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  1. Terminator
    If you want to laugh at Mattingly and what he knows about hitting, this article where Ted Williams completely schools him might be of interest: And it goes on from there.... https://vault.si.com/vault/1986/04/14/a-real-rap-session
  2. Terminator
    Everyone is running wild with what Stang said about injuries and our offseason moves lol. He didn't mean that it's not fair to factor in the injuries of these guys, he just meant that when 2.5 months of the season has been played, any minor injuries suffered during this time will have a greater affect on the WAR output so far. He even agreed with the main point that the offseason moves haven't been great.
  3. Terminator
    Yeah two things can be true all at once. -The team sucks ass and is horrible to watch. -The team is also kind of decent and could very well make the Wild Card.
  4. Terminator
    Yeah Vlad should be an amazing hitter with this approach. 0 or 1 strikes: Trying to pull the ball into the seats. With his EV he should be good at this. 2 strikes: If the ball is close to the zone just hit it hard somewhere, even into the ground. With his hit tool and plate coverage he should be a good two strike hitter. His approach is better this year. He's laying off the soft outside stuff a little bit better and his walk rate is a career high and the Ks are the same. But he's just not doing any damage.
  5. Terminator
    I think they said that Vlad has 1 (or was it 0 I can't remember) home run on fastballs all season.
  6. Terminator
    Who said we have bad luck every year? I also never said that management is obviously doing a great job either. Varsho seems to be having some amazing luck. Jansen and IKF are having good luck. A decent number of pitchers are having some good luck too. The best luck of all is our pytho W-L which has us 3 wins better than what we deserve.
  7. Terminator
    Adam Macko looks like he's ready for AAA. In his last 6 starts in AAA he's got a 2.81 ERA with 46 Ks and 7 BBs in 32 innings.
  8. Terminator
    Allow me to polish this turd for everyone. -Yariel is the only long term deal and early returns are encouraging. -IKF was who we needed to pan out the most and he's delivering. -Green has been solid to amazing according to bWAR, RA-9WAR, ERA, xERA and even xFIP. fWAR is the only one hating on him right now. -Turner has had bad luck but even so he's a league average bat. -Vogelbach has had AWFUL luck. -Kiermaier is back in the black by accumulating .3 WAR since coming off the DL in about a month's worth of games. fWAR has always hated him.
  9. Terminator
    Might be some truth to this. Kirk is slashing .283/.346/.478 since April 28. On the season, Kirk's xwOBA is .321 to Jansen's .335 but Kirk is the superior defender. Jansen has cooled off considerably. If we want to ride the hot hand we may want to switch them in the pecking order for the time being.
  10. Terminator
    That would be pretty cool to have a team full of clutch, slap hitting defensive wizards at every position. Kind of like the 2015 Royals I guess.
  11. Terminator
    He's cooled off a bit. 8 for his last 50 with 1 extra base hit (a double).
  12. Terminator
    Doesn't matter how you pronounce it. The city is a boring shithole and the birds are taking the series. GO JAYS
  13. Terminator
    Why are Varsho's peripherals so garbage? He's bottom 4% in the league for xwOBA. Does all the bunting he does drag down his numbers or something?
  14. Terminator
    Not sure what point Connor is trying to make by spamming out random 5-10 year old contracts that pop into his head. They are all sub-200 million anyway and tend to prove the point that this version of Vlad isn't getting a 10 year, 250 million megadeal.
  15. Terminator
    Yeah sometimes it doesn't add up. Vogelbach doesn't play for the first couple of months now he's batting 5th. Horwitz toiling away in AAA but now he's 1 or 2 every game.
  16. Terminator
    He talks like he does. "“I have no grudge against the Blue Jays, despite the tense negotiations I had with the team during salary arbitration,” Guerrero Jr. told ESPN’s Enrique Rojas on Thursday. “It’s just business. I would like to be a Blue Jay for the rest of my career, but the team has not made me an offer yet."" He's said a bunch of things like that before. But who knows for sure. He's only a year away at this point.
