jays4life19

3 picks down and 2 guys from my old team have been picked.

lol why are the fans chanting "USA USA USA"

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Damn. Get yo popcorn ready

Tread carefully Spanky.

done and done

6'7 power lefty who hits bombs and has plus speed. lol he's so fun to watch

Man oh man i think Spencer Jones might be passing Will Holland as my fav draft prospect.

I'm 99% sure they already said the plan was for him to spend the full year in AAA. He will get the Vlad treatment.

5-10%

Yeah, from a fantasy perspective that's a tough place for him to land.

Yankees To Sign Adam Ottavino. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/01/yankees-sign-adam-ottavino.html

Great Article from the athletic ‘It’s just better information’: Blue Jays’ new bullpen coach wants to give his pitchers the data he wishes he’d had Matt​ Buschmann​ spent his​ career​ searching​ for​ an edge.​ He entered each offseason​ with the​ goal of evolving as a pitcher before​​ the following season began. And when baseball went through its modern analytics revolution, Buschmann found himself falling down the rabbit hole of data. If it could make him a better pitcher, he wanted to know how. But it wasn’t until Buschmann began working with Kyle Snyder, his pitching coach with the Triple-A Durham Bulls in 2015, that he learned how numbers on a page could translate to improvements on the mound. “He was the first coach to show me how to use it and apply it, which I think is the most important thing,” Buschmann said. Throughout that season, Snyder and Buschmann would sit down together and break down what the data was telling them. The coach could see his pupil had a strong aptitude for it. “He was a sharp guy and it was trying to find ways to take information and how we see it and figure out the best way to simplify it in the application,” said Snyder, who is now the pitching coach with the Tampa Bay Rays. “We sat there and we talked about it. Looked at the information – this is how your stuff is best utilized, and then we just went to work. He recognized it is a tool, and something that could give him a competitive advantage. He wanted it.” Though his playing days are over, Buschmann is still interested in how data and technology can improve a player’s performance. Rather than using it to better himself, his mission will be to get the best out of the Blue Jays relievers in his first season as Toronto’s bullpen coach. The 34-year-old is one of six new Blue Jays coaches; the team overhauled their major-league staff following the disappointing 2018 campaign. The role is a first for Buschmann, who arrives in Toronto with 11 years of experience in professional baseball as a pitcher — primarily in the minors — and one year working in the player development department with the San Francisco Giants. Both are experiences he’ll dip into as he navigates this new position. Buschmann is well aware he has a lot to learn, and he’ll lean on the experienced members of the staff, especially pitching coach Pete Walker. Still, he knows the Blue Jays brought him on staff for a reason. “There’s going to be a lot of experience in that staff, and for me, being as young as I am, it’s just listening and being open to anything and everything,” he said. “But also, just saying, ‘look, there are things I know I can help with.’” He has a passion for technology, which Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins raved about after his hiring. He understands modern metrics and can decode them for players and coaches alike. Only three years removed from playing, he should relate to players on the roster, which also skews young. As the old and new worlds of baseball continue to coexist, Buschmann can not only walk in both, but help guide others through them, too. “He’s going to be an impact guy,” said Snyder. “Cerebral” is often the adjective of choice to describe Buschmann. Gil Kim, the Blue Jays director of player development, played with Buschmann at Vanderbilt University. He remembers a student of the game, often chatting up his pitching coach to discover any which way he could get better. “He was always asking questions and he always had this positive energy and this eagerness to learn. That’s really what stood out about him,” said Kim, who remained close with Buschmann in the intervening years. The education did not stop after college. “As he pitched in professional baseball, he really almost took that learning to another level,” said Kim. “What has stood out to me about Matt in recent years is how much he reads, how much he reads about the game, how much he reads about pitching, how much he reads on new resources available in today’s game.” Buschmann didn’t just read. He wrote, too. In the latter stages of his career, he filled in for Buster Olney — a fellow Vanderbilt alum — as a guest columnist at ESPN a handful of times. He explored his appreciation for analytics in that space, imagining what baseball might look like in the year 2045. Another piece was a personal essay on what it was like to receive his first — and only — call-up to the major leagues at age 32. “It’s always an interesting conversation with Matt,” Kim said. As studious as he was off the field, he was a competitor on it, according to Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo, who managed Buschmann for parts of two seasons with the Durham Bulls. He was a hard worker and a devoted teammate — a “gamer,” as Montoyo put it. “Matt could give me five, six, seven innings today and I knew that I could ask him, ‘Hey Matt, we don’t have any pitching tomorrow — can you give me an inning or something if I need you?’ And he would say yes in a heartbeat,” said Montoyo. Drafted in 2006 in the 15th round by San Diego, Buschmann pitched for six different organizations over his career, primarily as a starter in the minors. After 279 minor-league games, he got that call to the show. He appeared in three games in 2016 for the Arizona Diamondbacks, pitching 4 1/3 innings in relief, allowing two hits, one run and one walk with three strikeouts. The following year, Buschmann signed a minor-league deal with the Blue Jays. But just before what would have been his 12th minor-league season, he decided that was enough. He retired with 1,468 2/3 innings pitched in the minors. When he reflects on his career now, Buschmann believes it could have been different if he had access to the data today’s players have. Tracking technology, high-speed cameras, a fuller grasp of the biomechanics of pitching — it all would have given him better information. And with better information, you can make better decisions. It likely wouldn’t have equaled a 10-year career in the majors. It’s possible, though, that an adjustment early on could have altered his path. But he does not dwell on what-ifs. “It’s easy to go back and just say, I wish I had this then, or I wish I knew this then, or I wish I had this technology five years ago,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I think I’m grateful for it because it just created who I am. For whatever reason, the amount of time I spent in the minor leagues, the amount of hurdles that I had to continually go through, or the ups and downs of it, I’m grateful for that because it created who I am, I think in a positive way.” After baseball, Buschmann settled in with his young family in Nashville. He and his wife, Sara Walsh, a former ESPN anchor who now works for Fox Sports, welcomed twins — a boy and a girl — in January of that year. Raising two babies took up a fair bit of his time, naturally. In spare moments, he played golf, an attempt to fill the competitive void left behind when there is no mound to climb every fifth day. But his time away from the game taught him that he wanted back in. “The only thing that really got me really excited to talk about, brought out passion in me, was baseball,” he said. “I think I needed to go through that to find that out.” In 2017, he became the Giants assistant director of player development, run prevention. It was a unique and specific position that essentially meant, together with the team’s pitching coordinator, he oversaw the development of the pitchers in the Giants system. “The coordinator was very much into the day-to-day,” he said. “That freed me up to look at the very big picture of how we develop a pitcher in the minor leagues. That gave me time to think on a grander scale: How would we implement new technology? How do we implement new principles of development? How do we create a bigger overall blueprint for how we take kids from short-season all the way up to the big leagues?” When the Blue Jays came calling about the open coaching gig, they were impressed by what Buschmann had gained from his year in player development. Meanwhile, the more Buschmann talked to people in the Toronto organization, the more impressed he became with the direction the team was heading in. So much so that he wanted to join in “I’m excited to be a part of that whole system and excited to just meet players and create relationships on an individual basis for each one of them,” he said. For the uninitiated, the advanced statistics that have overtaken the game can seem intimidating. Buschamnn is conscious of that. So how do you introduce these new concepts? “I think you look at it like it’s not anything new,” he said. “Really it’s just better information. I don’t think it’s new. It’s just better, more objective information.” In other words, pitchers always spun the ball. Now there is just a term — spin rate — and an accurate way to measure it. “It can seem like a lot because there is a lot of numbers and there are all these different things,” Buschman continued. “But the reality is, it’s the same thing, it’s just you can feel more confident about the information you’re getting. Instead of asking the catcher, ‘what did that look like?’ I can tell you objectively, what it was.” “I think that takes the scary mask off of it. All this stuff seems like it’s new, but we’re just getting better information to make better decisions off of it.” Translating the better information to his pitchers won’t be a “one-size-fits-all,” he said. “It’s just constantly learning how different players take in information and how they apply it themselves,” he said. “It just takes time and creating relationships.” When Buschmann does offer explanations, Atkins is certain he will do so effectively. “I think players in today’s game are more open to development at the big leagues and in large part, it’s because we’re better as an industry at explaining the why,” he said. “We have ideas and opinions on how to improve or how to get better, and I’m confident that Matt will be very strong in that area — in explaining the why.” The task ahead of Buschmann is not an easy one. In preparation for the upcoming season, he has watched video and dug into some data on the pitchers on the team’s 40-man roster. Some of those numbers might not be pretty. Blue Jays relievers ranked 21st in the league last season with a collective ERA of 4.45. Of course, the bullpen is among the most fluid areas of a major-league roster. A lot can change in a year — at least, that is what the Blue Jays’ brass are hoping. If there is a man up for a challenge, it is Matt Buschmann. “He’s going to constantly be looking to find any resource available to develop himself into the best pitching coach possible so that he can best impact those individual pitchers,” said Kim. “He’s the guy who’s going to do everything possible to try and help you get better.”

It's all good. Gave me a chance to look at the Jay's getting that stud Will Holland again

BA didn't update he just posted the same mock draft that was posted in December.

Lol ya. f***ing terrible

Human or animal? Nvm i see you said Spanky. So a combination of both.

A, MLB. Same thing, basically.

Damn, Fantrax loves Kevin Smith.

Are you cheating on the LoD?

Spanky who wins tonight in hockey? Give me a nice upset tonight

Nah. 1. Limited college QB experience 2. Played 1 year against s*** teams 3. 5'9 4. Has the threat of going back to baseball He's more of a day 2 guy for me. I think a team might pop him in round 2 or 3 though.

I guess but I probably wouldn't take your money if that happened

Our bet is official!

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/01/13/report-kyler-murray-wants-15-million-to-commit-to-baseball/ lol