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  1. max silver
    Wait I could swear I remember you saying that Pop was 100% useless something like a week ago. Now he's arguably the team's best relieve a week later. Holy s*** you certainly change your tune in a hurry.
  2. max silver
    He definitely deserves to be up on the big league squad sooner. rather than later. Unfortunately it's likely going to take an injury to one of the relievers due to the lack of remaining options for most of the relief core.
  3. max silver
    Ah so you want the team to jettison Bass from the roster because of his facial expression and because he said something on Twitter you didn't like. That completely checks out based on past posts.
  4. max silver
    Exactly as I just stated. If the club is going to continue to roster all three of Espinal, Merrifield and Biggio they may as well keep cycling each of them through the lineup until one of them gets hot and earns the position. Last season Espinal was key contributor early on and subsequently received the most playing time at second base. After he started to struggle later in the season his playing time was cut accordingly. Hopefully one of the three eventually starts contributing more with the bat and makes the primary starter an easy decision. Further to that Javier's splits are far worse vs lefties compared to righties for his career so opting to play the left handed bat isn't a terrible decision by any means. And it's not like Merrifield is the type of hitter at this stage of his career as he was earlier on so treating him as the part time player he performs like is not some sort of great offence.
  5. max silver
    None of the Jays second basemen have done much of anything with the bat yet so it's perfectly defensible to rotate them through the lineup until one of them seizes the job.
  6. max silver
    Holy overreaction man. Bass has struggled to start the season but this looks to largely be the result of poor fastball location. If he irons out his command he should return to being an effective reliever.
  7. max silver
    When I read comments about a player's eating habits, comparing him to late stage CC Sabathia, stating that he needs an IL trip to diet and do cardio I can't help but think they are saying that this player is too fat to pitch effectively. I honestly don't know how you could think anything else. Correlation doesn't equal causation.
  8. max silver
    Those are perfectly fair points, but I don't buy that this is the primary reason his stuff and command are both faltering this season. In the games where his velocity and stuff are down it's apparent right from the first pitch before a lack of conditioning/pitch clock would start to factor in. It would be an interesting exercise to go back and watch video of him between pitches last season to see if he was also out of breath a good chunk of the time there as well.
  9. max silver
    Did you even read any of the preceding comments?
  10. max silver
    If you go back and check out photos of Manoah from his draft year you can tell he's in far better condition than he used to be.
  11. max silver
    I'd like for you to point out where I said Manoah doesn't have room to potentially improve his physical conditioning. I'm just not the type to immediately start fat shaming a professional athlete as soon as he starts to struggle a little bit. Manoah really doesn't look all that different to me compared to last season, and he garnered serious Cy Young consideration last season with a very similar frame to the one he's featuring at the moment. If you want to think that his physique is the primary reason why he suddenly can't locate his pitches and his stuff has dropped across the board then you can go ahead and do so.
  12. max silver
    Ah I hadn't read the article in question. After reading it I'm not sure what to think, I honestly have no idea who is ultimately responsible for cleaning up messes on an airplane when a kid spills some food on the floor. It seems a little odd to me to expect a paying customer to clean their own mess up but I'm really not up to speed on how airlines typically handle this.
  13. max silver
    I would guess he wasn't on the flight in question.
  14. max silver
    Everything I've seen of Manoah suggests he's a great teammate. He has his teammates backs on social media, is always one of the first guys to congratulate his teammates on a good play on the field, he is always available to cheer on his teammates during the game even when he's starting that day etc. etc. etc.
  15. max silver
    Wow it certainly didn't take long for the knives to come out for Manoah. Dude explodes onto the scene and posts some of the all time best early career numbers as a Jay for 50+ starts, and as soon as he struggles for a handful of starts he's public enemy number 1. Too fat to pitch, too busy stuffing his face to train, fake tough guy who should just shut the f*** up, acts like a clown etc. I could see this level of derision if he pitched for the Red Sox or Yankees but it's a little surprising to see this level of hate for a guy who pitches for the Jays, appears to be a model teammate etc.
  16. max silver
    I don't think changing his catcher is going to have much of an effect. Manoah looks a lot like last year's version of Kikuchi where he had a really hard time commanding his pitches. He would badly miss the strike zone constantly falling behind in the count and piling up the walks, and then when he managed to find the strike zone he would groove his pitches right down the middle of the plate.
  17. max silver
    Manoah also needs to start airing out his pitches more early on. He simply doesn't have the kind of stuff to do the Verlander routine where he builds up his velocity as the game goes on. 91 MPH heaters in the heart of the zone are pretty easy for the opposition to square up, but when he's sitting at 94 MPH he seems to be able to get away with more mistake pitches.
  18. max silver
    I can't wait for Barriera getting into minor league games so we can see how he's been progressing. He already possessed a very nice set of tools pre-draft so even if he doesn't explode onto the scene ala Tiedemann he should be a very fun prospect to follow.
  19. max silver
    I can't help but feel Kikuchi's spring training/early season start has serious shades of Robbie Ray's monster 2021 season. Ray turned his career around that offseason with twice a day workouts and showed up in spring training a new and improved version of himself with far better command. Kikuchi worked in Driveline in the offseason and also showed up in spring training with far better command. I'm not predicting Kikuchi is going to win a Cy Young award any time soon but he's turned himself into a guy who looks like far more than a 5th starter up to this point.
  20. max silver
    I hear ya, at this point it's pretty apparent that injury issues are likely the only thing that will be able to hold Tiedemann back.
  21. max silver
    This looks like the same guy from 2021 after the trade.
  22. max silver
    Great start!
  23. max silver
    Slurve is really darting tonight.
  24. max silver
    Barger hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire at AAA up to this point either (79 WRC+, 32.6% k rate) so until he finds his stroke he's not an option either.
  25. max silver
    I suspect he's the most likely candidate to take over 3rd base once Chapman inevitably leaves in free agency.
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