Terminator

He barely got it back to the infield

Lmao at that throw from Tilapia

100 percent agree. You’re telling me Aaron Judge can’t find a doctor in NYC to just squirt that shot in the air for him when he goes in for his appointment? Judge obviously doesn’t care about winning.

They are locking up the core of a 70-win team by handing out over $400 million dollars in contracts. It's insane lol.

So Kikuchi goes 5 innings of one run ball and Zack Collins hits a homer as the DH. Maybe this Ross Atkins guy knows what he's doing after all?

Devers is good but come on dude you weren't that close to connecting on that.

Not only does Kikuchi have electric stuff (that he can't control) but he's also a gold glove caliber fielder.

Eovaldi puts himself in HORRIBLE position to field after he throws lol

Nice wheels Kirk

Josh Donaldson was right

Yeah he is all over the place in these two games with the 4-seam. Finally painted one there.

That 0-1 curveball was a meatball to Vlad

They have taken some gambles with giving mid tier money out to average players that they think they can get to perform. Grichuk, Kendrys Morales, Tanner Roark, Jaime Garcia, etc. Kikuchi might be another name to add to add to that list in time but we shall see. But on the other hand they have hit on some of these signings big time. Semien and Ray being the prime examples. The book is still out on the bigger deals they've done. Ryu looks real iffy right now but he was good enough in his first two years that the deal won't be a total disaster. Then there is Springer who looks great but had a frustrating year last year. If he can stay healthy the next 2 or 3 seasons that one should be fine as well.

Lol they just signed him to a big deal. They aren't going to skip him after one bad start. And frankly part of that bad start could be due to rust. He threw like 7 total innings in spring which ended with his final start on April 1. Then he didn't make another start until his regular season debut on April 12. He needs to throw to get into form.

So looking into this a little deeper and Freeland was headed to arb this year and is under team control next year. His new deal includes both of these years. He was going to get about 7 mil in arb this year, and then next year would be about 10 mil or so? So it works out to something like a 3 year 47 million dollar extension to lock him up through his age 31-33 seasons. That still seems crazy and given that he had another year of control I don't know what the rush is.

So the Rockies just spent over 380 million to lock up Kris Bryant, Ryan McMahon, Kyle Freeland and Antonio Sensatela... EDIT: If you include the Arenado cash which no doubt allowed them to make a lot of these moves it's 420 million for those 4 players.

When are we going to see Andrew Vazquez? He has 6 Ks, 1 BB and 0 hits in 3.2 IP in AAA. He projects well and the team went out on a limb and signed him to an MLB deal in the offseason so we know the Jays brass likes him. Are they manipulating his service time or something? lol

It's hard to mess with perfection.

So you think he has lingering injury issues? Based on what?

"Maybe, maybe not?" That's exactly the kind of spineless reply I expect from you Jim. Is he cooked or not? Grow some balls and take a side. And 2021 isn't when this started FYI. His statcast numbers in 2020 were really quite bad but he got some good BABIP luck that year. Add in the deadened ball a year later and that was when he couldn't fake being a good player anymore.

I hate to say it because he was probably my favorite player on the team at one point but I'm pretty sure Biggio is our version of Gleyber Torres. The injuries last year didn't help but the dead ball is killing him more than anything. He's a lefty pull hitter who gets shifted, has a high launch angle, Ks quite a bit, and has an elite BB%. Despite mediocre batted ball data that kind of profile played in 2019 but deaden the ball and it will kill someone like that because it's going to take a decent chunk of his homers and turn them into fly ball outs, which renders his already low BA to levels that make him almost unplayable. Despite hitting 24 jacks in his first 574 ABs in the bigs, his average home run distance was always toward the very bottom of the team around 390 feet. Most guys around the league with average home run distance of 390 feet aren't hitting anywhere close to 20+ homers a season but he was. Deaden the ball and it's not even a huge difference to the eye but if you take 6-10 homers off the board over the course of 160 games and turn them into outs it's going to affect his stat line greatly. It turns him from a .240 hitter with pop to a .225 hitter with subpar power. Pitchers aren't going to respect him as much either so his elite BB% is becoming more pedestrian as well. Regress the lucky BABIP he was getting and his BA continues to crater even further. He looked like a potential star at one point but now I think he's screwed unless he morphs himself into more of a spray hitter who can retain a solid walk rate. But it looks like we've already got that guy in Espinal who is also a superior defender and there is no guarantee that Biggio can change his game like that anyway. Maybe a ban on the shift will help him but even if that happens the 2019-2020 version of Biggio isn't coming back. Guy looks like a mediocre bench player AT BEST moving forward IMO.

^^Trying really hard not to QUOTE REPLY that one you guys. I know how much he hates it. But he keeps setting them up on a tee for me.

He’s torching the ball in AAA but you say that like you’re really going out on a limb lol