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Over/under Ohtani innings pitched during this contract : 1000 ip

Frenchy has 4394 total posts. I feel like 4000 of them have been in the past month

Schneider is the next Jeff Kent, mustache and all. Well at least I hope so

Jram loves Cleveland for some reason

Adames and yelich combine for -29m value on MLBTV. I would love to sweep in on that and add bellinger who could play 1b and vlad Dh (vs rhp). Play cf vs lhp. Thats a pretty stacked lineup. Thats 51m added if bellinger gets 25.

That CAA ploy I could see being done by Lori, perhaps even Barbara, but not Robert

How many innings does Ohtani pitch during this contract?

Bellinger and jd martinez/hoskins and urshella?

So back to non-ohtani budget. How much you think Atkins has to spend this season (including trade deadline). 50m?

I just saw a plane fly over my house. I think ohtani was on it.

To be fair that could be accurate. There were a lot of them in the room at the time . (Hat tip/well played)

You really need me to call your mom? No biggie, I owe her 5 bucks anyhow

Agreed. Stupid ban.

I doubt ohtani is keeping it a secret except for him telling Yamamoto for some reason. I’m fine not getting ohtani. We talk of him like a 200 ip pitcher when in reality , he has averaged 60ip per year in his 20s since coming over. If we get him, thats cool too

Good

I’d think mlb wouldn’t allow That loophole would they? Although this is a league that plays With a ghost man on 2nd So who the hell knows

Pizza in Toronto sucks. Why?

ThatÂ’s what she said

I think it later came out that no one was like 20m from the winning bid for Darvish.

Just another day of someone jerking off to Lantigua’s potential. From down on the farm When evaluating the hitters, I focused primarily on players who had above average sweet spot percentages, meaning they were hitting the ball at favorable launch angles, but had below average power. This is a demographic I am really interested in, because increasing exit velocity through bat speed training has been very successful, and as I found in my piece on who could improve the most with bat speed training, hitters who consistently hit the ball in the sweet spot zone for launch angle see exponential gains in their damage on contact once their exit velocity increases." The #1 FA on their list: "Admittedly, I didn’t know who Rafael Lantigua was before working on this exercise, but after digging into his batted ball data, I am intrigued. You don’t have to look at the more granular data to be impressed however; this past year he hit .305/.425/.469 with a 17.0% walk rate versus an 18.3% strikeout rate. The Statcast data makes the profile more interesting though. From an approach standpoint, he was in the 90th percentile of Chase Rate Over Expected (CROE), with a 7.3% rate. He didn’t whiff much, swinging through just 23.4% of the pitches he swung at, and wasn’t overly aggressive, swinging at only 42.7% of the pitches he faced. He is hitting the ball at favorable launch angles, with a sweet spot percentage of 38.3%, but he is lacking in raw power, with just a 100.3 MPH 90th percentile exit velocity. This is absolutely a player that, if he can add a few ticks of exit velocity through a bat speed training program, will take off."

Career 93 Ops+ Way higher than I thought albeit only about 475 career games

Brett Wallace asks if you are talking about him

Matz is known as “the Kid”

Lantigua is back

That’s a good point. It may have been different if vlad came up he wasn’t anointed the face of the franchise. I’d like to think Jose or Jd would have been more likely to pressure vlad to stay in shape but who knows.