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  1. max silver
    No way man, you'd miss a gem of a pitching performance from Gausman if you did that.
  2. max silver
    A high 100's/low 200's BABIP looks to be standard for Orelvis going back to his high A debut in 2021.
  3. max silver
    It should boil down to either Orelvis or Barger unless the front office trades for a Chapman replacement.
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    It's really quite remarkable how different Orelivis Martinez's May results look compared to those from April. Something must have clicked for him, whether it's approach change, swing change, or simply finding his timing. First 16 games: .083/.149/.233/.383 -1 WRC+ .047 BABIP Strikeout + walk rates were reasonable 7.4% BB 23.5% K Latest 23 games .247/.376/.688/1.065 172 WRC+ .196 BABIP Small improvement in strikeout rate, huge jump in walk rate 16.1% BB 22.6% K
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    Vlad is his own worst enemy right now with piss poor pitch selection. Lack of protection behind him isn't forcing him to wave weakly at pitches out of the strike zone, that's all on him. And on top of that Vlad isn't doing anything with the hittable pitches that he is receiving right now, that's not due to lack of protection either.
  6. max silver
    "Only" 129 he says.
  7. max silver
    I'm confused, wasn't White just transfered to the 60 day IL? Maybe this is a long term phantom IL sting so he can hopefully work his s*** out in the minors?
  8. max silver
    Sorry not championship caliber, needs to be 10+ WAR minimum and challenge all time low errors record at short stop.
  9. max silver
    You are acting as though Baker experienced a career changing increase in velocity, however what he is featuring at present compared to his short Blue Jays MLB tenure is less than a full tick of velocity. It's entirely possible Baker could have reliably retired MLB hitters based on the stuff he featured in 2021. I don't really agree Baker was that old. He was 26 when he last pitched in AAA, and when you consider there was no minor league baseball in 2020 due to the pandemic that really isn't so bad.
  10. max silver
    It's hard to say for certain how much Baker's velocity would have jumped given that he pitched all of 1 inning in MLB with the Jays. He walked only 3.7 runners per 9 in Buffalo that season for a K/BB of 2.82. If that doesn't warrant a further look in MLB then what in your estimation would garner a guy a deeper look?
  11. max silver
    Kirk is far better at both blocking and framing, and by Statcast throwing runs above average is a +1 right now. Kirk's defence is the last thing that is wrong with this team right now.
  12. max silver
    He had a huge year with the Jays in Buffalo in 2021 but they essentially refused to give him a look in the pen that year despite the desperate need for effective relievers. Fast forward a year later and he was a key contributor out of a lockdown Orioles pen.
  13. max silver
    Sort of, but I have the option to watch the entire game if things go well.
  14. max silver
    My key to maintaining sanity while the Jays play like absolute dogshit is to start watching the game well after it started. I PVR the games, and the Jays fall behind early I start fast forwarding through the game. If they get some runners on base I'll watch to see if they manage to make the game closer. Otherwise I just keep fast forwarding to the end to see the final score.
  15. max silver
    If that happens it will be due to the fact that Shane McClanahan starts for the Rays tonight.
  16. max silver
    I hadn't caught wind of Clement's numbers in AAA, that's a very impressive K/BB ratio he's running. Fangraphs pegs him as a 70 runner as well so he could be another spark plug at the bottom of the lineup aka Kiermaier if the offense can translate to MLB. It looks like a very good time to call him up as he's on a real heater over the last few weeks, .457/.545/.674/1.219 good for a 216 WRC+ with sparkling peripherals at 16.1%BB/1.8%K.
  17. max silver
    It looks like this year's baseball is a lot livelier than the shot put ball from last season. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/drag-dashboard#:~:text=As%20a%20general%20rule%20of,ball%20distance%20by%205%20feet).
  18. max silver
    I think both Vlad and Chapman hit a lot of high fly balls to the deepest part of center field. This is most likely approach based, but unless you have Aaron Judge like ability to barrel up baseballs 450+ on the regular they'd likely be better off actually pulling the ball a bit more.
  19. max silver
    In Olerud363's defense only 4 of those seasons were of the awful variety as the 2017 Oriole team was more of the disappointing variety with a .463 winning percentage. You would have no way to know this was going to be the case, but the 2020 season only consisted of 60 games as well, so that would also mitigate the amount of misery that you would be subjected to as a fan.
  20. max silver
    Yeah that certainly would have been a better time for a trade rather than the desperation move they made at the trade deadline. I thought it would have been far wiser to offer Donaldson a qualifying offer and given him a chance at a bounce back season. The trade return couldn't have been much more underwhelming than what they ultimately received at the deadline in Merryweather. The front office must have really wanted to avoid having Donaldson play around the incoming younger players given how they moved him out at the last minute, despite the return being awful and Donaldson actually being injured at the time of the trade as well.
  21. max silver
    Where does this post say anything about Donaldson's walk year? It simply says in the off season.
  22. max silver
    I don't recall you ever mentioning what specific offseason that Donaldson should have been traded. Up until that point of his initial 2017 injury Donaldson had been a picture of good health, so I don't think anyone could have really known that he was going to spiral into a downward trend of bad health for several seasons after that.
  23. max silver
    It's been since reported that the Flaherty rumors were ******** and not based in reality. We'll never know what the offers were at the time but I can see how the club would have wanted to bank on a healthier Donaldson at the trade deadline vs the potentially underwhelming offers they had at the time.
  24. max silver
    It's certainly doesn't sound nearly as bad when you point out the team has made the playoffs 4 times in the last 8 seasons while narrowly missing by a single game in another.
  25. max silver
    If you had a crystal ball and knew that Donaldson was going to suffer a series of career altering injuries in the future despite pretty pristine health up to that point then sure he should have been traded sooner.
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