John_Havok

Look at them veins poppin! Even on roids he sucked.

That's the kind of body shape a guy has to really commit to losing, it's not something he can just try to do over the offseason and call good enough, it's a continual long term process. I know as i'm still working through mine.

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that's how 99% of the world works right now.

Dont sweat it, it's the season for the flurry of "best shape of my life" spring training pics

I found this one of him having a nice low-carb pre-game snack.

That's one of last seasons ST pics.

Ah Felipe Crespo... I remember him for all of 10 minutes. It's probably not a good sign that when you look a guy up his primary position is listed as "pinch hitter"

Nice slate of ST games being broadcast too. Last few years most of the broadcasts were just weekends.

He wore 3 different numbers with the Jays Started with #6 in 1993-1995, wore #21 in 1996 then gave it up to Clemens when he was signed, and took the #25 from 1997-2004. Little known thing, any player's Baseball reference page has all the #'s they ever wore while in MLB at the top of the screen in little circles.

Still no word on the actual dollar structure or even the total yet?

I don't think they are that bad, coupled with the fact they'll be playing the rest of the division less often. I could see 75-ish wins

Just look at that kid. Could show me that first pic a dozen times and i wouldn't put it together with Delgado

I dunno man, celebrating a HR in the bottom of the 9th when youre down by 6 seems like pretty bad form. /sarcasm

Could be worse….

True, but then the Braves got rolled in their first series of 2022 when they had easily a much better team than the one that won the WS in 2021. "Learning how to win in the playoffs" is the biggest meaningless cliche in sports.

Yes, awards are taken into account

I think it’s just that counting stats are easy to quantify, others are not. There’s any number of different defensive metrics, all calculated differently based on different data. Hell, there’s probably a defensive metric out there somewhere that has Bo as being average or better based on some weird data set that isn’t public

Look at Espinal as an example. He's definitively better with the glove at SS than Bo, but ... the bat is so much worse. 2.1 Million in his first arb this season. I do think defensive guys are undervalued monetarily, but... i wouldnt go so far as to say that Espinal and Bo should have comparable arb salaries either.

Yeah Jose's was good. JB's quotes: "If this is going to happen, I think it should be natural, organic, quick and easy," said Bautista, who is eligible for free agency at the end of the season. "It shouldn't be pull and tug over a few dollars here and there. "I didn't want to waste their time or their effort, so they can start planning ahead, and if it's not going to happen, they have plenty of time to [respond]. They asked me about two weeks ago, and I told them, that's it. There's no negotiation, I told them what I wanted. They either meet it, or it is what it is." Bautista technically might be underpaid now, but that won't be the case at the end of the season, and for anyone who believes he might take a hometown discount, think again. That's not on the table. "That doesn't exist, not in my world," Bautista said. "In my eyes, I've given this organization a five-year hometown discount already." (for context, these quotes were taken at the start of spring training in 2016 he was heading into the last year of a 5/65 deal) Bautista said he didn't give the Blue Jays a firm deadline to accept his offer -- which TSN's Rick Westhead reported as being five years and $150 million, terms Bautista denied were correct he then had a pretty pedestrian 2016 and ended up signing a 1 year 18.5 deal for 2017 with Toronto - played like dogshit, then played like even worse dogshit in 2018 for the Phillies, Braves and Mets and retired.

year errors would be a number they could use, but it would be just 1 out of all the rest. Defense has never been all that important when it comes to arbitration.

In his first interview since the winter meetings in early December, Paul Kinzer — Encarnacion’s agent in what is now a sluggish free-agent market for power hitters — told Sportsnet 590 The FAN that the slugger has six multi-year offers to consider. But a reunion with the Jays was always his top priority, and could have happened if the club hadn’t signed first baseman/DH Kendrys Morales just “two days” after offering Encarnacion $80 million over four years. Morales was signed for 3/33 million.

Fangraphs latest on George Springer https://blogs.fangraphs.com/george-springers-not-so-great-still-very-good-year/

There's a limit on what stats can be used. Its basically anything that is public and easily calculated, but nothing proprietary by the team .. or even Statcast is allowed. fWAR could be used for example, ditto wRC+ since they are based on publicly available stats that anyone can calculate. Statcast stuff isnt allowed because the underlying data is not publicly available.