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No way man the team should have overpaid Kyle Gibson and given him an offer he couldn't refuse so he signed with the Jays instead of the Orioles. After all his FIP is better than Bassitt's right now so who gives a f*** about all of Bassitt's other performance indicators being better.

You have incredibly thin skin man. You act like people aren't allowed to disagree with you and as soon as someone dares to post an opinion that's different than yours you start with the name calling as your first resort. You should really learn to chill out if you actually want to discuss baseball as you claim. Like do you really need to compare people that generally like the front office cockroaches? That doesn't seem like the best way to portray yourself as someone looking for rational discussion when you immediately throw out insults of that nature.

Eventually I could see Green joining Yimi as becoming another fireman option, but for the time being Garcia has done a tremendous job in the role. He's stranded 24 of 29 inherited runners this season, which is the third highest strand rate among all MLB relievers. Yimi seems to get himself into trouble a little more frequently than you would prefer but that doesn't detract from the excellent job he's done cleaning up other pitchers messes.

I don't think Yimi deserves the type of consternation sent his way. Heading into last night's game with the A's he had a 3 month run where he was MLB's 15th most valuable reliever by FWAR effectively tied for 7th place with 1.0 FWAR. There is constant grousing about how he is the team's 8th best reliever where he had an extended stretch of games where he was basically tied as the 7th most valuable reliever in all of MLB. Talk about a massive disconnect between perception and reality.

It's too bad the manager decided to throw a game away to upstage one of his players. It would really have hurt if the 2021 team missed the playoffs by a single game or something.

Despite the higher RISP numbers the offense hasn't really improved that much overall since August 1 though. From start of the season until July 31 the offense was 14th overall in runs scored, since then it's moved all the way up to 13th overall in runs scored. The last few weeks the offensive numbers are pretty encouraging but at the same time the team has played against some pretty awful pitching staffs as well so it's easy to take the numbers with a grain of salt.

If you only count what the pen has done since they arrived in Colorado (which you seem to be doing with Yimi) then you might not think the team has any good relievers.

I simply don't think it would be good for Orelvis or the team to start his service clock early if he's not ready to succeed against major league pitching. The guy has nearly a 27% strikeout rate in AAA with a very small strike zone in play for half of the games.

As frustrating as the Blue Jays season has been at least the Yankees season has been infinitely worse with an even higher payroll.

I'm right there with you. I don't spend any time or effort worrying about how players act away from the field of play but Vlad needs to put in a better effort on the field. I couldn't believe how he stood there watching a low line drive type of hit like that and having it bounce off of the wall. I think Schneider is in a tough spot with regards to benching given how the team is missing three important regulars from the lineup (well at least two given how poorly Chapman has been hitting for the better part of the season) so it's hard to bench a regular player with how much the team has struggled to produce offense. I would certainly understand choosing to bench Vlad if that decision was made but at the same time if a manager chooses not to publicly discipline a player then that's his choice as well. Maybe Vlad would benefit from a bit of tough love but it's entirely possible we would respond badly as well. I was equally miffed with how Vlad slowed up on his way to the plate with the Schneider double as well as it was a very close play at second base and the run may not have counted if the out was recorded at second base. At least this time he wasn't doing a slow jog like was the case recently on another time he crossed the plate but enough is enough. f*** it, I think I just talked myself into getting on board with a Vlad benching due to the lack of hustle/give a f*** at times during games.

Given what we've seen from the Jays lately they are far from a lock to reliably beat even the worst teams, but the Yankees have been pretty awful for several months now. I didn't realize how badly the Yankees have been struggling but they are a combined 23-33 from the start of July, go back to the start of June and their record is relatively better but still poor at 34-45 over nearly half a season of play.

Mastering AAA would be a good start. Given the extreme offensive environment of AAA this year Orelvis has all of a 111 WRC+ at the moment. I don't want him called up before he has a legitimate chance to succeed in MLB.

Kiss my ass man. Yimi has been tremendous out of the pen ever since he stopped tipping his pitches. I wouldn't expect a doofus such as yourself to actually notice that though.

Yeah Yimi has totally been used incorrectly. If he were utilized effectively he would have accumulated more than the full win above replacement he provided in the last 3 months. The team should definitely bury the pitcher who has been their most effective reliever for half of the season at the bottom of the pecking order. Who cares if he's been one of MLB's most effective firemen at shutting down opposition rallies mid inning, he just had a single bad game so all of the good he's done has effectively been erased.

I've been impressed with Clement so far at the plate and in the field defensively. I find myself wondering how much better off the team would have been giving him a shot to man short during Bo's initial absence vs seeing DeJong strike out half of the time at the plate. I'm fully on board with Espinal being the odd man out once Bo is ready to come back as Clement appears to have a lot more to offer vs this season's version on Espinal who has been a disaster at the plate and in the field.

Over the second half Varsho has seen his playing time split pretty evenly between left field and center field. I'm not sure it's worth the risk of having him taken out by injury to start him at catcher, especially with him not having seen any playing time there at all this season.

Might have something to do with the fact that he's arguably MLB's best outfield defender.

The poor dudes hands must look like they've been put through a trash compactor with the litany of hit by pitches and foul balls he's taken to the hands recently.

Yeah there's tons of predictive value in xFIP after 6 total innings after all. We'll just ignore the 3.72 xFIP in a much larger 73 inning sample as it doesn't fit the chosen Nick Frasso sucks narrative you're presenting.

Unfortunately that's basically already the case in the regular season as the team doesn't have much of a chance to win if the starter doesn't bring his A game that day.

Why would you even state that you "low key" hope they lose if you didn't actually want them to lose? Low key wanting them to lose still means you want them to lose after all. Change is coming no matter what, and given how this offense has struggled to click all season long there is no chance that there won't be some major changes happening in the off season, whether it's mostly roster changes, coaching philosophy and/or coaching staff chances, front office changes etc. The current offensive environment in AAA needs to be factored into the success of the AAA team this season as it makes it pretty tough to know which players down there are going to be able to enjoy immediate MLB success vs those who are being propped up by an environment that makes even mediocre hitters look like stars. The automatic strike zone being utilized in AAA this season sounds like it's about the size of a postage stamp so the hitters have gained a huge advantage from this. For instance Orelvis Martinez has produced an .872 OPS in AAA so far but this only translates to a 109 WRC+ after all.

He just stopped squaring up baseballs for whatever reason. Maybe his belly finally got so big that he can't properly get the bat through the zone or something of that sort.

Even you shouldn't be so dumb that you wouldn't realize that actively cheering for your team to lose during the most important stretch of the season isn't going to be received with open arms. This team is going to see a lot of turnover this offseason due to the large amount of expiring contracts anyway so there's no need to cheer for them to lose in order to satisfy your own sense of self loathing.

What does that even mean? Like a manager has to work directly with his front office in this day and age or he's going to quickly find himself out of a job.

The Red Sox f***ed themselves over by insisting that David Price be included in the Betts deal in order to save a bit of money.