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  1. John_Havok
    I hate the app, I watch it on a browser every day becaue the app is horrendous
  2. John_Havok
    Great, you just gave Espinal AIDS.
  3. John_Havok
    Striploins changeup is lights out tonight.
  4. John_Havok
    No kidding. even if it's just a game or two.. something has to change. Bo is clueless at the plate right now and killing rallies before they can even start.
  5. John_Havok
    yeah. It's gotta be a little impacting though to see Bo in front of him trying to swat butterflies, but he's gotta keep his head on straight.
  6. John_Havok
    Is Bo legitimately blind? he's hacking at literally every ball thrown in his general direction
  7. John_Havok
    Those changeups to Rizzo were disgustingly good.
  8. John_Havok
    Montgomery is usually good for 5 runs so as long as we keep them off the board reasonably well, should be a W
  9. John_Havok
    Was just reading an article on fangraphs about swing decisions in 2021. Out of 424 players on the list, Bo Bichette is #402 and Rocket Raimel is #396. Top Jays? Biggio at #16, Danny Jansen at #25. Semien was 45 and current Jay Matt Chapman was 65. Full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/who-makes-the-best-swing-decisions-in-baseball/ For reference on the zones they refer to in the article, check baseballsavant, click on Visuals, and then Swing Take Visuals to see the heart, Shadow, Chase and Waste zones referred to. Then, whatever you do, DO NOT search for Bo Bichette unless you haven't cried yet today.
  10. John_Havok
    No sir, a 6'2" 200 pound SS apparently.
  11. John_Havok
    I think his main point is, regardless of the uniform they wear, a team with a neutral run differential is decidedly gettting pretty good fortune when they have the recorcd the Jays do. Even saying good luck or good furtune isn't perfectly accurate as you cannot say that Springer making that catch was "lucky" in and of itself, but you could easily argue it was good fortune that it happened in the 9th inning in a 1 run game with a runner on second.
  12. John_Havok
    Not quite, more like 4+ give or take.
  13. John_Havok
    His ceiling is probably the 2020 version of Jeff McNeil with a bit less power but far better D. And I don't mean that as an insult. That's a 4ish WAR player.
  14. John_Havok
    Very much so. This is why i think the higher contact type of hitter will be coming back into appeal in the next few years. Gonna have to balance out the lineups with fewer upper-cut swing guys. Jeff McNeil is doing it incredibly well this season for the Mets.
  15. John_Havok
    Defitnitely working out, not meaning to suggest otherwise. But you lost me with RBIs
  16. John_Havok
    Yeah, it's possible. But the squaring up more balls will only help a guy like him to a certain point if the amount of balls he puts in play goes way down. His strength last season was putting tons of balls into play, high contact and taking his walks. so yeah, he may or may not have been lucky depending on EV, launch angle etc. Now, his contact is very clearly down, but of the balss he puts into play, he's hitting them harder. There's a balance point somewhere in there (admittedly I don't know exactly where) where hitting the ball harder on average but putting far fewer balls in play would be no better than putting far more balls in play at lower EVs. EV increase = awesome. Not putting as many balls in play with that higher EV = not as optimal as it could be if his contact rate trended a bit back towards last season. and by no means am I saying he's not a good player, he absolutely is and should 100% be playing everyday on this team.
  17. John_Havok
    Precisely this. Has nothing to do with throwing it more, just has to make it a strike threat. Right now he's nowhere near the zone with it the majority of the time and the hitters are just dismissing it from consideration and smashing the hell out of his cutters.
  18. John_Havok
    Well, there is a tiny bit of concern for him in that his approach seems to have changed drastically with the added muscle, and hasn't really been helping. Still stellar D, no question there at all, but he's trying to mash everything and swinging/missing a lot more. If he reverts to his previous approach and just allows his added muscle to hit balls harder, the results would likely be much better. Just realize he's not gonna ever hit 20 HRs in a season, so stop trying to do that and get back to being the spray hitter but with a higher EV. at least, that's my theory. His WRC+ is virtually identical to last season, but wOBA is down. Power is up, OBP is down. Essentially looks like his gains in power are not yet sufficient to cover his large decline in getting balls in play and on base.
  19. John_Havok
    Gausman is now the only other pitcher other than Cy Young to start the season with 5 starts allowing 0 walks and 0 HR.
  20. John_Havok
    It looks like this ( but without the dots) [tweet.]123456789737352[/tweet.]
  21. John_Havok
    450 feet ain’t bad for his 1st. That ball was obliterated
  22. John_Havok
    Or Seattle last year
  23. John_Havok
    f***ing nailz. Can we give him 2 days off please? Lol
  24. John_Havok
    Bust out the changeup
  25. John_Havok
    Refresh me on how to add to the ignore list?
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