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  1. Orgfiller
    I don’t after that double play.
  2. Orgfiller
    Lmao Denzel Clarke. One of the worst challenges you’ll see, made particularly egregious by the fact that seemingly the A’s haven’t been able (allowed?) to challenge most of this series.
  3. Orgfiller
    Yeah that changeup will certainly play lol.
  4. Orgfiller
    Cease’s stuff is absurd.
  5. Orgfiller
    Couple of changeups this inning from Cease. The whiff from McNeil came in at 84.
  6. Orgfiller
    He’s been delivering consistently excellent ABs.
  7. Orgfiller
    Schneider hit that well but worst possible spot.
  8. Orgfiller
    People question Straw being in the lineup. Straw delivers a hit. Like clockwork.
  9. Orgfiller
    Classic Vlad right there, no reason to challenge that.
  10. Orgfiller
    That's just Atkins speak lol.
  11. Orgfiller
    Sign me up for Kirk for the home opener.
  12. Orgfiller
    I'm not sure about likely. A team like the Twins is going with Tristan Gray as the utility infielder as an example of a potential suitor. Jimenez is 24 going on 25, and while his stock has certainly dropped, he's always performed in AAA and in theory can at least play a passable SS and 2B. A 92 wRC+ projection as a still young infielder who can cover SS should be good enough for some team to claim him.
  13. Orgfiller
    Cruz has all the tools to win this matchup but he'd probably whiff on every punch thrown.
  14. Orgfiller
    At his age and with this much mileage, I probably wouldn't assume Scherzer is "free" from any potentially lingering ailments. Just gotta hope that in the time he's healthy he produces at a reasonable level, and anything extra in terms of durability or legit good performance is gravy.
  15. Orgfiller
    The boring Cody name brings it down to about a 55 if we're being honest. It's no Vladimir Guerrero.
  16. Orgfiller
    I also think the WBC helped massively bridge the gap between the offseason and the regular season. Spring Training is such a slog, so getting a legit two weeks of high level competition and entertainment was huge for fans.
  17. Orgfiller
    Alomar was removed from consideration with the reasoning that the team similarly doesn't honour him following what came out about his behaviour. The reasoning is in the introduction
  18. Orgfiller
    And then they both need to talk to Kevin Kiermaier, or like Alex Gordon or something, to figure out how to be young athletic guys and not be among the worst fielders in the league.
  19. Orgfiller
    This is much easier said than done though. His K/BB rates were already not awesome in the minors, his contact rate was only 68.3% in AA (TIL this is now available on fangraphs). Then he got promoted pretty aggressively despite not necessarily crushing AA. I'm sure his defensive woes haven't done him any help, but it's not like you can just move him back to 3B and start over, right? In an alternate reality this is what Aaron Judge turned into. Sometimes the tall, huge power, poor bat control - not that Aaron Judge and his 100th percentile barrel rate is this - guys just can't figure it out.
  20. Orgfiller
    Ironically they're the same age. Always interesting how one guy can be a bust at 23 and another a top prospect at the same age. Of course, aging curves are not uniform and linear for every player, but it makes you think. What if Walker had been held down all these years? Would he have retained his top prospect status, or would the wheels have fallen off eventually just as they have at the highest level?
  21. Orgfiller
    I think the opposite? The changeup "drops" (vertically) very little, looks identical to the fastball but is 10 mph slower and with some arm-side run. It's like a sinker/2-seam variation to the 4-seam except he somehow gets 10 mph of separation between them. Seems almost like a reverse sweeper.
  22. Orgfiller
    The Blue Jays offspeed (splitter/changeups) factory going to work again. Let's hope this brings good results to Cease throughout the season and in the postseason. I don't know about "added a sweeper" though, pretty sure Cease has been throwing a sweeper somewhat infrequently for a few seasons now. "Sweepers" are just modified sliders with more horizontal movement anyway, so he could've just adjusted his original slider along with the rest of the league to get more H-break/less V-break.
  23. Orgfiller
    I just don't see how they keep both guys on the roster if they're serious about contending. Haven't looked at the schedule so maybe there's enough off-days in the early going where you can get away with essentially punting your last two relievers, but if that's not the case then it seems likely we return one or try to make an agreement with their original team if we really want to keep them around.
  24. Orgfiller
    Jury is still out on Barger against LHP - he did great in the playoffs, but SSS and he's still relatively inexperienced so they might attack him differently moving forward - so I'd probably have Okamoto/Kirk as the cleanup vs lefties, maybe even the entire top 5 as righties, before inserting and splitting Barger and Varsho in any order. Maybe against fringy lefties you can put Barger/Varsho in the 4 or 5 hole, but against guys like Crochet and Fried I'm stacking the top of the lineup with righties, maybe as many as 6 deep. Gimenez will likely be bunting if he comes up in key spots with how we used the bottom half of the lineup last season.
  25. Orgfiller
    I've never seen bigger ******** than holding the finals a day after the second semi-final game so one team had to play an intense back-to-back while the winner of US/DR had a day to rest everyone, especially their top relievers. I don't think it was a purely strategic decision that William Contreras sat in the finals, I'm pretty sure the Brewers would have requested that he not play consecutive high intensity games behind the dish this early in the year.
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