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Yeah, those young, not as good guys are really being robbed of the opportunity of... uhhh... being on a list.
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Espinal with a homer and a terrific play at short. He and Panik are both making excellent cases for backup MIF...
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Man, that was one hell of a catch from Reggie Pruit.
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Drury also has options, does he not? No need to "cut bait" on anyone with options.
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I think you guys have WAY too much faith that Puig is anything more than he has shown for the past 5 years.
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The argument is that he could Kevin Pillar himself to a 2 WAR season. He's fast, he gets good reads on the ball in CF, and he clunks the f*** outta things out there when he's under pressure. He's got the "catching the ball" version of the yips. If he could figure out when to close his glove, he could be a VERY solid CF (something we don't really have, outside of maybe Davis). I don't think he's going to be a star or anything, but he has the tools to be an excellent CF, with an 85 wRC+ kinda bat, and can be a good tool as the 26th man as a pinch runner/defensive replacement type. Puig is absolutely an upgrade over Alford, I'm not trying to argue that he's not, I just don't think that Puig has any more great seasons in him, and he's probably not enough of an upgrade to justify the cost, or the ******** that he brings with him.
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The absolute worst attempted forced nickname around these parts was Guribabip, but you are correct, aceueki was almost as terrible.
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You need a "Boxcar is making a strawman argument" counter, in that case. The comparison wasn't between the two players (I literally said that I wasn't arguing that Alford was better), but between the arguments that they are better than their numbers. The argument that Puig could be better than a 2 WAR player is exactly the same argument that Alford could be better than below replacement. "If they do some things better, they will be better." Puig had 2 really great seasons. FIVE YEARS AGO. He hasn't been good (in this case, meaning "worth more than Kevin Pillar") for the majority of his career. There's as much of a chance of Puig putting up 4 WAR in 2020 as there is of Alford putting up 2 WAR. (Neither are likely, but both could theoretically happen.)
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Agreed. That's arguably the stupidest forcedbysomeoneotherthantercet nickname I've ever heard.
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I mean, if any team thought Puig was likely to be good this season, he'd have been signed already. There are 30 teams staffed with dozens of player evaluators who have passed on him so far. I do not see him as being anything more than "above average, but with enough baggage that he's not remotely worth it", and it seems that literally every MLB team agrees with me.
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This seems a lot like the arguments I've made that Alford has all the tools and is a few adjustments away from being a valuable MLB piece that generally get ridiculed around here. (note: I'm not arguing that Alford is a better player that Puig, or that Alford is presently a valuable MLB piece, just that "[h]e is also obviously one teeny tiny swing adjustment, or some more intelligent baserunning, or some better outfield positioning, away from being" a valuable MLB piece.) Also, man I hope Shoemaker is healthy this year, he's been SO GOOD for the Jays when healthy (SSS, sadly).
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I'm legitimately confused as to why anyone would expect Puig from 2014 to show up again, when he's been slightly above average for the past 5 seasons. I mean, there's a chance he could put up a season of 2+ WAR in 2020, but he has managed that once in the past 5 seasons. Projections don't seem to think he's going to, and Kevin Pillar (one of the guys you suggest was ludicrous to compare favourably to Puig) has put up 11.5 WAR since 2015, to Puig's 8.4 over the same time frame. It's very reasonable to assume that Puig just isn't good anymore, and if he's as much of a PITA as pretty much everyone admits that he is, then why would you take that risk?
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That was easy 400' if the garbage wall didn't get in the way.
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Let's go ahead and call that back to back homers, 'cause y'know, f*** Red Sox stadiums.
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Good thing they've got a s*****, craptacular stadium for spring training as well as the MLB.
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Good job by Thorton to recover after the error and the umpire interference.
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He also put up REALLY good defensive numbers in LF last year (though it wasn't a particularly large sample size. He did pass the eye test in LF last year...)
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Deadpool replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
It's also very fair to say "We don't feel that he is worth more than 3/30". That's a very defensible position. -
Alford has been having better ABs the past couple of games. Driven the ball hard the other way twice, and a solid single yesterday. He's really going to have to tighten up the RIDICULOUSLY sloppy D to get that 26th man spot, though.
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“His areas of development are clear and visible, not just to him but to everyone and he’s worked hard at addressing them,” Shapiro said. “He has a ways to go still. He knows that and we know that but the biggest thing I see is the desire to address those things, a desire to get better. Still has elite skill.”
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Bichette w/ a bases clearing, stand up triple. Noice.
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Deadpool replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
If there's a player who I would buy as totally oblivious to his surroundings, it's Ken Giles... -
That's the way admin set it up, and nobody but him has permissions to change that.
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Embedding video only works in the Off Topic forum.
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I think with some solid health luck, Shoemaker could be a really solid and valuable piece for us. Was a real shame when he went down w/ that fluke last year.
