TwistedLogic

That was scary.

This ump is practically a f***ing robo ump, lmao. Ray can't get a call even an inch outside the zone.

20 pitches to get the first out. Oof.

Is Ray tipping his pitches or something? The Orioles hit like 400 fouls off him and turned every 0-2 count into a 3-2 count. Now every Mariners player looks like they have prime Jose Bautista's eye at the plate.

Lol, Bauer celebrates after striking out a Giants player and Musgrove responds to the post saying "Less is more." Musgrove's own teammate in Mike Clevinger responds to him saying "We literally have a swag chain bro." They're probably all messing around but it's still funny seeing a guy call his own teammate out. If Musgrove isn't actually joking then this is a pretty cringe lack of self-awareness from a Padres player and a bad look to be dumb enough to be called out by your own teammate.

Wild.

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Yup, agreed there. Teoscar got more OF votes than Mullins, lmao.

The graphic only shows players that made it to phase two of All-Star voting. Tatis was the only Padre to make it and, as a result, Grisham isn't eligible to be voted on at this point. Otherwise, Cronenworth would be an even bigger snub than Grisham. They included all of the players that made it to phase two between both teams. The Jays have 5 guys that qualified for phase two voting and the Padres only have one. You literally can't vote for the other guys you mentioned.

So there's an Indians fan on r/baseball that commented on this trade saying that Cimber was his favorite player in the MLB. I thought he was joking (as did everyone else) but he later elaborated down in the comments and it's actually kind of adorable.

The Padres and Jays are teaming up on social media to encourage both fanbases to vote for each other's players in the All-Star game.

What the hell, this absolutely hilarious lmao. The only way this made sense was from a salary dump perspective and it turned out to just be $1M in difference? Meh, that's okay. 24 year old relief prospect in AA with a nearly 6.0 BB/9 and mediocre peripherals. If he becomes something with the Marlins I'll be stoked for him because he likely would have been a career minor leaguer here.

Player A had no control over the rest of his teammates s***ing the bed. Player A was more valuable and would rightfully gain more WAR from his game than Player B did. The biggest mistake people make in understanding WAR is wondering scenarios exactly like you described, which is comparing Player A's performance with Player B on paper and concluding that Player B was more valuable in the vacuum of that single game. Instead of looking at it like this: "I'd rather Player B going 2-4 with four RBIs than Player A going 4-4 with no RBIs" You should be looking at it like this: "If I could have had Player A instead of Player B in those exact same scenarios, which guy would I rather have on my team?" The answer is wrapped in your own question. With men on 2nd and 3rd, you would much rather have Player A than Player B because Player A's scorching doubles likely have a much higher chance of helping your team than Player B's excuse-me singles if given the exact same game situations. Here's an extreme example to get that same point across: In Game 4 of the 2018 World Series, as part of his World Series MVP campaign, Steve Pearce hit a game-tying solo home run off of Kenley Jansen. In the next inning, he came up with three men on and drove a bases-clearing double to put the Red Sox ahead 8-4. But if you could go back before those two plate appearances and trade Steve Pearce for Mike Trout and have Trout take those at-bats in his place, would you? If you're a sane human being with a functional IQ, the answer to that question is yes, you would. Because regardless of what Pearce did do in that situation, there is a much higher chance of Trout getting a hit there than Pearce. A good talent evaluator in sports is aiming for the highest percentage of success in every situation, devoid of emotional, hard-to-quantify and confirmation bias-driven things like clutch factor.

Love this idea and I'd do it in a heartbeat but I don't think the Marlins would agree.

If those guys are healthy and play to the level they can, that's a borderline elite pen.

I'm so happy.

I was born in 93 so I vaguely remember the Burnett/Ryan/Glaus era but I was mostly a casual baseball fan throughout those early parts of my life. I saw Tony Fernandez play in person as a kid, I remember playing outside and hearing my dad screaming from inside the house when Delgado hit his 3rd and 4th home runs in the same game and I convinced my high school friends to go to the Halladay vs Burnett game with me. The sport was always kinda present around me and I loved watching when I did but I was such a filthy casual that I was upset when Vernon Wells was traded away. I didn't understand the idea of a salary dump, lmao. I started following the Jays through box scores in 2010 just because of how many home runs they were hitting but I still wasn't watching many games and it didn't really register with me how special it was that Bautista hit 54 home runs. It was the start of the 2011 season that really got me into it. In a small time frame I went from barely following the sport (I don't remember the Bautista extension) to becoming a hardcore and wanting to consume every piece of baseball information I could. I joined baseball forums, I was learning about advanced stats, I was listening to every interview and podcast I could find, I was arguing with people that Jose Bautista should be MVP over Adrian Gonzalez. It was like an overnight switch that flipped for me and I remained completely obsessed until 2017.

