John_Havok

Probably a situation where he just didnt quite fit in the plans, and they are doing the classy thing to let him explore his options elsewhere.

Rumours have the Padres trying to pry Reynolds out of Pittsburgh but the price is too high. If the price is too high for Preller to pull the trigger, it must be ludicrous.

Signed through 2023 with club options for 2024 and 2025. Sadly, this is not an April Fools joke.

Question, could the Jays have 8 players with 20 HR at the end of the season? Last year they had 7, 2 of them are gone, and 1 got replaced with Chapman. Kinda goes without saying that everyone 1-7 has the ability to go 20+ with healthy seasons, but can either Jansen or Kirk also do it?

I was about to type a blistering sarcastic response as well, but…yours will do nicely.

I already acknowledged that. What I’ve yet to acknowledge is whether his current ST average exit velocity (which would put him about 2.5 mph above league average last year) is indicative of something that should be expected to continue. The signs are encouraging, but are by no means certain. I’m sure someone could go back through his last three years and find 2 or 3 week stretches where his average EV was 90.4 also and it didn’t stick. So, tell me why this 14 PA sample size is a sure thing? That’s called rational thought.

Yay! Chalk one up on the side of rational thinking

When it’s proven I will. Im sure Twisted is looking to EV stabilization as we speak. If he comes back and shows that average exit velocity is reliably stable over 14 PAs. I will gladly admit that Espinal has demonstrated an improvement that can be expected to continue.

Yeah it’s easy to toss shade with a straw man argument. I only suggested 1 PA was wind aided, not all of them.

Definitely. He’s already guaranteed to be the late and close defensive replacement, and the starter against lefties for Biggio. That right there is 300+ PA. Add in the occasional start at 3b to give Chapman a day at DH and there’s plenty out there for him.

How many PA does it take for average EV to stabilize? Understand I’m not saying your wrong, I’d just like to know that it’s not a small sample size alert

Basically comes down to where it hit. Left centre to right center it’s mostly an out, then a double 3.4% of the time, and a triple 1% of the time. Anything foul poul to left centre, or foul pole to right centre, it’s a HR. Projected distance on that in a neutral environment is about 370. His went 393. So….I guess we can say it could have been a home run, but the wind definitively helped it get to 393.

I checked baseball savant, on 102 mph exit velocity with 35degree launch angle, it’s a HR 52% of the time. So I concede that I’m half right, half wrong.

You may want to double check that with the launch angle.

Are you watching the broadcast? The wind is howling out to LF

Jesus, St. Louis beat washington 29 to 8.

Lol, no. That was probably a routine fly pushed out by the wind and it barely got out.

Attaboy Santiago, get that ball in that wind and watch it goooooooo

Connor Phillips is officially the player to be named later going from Seattle to Cincinnati in the Jesse Winker heist. Per MLB.come write up: “More than any pitcher in the organization, Phillips is the classic high-risk, high-upside arm that has some scouts marveling and others uncertain. On one hand, the righty had a 32.6% strikeout rate in 2021, and on the other, a 1.477 WHIP. Elite stuff with some command issues has been the profile for the former JUCO pitcher, whom the Mariners liked enough in 2020 to use their Competitive Balance Round B pick on, signing him for a full-slot bonus of just over $1 million.” Fangraphs opinion on Phillips FV 40: “In high school, Phillips was best when he was 88-92 with command, but could sit 91-94 and hit 96 mph while losing the strike zone. He decided not to sign as 35th round pick by Toronto out of high school in 2019, and opted for junior college rather than following through on an LSU commitment. He began hitting 98 in the fall of 2019 and held that velo coming out early in 2020 before slipping back into the 91-94 range by mid-February, though he’s back into the mid-90s now. Phillips has three good-looking pitches but his grip-and-rip style of pitching is more evocative of a reliever. He’ll try to back door his curveball for strikes but otherwise there aren’t many present pitchability elements to speak of here. (Fall Instructional League)”

Interesting suit. He doesn’t specify damages, just asks for what the court deems appropriate, along with his own legal fees. Im no lawyer, but he hasn’t actually suffered any monetary damages yet, just reputation. How does a jury determine what his reputation damage is worth if he hasn’t suffered any actual monetary damages?

Well it’s interesting that’s the case with Yimi, since the Latino language don’t even have a hard J sound in it. There’s some soft-ish sounding j sounds but they’re closer to the English pronunciation of treasure…kind of a soft j and soft g mixed together.

Grant will admit, at some point during the season, that he was wrong about something.

Typical Oilers though. Draisaitl had 4 points including a hat trick and was a -4. All 9 goals against were even strength too.

Yup. 100% this. It’s too easy to forget that all these pitchers are going out there with pretty specific goals of throwing X number of each pitch, regardless of the situation.

Why? It’s spring training and nobody got hurt. Today was a good day