  17. Terminator
    Great points. To add, I think a Vlad extension this offseason seems like a good bet to happen IMO. -The Jays don't have much locked up long term (for better or worse). They need some good players to market/compete with. -No one in the org wants to see Vlad sign elsewhere and pop off with MVP like numbers -He's a marketable guy, he's young, has a good injury history, etc. Seems genuine when he says he wants to be here long-term. -His agent isn't Boras. So there's a lot of motivation for an extension from both sides but what could help more than anything is that his price has dropped a lot. -The market is down (at least it was this year). -Vlad's performance compared to what we thought he would be is also down. -He plays 1B. He won't even sniff Devers money or Austin Riley money. He probably gets Matt Olson money, TOPS (8 years, 168M). Maybe a little higher then that, but could get a lot lower. And if you're the team, is there that much risk there? They basically pay him an AAV close to that already so locking him up through his age 33/34 season seems palatable.
  18. Terminator
    Encouraging to see Francis have a good game, even if it was against the A's. He's been facing some pretty good teams so far. With Yariel close to a return, those two should be able to hold down the #5 spot.
  19. Terminator
    You sound scared. Being 2 games out of a playoff spot has you shook.
  20. Terminator
    The gauntlet kind of extends into the 2nd half of the season too. Home series against DET, TB, and TEX isn't bad, but we then have a TEN GAME stretch against the Orioles and Yankees, with 7 of those on the road. But once August 8th ends, it's a TON of games against mid teams or worse. We get 7 games against the Angels (4 at home) and home series against the Marlins and A's. The only west coast road series the entire second half is the Angels. Everywhere else is in Central or Eastern time. If we can end August 8th a couple of games over .500 I think we will be right in the thick of things. But that's no small task with that schedule (and our roster of misfit underperformers).
  21. Terminator
    The schedule from now to the ASB is pretty tough, but if we play okay it's pretty manageable. @ MIL vs CLE vs BOS @ CLE @ BOS vs NYY vs HOU @ SEA @ SF @ ARI All of these teams are pretty good, but only one of them has been great so far and we get them at home. Would be nice to to start off with a series win. Brewers are tough but we avoid their ace during the series.
  22. Terminator
    He's fine as a 26th man though he was starting to make more than that. Or a platoon player on a bad team. Japan could be good for him. I think best case scenario is to go to a contender with a s*** bench. Maybe the Braves or something.
  23. Terminator
    How can anyone still stan for this guy lol Since 2021, nearly 4 years of sample size, he's been slashing .219/.327/.351 with below average defense. He can take a walk, sure, but it comes at the expense of his BA because he just stands there with the bat on his shoulders hoping to get 4 balls and a walk. He's hopelessly overmatched at the plate and he isn't young anymore. He's entering his physical decline years. He's starting to make money too. 4.21 mil this year and he'd be close to 6 next year. It was time to pull the plug years ago. We let loose guys like Otto Lopez to keep him around and it wasn't working.
  24. Terminator
    Despite what Vlad says, he could end up in NYY some day. A pile of cash will change anyone's mind. So I agree there but I otherwise wouldn't bet on it. The Yankees need a 1B now and will need one this upcoming offseason too. They may lock that position down by the time Vlad is a FA in 2026. Plus, the Jays could also try and extend Vlad this offseason. And if he does hit FA, there will be a bunch of teams in on him. The Yankees might not be able to pay everyone they have, plus Soto, plus Vlad. So if the bet is the Yankees or the Field the Field is far more likely.
  25. Terminator
    Not sure about that. They finished 4th last year and have won the division twice in the past 11 years. One World Series appearance in the last 20+ years. Everyone here thinks Atkins is horrible to at mid, at best. But since 2020, basically the year we started trying to compete after the post-Bautista rebuild, they had 2 more wins than us until this year.
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