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  1. John_Havok
    Now 4-3 Oakland…look what you’ve done
  2. John_Havok
    Except you don’t get good starters without trading at least 1 of your A prospects, depending on your definition of good.
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    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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    HR/FB is usually around 10%
  6. 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.
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    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.
  8. John_Havok
    I’m more a fan of the ignore button. Works wonders in keeping the GDTs about 50% of their normal length
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    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.
  10. 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.
  11. John_Havok
    He just started rehabbing in games in the complex league a day or two ago, should be back up to Buffalo soon
  12. 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?
  13. 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
  14. John_Havok
    Wasn’t even a bad call by Cuzzi for a change. Pitch #8
  15. John_Havok
    4 years 156 days was prior to the season starting, he’s past 5 now for sure
  16. John_Havok
    He’s past 5 years of service time now, he could refuse being optioned to the minors at this point even if he does have options left.
  17. John_Havok
    Cots contracts has him as a FA for 2024, Sportrac has him as a super 2 getting Arb 4. Looks like cots is wrong since his service time at seasons end will still be less than 6 seasons. Weird they have a basic mistake like that
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    He’s definitely a big part of the problem. I’m not sure how to explain the questionable approach that we see up and down the lineup though. Team ISO is 16th in MLB at .159, and with the hitters on this team that is just not where it should be. This team should be pushing .170-.180 Yes, losing Teo hurts that a bit, but more impacting is multiple players vastly underperforming their talent levels.
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    No doubt at all, especially given his FA status at the end of the season.
  20. John_Havok
    Call me crazy, but I think I picked up on Bowden tipping his breaking balls and I think Minnesota picked up on it also. The first few hitters were dispatched quite easily but after that it looked to me like they had the timing down on both the slider and the curve pretty much perfectly. Almost like his body in his delivery as just a bit more upright when he threw the breaking balls vs the fastball. First three batters he faced struck out, and got 4 swinging strikes. Then, of the next 7 hitters he faced he recorded exactly 0 swinging strikes, and gave up EVs of 100.4, 99.9, 103, 98, 100.5, 104.5, 74.2, 94.2 and 91.1. Especially after the Jay Jackson situation if I were the video guys I’d be really looking at Francis’ video from today to make sure he didn’t have something giving away the breaking balls I also acknowledge this could be nothing more than a 10 batter sample size being weird
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    Holy s*** Varsho…just foul
  22. John_Havok
    Could really go for a chocolate milkshake right now…
  23. John_Havok
    Probably. Figured since they were playing Minnesota nobody would notice low scoring games
  24. John_Havok
    Yes
  25. John_Havok
    Bowden Francis touches 98 now? Wtf
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