I'd rather they move Grichuk and put Gurriel in a straight platoon with Dickerson. Gurriel has a 121 career wRC+ against lefties while Dickerson has a career 122 wRC+ against righties. It's the perfect platoon. I know dropping Grichuk would be a hit to team defense but I still trade him for the following reasons: - Gurriel is on one of the most team-friendly contracts in baseball. - Grichuk is earning 10M AAV. - Gurriel is likely due for some positive regression on his 87 wRC+. Steamer projects him as a 100 wRC+ bat the rest of the season, while ZiPS has him at 107. - Grichuk's success this year might make him a slightly more enticing trade chip. - As much as we rail on intangibles, there's at least something to be said about Gurriel being the heart and soul of the team. I'll take a minor hit in value between Grich and Gurriel (maybe not much of a hit at all if Gurriel is protected in a platoon) if it means keeping two of the biggest bats on the team in Vladdy and Teoscar happy.

Holy s*** I f***ing love this trade. Made my day. (-) Joe Panik (+) Quality Reliever with 3.5 Years of Control (+) Veteran 4th OF with a lefty bat and a career 122 wRC+ against right-handed pitching. Only way this trade could possibly go sideways is if Montoyo falls in love with Dickerson's vetrin presents and bats him high in the lineup but the chances of that are low and if the manager is going to get married to a borderline worthless veteran, I'd rather it be Corey Dickerson and not Joe Panik.

Probably wrote way too much above but TLDR: I completely lost track of baseball and basically have a 4-year long blind spot to everything that happened in the sport from 2017-2020. Coming into this season I knew nothing about the top prospects around the league, I had no idea who most teams' GMs and managers were, I knew nothing about upcoming draft prospects, etc. But baseball has always been my first love and in my excitement to teach my wife about it (she knew nothing about the sport before meeting me), I was pulled back in.

lol, yup. Josh Donaldson was my favorite Blue Jays player of all time and with how often he got injured in 2017, paired with Bautista and Edwin no longer being there and Tulo becoming a dead roster spot, I just couldn't stay invested. I was getting more and more into hockey and basketball at the same time and I couldn't stomach another beginning phase of a rebuild that just so happened to include watching my favorite players wither away and fall from grace. I already hadn't been watching for a few months but the fact that they traded Donaldson away for nothing at the end of it was sort of the nail in the coffin for me at the time. I got really excited following Vladdy and Bo's numbers in the minors as they were coming up but, for whatever reason, that never translated to main roster interest for me. I thought Vladdy's call up would get me back into baseball and I even went to his debut game but the Raptors wound up peaking at the same time and that took away my attention. I already didn't recognize the Blue Jays roster when I went to Vladdy's debut and by the time the NBA finals ended, the spark from Vladdy's call-up had worn off and he was playing like a league average guy so nothing really drew me back to the Jays at the time. I never stopped loving baseball, it just became hard to follow and hard to watch for a while. I don't know if I'd have even gotten reinvested this year if it weren't for my wife. Ever since I met her in late 2017, I'd always tell her about what a beautiful sport it was and that whenever we got married I'd teach her everything about it and take her to watch games. We got married last July but obviously with the pandemic and them playing in Buffalo, it kind of put a damper on all of that. By the time the idiots in charge of baseball agreed on the 2020 season, the hockey and basketball bubbles were getting underway so baseball once again fell to the wayside. But once we settled into married life and things calmed down, we really started getting that excitement back for the upcoming season. It helped that the Raptors were tanking at that point and wouldn't be must-watch TV once baseball started up but the Springer and Semien signings really brought it all together. By the time those signings happened and spring training was about to kick off, my girl was going out of her way to listen to baseball podcasts on her own and asking me questions all the time about the game. Her excitement in it got me even more excited, lol. At this point I know I'm back in balls deep. And I know that because I've tried forcing myself to stop watching them at points this season (that Rays sweep in particular) but I can't bring myself to not put games on, lol. I'm stuck with this f***ing sport once again.

Big minor league debut coming for the Yankees. I wasn't watching baseball when the Yankees signed this kid so I had no idea about him. Very surprised to find out how highly he's ranked throughout baseball despite having literally 0 minor league plate appearances. Must have insane tools.

Never knew about this but it's incredibly helpful, thanks a lot. What a weird coincidence that literally none of the Blue Jays big affiliates had games the same day that they also had an off day.

For the record, this is what Bruce Dreckman's zone from yesterday looked like. Spoiler: It's as hilariously bad as it seemed.