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  1. max silver
    People seem to be very quick to forget that Gurriel is one of MLB's streakiest hitters. He's capable of looking like of the best hitters on the planet for months at a time but then also completely capable of having his bat completely disappear for months at a time as well. He's defensively challenged and not much of a baserunner either, so when the bat goes cold like it's prone to doing for long stretches he isn't able to really help his team win games by doing other small things on the field.
  2. max silver
    When you are picking top 3 it would be pretty damn hard to not end up with a very good player most years.
  3. max silver
    I recall Gurriel had off season wrist surgery. It seems very likely that was directly behind the power slump last season. His batted ball metrics were all surprisingly close to his career norms but his barrel rate in particular cratered, and his HR/FB% did the same. He's not hitting the ball much harder on average this season, and he's not hitting more flyballs either, however he is pulling the ball a bit more so perhaps that's helped more balls leave the park.
  4. max silver
    Baltimore was also fortunate that tanking was still a viable strategy due to the lack of an MLB draft lottery. MLB should have done something to address the plague of tanking occurring across the league where it seemed like a very large portion of clubs were making literally no attempt to actually win any games (some teams like the Rockies were simply completely incompetent). If anything the draft lottery doesn't go far enough.
  5. max silver
    Orelvis has had interesting results at the plate over the last few weeks. His power has re-emerged but his offensive results are nearly entirely driven by the home run ball. Over his last 17 games results are as follows: .220/.303/.729 1.032 OPS/159 WRC+ 9.9% BB 24.0 K% .118 BABIP (actually an improvement on his season's rate) 2 1B 1 2B 1 3B 9 HR
  6. max silver
    If there's any silver lining in all of this it's that the team was positioned to win a large chunk of these games if they simply managed to hit better with runners in scoring position. There were a lot of good starts from the rotation which gave the team a shot to win most of the time.
  7. max silver
    In Garcia's defense he had to have been running on fumes yesterday. That was his 4th appearance in 5 days, and 5th appearance in a week's time. Leading into yesterday's game he had actually been pitching pretty well over nearly the last month.
  8. max silver
    The current stats don't really back this up you know. Right now the Jays bullpen ranks 2nd in all of MLB with a 14% swinging strike rate. For combined swinging/called strike rate they are first in MLB. I don't think a lack of swing and miss is the issue here, I think a team wide lack of command among the relief core is more to blame for the issues the pen runs into. The team doesn't rank very well in walk rate, and poor command has led to the propensity to serve up plates of spicy meatballs. The club is accordingly near the bottom in home run rate as well. That's led to middle of the pack team wide bullpen ERA and bottom third FIP ranking.
  9. max silver
    Swanson has been coughing up his own share of homers lately so I can understand the reasoning behind it.
  10. max silver
    When it rains it pours. Manoah finally provided a decent start and the team scored some runs. Then Romano coughs up a 3 run home run to f*** it all up.
  11. max silver
    f***ing umpire with the gift strike one call.
  12. max silver
    Good job by Jimmy with a Y to shut down the threat.
  13. max silver
    He's been pitching pretty well recently. Only something like 2 ER in his last 10 innings or so.
  14. max silver
    This umpire can f*** right off.
  15. max silver
    It sure feels that way lately.
  16. max silver
    Well f*** my life.
  17. max silver
    Guys like that are super annoying.
  18. max silver
    He definitely had an early assist from the home plate umpire though. Early on his command was pretty scattershot and he was gifted a bunch of undeserved strike calls.
  19. max silver
    I thought his pitches legitimately looked better. There were far fewer non competitive pitches and he dotted a lot of two seamers and four seamers effectively.
  20. max silver
    I'd take the neck/shoulder for sure given how many sporting careers we've seen ruined by concussions. They tend to become more severe with related occurrences.
  21. max silver
    I was worried about a potential concussion given how much easier it is to get a second concussion after the initial one.
  22. max silver
    That was scary off of the bat.
  23. max silver
    Not sure why they decided to burn Mayza so quickly. He's been a lot more effective so far against right handed hitters this season so it's not a death sentence if he has to face a few of them.
  24. max silver
    Two Jays home runs in 1 game? Am I dreaming?
  25. max silver
    It seemed like he became less of a factor as the game went on as Manoah started commanding better.
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