Brownie19

yeah but it buys hookers and blow.

We've been through this. Gift Ngoepe. 63 K% and a -60 wRC+

f*** Scott Boras. Atkins will just point to Vladdy and say "how's that working out for us?"

f*** you gruber.

He's pretty s***** at guessing...

Christ - he doesn't pass the eye test for me.

Grichuk missed that strike 3 curveball by 4 feet. I know hitting is hard, but all 73 people at the dome knew a breaking ball as coming....why doesn't Grichuk?

Vladdy for Chapman - done.

why do you suggest Shatkin's ignores defense? Maile is great defensively, so is Galvis. Drury's very good defensively and so is Grichuk, Smoak's good at 1st too.

Wait until Sogard's wRC+ is back down in the 80's. It's painful boys. Painful year.

Chris Paddack porn - NSFW https://blogs.fangraphs.com/chris-paddacks-relentless-attack/

The improvement of Matt Chapman K% is pretty remarkable. AA/AAA - 30% 2017 - 28.2% 2018 - 23.7% 2019 - 14.8% Reminds me of Kris Bryant 2015 - 2017 Chapman's a beast. One of the very best in the game who's probably going to go unnoticed for awhile in Oakland.

https://www.mlb.com/news/pitchers-with-multiple-no-hitters There's the list of guys who've thrown 2

It's his 2nd no-hitter too.

Kevin Smith's entire season has been a derp.

today I learned that Zeke still plays baseball. Yesterday I learned Shoemaker is already 33! you guys make me smrt.

Sorry - you said that Tampa takes 'flyers' on prospects like Glasnow and Meadows. Typically trading your ace who's under team control and on a very team friendly contract for a couple of flyers isn't great idea. Obviously this is working out exceptionally well for Tampa. It was a calculated risk, but there is still a lot of luck in it.

da fuk? Tampa had to give up an #1/#2 type starter on a VERY team friendly deal to acquire those 'reclamation' projects.

Galvis = Iglesias man. Iglesias isn't coming to TO after we sign Galvis. He went somewhere that he could start. I like Dietrich, but with Drury, Gurriel, Travis, Galvis, etc. we already have lots of guys under 30 who we're hoping take the job and run with it. The issue is we haven't hit, where as the Reds may have with Dietrich. Almost every team takes flyers on those fail prospect types. It's really hard to hit on them. I bet you could analyse 10 teams and find out they missed on all their flyers just like we did. How much of it is just pure luck? A lot of it IMO.

That's utter nonsense. He was worth 1.7 WAR last year in less than 100 innings. He was worth 3.4 WAR in 2015. He was worth nothing in 2016 and 2017. He comes with an extremely volatile array of outcomes - but if you 'hit', you hit really well and may have a valuable asset. We probably 'missed' on him - but that doesn't mean that risk wasn't worth it.

Dude - we signed Shoemaker for this very reason. We did sign the 28-30 year old who still has team control. I guess we could have piled them on (if they wanted to play here)...but you can't exactly s*** on the FO when they picked up someone from that group already. Matt Moore and Martin Perez were f***ing awful last year.

Why the f*** would Brantley have signed in TO? I mean if we could attract a good FA - if we would have gone that route, we could now be stuck with Marwin Gonzalez....a lot of people were on board with signing him because he looked like such a bargain. Let's be fair - the only players willing to sign here were the ones who needed full time starting positions to rebuild their value (Shoemaker, Galvis, etc.) - and we got some of those guys, and they have been great. Morton - yes, sure. I think every team in baseball should be kicking themselves for not offering Morton a better contract than the Rays did, Toronto included. I mean we did get Buchholz, who was coming off a pretty awesome year too. Just turns out he's probably washed up.

How could we have 'hit' any better than we have with Sogard? Galvis is back to being Galvis, but those 2 vets have been great signings so far. Shoemaker also appeared to be a huge 'hit' before his unfortunately injury.

Man - they were rebuilding in 2017 and 2018. You can deny that all you want; however, avoiding commitments to long term FA's in 2017 and 2018 was part of the rebuild, keeping almost all of our prospects was part of the rebuild, trading veteran relievers and anyone of any value for marginal 'lotto ticket' prospects was part of the rebuild. They have successfully restocked the farm system to the point it's now widely considered to be top 5 in the league. Keeping the likes of Happ, Martin, Morales, Pillar, etc. in 2017 and 2018, while resigning Estrada, trading for Solarte, etc. was part of the effort to field at least a palatable roster. The plan was to try and remain competitive through the rebuild - however, it simply didn't work (that's baseball). Now that they've dealt all those veteran guys - you can see why they chose that route (because they are all worth next to nothing). I mean they could have sold Sanchez and Donaldson right after the 2016 season, but you (should) be able to understand why they didn't (actually - I don't expect you to understand). Injuries destroyed that value. in 2019 they've clearly decided that adding some veterans to try and field at least a palatable roster was no longer worth it. They needed to see what they had in some of these fringe players. You can cherry pick some FA signings and potential trades all you want - but it's pretty pointless. I look forward to your respond, which I fully expect will include a lot of 'I told you so's'.

This start is sure going to help the Blue Jays when Vladdy sues them for service time manipulation. Maybe Shatkins was right that he needed more seasoning in the minors.