighborhood of 5 wins in the first 70 games.
  9. John_Havok
    I think the over arching point is that focusing on X number of wins to say that a team is good or not is not truly focusing on the right details. Yes, wins are needed to get into the playoffs, so in that sense sure, they need to focus on at least building a team that can win as many games as needed to get in. But to say they need to be at least a 100 win team to be a WS contender... doesnt matter. A 95 win team in the AL East is likely a better team than a 95 win team coming out of the Central in either League (like that would happen anyway...). Especially in the playoffs where truly only your best 3 starters really matter, and you cant sub guys out and send them down and call someone else up multiple times a year like many teams do in the regular season to ensure maximum advantage in the bullpen or batting order. Just get in. Being a 110 win team vs a 100 win team vs a 95 win team really doesnt matter a whole lot in the playoffs. All that is for is ticket sales and public image.
  10. John_Havok
    Dude's a lawyer, straw man building is their only function.
  11. John_Havok
    Now 4-3 Oakland…look what you’ve done
  12. John_Havok
    Except you don’t get good starters without trading at least 1 of your A prospects, depending on your definition of good.
  13. John_Havok
    BTW if a mod wants to move those posts to the general thread or the BP thread (if that's possible?) that's fine. I dont mean to hijack the Schneider firing thread.
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  15. John_Havok
    HR/FB is usually around 10%
  16. John_Havok
    Here's the best pen in baseball according to fWAR vs the Jays. The gap in fWAR is about 3 wins... but are they really all that different??? HR rate.... that's it.
  17. John_Havok
    I think it's more about his command when he gets kicked around. The entire wold knows his splitter is nearly unhittable when they can't identify it, but it's easier to identify if he cannot command the fastball down in the zone. If, when he throws the fastball and it's always upper half or a little wild, the hitters can basically let go anything they perceive to be lower half simply because they can reasonably guess it's the splitter and shouldn't swing as they know it will fall out of the zone far more often than not. Here's yesterday's pitch 3d - red are the fastballs, the light greeny blue are the splitters, yellow are sliders. Here's the same plot from June 6th against Houston, same colour on the pitches Sure, there are still some fastballs up as you cant just exclusively not use the top half of the zone, especially when you can throw 98 with a heater, but there's a noticeable difference in alot of his fastball locations vs Houston than vs Minnesota.
  18. John_Havok
    I’m more a fan of the ignore button. Works wonders in keeping the GDTs about 50% of their normal length
  19. John_Havok
    French onion? Biggio is a good enough player that he can and will find work anywhere even if he’s let go by the Jays in the upcoming off-season. Yes, he has power, yes he has a great eye at the plate but, as you said he has massive hole in his swing at the top of the zone against any kind of velo. Doesn’t even have to be up and out of the zone, top of the zone is fine and he will swing through it far more often than not. Couple that with a near passive approach at the plate. He’s a guy that it’s easy to see the talent, but he still hasn’t adjusted to what pitchers are doing to him to nullify his strengths at the plate. if he does, he goes back to his 110-120 wRC+ we saw early in his career. His defensive versatility is nice even though he’s probably average wherever he plays, and also a pretty good base runner.
  20. John_Havok
    I mean, if you’re gonna win it on a playoff hole, may as well do it with a 72 foot eagle putt.
  21. John_Havok
    He just started rehabbing in games in the complex league a day or two ago, should be back up to Buffalo soon
  22. John_Havok
    Missed the game but I have a pretty good idea looking at the box score how the GDT comments went. Whiney idiots were all whiney whiney bitch bitch moan moan, right up until bottom of the 8th, then f***ed off immediately?
  23. John_Havok
    June 11 Bichette - 1 Point - Jonn Varsho - 2 Points Springer - 2 Points - Abomination, JohnHavok Vladdy - 3 Points - Omar, JaysBlue Chapman - 3 Points Kirk - 4 Points Biggio - 5 Points - Candy Maldonado Merrifield - 6 Points Lukes - 8 Points - Spanky Off the bench: 10 Points - JaysAllMighty
  24. John_Havok
    Wasn’t even a bad call by Cuzzi for a change. Pitch #8
  25. John_Havok
    4 years 156 days was prior to the season starting, he’s past 5 now for sure
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