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nice!

hahaha this is pretty annoying. The Indians should have won by now but nope.

hahaha yess

Barry Davis, Kevin Barker, Arash Madani, all terrible and annoying. Jeff Blair isn't awful but he's really boring. At least they have Buck and Pat!

It's been working out. Can't complain yet.

lol by batting him 5th instead of 4th or leadoff? It is quite funny (and good!) that hitting Colabello 4th or 5th has continued to work out for them. Battle of the 25th roster spot tonight, Colabello and Valencia hitting cleanup!

Is this a myth? I've yet to meet a chick who's been in love with Lawrie. Maybe teenagers like his tats and red bull energy.

That has to be an awful attempt to troll... it has to be, right?

Nah, I doubt they know that much. A lot of it depends on wins, marketing, economy, fan perception, etc that they (at best IMHO) have some general idea as to what they should be spending. Saying "pumping payroll up to $150MM+ doesn't make sense for them" is blindly giving them credit for knowing what they are doing.

Welcome to the board. As you can tell there are some posters who are total jerks to people who use the stats you mentioned especially in small samples like 20 games. These are the people who probably have a hard time talking baseball in real life to casual or more elderly fans. If you're not interested in spending 5-10 minutes to read about a few stats then a good portion of the posters will continue to be condescending to you, but you can ignore their posts. As for the pitching, it has looked better since the break and I don't think anyone doubts that they have enough pitching to win the world series. If you look at the other teams in the AL who are contending none of them have really great pitching themselves. David Price with a few mid rotation starters is pretty good with an improved bullpen. If you look "on paper" the Jays have the best team in the American League and I don't think it's that close. Some people were mad about the Price trade but when you consider their window of opportunity here and the fact they place within the division so much down the stretch, it was a very good trade to make, I think you would agree.

That was really surprising. We can't predict what's going to happen but it's really unlikely he gets a QO. Estrada was underrated coming into the season and might get paid accordingly next year so it's probably time to move on.

lol I just though it was funny how after I posted him as a buy low candidate he's been on fire. I think he's put up something like 1.5ish WAR since the end of June.

They wan't Price to start vs the Yankees?

Yeah that is certainly correct. Bautista has a really good arm, seems to get good reads and has passable speed. He's not a god by any stretch but he's far from being a liability. I don't think he's even close to needing a shift to 1st base. Maybe if they sign Jason Heyward (early wishlist) this winter Bautista can switch positions but otherwise not quite yet.

Do you guys still think Carlos Gonzalez is Melky Cabrera and not a good player? Sometimes you people need to lay off the fangraphs bible

Agree I wasn't really trying to start an argument. I just got annoyed one time when I was watching the Yankees game and Eovaldi was pitching really well but didn't have a great xFIP and someone pointed it out. Cheers! Edit: This wasn't on Friday lol

I've been out of town for a few days, but I have to respond here. It's a legitimate claim, likely if the guy had a good xFIP during one start he pitched well, I'm not disputing that. However it's possible a guy who has a good xFIP over 5-6 innings did not pitch as well as some of the peripherals indicate. That's what I meant and it's pretty obvious isn't it? Kendrick could've been all over the place in your example, not throwing hard, ugly breaking ball, but got a few guys looking on generous calls, etc. xFIP does not always tell the story in small samples like that, despite what some people like to think.

Right and again these things should be looked at in very large samples. If a guy has a good xFIP over a few starts it's possible he pitched poorly, clearly ERA is a much worse indicator but it was annoying when some posters decided a guy pitched well during a particular start because of his xFIP over 4-5 innings.

Who exactly are you talking about? Both Hutchison and Sanchez have looked horrible to myself along with others (more casual) who I talk to about baseball. Sanchez gets less hatred by many casuals because of his lack of experience from what I can tell. Everyone knows his control was a problem when he was starting. Only a few posters on here seem to think Sanchez was doing a good job in the rotation, and they've only been defending him because of his potential. Hutchison has been horrible at times and I don't even think it's debatable.

Gibson's looked good at times. Hit a rough patch lately and I wouldn't bet on him pitching deep.

I get that it converges over a huge sample but let's be honest Hutchison has been missing his spots way too often this season and I think that's what most posters are saying here. You don't need to be a scout to realize this when you watch him pitch. I think he could use a bit of time in the pen or the minors to sort out his command problems and he might be able to come back strong. It wouldn't surprise me if several young pitchers like Hutchison fail to put up ERA's in line with their peripherals. I could see him learning how to "pitch" when he gets more seasoning and getting better results.

He is gluten free, dairy free now. I think he could have this resurrection continue for a few more seasons and get in.

for who?

hutch sucks. Bullpen please.

lol