John_Havok

He's probably trolling for a bet.... or maybe has misinterpreted any positive comments about LG Jr as being people thinking he's the second coming of Alomar - which is definitely not the case. I'm not sure of anyone here who has the opinion other than he MAY become an average regular at best, with the bonus of some positional flexibility. Nobody here that I've seen has projected anything better than that. He does have above average exit velocity in his limited 90 PA sample size so far at 92.4 mph. Mlb average is 88.7. But his K and BB rates are an issue at 23.3 and 2.2 % respectively

Same here. I'd love to get an insight on teams internal defensive metrics and how they vary from the known public ones

Kinda hoping for Arizona given their system is trash. Anyone they get from there would fit right into the cesspool that is Baltimore

Maybe heading to the Mets for DeGrom?

That will never chnage

Love Pillar's D though. No question he still runs great routes, despite his lack of burning speed.

Martin at least can get on base....but yeah Pillar is 8 or 9 hitter. I don't care about his random BS hot streaks. 8th or 9th and should never be higher

But when Smoak grounds straight into the shift the other 10 times.... they never mention how well the shift works.

I love when Buck and Pat rag on the shift, when it has nothing to do with the play. Solarte was lucky as f***, and Smoak hit it well over the IF, shift or not. Just stfu about the shift ffs you old dinosaur idiots

In a lot of places, your 2nd cousin is your brother

I don't recall anyone here saying they expected him back on the 7th, just that expecting longer. .. cuz reasons. .. didn't really make much sense either. You've blown this injury so far out if proportion it's astounding. He's 19, hurt a tendon in his knee and appears to be ahead of whatever initial schedule the Jays had set for him, if all reports so far can be believed. None of this is bad news. It doesn't derail his career and doesn't mean he can't hit the same ceiling he could have hit before. The only person overreacting here is you.

Interesting precedent to set

Hang on... .do you honestly think these guys were throwing 90+ mph in the 60's for 16 innings? Chances are they were throwing low to mid 80s at best during starts at their peak. The average fastball in the 80's was 88 mph, and was over 92 as of 2014. Unfortunately there's no way to know for sure what the average was back then since they never used radar at all, but common sense tells you they don't compare to today's velo, or even the velo from 30 years ago and after 16 innings it's very likely that 75mph is not some wild guess designed to make them appear weak. Also, yes there were great hitters in the lineups, but they were great hitters relative to their era. Pitchers then are undoubtedly "worse" then vs today's arms, but in their own era they were dominant, because as a whole, both the pitching and hitting pools were shallower than today. That's just how it is in all sports.

He play wherever the f*** the team that pays him 30-35 million per year tells him to play. And I'd play him at 3b. He's better defensively there.

Need that Vlad presence in the lineup to strike fear in the hearts of man. Vlad is basically Batman

Good point.

You're taking this way too serious. And comparing a 19 year old's 1st time injury status to a chronically injured SS in his 30's whose limbs are barely attached at this point is not apples to apples.

Stroman is far too in love with breaking balls. Get back to basics you moron

What a terrible sequence to Jose... they watch him not have any good swings at fastballs, then serve up a breaking ball for him. Just a bad pitch call.

I'm not knocking Golden State at all. Golden State has done everything right, got lucky along the way as well (you have to get lucky to some degree), but the more important thing they've done right is change the way the game is played and made the game itself more exciting. PLaying up-tempo, layup/3's early in the clock with unselfish ball movement and making the league change to combat what they do is the real triumph. Having multiple HOF players on your team is the real issue. No league should want nearly all of their marquee talent in 2 or 3 cities. Yeah, it happens from time to time when teams take advantage of rules, get lucky in drafting, when players take massive discounts to play for a certain team when they could easily get more elsewhere - can't really control what players decide.... but nearly everytime this happens, it exposes a flaw in the system that needs to be corrected. You see similar things in MLB with the luxury tax, when they eliminated type A/B compensation picks, when they added competitive balance picks to smaller revenue teams... those were necessary changes to keep teams on the same-ish level playing field with the richest teams. If those rules were not in place, there'd probably be 3 or more less teams in MLB within the next few years and that cannot happen in any league. Contraction can be a killer. The NBA is different from the other sports in this regard because they only have what... 14 roster spaces. 7 or 8 of which actually matter? When you get 2-3 HOF talents in those 7 or 8 spots with multiple all stars around them... it's game over for everyone else. Point is, when 27+ teams fans know they have no chance, apathy sets in and that can be the beginning of the end. The NBA is flooded with cash right now which will support the current landscape, but I can guarantee the commissioners office is looking at ways to try and tweak the system.

Or hitting too many rails

MLB is hard to have dynasties given the massive diffrence in how 1 player can affect a team vs the NBA. Same with the NHL, though of the last 10 cups 8 of them have been won by 3 teams total. Different games. It's just hard to be excited to watch the NBA when you know how it's gonna turn out. Msy as well watch the Globetrotters and Nationals these days

Wish he was a baller....