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Chapman is a great fit on this team, but the team actually received stellar play at third base by Espinal last season, especially defensively. It's great that the front office was able to revamp the infield defence and the club may have improved defensively overall, despite losing a gold glover in Semien from second base.

I recall Vlad received the same treatment from umpires as a rookie, mind you that is still happening on a regular basis.

The organization has a long standing history of intentional obfuscation when it comes to hiding player injuries so it's only natural that we become concerned when injuries magically find themselves moving from one area of a players body to another. I can't help but think back to the immortal words of J.P. Ricciardi when he stated how "it's not a lie if we know the truth" when BJ Ryan's back injury mysteriously morphed into an arm injury.

Not overly surprising given how he can barely stay on his feet after whiffing at the plate. It looks like something in his lower half is bothering him, whether it's his quad or knee either way it's not overly encouraging.

This is a very aggressive assignment for a player with only 138 minor league games under his belt. He's had a bit of an adjustment period at each new step along the way, I agree with the previous sentiment that he will be fine once he hits his stride.

This will obviously be be beyond your limited understanding of baseball but you need to look beyond the results only when it comes to evaluating hitter performance. Collins actually had a good game with the bat, he just wasn't rewarded with the expected results. He hit two liners with exit velocities of 102.6 MPH and 100.4 MPH with respective expected batting averages of .790 and .430. With a little better luck he'd be looking at a 1 for 4 or even 2 for 4 evening.

I recall Horowitz featuring regularly on Maple Leaf Wrestling on Saturday afternoons back in the 80's. That show was terrible as it was wall to wall jobber vs star squash matches. At the time Stampede Wrestling was the bomb as it regularly had quality matches with the likes of Bret and Owen Hart, Dynamite Kid, Davey Boy Smith etc.

Intellectually challenged with delusions of grandeur.

I'm not convinced this is a troll.

I should edit my own post to say plays more like he did in Boston vs the rest of his career.

If he plays more like he did in the Boston series vs the rest of the year he can certainly continue with the swag.

The bolded quote sums up the entirety of why you are so reviled around here. You have a history of poorly thought out hot takes, and when this is pointed out to you instead of reflecting on why you keep on receiving negative responses and trying to make better posts, you instead get your back up and just carry on. You've basically turned into the BJMB version of the 1980's WWF jobber in that you are constantly being pinned for easy 1 2 3 victories. Just like Barry Horowitz you pat yourself on the back and carry on with the constant stream of unnecessary negativity. Newcomers are generally pretty well treated around here until they show that it's undeserved. Respect on this forum is earned, and until you stop acting like a teenage emo girl you aren't going to receive any. Charlie isn't very popular on here but when ranting and raving about how awful he is it might be best to choose decisions which actually warrant it. Collins sitting last night is very easy to defend as he was catching today's game following last nights game. This is a typical managerial decision to give the starting catcher of a day game the previous night's game off as catcher is the most physically demanding position on the diamond. Collins wasn't on track to become the next Barry Bonds, acting like a single game decision is going to make or break his career is just more needless hyperbole.

It's obvious that having Collins sit yesterday has effectively ruined his career. The irrefutable evidence provided of the Gary Sanchez decline after sitting for a game is the smoking gun that proves JennyFritters123 or whatever this idiot calls himself.

I'd disagree as it hurts my brain to read the continuous stream of drivel that flies out of the dudes keyboard.

A more intelligent troll would wait for the save to be blown first and then could revel in getting his shots in. A stupid troll would still open his mouth despite his team largely resembling a minor league outfit in the field and just end up looking pathetic. It's obvious which end of the spectrum this particular poster fits into.

Why are you even here? Your team just lost 2 of 3 and looked like a clown show on defence. Your lineup scored all of 5 runs in a 3 game series, and were effectively shut down by the Jays 5th starter. There is really no reason to be gloating.

The one angle looks like it's out to me. Holy hell Chapman has a cannon.

Yeah absolutely filthy up to this point. His slider looks pretty effective to me so far and the split finger is completely unfair.

I recall the league was contemplating pre-tacked baseballs. There were tons of reports of AAA experimenting with these balls in the last week or two of the season in 2021 but I haven't been able to find any results for how the experiment turned out.

Ryu really didn't show a significant change in his spin rates after the sticky stuff crackdown. I have suspicions he was more of a sunscreen+rosin user instead of something like spider tack.

At a glance it looks like Grichuk is off to a decent start with the Rockies as he's presently rocking a .369 WOBA. This looks to be largely undeserved as his xWOBA is only .308. Upon further inspection though it appears as though the Rockies have basically turned him into a right handed version of Raimel Tapia. Each of Grichuk and Tapia have ground ball percentages of over 70% so far with negative launch angles. Grichuk has managed to lower his strikeout rate early on to an impressive 12%, but he's seen a corresponding decrease in his exit velocity and hard hit rates as each are by far the worst of his career.

You're too late as he only has eyes for Trevor Bauer.

I think putting Bengay on your balls would be a better suggestion.

I don't really buy the deadened ball theory as an explanation for his shrinking offensive output. Cavan needs to start squaring up baseballs at a greater rate if he's to return to his previous power output. In 2021 he largely went away from his strengths, namely his elite plate discipline, and started swinging at more pitches off of the plate. This resulted in an increased k rate and decreased walk rate. When you look at his batted ball numbers his best output by far was in his 2019 debut season, his hard hit rate was easily the best of his career. Since then he has stopped squaring up baseballs with as much regularity, as is evidenced by shrinking hard hit rates and barrel rates from 2019 onwards. I think this year is his make or break year to remain with the Blue Jays given the large amount of good infield prospects in the upper levels of the minors. His injury plagued 2021 season can largely be ignored, I don't see how you can reasonably expect any player to play up to their capabilities when dealing with injuries to both hands, the neck and back as well as an elbow injury issue. It's far too early to make any conclusions in 2022 as he has all of 6 batted ball events at this point. It might be time to pump the brakes a little on definitively concluding that the guy is washed up.

I don't think that applies to the electronic strike zone, as far as I can tell the 45 day notice for rule changes applies to bigger bases, pitch clocks and a ban against the shift.