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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Unless it's all Rogers' decision it appears clear the baseball people within the organization don't feel comfortable giving Vlad superstar money and it's completely understandable. That having been said, you knew Vlad was going to overvalue himself, you knew the market was inflating for superstar players, The decision on him, one way or another, needed to have been made long before this point. Inexcusable handling of your most important asset. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Tampa, KC and Seattle. Boston, Texas, O's WC. The AL is open for sure. As open as ever. Still hate the direction of this team. Whoever comes out of the AL will be target practice for LA anyhow. NL: Dodgers, no one else matters. Basically ruining the entire baseball season before it even starts. -
Not concerned about the challenge system, more so if they fully automated the strike zone it would hurt Kirk. I personally think a challenge type system is the best way to go, I think pitch framing should remain part of the game. But I'm also a bit of a dinosaur at this point
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I'm good with this, some of his value will be lost the more baseball commits to automated strike zones, but that will probably happen gradually so it shouldn't affect much of this contract value.
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My expectation for Barnes was always a glue guy / jack of all trades type player. Still very valuable but I actually see more as a third option offensively. He really has a limited scoring game. Defense has improved though. Barrett could be a reliable secondary scorer but while it's great that he can get to the rim, once he gets there he misses a lot of bunnies and misses a lot of free throws. Kind of defeats the purpose. I see why he was an intriguing player but also why the Knicks gave up on him. Quickley can score well enough, but he doesn't have that dog in him defensively. I think we need a dog as our point guard. I really like Shead, but I'm not sure he be can be a number one. Quickley's best role was the way New York utilized him. But he costs too much for that role. Dick I always saw as a three-point specialist/sixth man potential wise. We REALLY need a hit in this draft. We're a playoff team as is but nothing more than middle of the pack without more talent.
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Yeah they would have easily made the play in if they felt like it, I'm glad they didn't feel like it because that would have been a giant waste of time. We really need some draft luck. We need a franchise player, or at least an all-star out of this draft that we can build around.
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Leafs at least have high end talent. They drafted well in the years they were bad at least, it's the rest of the team construction part that they screwed up. They have almost zero offense coming from the blue line and that has completely killed the overall offensive flow of this team and will be their undoing in the playoffs.
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The Raptors have to be the absolute dumbest organization in basketball at the moment. And this is a league that includes the Dallas Mavericks. I thought the Jays had the dumbest front office in Toronto but clearly I was wrong. Tantalizingly close to securing a high pick in a great draft and they piss it all away with a half-assed tank. We're apparently the only team in the NBA that doesn't know how to tank. Why the hell are we playing our starters into the fourth quarter of games, building up nice leads just to ensure we win the game with a bunch of G-leaguer journeyman. Why didn't we play these half-assed lineups earlier in the year when we faced good teams to build a buffer for this bad part of the schedule? Why are we letting division rivals get a better chance at higher draft odds? This is active self-harm and I don't know how ownership isn't stepping in and smacking them all across the face for this. Garbage organization. It's a miracle these clowns won a title.
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Poetic that it should be McDavid. Best on best still belongs to us. Get f***ed Trump!
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US has the best team especially because of Hellebuyck. But it's close enough where it could go either way. You certainly can't get into a high scoring game with them.
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He should have been traded at last year's deadline, that was the time to do it, it was already clear that he was going to price himself out of what our front office valued him at, and I'm not even disagreeing with the front office on their valuation, but they shouldn't have let it come to this. At the very least he should have been traded this off season. This s*** was fumbled completely, along with most of the rest of the off-season for what is now a Frankenstein of a roster.
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This front office I tell ya! Complete disaster. Complete and total f***ing disaster. That we left it to these idiots to deal with our most important asset is beyond comprehension.
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I don't think teams are stupid enough to fall for that given the statistics they have access to. If a bunch of average fans are aware of that then I'm sure baseball executives around baseball doling out massive sums of money are aware of that. Wasn't Bellinger hurt by advanced statistics revealing him to be a bit of a phony or am I misremembering?
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I am unbothered by this.
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I get that and I'm coming around to the Ingram trade a little bit but only if it serves to have Ingram replace Barrett. I think there's too much duplication between them. Ingram is Barrett but better. Literally I think Ingram does everything Barrett does, but does it better and I think there's things that Ingram does that Barrett can't. I don't think it makes sense to tie up cap space in both of them especially considering what you're paying Quickley and Barnes. Also, with Ingram continuing to be out for what will probably be a few more weeks, it doesn't really hurt the tank.
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I agree with you guys that the Bills and Ravens would have been better representatives and probably put up a better fight. Ultimately though, I don't think anybody would have beat the Eagles. They were tremendous all season but they really peaked in the playoffs. It was their year. Respect to the Chiefs though, whatever anybody wants to say about them, Taylor Swift, the referees and blah blah blah, it's been a tremendous run and they're not just going to go away.
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The Leafs are a bit confounding. Overall the season has been very good, goaltending has been better than in past years but they're not generating the kind of offense they should be even when healthy. Every game seems to come down to the wire, they're not able to pull away from teams and given the front line offensive players they have, there should be at least a few blowouts mixed in. Offense from their defense continues to be brutal and Reilly has fallen off this year. I'd say this remains the largest impediment to this team becoming a true contender and probably the one thing that's keeping them from truly unlocking their full offensive potential.
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In fairness, despite the Chiefs' record, they weren't nearly as good as their record indicated and had a lot of games that they won on thin margins. Being at home for the playoffs helped, but they were not the best representative of the AFC. I think a couple of other teams could have given the Eagles a better game than the Chiefs.
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Wow that was an incredible waste of time. It was never even really a game.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Well you were off by 1.125 percentage points, but not 1.125%. You could say you were off by 56.25% as a percentage change if you consider the low number to be the base. Or -36% if you consider the high number to be the base. Or 43.9% percentage difference which doesn't require either number to be the base. This is probably more accurate. Or I could just be spewing gibberish, it's been a while. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Awesome, now do the Jays too, but do it as if you weren't a complete homer. -
That's the thing, it's like, are you aiming to be a sixth place team in the Eastern Conference for years to come? Because that's the kind of ceiling you're putting together right now while paying a lot in salary, giving up ping pong balls and draft capital.
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Blue jays are officially the MLB version of Meg from Family Guy.
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I don't really get the Brandon Ingram hype. A really nice player don't get me wrong, but he's never really fully healthy and I just don't know if he really moves the needle on a rebuilding team. I'd rather have used that first rounder as part of a move for a bigger player down the road. If I'm taking my chances with an injury-prone player from New Orleans I'd go all in after Zion. If RJ was going the other way I would feel much better about this deal.
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Don't really care, didn't really want him, don't want Bregman either. Max I'm good with, but otherwise I still don't know what the hell we're trying to do here.
