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  1. Brownie19
    Silvano Hechavarria took enough steps back this year that he should probably try another sport. Guerra doesn't look all that interesting. More K's I guess - AA will tell us more. I guess the bar is extremely low these days. Barriera, Bloss, Ricky T - these guys are all broken man. "Progress" is those 3 throwing 68 2/3 innings combined this year. And the bright spot is simply that they pitched because the results have been horrendous - like a combined ERA over 6. 2 of the 3 broke under that overwhelming workload and the other guy has thrown 6 inning over the past 2 years and just 23 1/3 since 2023. I guess Spencer Miles is a reminder that crazier things have happened, but the chance any of these 3 ever pitch meaningful innings at the ML level is like <5% IMO. Sorry to sh*t on all of this. I just don't view this as much progress from Lehr. The best thing that happened this year was Spencer Miles, who just magically fell into our lap.
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    He had too much power for their liking. Ty Southisene is much more their speed.
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    That's pretty sad if true. A lot of people here could do it - and we're not getting paid to know the organization. Do you think Lehr decides pitch shapes, pitch usage, changes to what they throw, etc. Do you think they tell Pete what this pitcher is going to do and why? Like with Soriano - is it Pete who's going to make the decision to scrap his 4 seamer? Or is Lehr going to tell both Soriano and Pete - and tell them that's the direction the org wants?
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    I'm not sure I see these strides. Obviously Yesavage is the major one, but he was a near ready arm who only threw 110 innings in the minors. It's King and Perry - almost every prospect who's noteworthy has sucked this year.
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    You can't stand Jomboy? Really? He's been so good for the game of baseball IMO.
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    ooof - it's been painful. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see some magical run happen, but as soon as that dream ends, I can't wait to see Sean Keys, Bateman, McAdoo, BV, Clase, Smith, etc. get some run with the team. Let's see if we might have anything there. I'd say the same thing about our pitchers, but all the losers they've brought up this year look like utter sh*t. Waldron, Dallas, Van Eyk, Estrada and Lee are all have as many walks allowed as strikeouts. It's embarrassing bad. They make Tommy Nance look like Mariano Rivera FFS.
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    Who had 1 year of control left. He did have a great 2023 with the Diamondbacks, but re-signed him and he's been balls the last 2 seasons. I'm aware.
  8. Brownie19
    I just read that the Director of Pitching Development was a new position, created for Justin Lehr in 2025. Before that, Cory Popham was the Minor League Pitching Coordinator (2023-2024) and the Pitching Development Coordinator (2021-2022). Cory was seemingly useless and thus fired. Don't know why they keep renaming the position. It says Justin Lehr directly shapes pitch design, pitching identity, and individual mechanical adjustments across all minor-league affiliates. Surely to god, Pete Walker is involved with this and is supportive of the approach. Or is this some Art Howe / Moneyball situation, where the org just tells Pete what's going to happen and he can either accept it, or FO. Whatever we're doing, it's been balls for well over a decade, across multiple GM's.
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    Feels like you can count on one hand the number of times the Jays won a game handily, where the leverage relief pitchers could take the night off. Offense has just been abysmal all year, which creates a bad snowball effect.
  10. Brownie19
    Then who is? It's been brutal across multiple GM's now and Pete's one of the few common denominators. Walker must have some role in it. I appreciate Walker is traveling around to work with those coaches and minor league players during the season, but I would imagine he sets the organizational strategies and would be a resource for minor league coaches? I'd imagine he has a hand in choosing who's hired to develop/manage pitchers in the minors too? Prospect development is one of the most valuable tools an organization has. Home grown, controllable, affordable talent is essential for long term success. Someone is deciding what type of arms we're going to target/draft/trade for, how they're going to be developed in terms of usage, workload, etc. The Jays have been using the piggyback system dating back to the Sanchez/Snydergaard/Nicolino days I believe. I would be shocked if Pete isn't directly involved in these strategies/philosophies. Maybe I'm wrong and this is why our development has been brutal.
  11. Brownie19
    No offense, but the Jays choosing to promote him, doesn't give me any assurance that it's the right thing for his development. I posed the question because our development has been so abysmal under Pete Walker. That said, I do believe I've seen other teams use a similar strategy with some success - which is why I was asking the smart people of this board what they thought. When will the high walks be a red flag - which I assume comes with a increased risk he's a future relief pitcher...
