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  1. 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?
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    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.
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    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.
  4. max silver
    Sort of, but I have the option to watch the entire game if things go well.
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    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.
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    If that happens it will be due to the fact that Shane McClanahan starts for the Rays tonight.
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    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.
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    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).
  9. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  12. max silver
    Where does this post say anything about Donaldson's walk year? It simply says in the off season.
  13. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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    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.
  25. max silver
    Swanson has been coughing up his own share of homers lately so I can understand the reasoning behind it.
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