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  1. John_Havok
    Just for the sake of argument: Springer's first 3 nearly complete seasons he was 3.9, 4.6 and 4.7 fWAR ..... Reynolds 3.4, 6.1, 2.9 (excluding 2020 for obvious reasons) - they're nearly identical in terms of overall value. If your contention is that Reynolds won't continue on the same arc as Springer did after those seasons, well, maybe, but Springer only averaged slightly over 3.5 fWAR (injury issues contributed for sure) per season up till now after those 3 years I mentioned.
  2. John_Havok
    Can say that for nearly every rotation in baseball, that if one of the top 3 goes down, some random #5 who may or may not be any good takes the spot. Side note, I'm not overly high on White either, I see a 2 pitch pony that needs a changeup in the worst way.
  3. John_Havok
    I dispute that anyone thought Ryu would return to form, most were probably pretty much done with him and were only saw Manoah Gausman and Berrios as solid, Kikuchi was still the wildcard. I would argue the pitching overall is decidedly better than last year as a whole, though not like magnitudes better.
  4. John_Havok
    Whomever replaced whomever, really isnt all that important. Point is the starting 3 are solid AF, #4 could easily return to his #2-3 form and #5 is a wildcard with several options behind him already not to mention the minor league deals we'll still probably see before spring training.
  5. John_Havok
    I'd still be reaaaaaly tempted to try and pry Reynolds out of Pittsburgh, even if it did cost Tiedemann+, though I'm not sure how high I would want that + to be . His addition would just put the outfield in a perfect spot, hell he could even play left field and the Jays would have 3 CF's playing the OF.
  6. John_Havok
    Tell that to the Rays and the Chris Archer trade.
  7. John_Havok
    I dont think his SLG is in any way reflective of playing in MiLB parks or MLB parks, his SLG sucks when he's beating balls into the ground vs getting them in the air.
  8. John_Havok
    Sure, but all those who think projections are useless basically take the default position of " player X (in this case Kikuchi) sucked last year so he will surely suck this year, and player Y(say Miley) who was better than player X last year, must therefore also be better than player X this year"
  9. John_Havok
    Largely, they'll be using in-house proprietary systems for their projections that we have 0 access to. You make it sound like they just grab guys and hope they are good. They're using the same systems that told them Ray was a great gamble at the right price, Matz was a good proespective option, etc etc. No, that doesnt mean that every pitcher they grab will live up to their projections. No, it's not perfect, nobody claims it is. No, just because it's not perfect doesnt mean it's useless.
  10. John_Havok
    Left handed hitting OF would be the preferred target.
  11. John_Havok
    Also left in 2017 for the Seattle org before not even playing pro ball from 2019-2020
  12. John_Havok
    Well, they might be over already depending on how arbitration goes. Projections have them right around 229, threshold being 233.
  13. John_Havok
    Nope. Just saying you’re using an example where it was demonstrated by the people in the f***ing movie that it was not okay nor tolerated, so using it as some sort of “what if” pertaining to the Jays is stupid. It wasn’t okay then and it wouldn’t be okay now. It’s also a drastically different situation than joking around in the dugout while losing a game. Their team was on the middle of a terrible season, last season the Jays were in the playoffs with 90 plus wins and were on a tear in the second half after replacing Bongo boy.
  14. John_Havok
    Ask any professional athlete in a team sport, they’ll tell you leadership and accountability is far more effective coming from other players, not a manager or coach
  15. John_Havok
    Personally I think they should all head for the nearest bridge and off themselves after a loss. If they can’t go 162-0 they obviously don’t care enough
  16. John_Havok
    Was it okay in the movie? What happened to the main player involved?
  17. John_Havok
    Augment it perhaps, but not change. Introducing other way of looking at things is never a bad thing
  18. John_Havok
    He'll sign on somehwere, plenty of dogshit teams could take a chance on him and the stuff.
  19. John_Havok
    Probably an extremely nice guy, but I hated listening to his voice and his whole way of analyzing was just tired and old. Need fresh blood
  20. John_Havok
    When a contract is over, both parties need to be amenable to returning. Just because the contractor wants to come back doesn’t mean the employer is bound by some weird sense of loyalty an obligation to extend an offer. Buck sounds like he’s grandpa Simpson yelling at clouds again.
  21. John_Havok
    Your link didn't take me to any dirtbag racist s***. I want my click back.
  22. John_Havok
    10 years ago those deals set the market though. The deals for Prince and Miggy are basically the 10-year-ago equivalent to what the big guys are getting this offseason.
  23. John_Havok
    Yeah, people sometimes don't realize that nobody gets to the highest levels of any professional support without having 100% confidence in their ability, themselves, their path going upwards... all kinds of things that a regular joe working at "insert boring 9-5 job" here would absolutely hate if their co-workers talked or behaved like that in an office.
  24. John_Havok
    Risky to wait, they might have to trade for him at the deadline first, which wouldnt be cheap in the way of prospect capital. If he does go to FA though, I would anticipate a 500million dollar deal. If 9 years of Judge at 31 is worth 360... someone 2 years younger who's a unicorn... and will have multiple billionaire fighting over him. Dude is going to get paaaaaaaaid. He could buy the Japanese league when he's done.
  25. John_Havok
    As young as Kershaw when he hit FA the first time. What's really crazy that DeGrom is only about 100 days younger than Kershaw, Kershaw has 15 seasons in the bigs, DeGrom has 9.
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