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The Baez contract was a historic albatross but Baez today fills like 2 or 3 needs right away. And he has one final year on that godawful contract. If you think you can win the World Series this year, you pay to get Skubal. The team will have to play well enough to justify that.

The actual doctors' diagnosis override whatever we're discussing here, but the signs aren't good as you say. The fact that Vlad asked for the golf cart immediately suggests to me that either him or Ponce heard a pop. If he has a full rupture there's a good chance they already know from the physical exam and MRI. Getting multiple opinions may be to discuss the best approach to repair surgically. From the team perspective it's best to assume he's smoked for the year, with a best case scenario of bringing him out of the pen for a playoff run.

Rockies bats will be sluggish tomorrow from the Dickey effect. Schneider playing 4D chess

Just 11 more HRs and we're right back in this

You could tell Schulman was baffled.

We're dissecting Schneider's in-game moves as if our entire bullpen isn't a bunch of 1 inning matchup guys. We start the season with injuries to 3 key starters and don't bother to carry a single length reliever. This game was lost before it began. We deserve to get absolutely annihilated today so that Schneider and Atkins can sit in it and reflect on how to construct a regular season pitching staff.

Odd man out is very likely to be Lukes. You want a your backup infielder to handle shortstop like Jiminez and be a defensive replacement option especially if Okamoto turns out to be a poor defender. We need Schneider to prevent our platoon bats from getting exposed against LHP. And Straw is literally one of the best baserunners and defenders in baseball. It's a tough pill for Lukes who had a better year than Sanchez but has options

Not a bad trade from a baseball perspective. The most valuable thing we lost was flexibility from Loperfido's option as this creates an immediate roster crunch. This makes it likely that one of Lukes/Schneider are not on the opening day roster, or we part ways with one of Straw/Jimenez.

It's not even really advanced stats. Yariel is basically Berrios but only for 1 inning at a time.

Really bad judgement call by Teoscar

That was a dagger for this home crowd

Yesavage has had extreme groundball tendencies so far in his career. I say go all in on defence, IKF, Straw, Lukes. Let Schneider and Barger feast on the Dodgers pen.

Not with 2 outs here. But you can see he can barely walk out there

Leaving IKF to squeeze against a lefty was the right move, it just took a turn

Jays need to throwing over whenever Ohtani is on. Do whatever you can to wear him down.