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s*** fellas, it finally happened. He’s gone full retard.

Need some fresh blood at utility players next year as biggio/espinal seemingly have hit a wall, perhaps due to consistent playing time, but they haven’t shown enough to earn that this year. Biggio, in particular, really needs to justify his raising salary. The end of the shift hasn’t been enough of a boon for him, but the robo-umps impact should be more noticeable.

Give him another month at AA.

He is so stupid that he actually does believe this!

When i was a cop, we called it closing a case.

Fangraphs had an article about this before the season. Big drop off

Now up to 162g at AA for O-Mart. 200/289/465 for a 754 ops 83r 45 hr 113 rbi 6sb

Thank you Jonathan

Or post like an adult like he did. Alejandro “en fuego” Kirk keeps up the torrid pace with a 1/4 night while simultaneously keeping his non-extra base streak alive at 9 games.

Yes that magical random “6 game sample “ which starts with a 3/4 day. During this stretch his ops went up a whopping 14 pts from 667 to 681. Back it up a game before he went 0/2 and it went up a total of 3 points. Be Better spanky. Wrc+ for thought per segment on mlb now on mlbtv- Gallo and FriedL have same wrc+ Gallo 200/333/508. 131 wrc+ FriedL 326/377/496 131 wrc+

Wake up G-snarls… how did you not see this? Moreno 703ops .6 fwar Kirk 681ops .5 fwar Last 5g Kirk has went 5-17 with no extra base hits, no walks, 1r and 2 rbi. 3 extra base hits in the month of May. Dude is on fire!!

I think a game with lineup like this would be fun. Kk Whit Bo Vlad Springer Belt Chap Kirk Varsho

Updated- bwar and FWAR Kev k 2.3/1.4 Lgj. 1.7/1.3 Varsho 1.1/.4 Swanson .3/0 Teo .6/.4 Moreno. 1/.5 Jansen .1/.2 Kirk .4/.3 Whit. .9/.7 Belt .2/.3 Manoah. -.4. -.3 Gaus .8. 2.3 Berrios -.1. 1.1 Bassitt .7/.4 Kikuchi .3/0

Bo seemed to take off after moving down in lineup last year. I’m with wryNGinger

If you take on a thread for a berrios start, you get a mulligan

East. Watch the 7p game the night before at 8am next day

Re- work from home. Yup. Tentative plan this season is to watch the game from the night prior during work the next day. Just have to stay away from internet all night.

Went to STL opening day 2001, trust me there will be a bit of a buzz for opening day and eyeballs on the game.

Sorry to bring it up. My bad. Won’t happen again

I think I prob go option A as well…at least for the regular season. Gotta factor in rodon vs bassitt making playoff starts though.

Would you rather have spend the 41m this off-season on- (assume varsho trade still happened and Green still signed) bassitt (3x21), belt (1/9) Kk (1/9) Swanson (1m in 2023, then rest of arby for remaining years) and Macko Or Rodon (6x27) Teo (1/14)

Interview with Keith law- BB: There have been a lot of articles in the Toronto press about the new facility in Dunedin and the usefulness of the hitting and pitching labs there. They have even suggested that some players have asked to be drafted by the Jays or signed with the Jays because of the facility. How unique is the Jays facility? KL: I can't speak to that at all, sorry. I haven't done any real research into the specifics of teams' facilities. I don't want to speak out of turn. BB: When I look at player development I see three aspects, the draft, player development and luck. With luck I include injuries and when a low round pick turns into a player with major league value. I have several questions about this. First, the Jays drafting doesn't seem to have a theme, or a philosophy, behind it. In 2021 it was almost all pitchers. In 2022 mostly hitters and hitters with a bat first profile, generally non athletic. How would you grade the Jays drafting generally? KL: I think they're more geared towards best player available than to a specific category of players. Last year's draft ('22) was a terrible college crop, with almost no college pitching up top, so they made a pretty clear adjustment around that. I'm not sure they'd normally go for a HS arm in the first round, but given who was on the board at that point, you could easily argue Barriera was the BPA. Anyway, I think they're drafting quite well over the last three or four years, especially if you consider their ability to convert some high picks into help for the major-league roster via trades. BB: What do you think of the 2022 draft approach, drafting good bat to ball guys. KL: I don't think that was their draft approach last year, though. Toman isn't necessarily that, and I don't think that's Doughty's defining characteristic. It is definitely true of Kasevich, though. BB: In regard to player development, some teams have earned a reputation for their development (Dodgers, Guardians and Rays for example). When you think of the Jays and player development what comes to mind? KL: No single thing comes to mind here. They're around the middle of the pack in development. They've had enough successes and failures on both sides of the ball that I wouldn't say that they're especially good or bad at developing any category of player. They do have a big group of position-player prospects from high A to the DSL who came into the org through international free agency who present them with a big player development opportunity, but also a challenge. These are talented kids who have a lot of work ahead of them to become the players we think they can become. I hope the struggles of Orelvis Martinez this year lead the Jays to reconsider pushing some of those kids. BB: Minor league strikeout rate is often used as a statistical scouting method for pitchers. You have ranked two pitchers in your Jays top 10 that have a lower strikeout rate in Sem Robberse and Hayden Juenger. Is this where pitchability and the ability to pitch to (weak) contact is an offset to the lower strikeout numbers? KL" Yeah, 'statistical scouting' isn't really a thing. You can and should look at strikeout rates for pitchers, but it's a supplement to scouting, not a replacement for it. Both those guys have reasons why they're in my top 10 with those lower rates. Robberse has everything you want in a mid-rotation type except for power - he lost velocity last year versus 2021, and that meant he missed fewer bats. If he returns to his 2021 velocity levels, on all his pitches, his strikeout rate will almost certainly go up, and with his command and feel for pitching that will make him that potential mid-rotation guy. Or maybe he even gains a little more velocity than that. I like guys who miss bats, but I'm willing to project on some pitchers to improve in that area, or to boost guys who show other ways to get around higher contact rates (e.g., weak contact/groundball tendencies). BB: A number of the Jays international signings had poor 2022's. I am thinking of Luis Meza, Manual Beltre, Estivan Machado and others. They are all still young and you have Beltre in your top 20. At what age, or stage, do you start to give up on a young prospect? KL: I don't have a hard and fast rule on this, but I like to see progress of some sort - adjustments on the field, improvements in the stat line, even progress in Trackman data. If a kid doesn't have a better year at the plate but he's hitting the ball harder, that's still progress. When players stop making progress, that's when I start to give up. And I agree that their IFA group as a whole didn't do as well last year as I'd hoped. BB: You still have hope for Orelvis, despite his free swinging ways. Are there major league players you can think of who have gone from a swing for the fences approach and had a successful major league career? KL: Sure, tons. Whatever you might think of Joey Gallo now, he's generated almost 15 WAR before turning 29. If Orelvis is only a .290 OBP guy with this power and good defense at third, he'd be a starter on at least a handful of teams. I don't think he's that player right now, but that's within reach - and he's only 21 this year. Start him at AA again with some real help on swing decisions and see if he makes any adjustments. BB: Are there new technologies that help a player develop more selectivity at the plate? I would think that there are visual training systems that simulate at-bats that should help a player and grade his swing decisions. KL: Yes, I wrote about some of that in my piece on Austin Riley back in August of 2021. There are simulators that help hitters work on pitch recognition and tracking.

Ghost runner rule is lame as f***

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