John_Havok

Nice. Only lost 10% win probability. still in the drivers seat

Contreres looking for offspeed, stay with the heat.

Pete's out there just reminding him he's a bulldozer, so quit trying to be cute.

Already seing better OF defense. Gurriel would have tried to throw the guy out at 3rd and let Arenado get to 2nd

FFS Bo lol just eat it

Filthy pitch.

3 squib singles this inning around a few line drives. gotta love it

77.5% win percentage for the jays now, lets get it to the bullpen.

Yes! Kirk with that new daddy power

Best cleanup hitter in Jays history already. Varshooooooo

Heh, Bo decided he was going to try and murder that first pitch beforehand for sure.

nice! having a good year from Springer would be f***ing amazing

Yankees game wrapped in 2 hours 33 minutes, making it the shortest Yankees game since the invention of television.

ANATOMY noun: teres major either of two muscles passing below the shoulder joint from the scapula to the upper part of the humerus, one ( teres major ) drawing the arm toward the body and rotating it inward, the other ( teres minor ) rotating it outward. Well, i learned something new today, had never heard of that before either.

Baseball savant is pretty good, though it sometimes struggles to update in real time

THis is the part that i liked the most and had to most questions about: "“Literally after every game, they get an email with the pitches they missed. They must log in and look at the ones they missed. And there’s commentary about how they missed, and why they missed." So .. what happens when guys miss the same pitches over and over and over and over again like Angel Hernandez? Reprecussions is not the right word, but what training or additional support are they mandated to take in order to get these calls more right in the future?

Under the CBA, minimum annual salaries would be as follows: At the complex league and rookie ball, $19,800, up from $4,800; Single A: $26,200, up from $11,000; High A: $27,300, up from $11,000; Double A: $30,250, up from $13,800; Triple A: $35,800, up from $17,500. The salary increases are estimated to cost MLB around $90 million annually. Other changes: • Players who sign at age 19 or older are going to be under club reserve for six years, rather than seven, which is the blanket number that previously applied to all players. This policy is not retroactive to players who previously signed at age 19 or older. • Some improvements to MLB’s housing policy. Players will have their own bedrooms at home at Double A and Triple A. Players are going to either receive a bedroom or be allowed to opt out and instead receive a stipend at Low A and High A. Spouses and children are going to be accommodated in club-provided housing. Housing is free for players except those who make a higher amount. • One of the elements MLB pushed hard for in the deal, and an issue the MLBPA gave some ground on, was the right to reduce the size of the maximum amount of players that can be carried on the domestic reserve lists. The union agreed to allow MLB to trim the maximum to 165 during the season, down from 180; and to 175 in the offseason, down from 190. Those cuts, however, cannot take place until 2024 at the earliest. MLB looks at this as right-sizing rosters, believing that if it were starting the minor leagues over today, there wouldn’t be as many spots as there are now. MLB initially wanted a blanket right to downsize rosters as the owners saw fit, which the MLBPA did not allow. • Transportation: For rookie ball, Low A and High A transportation to and from the field is guaranteed to players. At Double A and Triple A, issues are to be addressed as they come up. • The creation of a joint clubhouse nutrition committee to oversee meal quality, and increase in per diem. • A committee for feedback on rule changes that MLB implements in the minors. • A joint drug agreement and domestic violence policy. • Players receive their NIL rights, and the MLBPA plans to do group licensing. • With medical issues, players in certain circumstances will have rights to second opinions. • Different training periods: The fall training period lasts from the end of the season until the Friday before Thanksgiving. A dead period follows from the Saturday before Thanksgiving through Jan. 1. Then there will be a winter training period from Jan. 2 until spring training. During the training periods, players are to be paid at one rate if they’re home, and if they’re called into the complex for instructional leagues or other work, they’ll be paid at a higher rate. The minimum salaries listed above assume players are at home during those training periods, so players can make more money than those minimum salaries listed. • MLB formally agreed that there would not be contraction of minor league teams during the life of the CBA.

