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  1. max silver
    If Sanchez caught the fly ball that ticked off of his glove this entire game may have gone very differently.
  2. max silver
    Kirk has been very durable despite his size. Most of his injured list visits are the result of foul balls and a hit by pitch.
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    I have no issue with Hoffman receiving the occasional opportunity to close out games. Yesterday's game could have been one such occasion had he been available with both of Varland and Rogers down for the game. I still don't buy that Hoffman's disaster outings occur because of the inning he's pitching in vs there simply being days where he shows up out of the pen with subpar stuff and even worse command. There's bound to be the occasional game where he melts down in the earlier innings on a day where he isn't feeling it but I'd be perfectly happy to be wrong and see him avoid these rest of season in lower leverage spots.
  4. max silver
    Just because a team is bad it doesn't mean you should automatically sweep them. I'd expect you to know better than that but apparently that's not the case.
  5. max silver
    Come on now if you've been watching baseball for more than a minute you should know there's no such thing as a free sweep.
  6. max silver
    I believe he would be effective in any role presently with how he's commanding his pitches.
  7. max silver
    I don't think there's any cause for concern. I believe in his prior start he didn't reach 80 pitches because he was too efficient. If I recall correctly the team didn't want more than 5 up/downs and once he was finished 5 innings he was finished for the day.
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    His stuff and command were much better than his season averages in his Blue Jays debut. I don't recall hearing whether the club had been working on any adjustments with SWR or if this was just a result of an extended break between outings.
  9. max silver
    And just like that Scherzer ended up on the injured list again with back spasms.
  10. max silver
    Bieber made it up to 80 pitches today in Buffalo so I'm guessing he is good to go workload wise. The results in his AAA starts haven't been great for the most part so hopefully that's not indicative of what to expect upon his MLB return.
  11. max silver
    Yeah his outing last night was excellent. He's had consecutive outings where the stuff looked like it was close to normal with the diminished stuff outing looking like a bit of an outlier. It will be interesting to see who the club jettisons from the roster once Garcia is ready to return.
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    Keys feels like a keeper to me but the club will need to find a position for him to play in the majors. First base and third base are largely occupied and it appears as though he may not possess the requisite athleticism to play the outfield as he's received a 40 grade for speed from MLB Pipeline and 30 grade from Fangraphs.
  13. max silver
    Varland still blew this game no matter how his season has gone up until that point. I hated the Clement bunt as well as the pitcher was having trouble throwing strikes and was on the ropes. It was counterproductive to hand him a free out even if Clement managed to get the bunt down.
  14. max silver
    Doug Fox had a recent Star article where he suggests Tiedemann started throwing bullpen sessions at the end of May and that barring setbacks he has a chance to start a rehab assignment in mid June. He'll need to actually stay healthy enough to pitch in games but he's not dead yet.
  15. max silver
    Yeah I thought we were well past this point by now. This was a team loss in every possible way. The entire bullpen was largely crap as I believe only Varland pitched a clean inning with everyone else allowing a run to score in their innings of work, just the same as Hoffman. As you mentioned the team had several chances to pad their lead early and didn't, and then a glorious opportunity to win in the 9th inning. Varsho failed to get the ball to the outfield to score the runner from third easily, but then the coaching staff had IKF take a minimal lead and he took no secondary lead and then compounded matters further by sliding into home plate vs running at top speed. Then the team had another great chance to tie the game in extra innings and Kirk hit into a season ending double play. But of course Hoffman still get assigned 100% of the blame when the team wasted innumerable opportunities to score more runs so that his single run wouldn't have mattered.
  16. max silver
    Ah it seems as though I missed the context of the original discussion.
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    This isn't game 1 for Yimi. It's his 4th appearance in the last 10 days or so but the first in AAA. His velocity and spin were much better in his Dunedin outings but this recent appearance is definitely cause for concern for a player who has suffered so many setbacks on the way back from elbow surgery.
  18. max silver
    That's an awful look considering how he essentially held the organization hostage with his ridiculous contract demands.
  19. max silver
    Yeah the Statcast box score is the stuff of nightmares. Yimi's velocity was down 2-3 MPH on most of his offerings with a corresponding decrease of approximately 300 RPM. Maybe he'll be able to return as more of a middle relief option but it appears as though the premium fireman version of Garcia is a thing of the past.
  20. max silver
    I don't think lack of aggression is the issue. The team is 2nd worst in chasing pitches out of the strike zone this season so I think the issue is far too much aggressiveness.
  21. max silver
    Maybe but I do think Miles was showing signs of slowing down with the string of extended outings and his stuff was starting to drop off.
  22. max silver
    It's been a little boring without him around but at the same time there's been a lot less drama as well.
  23. max silver
    Even if Hoffman's xFIP isn't a true indication of his actual talent level this season the 3.19 xERA, 2.86 FIP and 2.04 SIERA all point to a reliever that should be enjoying more success than he has so far. Ultimately I believe Hoffman is a reliever that needs a little more downtime compared to rubber arm guys like Rogers and Varland who can pitch 2 out of every 3 days. I think with Hoffman the disaster outings/weeks tend to arrive when he's throwing 3 out of 4 or even 4 out of 5 days. Fingers crossed we get something close to a fully loaded version of Yimi back as that would add another high quality leverage arm and allow the club to pull back a little on the entire leverage group to avoiding burning them out.
  24. max silver
    Hoffman had an excellent xBA last season and suppressed line drive contact with a 16.5% line drive rate so the BABIP wasn't necessarily completely underserved. His primary issues were regarding the home run ball and that's not captured by BABIP anyway. I think your counterpoint is a bit of a false equivalency anyway as potentially being 50 points on the lucky side of BABIP isn't really a direct counterpoint to being punished 200 points on the bad fortune side this season.
  25. max silver
    Last night was yet another instance of Hoffman being comically unlucky on the results of batted balls in play as he gave up a single which shouldn't have occurred with proper fielding. Hoffman is only allowing a 27% fly ball rate this season so the HR/FB ratio isn't hurting him to any great degree. I fully believe the historically unlucky BABIP is going to eventually normalize we'll eventually get a better read on what Hoffman actually is this season. The underlying numbers are elite and there's no conceivable way he's going to be subjected to a .500 BABIP over a full season of play. He very well may be an elite reliever this season once his luck normalizes albeit one still prone to the occasional meltdown.
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