Terminator

Are we sure he and twisted logic aren't the same person? Similar spaztic personalities.

I use Reddit and am subscribed to the Blue Jays subreddit. It kind of sucks. There are some decent posters there spreading the gospel of advanced stats to the ignorant masses but it's mostly a ton of knee jerk casuals in there. Funny enough, I've ran across TL's posts there before. The last time was when we traded Nick Frasso. He threw a fit similar to his Greg Bird meltdown and called Frasso a future superstar. I think he actually managed to get some downvotes on that one.

But I really have zero beef with TL. He's just an easy mark for The Sheriff because he (1) sets things up on a tee and (2) is hypersensitive. I like his Gameday Threads and that fancy spreadsheet of his is pretty cool. Plenty of others take s*** from me in stride. StankyLeg and CaptainObviouslyADumbass are good sports and my arch nemesis Jim is a great sport about it all. If TL would just take a chill pill he'd be fine.

Lol I forgot about that. Yeah TL threw a hissy fit when Greg Bird didn't make the team and was actually finding some support on the board. When I decided to nip that in the bud (similar to how I defeated the Bellinger Fanboys this offseason), TL lost his marbles. No idea why he was on Greg Bird's nuts so bad either. He hadn't posted a positive WAR in the big leagues since 2015. but he hit 2 homers in ST off AAA journeymen and all of the sudden he was big league material? lmao Of course, I was proven right when Greg Bird ended up hitting .218 with 6 homers in Scranton this year. He'll probably be selling insurance this year.

I hate him.

Yeah he nailed the presser about as good as one could do.

Fangraphs article on why teams are signing such long deals is interesting. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/why-are-teams-issuing-extremely-long-contracts/ Macroeconomic trends and interest rates are driving longer term deals.

Fangraphs article on the KK signing: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kevin-kiermaier-is-finally-actually-a-blue-jay/ Here's the gist of it: "The Jays are stronger with Kiermaier than without, but it’s fair to wonder if they’d be better off had they simply kept Hernández. Looking at the projections, it’s a wash – Kiermaier and Swanson look to combine for 1.5-2.5 WAR, while Hernández can expect to finish in the same ballpark. In Teo’s favor, he provides that value from one roster spot, and he also comes with significantly more upside – he received MVP votes as recently as 2021. On the other hand, Toronto can afford to sacrifice some run production for the sake of run prevention. They finished last season with the fourth-most runs scored in baseball, but only the 13th-fewest runs allowed. Ultimately, it feels like Mark Shapiro and Ross Atkins just moved the furniture around." I would agree with that but on the other hand Swanson has 3 years of control left and we also got a Top 10 prospect out of it. So if it's a net zero this year then it looks like a win moving forward.

Yeah making a trade is probably the way to go. Then the guy has no choice but to come here. Any FA wanting 600 ABs is going to have some questions about signing here.

Yep I said the latter about Brantley and Conforto yesterday. We've also got Whit who the team likes and he can play the OF just fine too. So maybe they dumpster dive for another lefty like Naquin? And then if an OF gets hurt they just move Espinal into 2B more full time with a Naquin/Whit platoon in the OF? Something like that

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I wonder if this means that we are going to be dumpster diving for the 4th OF.

Happy trails and so long from The Sheriff!

LOL He gone!

Lol they are having one hell of an offseason

lol it’s all good I just felt personally attacked when you said to trade Kirk, wasn’t that big of a deal. Miami is a unique place.

I knew bullying this guy off the forum was the right move. It rubbed some people the wrong way at the time but this thin skinned crybaby has been back for 5 minutes and he starts insulting the mods, our best poster (talking about Spanky not Laika) and then calls all of us dorks. But fear not, the Sheriff of BJMB isn’t going to let him get away with it! No one ever does

Did you ever pause at any point during this whole KK vs. Bellinger debate and think that maybe, just maybe, the LA Dodgers might know what they are doing? When they couldn't trade him for a ham sandwich? When they non-tendered him? When they let him walk? When they tried to get KK? The richest and most well run team in baseball provided us real time evaluations on a player during this whole process, and you guys STILL think he would have been the right call.

For crying out loud, TL's been back for 5 minutes and he's already whining and stirring up drama

Lol KK has Matt Harvey blocked?

Try to imagine Bellinger saying something even remotely close to that.

^voted for Bellinger

I gotta say this was a great post you guys