Thaddeus Malice

So is the Jays farm now middle of the pack? The depth doesn't look too bad now and it's a decent mix of position and pitching prospects.

So Harold Ramirez is top 100 prospect and putting up solid numbers given his age in AA. That looks pretty good.

Well this is all contingent on Liriano remembering how to pitch again. No guarantee he gets back to what he was last year.

How plodding? He does have 8 SB's already he can't be that slow can he?

So Vladdy Jr with 15 BB to only 17k in 119 PA. Solid rate and flashing power while 17? Good early signs.

That is some confidence to project Vladdy Jr. as the DH on the Jays by the time he's 20. Seems like they just project each decent prospect out to the majors I guess. I want to believe though. What's Urena's defense like at SS? He's certainly hitting it well enough there and he's in the FSL which isn't a hitters league at all.

It's probably too early to judge the prospects on some of those deals but hey why not. Gose for Travis looks like an absolute steal given what's happening in Detroit with Gose currently. It was already a steal before that. The Donaldson deal is a win no matter what. Graveman may be able to stick as a back end starter but he's looking pretty fringey. I haven't heard any news about Nolin since it was reported he might need surgery and the Athletics gave up on him pretty quickly. Barreto is the only prospect worth anything there and he's holding his own fairly well given he's a 20 year old in AA. I don't know what his defense has been at like at SS though, seems he's made a lot of errors and has played some 2B which would reduce his value a little if he can't stick at SS. From the Tulo trade Hoffman is looking pretty good. His FIP isn't great but I assume his xFIP is better and a more realistic reading of his performance. He's in the PCL which I assume is still a launching pad and his peripherals are fine. Good k rate, solid walk rate. This really needs its own sentence but if I'm not a complete idiot at reading then Jesus Tinoco gave up 37 hits in 13 innings A+ ball. Someone please feel free to correct me there because I don't think that's possible. I get the distinct sense that Miguel Castro's development may have been f***ed by the Jays and it seems to be continuing in Colorado. Brentz and Wells from the Lowe trade are not doing well. I doubt Wells is anything. Brentz is walking everyone but he's 21 so I guess he has some time to figure it out. Jimmy Cordero has just come back from injury this season. Alberto Tirado is either striking out or walking everyone and is also 21 just like Brentz. In what is becoming a consistent pattern Jairo Labourt is also walking everyone but he's doing while being 22 instead. I feel fairly confident in saying Matt Boyd sucks. I think Norris will do well. He looked good in his starts at AAA after being sent down and he should figure it out and be a solid 2-3 starter. I think that's it? None of it's too surprising. It's nice that most of the smaller pieces we dealt haven't blossomed this year. As expected the centerpieces in the all the major deals (Hoffman/Norris/Barreto) continue to look like the ones that will make the most impact down the line. Price deal aside I don't think we'll be regretting most of these deals though.

It's certainly possible depending on the type of crowd you associate with and the city you're living in. Vancouver is an extremely healthy city for example with only 12% of the population being obese. Totally possible to not know people who may be overweight. I'm a student and the number of overweight or obese people in my program of 600 is really really low and I'm not surprised considering the nature of the program. Obesity rates can differ pretty widely in areas.

Because a sport where you get to select your opponent a lot of the time and you're not obligated to fight anyone is a great and perfectly acceptable comparison to baseball.

Absurd. Of course with the benefit of modern training etc. today's players would dominate. But you compare players in eras to how they performed relative to their peers. Ruth was unbelievably dominant against everyone else playing in that era which is why he is considered one of the GOATs. Otherwise you might as well dismiss every player from any era before the 70's or 80's or whenever you want to say modern medicine and training started provided significant advantages.

I felt the same way and then got tickets to his stand-up earlier this year. He really is a fantastic performer, his energy draws you in. I can see why people might find him annoying though.

I really hope we can somehow convince Buehrle to come back. Honestly worth 20 million a season when you know you're getting 200 above average innings no matter what.

Wasting some opportunities against Santana. At least they're making him work. Already at 47 pitches.

Looking at it from the other way, the Jays might feel comfortable giving up Hoffman if they no longer believe he has the same ceiling he did when he was drafted. Although by all accounts they've had a hand in lowering it by changing up his delivery.

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People who were complaining after 30 AB's were ridiculous and not paying much attention. It was obvious his numbers would pick up given that he wasn't striking out and was walking at a decent rate, balls were going to start falling in eventually. He's continued to do both of those things so far which is a great sign. He'll be 22 and depending on how he finishes this year possibly in AAA by next year.

Two years ago, he was considering becoming the Rockies hitting coach. And instead he's somehow still getting at bats.

Man Rays are 14 games under .500, so they'd have to go something like 70-32 the rest of the way to win the division. You can pretty much count them out at this point.

I'm loving this horseshoe stuck up our ass.

Well Buehrle could still be very good with a 3.6 or so ERA the rest of the way, not including his results to this point. He has a pretty long track record of outperforming his xFIP significantly. His career ERA is 3.81, and an xFIP of 4.20. That's over a sample of 3000 innings at this point so I would say it's pretty established that he outperforms his peripherals.