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  1. metafour
    Are you f***ling kidding me?
  2. metafour
    Watch Tiedemann now! He's having a great start, with Jackson Holliday being on the opposing team: https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/watch-minor-league-baseball-games-for-free?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
  3. metafour
    Sweeping the Red Sox right before they play Texas is big because they will 100% be awake for this series. They're one inning away from taking game 1.
  4. metafour
    I don't know if we've talked about this yet, but word has circulated the past day or so about the Jays signing Venezuelan SS Kennew Blanco in the January IFA window. There was apparently some confusion as to whether he was a 2024 or 2025 guy, but it looks like he's been confirmed for 2024. Kiley McDaniel named his as one of the Top 3 IFA kids and among the best 2007 DOB players identified in this article from May. MLB Pipeline just released a scouting video two days ago: https://www.mlb.com/video/top-int-l-prospects-blanco-ss?t=mlb-pipeline
  5. metafour
    Good call, that's right.
  6. metafour
    There was already a guy on 1st with no outs. You're going to walk him and set up men on 1st and 2nd with zero outs in a tie game LOL?
  7. metafour
    His fastball averaged 95.1 mph and hit 96.8 mph yesterday. He had 15 whiffs and an elite 38% CSW%. This isn't "smoke and mirrors". He's throwing harder than Nick Frasso in AAA.
  8. metafour
    WOOOOW we SUCK! Anyone know if AA has a fat cousin that can take over??
  9. metafour
    I f***ing hate watching Romano. Every outing is like this.
  10. metafour
    So then what was preventing a younger version of him to hit at 110+ wRC+?? Yes man, at mid 30's he's just becoming a better hitter. Happens ALL the time!
  11. metafour
    Varsho was a better hitter last season and the year prior to that they were basically even. So your justification is that you think that Kiermier has magically become a MUCH better hitter in his mid 30's than he was for 5 straight seasons prior to that? You are stuck on recency bias. Look at Kiermier's hitting history over a long term sample. A few months ago guys like you were arguing that we need to bring Merriweather back. There is a very significant chance that Kiermier is back to ~80 wRC+ hitting next year with declined speed and defense.
  12. metafour
    "The superior player": Kiermier is 34 next year and these are his wRC+ the past SIX seasons: 79 79 94 101 90 110 (this season) It's called a fluke on both ends. Varsho won't be as bad as he has been this season and Kiermier at 34 years old isn't likely to repeat this 110 wRC+ hitting. He is also at the age where CF defense tends to start falling off a cliff rapidly.
  13. metafour
    Lmfao.
  14. metafour
    Clement has zero plate approach. Just swings at everything. He'll be crap once the BABIP luck runs out like Merrifield.
  15. metafour
    Nick Frasso start #3 in AAA: 2.2 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 0 BB, 2 K Threw 73 pitches and didn't get out of the 3rd inning. Just 5 whiffs and a 26% CSW%. Average FB velocity: 93.8 mph again. He really hasn't been good since promotion. His velocity is nothing like it was with the Jays and he's not missing any bats. Another ugly data point: he gave up 4 of the 5 highest EV's of the entire game (including the 3 hardest hit balls). The hardest hit ball off him was 108.4 mph. In his previous start, he gave up a 114 mph EV.
  16. metafour
    So what? Maybe it gives your pitcher a few extra seconds to rest after that close play before the next at-bat. This whole challenge nonsense is bitching to bitch. You lose NOTHING by challenging there. NOTHING. Again, anything past that point is getting auto-reviewed.
  17. metafour
    Pham is hitting .250/.295/.476 with a 101 wRC+ since being traded. And that's after his 2 HR game yesterday. He went 0 for 4 with 4 K's today.
  18. metafour
    I think we need to call Big Baby's abuela up to come beat his ass pretty soon.
  19. metafour
    LMFAO @ that Guerrero at-bat. Dear god.
  20. metafour
    From today's Keith Law chat:
  21. metafour
    But you're reading that wrong. His CSW% is absurdly high because he has a 20% CStr% which is incredibly high. The reason why it's so high is because he is deliberately being ultra-selective at the plate. He seems to have zero appetite for swinging at pitches that he doesn't think he will hit well. So far, this type of strategy works for him because it's paired with an elite chase-rate, which means that even if he watches a few called strikes go by him as he's "waiting" for a fastball, he can work his way back into the count by taking balls once the pitcher tries to get him to chase off the plate. His overall Swing% is very low at 38.6%. It's pretty much the opposite of Vlad's approach wherein he tries to cover every pitch at every part of the zone. Dan Uggla is a great comparison. Uggla had very similar plate-discipline tendencies although to a less exaggerated sense. Everything about Schneider's data is exaggerated right now.
  22. metafour
    Nolan Schanuel through 15 games: A whopping 1 extra base hit (a 2B). Max EV of 101.2 mph which is bottom 6%. The contact and plate discipline are elite, but what a strange profile lol. The guy is 6'4 220 and somehow swings a pool noodle in the box.
  23. metafour
    Damiano Palmegiani had 4 walks and a 2B yesterday. Now hitting a cool .538/.632/1.077 with a 291 wRC+ in 4 AAA games.
  24. metafour
    Sure, but this applies to most hitters. I'd venture to guess that only a small handful of hitters are going to consistently hit 95+ up in the zone. There are also only a limited number of pitchers who can consistently locate 95+ up in the zone without missing. He seems to have advanced swing decisions and good strike zone judgement so its easier said than done to say "just locate three 95+ mph strikes up at the top of the zone to get him out". Maybe it all falls apart for him and he's just on some absurd heater, but I don't get what anyone could have seen so far to suggest that this is just some absurd fluke. He seems very selective at the plate and is absurdly primed to hit fastballs. The HR he hit today came on an 0-2 fastball; how was he not late trying to protect for an offspeed pitch in a clear non-fastball count? Did he just guess correctly?
  25. metafour
    Exactly. Teoscar makes $14 mill this season. Swanson makes $1.3 mill. They paid Kiermaier $9 mill for a 2.1 fWAR season. And they got a high-upside arm in Macko. It's a no-brainer smart trade for this FO. Swanson and Kiermaier have 3.1 fWAR this season at less money than Teoscar's 1.9 fWAR.
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