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Probably would take 2 higher end relievers to get us from 'average' bullpen to 'good'. Upgrading Berrios seems more expensive than that would be.

Oops I should have just taken depth charts this is way better. So 3.5 WAR is like middle of the pack for bullpens (we were ~3.2 WAR this year, like 18th overall)

I don't think we need to trade Berrios. He's projected for like 1.5 WAR, that's not awful for a #5 starter. We need bullpen help way more. Little - 0.4 Fisher - 0.3 Nance - 0.1 Lauer - 0.3 Seranthony - 0.5 Yariel - 0.2 Fluhary - 0.1 Garcia - 0.4 Varland - 0.9 This is not a good bullpen projection

Yea not unless as bullpen/spot starter (injuries are gonna happen) which the Jays desperately need. Thing is they can get way more as starters elsewhere, so they'd have to really want to join the Jays

Do they really need to? Isn't Garcia expected to come back?

His dog's name being Decoy is a sly but subtle hint.

He's never given me straight vibes (as someone who isn't) It's kinda messed up that MLB players still can't be open when you think about it

I've kind of stopped caring about all awards that aren't voted on by the players/managers

I don't think its impacting the authenticity of the sport, At least not yet, but things could certainly get worse. MLB is in too close with the gambling sites when they can dictate their business operations. More that it's ruining lives. Gambling was never so easy before. Tobacco, cannabis, and pharmaceutical ads are banned on TV and I'd say none of those are as harmful.

I still think we need to dump everything into pitching. We're forgetting how bad April was, with Green and Francis eating innings. We're a few injuries away from a scenario where we give up 800 runs... it wouldn't matter how much we slug in that scenario. We'd be Arizona basically, a .500 team at best. Of all the playoff teams we gave up the most runs and that was with the best defense in the league.

I don't think the league needs to fix anything. People are gambling such insane amounts they're making a fortune just by taking their cut. I've always thought myself more libertarian but what online gambling has become has really challenged that.

Probably gambling debts in Clase's case too. His whole scheme about selling his future earnings was sus

Yesavage projected by Steamer for 2.1 WAR in just 146 IP. Kinda funny he started so low last year that it's creating a sort of injury expectation His pace in limited play was closer to 3.5-4 WAR territory I'd say. Excellent but not quite elite consistently

I'd spend it all on pitching. Suarez and Cease for an even 50m. We had average at best pitching this year. It seemed better than it was thanks to elite defense. We gain the most WAR this way imo.

Lol, I'm kinda with Bryce on this one.

I can't wait for the Jays to be 'linked' to just about every FA on the entire market this offseason

I was wrong about the Jays being too nice. It might have hurt them giving Hoffman and IKF a lot of play time but this is the other side of the coin. Perhaps being this way is more of a strength than weakness. Now that the sting is off the World Series loss, I think it's also what made the team play well above expectations.

The odds of a LD are so much lower than a GB. You have to assume GB with force out at home

Maybe as a reliever. Some team will probably offer him better as a starter

I mean we saw emotional coaching decisions all playoffs with the intentional Ohtani walks. If we want to be this way fine, but what bothers me is when we try to paint it as optimal analytics. IBB are dumb and that benefitted us too, the G7 Bo HR might have been a 2 run shot otherwise

Jays should put all their money into pitching. It'd be nice to bring Bo back too but doing both might be difficult. A side tangent after watching the post season and thinking about the rise of pitching injuries. I know MLB won't do this anytime soon, but I think all pitchers should have to face 6 batters minimum. Our pitching staff seemed so exhausted and injured by end of year because of too many outings. Even the announcers glaze over how many warmup pitches a pitcher throws before the first one to a batter. Analytics has min maxed each batting encounter to the extreme. To use an analogy, they're approaching a 162 game season with the mentality of a 100m sprint. What shocked me was to hear Gausman led the AL in IP but didn't even break 200 IP. It's little wonder this all has knock on effects. And it doesn't seem to be a Jays only problem. Not that this really plays into pitching acquisition strategy. If anything the Dodgers winning with elite starters makes me feel that going for one true ace might be better than 2-3 midrange arms. But a case could be made either way.

Really excited for next season. Pitching is where the Jays can pick up the most WAR. Beyond Gausman and Bassitt we didn't get much. That said the team pitched surprisingly well in the post season

On the whole its hard to understand how a team 1st in defense by a mile can be 25th in baserunning. Some of it has to be coaching. Baserunning should mostly be instincts I feel. You shouldn't be need to be told what to do in every situation. That's what leads to hesitation

Hell of a season, couldn't ask for more exciting games. A shame I missed many parts live because I've been recovering from surgery. But at least I got to see all of Game 7. Jays really need to improve the baserunning in the offseason. For a team that isn't slow they ranked poorly (25th) and I could believe them being even worse. Crazy to think something so overlooked was the difference between the Jays and Dodgers.

Ohtani had 700 PA on the season. 500 TB (including walks) is still less than giving him 700 walks. The only player that approached being worth the IBB was prime Bonds and he had a much worse lineup than the Dodgers this year It's been estimated a player that walks every time would be worth ~20 WAR in a full season