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  1. glory
    Montoyo is worse than Gibbons 1.0. That's really bad. Gibby 2.0 was a serviceable big league manager. Not sure why the Jays wanted to get rid of him to hire Puerto Rican Ned Yost.
  2. glory
    Yeah, Trout doesn't care about branding or being the face of the league. But if he was on the Yankees, or Dodgers, or Red Sox, etc, then he could be himself and a bigger star at the same time. Hard to market him on a mediocre irrelevant team that never makes the playoffs.
  3. glory
    Trout re-signing with the Angels royally F'ed over MLB. The greatest player of this generation and possibly ever will never get the mainstream pub he deserves and the sport needs.
  4. glory
    The last sentence is the part that makes me doubt them. They are too risk averse. They are not going to outspend the Yankees and Red Sox, they are clearly not on the Rays front office's level, and Cashman can do rebuilds on the fly better than they can too when it comes down to it (look at his trade history and never having a losing season). I like Shatkins but they will eventually need to start finding ways to add high impact talent beyond players they draft. This is not the AL Central. You can polish up 10 Forrest Wall's but they'll still be turds. The high performance dept either has to turn water into wine or the team will be destined to fall right back into JP Ricciardi territory when Rogers gets sick of the low attendance (which might even happen by the end of this year) and forces them to spend whether they are ready or not. I won't judge them on this season since they made no bones about tanking hard this year, but this shouldn't take 5 years to clean up either.
  5. glory
    Can't wait until the bottom half of our lineup is Vlad, Bo, and Biggio a year from now. Montoyo working the rookies in slowly.
  6. glory
    How did Elvis look overall?
  7. glory
    He will be a reliever by next season.
  8. glory
    Montoyo is getting s*** on social media for pinch hitting Hanson, and it's well deserved. Absolute stupidity.
  9. glory
    LOL baseball.
  10. glory
    The difference between Gibby 2.0 (2016-18 version) and Montoyo is almost non existent. I was hoping for a Kevin Cash type of turnaround but so far it's been oddly similar. Can't say worse because Montoyo has a lot less talent to work with, but some of his moves don't even make sense from an analytical standpoint (which I thought was the point of bringing in a Tampa guy).
  11. glory
    Yeah pretty disappointed at the bunt attempt there. Not that Maile is a great hitter or anything, but you have f***ing Brito up next. Maile is probably the better hitter of the two. Then he has Hanson pinch hit for McKinney when Hanson is horrifically bad against LHP in his career (he's bad against righties too but OPS .140 higher against righties). I'm sorry for ever giving you s*** Gibby. Most managers suck.
  12. glory
    The Jays won't manipulate service time with Biggio. He's not the best prospect in baseball like Vlad is, or a top 10 in baseball like Bichette. He'll be up mid season as long as he's hitting well in AAA. Same with Alford. What they do with Bichette will be more interesting to see. They have Galvis locked up for the year with an option for next year so if he's doing well they could trade him, or they could keep him and use him as an excuse to wait until 2 weeks into April 2020 to call up Bo. With the way young players are signing extensions nowadays, the Jays can afford to be a bit more aggressive with promotions if the prospects are earning it. Bo will be hard to sign but doable. Call him up this year if he's earned it and then work on an extension that covers his 20's in the winter.
  13. glory
    Rebuilding sucks. It's painful to watch and feels like it takes forever (this season is a week old and I'm already tired), but they had no choice after 2016. The team was old and on the decline. Clearly the rebuild should have started at the trade deadline in 2017, as others have said, but I don't think that was a Shatkins decision. As is the farm is in great shape and they were spending heavy on the international market. They just re-signed Grichuk so you know they'll spend on someone they like. It's going to be a bit of a process now. Hopefully not a long one, but who knows how much rope they have. Jays are getting like 10k a night. Rogers isn't going to sit there and accept a 5 year rebuild. They might see the attendance this year and tell Shapiro to spend for 2020. That's how they operate.
  14. glory
    I’m still a believer in Alford. Not as much as I was after 2017 but I’m willing to give him a pass for 2018. This is his year to win the CF job.
  15. glory
    Hand just has to throw anything close to the plate and it will be called a strike.
  16. glory
    Gyal-Vees (as Buck would say) has been pretty good this year.
  17. glory
    Is Ric Flair in attendance? What's with the no stop wooing?
  18. glory
    Isn't Samad Taylor in Dunedin? Don't see him in the lineup, though maybe he's hurt or something.
  19. glory
    Yeah seriously. If anything this makes me wish the Jays kept rebuilding but used some dough on actual good players in free agency so the big league team could be watchable. This is brutal and there isn't even any long term prospects playing except Jansen. Our best prospects are still in the minors.
  20. glory
    All I saw was Paulino's name and I'm happy.
  21. glory
    I never said Grichuk is a bad player. He’s a good player. But has a very risky skill set offensively because while the power is real, the walk rate is consistently bad. If he improves on that and maintains the power then you have a damn good player but right now that’s not certain. My beef is mostly with people saying that if he stays a 1-2 War player that’s it’s not a big deal. Those types of players aren’t as valued in today’s game. He has the potential to improve though, and I think that’s the main reasoning behind this. They think he’s better than he’s shown.
  22. glory
    If you look at the top 30 players in wRC+ in 2018, it took me to the 24th ranked player (Baez) to find someone with a BB% below 9%, and he had a BABIP close to .350. If you focus just on players who had a 120 wRC+ or above (54 players total), the players who had BB%'s at or below 7% (pretty much Grichuk's ceiling to this point) were Baez (4.5), Andujar (4.1), Gennett (6.6), Piscotty (6.9), and Cron (6.6). WHat you are saying is not wrong, a 120 wrc+ is a 120 wrc+ regardless of how it happens, but look at the probability of Grichuk being one of those players (or better) with his BB%. It is a detriment to his game. That's not meant to be a dig at Grichuk, he's not even close to one of the team's issues right now, but you're fooling yourself if you think a lineup full of players who walk at 5% clip is not going to lead to middling offensive performance overall. It's hard to be good offensively with that type of walk rate.
  23. glory
    Ok, I'll rephrase. Focus on BB%. Whether that leads to a high OBP or not is fine, but know how to draw walks, work the count, etc. Right now it seems entirely focused on exit velocity, barrels, etc, which is fine since it has value and can potentially lead to greater performance, but there's a reason why Smoak took a step forward with some adjustments and why expecting someone like Teoscar to do the same is not as realistic.
  24. glory
    Look at the players they have acquired. How many of them will have OBP's above .300? One or two players like that is fine, especially if they bring value from other areas, but that's basically the entire lineup except Smoak.
  25. glory
    The good part of the deal is the front loading. I just don't agree with the "if he's a 1 WAR player in years 3, 4, and 5 then he's playing up to the contract". 1 War outfielders have zero value in today's market. This contract is basically the Jays trying to buy low on Grichuk hoping he improves from here on out, kind of like Smoak. If it works then they'll look great, but if it doesn't, then yeah, a 1-2 war outfielder making $9m isn't bad, but not good either. I want the Jays to start valuing Obp. Thankfully many of the prospects coming up have good on base skills (Vlad, Bo, Jansen, Tellez, Biggio) because I'm not sure how many more hackers who don't walk I can take on one roster.
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