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  1. nmrch
    People hoping for a light suspension based on the Reyes and Chapman precedents might be underestimated how much more PR pressure the Jays will be under due to the nature of the market. And the point about how Escobar's transgression was treated is very relavent here, i honestly would be shocked if Osuna emerges from this with "just" a 15-30 game suspension.
  2. nmrch
    I don't know how reliable the precedents are, with all that is going on in the world i wouldn't be surprised if MLB and moreso the Jays want to bring the hammer down on him.
  3. nmrch
    Someone complained about Fangraphs "going down the shitter" but if they can keep producing content like this then lets they keep declining https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-marlins-are-claiming-to-be-british/
  4. nmrch
    lol Rodney doing Rodney things, i f***ing love that guy.
  5. nmrch
    You guys are living in a bygone era, the name of the game today is missing bats, everything else comes second. If anything, a high leverage reliever needs to prioritize that even more.
  6. nmrch
    I don't think its hate, its just that neither the Jays nor Sanchez know what kind of pitcher they want him to be and he isn't making progress toward anything which makes it frustrating as a fan.
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  8. nmrch
    I don't know why you're being flippant about it, the idea that a pitcher has to prioritize missing bats and limit the number of straight fastballs thrown in the zone is not even a new age pitching philosophy.
  9. nmrch
    It looks like Osuna is throwing too many fastballs in the zone, hitters haven't squared him up yet but its probably gonna come back to bite him.
  10. nmrch
    I enjoyed this article https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-marlins-will-sue-almost-anyone/ It looks like the rot in the Marlins organization didn't leave with Loria. Its almost comical how other owners and the commissioner don't seem to care, MLB like all sport leagues is almost exclusively a PR and goodwill driven business. These teams are only valuable(outside of their real estate holdings) because fans give them value and yet the league allows shenanigans like this. This kind of thing would probably be much less likely to happen in a well run league like the NBA where the commissioner and the owners are relatively good at policing each other in order to protect the product they have.
  11. nmrch
    There's still uncertainty over what his bat is worth, even a 125 wRC+(which is hardly conservative) DH only hitter who gets 400 PA(again, fairly generous) is probably only worth like 1-1.5 WAR.
  12. nmrch
    I know you're joking but i think only the Angels capping his innings at 170-180 will keep him out of Cy Young considerations. Its easy to say its just two starts but swinging strike rate stabilizes very early and that combined with his raw talent, its hard to be be anything but super excited with him.
  13. nmrch
    Fangraphs Depth Charts projections have us with a 33% chance at the wildcard, that sounds about right. Projections usually have a margin of error of +- 5 but teams that over perform them always seem to have an elite bullpen which allows them to outperform their run differential. Its possible that the Jays might actually undershoot that projection, we have exactly one good reliever and a bunch of mediocre ones, i haven't checked the projections but i'm pretty sure its a bottom 5 bullpen.
  14. nmrch
    Yeah, what's the point of having all that fat if you can't take one for the team
  15. nmrch
    10 swinging strikes though, i'll take it
  16. nmrch
    That throw looked pretty normal
  17. nmrch
    They can only ride Chad Green so hard
  18. nmrch
    That was some legit HR robbery from Gomez
  19. nmrch
    but Grichuk and Morales actually have real world results though, they weren't complete trash(Smoak was negative career WAR for the first 6 seasons of his career) and you signed them in the hope of finding some hidden value. Grichuk is an extremely flawed player but we know he has useful skills, his defence and power that allows him to get by despite pitch recognition and contact ability. I don't see how they're analogous at all, the truth is there is plenty of teams got lucky in the flyball revolution and randomly found a useful player. I know sports fans don't like to accept things like randomness and luck, they always want to have nice and clean explanations but i personally enjoy that aspect of Baseball. This retroactive justification for giving out that kind of guaranteed money for a completely useless player is just wrong.
  20. nmrch
    Oh common, there's no need for silly post hoc explanations like this. Plenty of flawed hitters around the league have turned into useful pieces since the flyball revolution began, just because Smoak randomly happens to be one of them doesn't mean Atkins and Shapiro made their decision believing that Smoak would turn out to be a very good hitter. If that was the case then why did they stop at just Smoak, why not try to pick any of the other numerous hitters who have since seen their careers turned around in the flyball revolution. Or is the argument that every team that "found" hidden gems in flawed players also had "internal metrics" that showed that they would turn into good hitter? You see how silly that sounds, I'm a big fan of Atkins and Shapiro, just because you like how they usually make decisions doesn't mean you have to defend every last one of them.
  21. nmrch
    I see we're not really much into the whole process over results thing. Its wierd because Atkins and Shapiro pretty much embrace that philosophy but for some reason fans feel the need to defend them when they make blatantly idiotic moves like this just because they worked out
  22. nmrch
    and a pitcher that is not missing bats
  23. nmrch
    just one swinging strike so far, he'll get into trouble soon
  24. nmrch
    The worst part of the Donaldson situation is neither the team nor the player have much of an incentive to be cautious with his shoulder.
  25. nmrch
    I think i'd rather listen to the authentically douchebag A-Rod than this version
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