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  1. John_Havok
    Naw, Teo spent all of like 100 PAs in the jays minors before he was a regular. I wouldn't truly count him as a Jays developed OF.
  2. John_Havok
    Naw, my brain remains flexible to new ideas. Literally 0 people complain about Bassitt spin rates or the shape of his pitches yet Buck rambles on about how analysts do it “all the time” like people think Bassitt sucks or something. Bassitt succeeds because he’s a unicorn and can throw 7 different pitches with varied velos that break both in, out and down to both side hitters from 70 to 95 mph with command and you simply cannot predict what he’s going to throw so batters can’t really get a read or gear up for a certain pitch. If every pitcher could throw all those pitches with any semblance of command they would.
  3. John_Havok
    I’m so over listening to Buck Martinez talk about baseball. Dinosaur
  4. John_Havok
    CHappy back to swinging outside the zone. Ice cold
  5. John_Havok
    Chappy almost knows! - woulda been a HR at Skankee stadium...
  6. John_Havok
    Bichette Bomb ! Abom +1 +1
  7. John_Havok
    Springer starting to look like he's getting that timing back, not quite there yet though.
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    Picks locked
  9. John_Havok
    That sinker to Lemaheiex is where he wanted the Judge pitch. Would it kill him to miss a mistake just once though?
  10. John_Havok
    Berrios didnt read the part in the scouting report to not throw middle-middle sinkers to Judge.
  11. John_Havok
    May 18 Bichette - 1 Point - Abomination Chapman - 2 Points - JaysAllMighty, Omar Varsho - 2 Points - jays4life19, Dylan Springer - 2 Points Belt - 3 Points Kirk - 4 Points - Stangstag Jansen - 4 Points - JohnHavok Merrifield - 5 Points - wilko, Candy Maldonado, Gen.Disarray Espinal - 6 Points - mphenhef Off the bench: 10 Points - WryNGinger, Jaysblue
  12. John_Havok
    I honestly think 1b get the royal shaft on D metrics.
  13. John_Havok
    Its one of those stats that just indicates he's having a down first couple of month. He has definitely missed some plays with the glove that you would expcet him to make. Last nights game awas one example, there was another one a few games ago where balls are just getting by him that you would normally think were automatic for him.
  14. John_Havok
    Yeah, it's hard to really say. You dont really want to commit much to Jansen given his injury history, but at the same time... I have 0 faith in Kirk's ability to catch a 120+ games. something like a 4 year/36million? where 6 million would be his 2024 salary replacing arb 3, then 10m for each of the next 3?
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    May 18 Bichette - 1 Point - Abomination Chapman - 2 Points Varsho - 2 Points - jays4life19, Dylan Springer - 2 Points Belt - 3 Points Kirk - 4 Points - Stangstag Jansen - 4 Points Merrifield - 5 Points Espinal - 6 Points - mphenhef Off the bench: 10 Points - WryNGinger, Jaysblue
  17. John_Havok
    Jays medical staff: Are there any problems at all with the shoulder? Any pain, stiffness? etc? White: No not really, just really trying to get to speed. I feel good. Jays Doctor: Glad you feel that way but there's obviously something still bothering you because youre pitching like s*** so, must be some discomfort still ingering... White: No really, I feel great, just need some more reps *Jays Doctor smacks him in the shoulder with a hammer* How about now? Little bit of pain still I see. Okay, we'll shut you down and keep you from embarrassing the front office a little longer.
  18. John_Havok
    Not the most important league around but the Canadian College World Series is in Lethbridge this long weekend and the Lethbridge hometown team, the Prairie Baseball Academy is the #1 seed. I'll check out a few games and see if there's anyone that stands out. Adam Macko pitched in the league before he was drafted by Seattle and the Jays drafted a few guys out of here in the past, though none of them made it past AA that I'm aware of.
  19. John_Havok
    Some nice bait posts above. Lets see if they catch anything.
  20. John_Havok
    But they point is we dont know if there were any offers at all on Kirk, of course his name would have come up at some point, but for all we know, other teams either didnt want him at all, or not at the asking price. So the idea of wanting to trade Kirk rather than Moreno is valid, but you cant judge the Varsho/Moreno trade against a decision "not to trade" Kirk. Since a trade of Kirk never happened, we simply cannot know if there was ever a trade containing his name that was even possible, so it's literally pointless to compare what happened to what didnt happen. To be fair, I would rather have traded Kirk too if there was a trade to be done.
  21. John_Havok
    TBH I really don't care if the Jays ever develop a 4th OF. They can be found anywhere and signed for cheap. But your point stands about the OF in general. I think their last OF delveloped internally was Gurriel Jr.
  22. John_Havok
    There's is 0 way to know what Kirk would have got via trade, since no trade happened, so trying to evaluate the Moreno/Varsho trade against a hypothetical is really pointless.
  23. John_Havok
    If clutch was a real thing it would be something that could be duplicated year after year after year, and game after game after game. It's not. People love to point at Ortiz as an example, but he wasnt some otherworldly savant in clutch situations, he just hit like he always hit. Playoffs are nothing but a random bunch of tiny sample sizes. Of all the series he played in, he hit above his career OPS in 9 of them and below his career OPS in 9 of them. Players hit how they hit, they cannot control the situations, nor the narratives that people attach to them after.
  24. John_Havok
    Yeah, there's relaly only 2 times to evaluate a trade - right away in which you analyze the process and the idea behind the trade, and then years later. In a vacuum, 4 years of Varsho is far more valuable than 1 year of Gurriel, not even really close. Whether he signs an extension there or not doesnt factor in. The 6+ years of Moreno is what the real deciding factor will be. But evaluating the process at the time of the trade is simple: top prospect catcher with no power + pending FA outfielder who hasn't been particularly usefull on any side of the ball in 3 years in exchange for a legit defensive outfielder who does everything well except walk, and hits left handed with 4 years of control left = do it. The argument that others are bringing up about whether they should have traded kirk or Jansen instead isnt even relevant.
  25. John_Havok
    It doesnt matter if they traded the "right" catcher. They traded the catcher that Arizona wanted to get the trade done. That makes him the right catcher to trade. Can't analyze a trade saying they should have traded X player instead of Y.
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