Manfred on the automated strike zone via The Athletic: “I do think that improved application of technology in the calling of balls and strikes over the long haul is a really good thing,” Manfred said. He then spoke about 2 main issues they see with ABS No. 1, there is a body of the MLBPA unit … they refer to them as ‘framing catchers,’ that kind of make their living in the major leagues on their ability to frame pitches,” Manfred said during a luncheon hosted by the Paley Center for Media. “And you know, unions are kind of one for all, for one, I like unions, it’s a good thing, and it’s sort of a nice concept. And you have to understand that when you’re making a change, and it arguably could eliminate a certain kind of player — not a guy or two, but a certain kind of player — that’s an issue.” The second issue is that ABS, at least thus far, interprets the strike zone differently than umpires. “(Umpires) are really skilled and dramatically more consistent than 15 years ago as a result of the application of technology in the training process,” Manfred told moderator Tom Verducci. “Literally after every game, they get an email with the pitches they missed. They must log in and look at the ones they missed. And there’s commentary about how they missed, and why they missed. “But what they call — you know, the rulebook strike zone’s a rectangle, above the middle of the plate — they call an oval. So they don’t call that inside corner, and that outside corner. There’s a reason they don’t call it: because you can’t hit that. Okay, so while we have the technology, it’s kind of right — accurate — there are issues that we need to work through before it’s ready for prime time.” MLB is testing two applications of ABS in the minor leagues. With one, the umpire is told on every pitch what to call. The other is a challenge system, where a team has three challenges to an umpire’s call per game. He says the one where ABS calls everything is less liked. “In the minor leagues, we have tested the umpire using (ABS) for every pitch in the game,” Manfred said. “Players know these things because they’re players — it does cause a problem with these corner pitches … because nobody has ever been trained to treat those as strikes, or hit them.” But the challenge system, meanwhile, carries an appeal that’s similar to instant replay. “The theory of instant replay was: fix the big miss,” Manfred said. “And we decided, well, why don’t we try the same theory? We’ll give pitchers, catchers, and hitters all the right to challenge a pitch, certain number per game. … It’s a very appealing way to correct a problem, or a miss, in a game where it can be a high-leverage situation.” But I think it’s an example of players … become more accepting of technology on the field, and then dictating how and when it’s going to be used. “The automated strike zone, this is another place: you know, you whiff sometimes. I held this belief for a really long time: if we could get a system that was … accurate to a tenth of an inch on every pitch, that everyone would carry us around on a big gold chair. We know that every pitch was right. It has not been received that way by players, and there are actually good reasons for it.” Manfred said the system is today actually accurate to a tenth of an inch. Although ABS has been referred to as the “robo ump,” Manfred emphasized Wednesday that it’s a misnomer. “I get emails from fans talking about the robot,” Manfred said. “There’s no robot. The umpire has an earpiece, it tells him what to call, he calls it just like he calls it today. It looks the same for the fan.” So, is ABS going to arrive in 2024? “The short answer is, I don’t know what’s going to happen going forward,” Manfred said. “I’m trying to get through this year’s change. We have some work to do, I think, on ABS.”

I dont think anyone is headed to the bridge and ready to jump over this. Moreso that it's the off day before the season starts and there's nothing else really to discuss. Hairs will be split.

Like we saw last season with Zimmer. God that was hard to watch

He was working on the power last year according to some report i was looking at, 11 HRs in under 500 PAs... Yeah I know, he's not a REAL power threat, but he's about the best one they have that's left handed and ready to play a bench role.

McDavid the first player to hit 140 points since 95-96. That's not nothing Though I think that guy down in San Jose is also having a pretty quiet monster season too. If he hits 100 points it will be first 100 point season by a D-man since Brian Leetch in 91-92.

I feel like Lopez is going to be some sort of Espinal/Biggio hybrid. He won't be quite as good defensively on the IF as Espinal, but will better defensively in both the IF and OF than Biggio. Not sure where his power will eventually settle, but probably in the same ball park as Espinal where 10 HR per year would be the max expected output.