  12. Brownie19
    I don't think the pitcher was even necessary to appeal the play. He's only needed if time was called (where by he'd have to go to the mound to put the ball back in play and then step off again). Obviously time wasn't called after the 3rd out. Someone just had to run over with the ball, announce they were appealing the tag up at 3rd and step on the bag.
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    Just another quick reminder. Catchers often take time to reach their full potential - particularly with the bat, which often lags behind the defense. We wanted to win in 2023-2026. Instead of letting Moreno develop in a part-time role with Kirk, we got a starting OFer who already had some serious success (4.3 WAR season in 2022) and was entering his prime years. There was always risk that Moreno would develop into a star at some point, just as there was also risk he'd flame out, or battle injuries (which he has). If you think you can predict these outcomes with a high success rate, then you're pretty ignorant. If you're in a position to win in 2023, you take the risk he becomes a star in 2026 or 2027 as that may be beyond your window of opportunity. Did Varsho underperform in Toronto? Yes, to some extent. There was certainly a possibility he gave us 16+ WAR in his 4 years in Toronto. But we ended up with a middling result that was impacted by a serious shoulder injury and an inconsistent bat. These things happen. Let's not pretend like even the all-time great GM's in baseball don't have similar results.
  14. Brownie19
    Thanks - I didn't know that. I now understand why the run counted last night. It's the same situation, only we didn't appeal that he didn't tag up (or left early?) from 3rd. It's insane how many players on the field didn't know how many outs there were.
  15. Brownie19
    I have a question. If the guy on 3rd knew there was only 1 out and he did tag up and score, but the guy on 1st thought it was 2 out and he mistakenly keeps running. The Jays throw to first, to double him off, but the guy tagging scores before the throw makes it to first - does that run actually count? Is that timing play? I wouldn't have thought so, but based on what happened last night, I'm not questioning myself.
  16. Brownie19
    On the radio broadcast, they said the scoreboard was corrected right as the ball was hit in the air. The radio broadcast also said the home plate umpire had signaled to start the warm up clock for the Red Sox shortly after the 3rd out was made at 1st base - which is why the Jays were arguing they weren't given a reasonable amount of time to appeal the play.
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    Jac is a beast. Looks like he's going to be a stud offensively. Pairs nicely with Witt.
  19. Brownie19
    Honest question - how much concern is there that his BB/9 remains 5+ with only marginal improvement over last year? Does that matter as much in the lower minors, or is it a reason to slow the promotions? Or do teams not care about that too much until AA/AAA? For a team that seems to target big time arms with control issues, it's a tad concerning we've seen little to no improvement from King or Stanifer this year. Stanifer has been awful. Drafting and development remains our achilles heel.
  20. Brownie19
    I was looking through the stats from our Top 30 prospects just yesterday. I think it's safe to say a lot of our prospects have stalled. Looks like the guys in the minors are playing about as poor as the big club is. Arias, Sanchez, Stanifer, Bloss, Hechavarria, Schreck, Barrriera, Piasentin, Duran, Cook, Coffey, etc. All steps back - in some cases, massive ones. It happens, and there have been some nice surprises like Perry and Harry, but the farms looks pretty barren these days.
  21. Brownie19
    You seem new. Can we just cut the chase here - are you a troll, or just not very smart?
  22. Brownie19
    I think you'll be surprised what type of pitcher you get for $11M. It's definitely 7th/8th guys.
  23. Brownie19
    Hit the playoffs on a heater eh? Could we be the 2007 Rockies? How fun would that be?
  24. Brownie19
    Or if the offense scored more, or the starters didn't give up as many runs, or we played better defense, or we ran the bases better. Bieber - 5 2/3, 5 ER Bullpen - 5 2/3, 1 ER Stupid bullpen blew it!
  25. Brownie19
    Correct - if we go on some amazing 1 in 20 run, we're going to miss Hoffman. I think he's just pointing out how ironic it is that there have been several fans claiming Hoffman cost us the World Series and that he has cost us the playoffs this year, etc. There's never really been a shortage of fans hating on Hoffman at any given time. He's been the scapegoat for awhile now. We trade the guy and suddenly, there's people commenting about how much he is missed. It isn't necessarily the same people making those 2 comments, but it's still kinda funny.
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