TwistedLogic

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I'm not surprised at all that his administrative leave is not factoring into his suspension given that he was actually being paid during the admin leave.

AA's front office was great at drafting and signing guys, they just sucked absolute ass at developing them into major league players.

That was such a good trade by AA too. Sergio Santos at that time was on a deal like Emmanuel Clase right now. It obviously didn't work out for either side but selling that high on Molina could have been amazing had Santos not been so injury-prone.

Anyone remember how much hype there was around Nestor Molina within the Jays fanbase? Guy dominated as hard as any pitcher ever has in the Jays system over that short stretch. That kinda name really sobers me up on my hype around guys like Tiedemann, Juenger and Bernal, lol.

I remember when I had Knecht, Crouse and Sierra all in my top 15 prospects, lmao. Even looking at the prospects that seemed can't-miss or looked like future studs throughout the history since then, it's an absolute wasteland of broken hopes and dreams. Snider, Drabek, Sanchez, Nicolino, Gose, Marisnick, Pompey, Alford, Norris, Hoffman, Tellez, Foley, Harris, etc, etc. Even the guys the Blue Jays or their trading partners converted really weren't that impressive all things considered. Travis and Lawrie were made of paper and flamed out, Osuna f***ed himself, Alvarez did nothing after the trade, d'Arnaud has been decent but generally mediocre. Literally none of the guys sent out in the Marlins, Happ, Tulo or Donaldson trades really came back to haunt them. Up until this regime started converting almost all of their top guys, who were the truly good players that actually came out of the Blue Jays pipeline? Syndergaard is obviously the best. The next clearly has to be Stroman, and then... Maybe it's my 3 AM brain but I can't think of many other names. Are Gomes, d'Arnaud, Boyd and DeSclafani really the next best guys? Over the 10-12ish years of Jays prospects before Vladdy and Bo? I have to be forgetting people because if not, that's f***ing horrifying, lmao. Compare that to players under this regime that have already broken out or have a realistic shot of breaking out and having a long career at the major league level: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Bo Bichette Alek Manoah Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Jordan Romano Alejandro Kirk Cavan Biggio Nate Pearson Santiago Espinal Law of probability tells us that several of these guys will probably end up on a similar list as Lawrie, Alvarez, Travis and Osuna, which is guys that showed promise and didn't amount to much in the long-run, but it certainly looks like this front office is doing a better job of actually developing these players.

This is an awesome rundown, thank you.

Alejandro Kirk, the league's best low-pitch framer, steals a strike for Jordan Romano to secure the 1-0 victory over the Red Sox and Romano's 9th save on the season

Why do the Red Sox have so many of these ugly-ass Cabbage Patch Kids on the team? Verdugo, Arroyo, Vasquez, they're so ugly.

Is Chapman known as a low IQ hitter or something? He just got gifted the worst ball call of all time, what the f*** is he swinging at?

lmao maybe that's unfair. I feel like I remember more of your recent comments and posts being intentionally sarcastic but now that I looked it was mainly just the Vlad Jr. to indy ball thread, which was a long time ago at this point.

The first person to make these recaps was actually King! He did it for a really long time too. He was probably this forum's top contributor before he became a full-time shitposter. https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/6271-MiLB-Recap-May-11th-2016 When King stopped doing them, I tried for a bit: https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/7516-Minor-League-Recap-May-24-2017 https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/7606-Minor-League-Recap-June-15-2017 And I even flipped the Minor League recaps into a series I was calling "Full Count" that went over all of the day's stuff, including the big league team: https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/7541-Full-Count-A-New-Series-of-Daily-Blue-Jays-Recaps https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/7547-Full-Count-May-27-2017 And I'm guessing Havok started sometime after I left this board a second time. The Full Count threads were probably my favorite contributions to this board aside from the amateur draft coverage but they took a TON of work. I thought about bringing them back in the past few days when I was thinking of how to increase MILB coverage here again but the MLBFarm.com website that used to supply those gorgeous box scores shut down. There are still resources similar to that but they have uglier box scores that are harder to work with for my OCD brain lol.

Tiedemann, Juenger and Bernal all look like total studs in very small samples so far. And of course, we have guys like Moreno, Martinez, Groshans and Beltre that we'll all be following. It's not as good as Jays fans are used to but there are definitely some intriguing names to follow.

I think he misread your post and thought you were talking about Casey Lawrence, haha.

I like how the one guy had an epic pro wrestling name and stuck with it (Ricky Santana) and the other knew he had a s*** name and kept trying to change it and failed miserably each time.

I'm going to start trying to do more minor league coverage. Probably not nightly MILB recaps like we used to have but maybe more periodic recaps like weekly or monthly. I thought about waiting till the end of April to do this first post but I was excited so I just put it out now. I still have to figure out how I'm going to format the periodic recaps but for this "season-so-far" rundown I just gave snapshots of the system as a whole for now. I also included game logs for a few "POI" (prospects of interest) based on pre-season hype, fan interest and top performers right now. I can include more game logs if people have specific requests but this info is also readily available on FanGraphs if you need it. Hope you guys like it! Biggest personal takeaways: Bernal is a name I just learned and am going to follow big-time now, Palmegiani is in a brutal slump since starting the season hot and needs to adjust, Taylor and Capra continue to rake after huge 2021's and Barger and Cook are beating the cover off the ball.

Gabriel Moreno Orelvis Martinez Addison Barger Samad Taylor Damiano Palmegiani Ricky Tiedemann Hayden Juenger Jon Bernal

I'm currently working on a comprehensive Minor League rundown for the season so far and I just discovered Jonathan Bernal. I don't think he's been mentioned in this thread yet but he is a 19-year-old that is absolutely carving guys up in Dunedin right now. 11 IP so far, 8 H, 16 K, 2 BB, 1 HBP. Best xFIP in the Blue Jays system so far through the early season.

Nah, I don't think it leaves out anybody. Their whole thing with the "Barrio" since it started has been to include everyone on the team. Did you miss all the clips about Matt Chapman being brought into the Barrio? lol. Lourdes even called him "Matteo Chapman" the other day, got a good laugh out of me. The home run jacket they all wear has said "La Gente Del Barrio" on it since they started using it and it has the flags of all the players on it. The two leading non-Latin vets on the team are Chapman and Springer and both have been on board with the Barrio thing from the get go. They'd probably love this type of nickname.

People roasted her terrible suggestion in the comments and she was a great sport about it. But yeah, Super Barrio Brothers is a f***ing excellent nickname.

Miles Mikolas said this morning that he hasn’t had the same experience with the baseballs this year that Chris Bassitt described last night. "It’s not the ball’s fault. Take some responsibility for your actions," he said. Mikolas theorized that perhaps Bassitt, on a cold night, didn’t have enough sweat to mix with rosin. "If you’re not comfortable with a ball, don’t throw it. If you toss back ten in a row, maybe that sends a message." Mikolas also theorized that perhaps pitchers — not Bassitt, pitchers in general — were reliant on sticky stuff for so long that the art of rubbing up a baseball has gone by the wayside. It's funny how Bassitt was essentially defending Cardinals pitchers (his quote was about Mets players get HBP so much). The shade Mikolas thinks he's throwing on Bassitt here indirectly puts more blame on his own team for hitting them.

The account that tweeted that is a notorious troll. Check his bio and stickied tweet. He's not a real reporter, lol.

When you go to a Little League game and a literal shootout breaks out. f***ing horrifying. Feel bad for those kids and also the fear their parents must have been feeling.