John_Havok

Players of the Day: Kacy Clemens, Christian Williams, Josh Donaldson, Joshua Palacios, Cavan Biggio, Vlad Jr, Tim Lopes, Honourable Mentions: Brock Lundquist, Norberto Obeso, Jonathan Davis, Rowdy Tellez, Roemon Fields

Wild pitches and defensive miscues happen, but jesus f***in' christ .... YOU LET KENDRYS MORALES STEAL A BASE. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL f***!?

Lol this guy sucks

Why would you use your foot? Seems kinda silly to me.

Nobody hates Pillar, just don't like it when he's seen as this great hitter when every indication is contrary to that conclusion. He's hot right now though, no question about it

He doesn't have actual proof though, just some data correlations and some not very subtle suggestions about Houston's recent track record of trading for pitchers and suddenly watching their spin rates increase and subsequently their performance get markedly better. I think his point is not that Houston should be in trouble, but that it should just be allowed. Data correlations aren't really evidence of substance use. Pictures, videos, and/or actual admissions from pitchers would be evidence, assuming any such videos or pictures amount to more than seeing 1 guy do something 1 time.

Yup.

Average age in the Eastern Leae this year is 24.3. He's actually 5 years younger than league average, whereas a typical prospect that people talk about is about 3 years younger than average. Vlad's bat is the cure for male erectile dysfunction in Canada

I'm absolutely in favor of something like this for Vlad Jr but getting the dollars and years right would obviously take some tweaking. I'm not worried about what Vlad's body type does to him for the next 10 years until he's 30, when Prince Fielder was still a beast up to 29 and he was never even close to being in the shape Vlad is now. After 30.... yeah, worry. Some might use Sandoval as a comparison, but Sandoval had nowhere near the elite bate that Vlad or Fielder had, and even he didn't crater until he was 28. I'm also pretty sure Jr's agent isn't with one of the big-time agencies so might be more open to this type of deal. It also might be the best way to get him in the lineup while avoiding any of the service time manipulation issues like Tampa Bay is seeing with Adames. I can understand an argument keeping him down for a while this season since it's his first crack at AA, he's never really had any adversity at the level yet (blah blah blah), but if he's not a full time Jay on opening day 2019 after raking all of 2018 at AA and/or AAA, then the FO deserves any and all criticism it receives for manipulating service time. I don't really care how it's more strategic for the business side. Rogers doesn't have to be Tampa Bay or Oakland and I wish MLB and the MLBPA would really start punishing teams for holding back talent that is obviously ready to play for their respective MLB teams.

Np.

Players of the Day: Vlad Jr, Jason Leblebijian, Tim Lopes Honourable mentions: Rowdy Tellez, Cavan Biggio, Harold Ramirez

Anyone telling you something will definitely happen because of analytics is an idiot and doesn't actually understand them, what they are for and is probably just trying to sound smart. And anyone that bashes them is usually a dinosaur like Buck and Pat and Harold Reynolds... like if there's one thing that analytics doesn't account for then it must be useless and long live the eye test.. because that's never failed ever.

Might be banking on a demotion to AAA at some point due to a roster crunch since he did caveat by saying "assuming he is still in the majors"

Not sure where the box score is for this game, looks like that page isn't fully updated. Players of the Day: Danny Jansen, Deck McGuire Honourable Mentions: Kevin Smith, Angel Perdomo, Logan Warmoth

I'd say 1 through 6 to be completely accurate.

I am on board with this. The team would be further ahead by cutting him, eating the money and going with other options already on the team. I know it sucks eating cash, but it's better to pay him not to play for us so the spot may actually return positive wins to the team. Paying for negative wins is the only result we're going to see with Morales still in the lineup.

That's the old Michael Jordan defense.

Not good when both your SP are taken out of games due to injury.... The universe hates me

posting mine early since I won't be around to adjust it later. also entered it in the 500$ freebie

To be honest, Pillar should never bat higher than 7th or 8th... ever. But right now they Jays lineup has 5 guys in it that shouldn't be hitting higher than 7th or 8th so he's the best of the shitpile we have after 1234

Players of the Day: Chavez Young, Kevin Vicuna, Kacy Clemens, Kevin Smith, Ryan Noda, Vlad Jr Honourable mentions: Maximo Castillo, Justin Dillon, Alberto Mineo, Patrick Cantwell, Tim Mayza, Gift Ngoepe

Tyhe fact Pillar is batting 5th tells you all you need to know about the current state of the Jays offense.

Pablo Sandoval threw for the Giants yesterday. 87 mph fastball and a decent curve. 1-2-3 inning on 3 groundouts https://www.mlb.com/cut4/pablo-sandoval-pitched-a-1-2-3-inning/c-274326382

Yup, guys advanced enough to put up .500+ OBPs are too good for the pitchers they are facing and need to be challenged more to find out if they actually have a bat or not

Well this team could feast on the fastballs today if they're patient and don't swing at everything. Tis a fastball mashing team against a guy that throws like 85% 2 seamers.