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  1. max silver
    Biggio used to barrel up baseballs with far more frequency when he first came up to MLB. This has been steadily declining since his first season in 2019, along with decreasing sweet spot and hard hit percentages. His batted ball profile has taken a real turn for the worst as his line drive and flyball percentages have both dropped significantly with a corresponding increase in ground balls. I don't know if this can necessarily be explained by a change in the baseball, or whether this is more indicative of a player with eroding batted ball skills.
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    Those rings are pretty awesome but I can only imagine how intensely uncomfortable they would be to wear for any amount of time.
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    IIRC he suffered an oblique injury in the spring.
  4. max silver
    At his age that's likely the best he can hope for anyway.
  5. max silver
    No mention of soft hands though so the Pat Tabler erection detector was only registering a 6 out of 10.
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    There's sure to be some growing pains but at least the electronic strike zone can be tweaked over time to iron out the glitches. That has to be better than what we've seen up to this point in the season where a human umpire that can reliably call balls and strikes has yet to be seen in Jays games.
  7. max silver
    The fact Carter was able to produce 100 RBI while also producing a negative WAR value just proves what a great run producer he was.
  8. max silver
    I don't know if there will ever be another sporting moment in my lifetime that can replace the pure elation I felt when Joe's homerun cleared the fence. I was literally jumping up and down with joy. What about his personality turned you off? I tuned out of baseball for quite a few years after the 94 strike so didn't follow the team much at all until the 2000's rolled around, maybe I missed some kind of drama during that time.
  9. max silver
    There should be a Joe Carter award for such an accomplishment, although the bar would need to be set higher (or lower actually?) as Carter managed a -0.6 WAR with 30 home runs once.
  10. max silver
    Another day another lousy umpiring performance. It's remarkable that people in the game day thread were blaming Vladdy for not swinging at missed call number 1, when you have a player with elite plate discipline you don't want them hacking away at obvious balls early in the game well before you've even established that the umpire is going to be causing headaches with bogus ball/strike calls.
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    That was my observation as well, it's almost like the guy is closing his eyes before releasing his pitches as he generally has no idea where his fastball is going to end up. On one pitch he'll miss several inches up and off the plate to his arm side, then on the next he'll groove one down the middle etc. Constantly falling behind makes it tough for your secondary pitches to be effective as hitters can really key into looking for pitches to drive. Kikuchi's heat maps for 2021 show far too many middle middle meatballs, he's going to need to really iron out the command if he's to have any kind of success. Could this be a result of not being able to grip the baseball? This is more of a casual observation as I don't know how to break down heat maps over time, but but after the sticky stuff crackdown his results really cratered. How much of this is due to the stark loss of spin on his pitches vs poor location is an interesting topic.
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    If a player is on the 40 man roster already this is certainly an option, but in the case of Martinez he hasn't been added to the 40 man yet so somebody else would need to be removed first. This would potentially lead to losing a player from the organization, while also starting Martinez's service clock as well.
  13. max silver
    Manoah's entire MLB career only spans 21 starts at this point, so in a certain sense 5 starts for him is a significant sample of his overall body of work. At any rate it's entirely defensible to be excited about the young man's potential given how effective he's been so far.
  14. max silver
    That looks to me like it was an illegal takeout slide as the runner didn't appear to make any effort to maintain contact with the base.
  15. max silver
    As Spanky previously mentioned Manoah is on an impressive 5 start run dating back to last season. In 5 starts he's produced a 1.38 ERA, 2.64 FIP and been worth 1.0 WAR. The one start this season looks to have picked up right where he left off but with a new weapon added to his arsenal in a nice changeup and a potential tick up in velocity as well.
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    You'll have to ask him yourself why he didn't talk about reduced velocity. A bigger red flag for me was the sizeable decrease in spin rates following the sticky stuff crackdown. Kikuchi's exit velocities and hard hit rates all skyrocketed. XWOBA values also spiked in August in September so the BABIP very well may have been earned and not an indication of bad luck. Kikuchi had a pretty nice 6 month run during the covid shortened 2020 season and the first four months of 2021, hopefully he returns closer to being that guy vs the second half pitcher who was regularly shellacked by the opposition.
  17. max silver
    The difference defensively between Bo to start last season vs Bo to start this season is like night and day different. Bo still struggles with his mechanics occasionally on routine plays but that should continue to improve over time.
  18. max silver
    Zips creator Dan Szymborski has a 2022 breakout candidate list up at Fangraphs, and Kikuchi makes his list. Kikuchi only appears to have made a few starts at Yankee stadium up to this point but each of them was very good, even one coming in August of last season when he was really struggling.
  19. max silver
    Thanks to the world class meltdown on last night's game thread I can't comment there so I'll just move it here I guess. Alec Manoah looks to be moving to another level as even when his command is off he totally shuts down the opposition. Having a 96 MPH heater to go with a newfound plus changeup adds to his already superb two seamer and slider combination. If he can iron out the command issues this guy is an ace in the making. Unsurprisingly it was yet another garbage umpiring "performance", you just gotta hope that the continuous barrage of terribly called games is just speeding up the implementation of the electronic strike zone. It has to be very frustrating for batter's not to know on a pitch to pitch basis how the strike zone is going to be applied. I am very encouraged by the defence the team showed in this game. Bo just continues to get better and better, the calls to move him off of short stop should be coming to a close soon.
  20. max silver
    LMAO that's exactly what I was thinking, just with the discussion topic being the Jays starting rotation.
  21. max silver
    I just looked up some stats and Tapia has received twice the plate appearances of Biggio at this point. Biggio is seemingly part of a strict platoon but Tapia gets starts in the outfield and plays the entire game. Just more examples of Charlie being Charlie I guess.
  22. max silver
    I'm not the one using these terms in casual conversation, you seem to be the expert here so explain away since you seem to be so knowledgeable on the subject. BTW I like Trevor Bauer just fine and think most of what he does on social media is largely to the benefit of baseball as a whole. However I also recognize that he is a highly flawed individual who is largely his own worst enemy and not somebody fit to be placed on a pedestal.
  23. max silver
    Careful man or else the BJMB anti internet bullying crusade will be up in arms. That is of course contingent on whether they can pull themselves away from their Trevor Bauer shrines long enough to read through the forums. Come to think of it chastising others for insulting dumbasses while simultaneously worshiping a dude who's at least partly famous for bullying others over the internet strikes me as being at least a little bit ironic.
  24. max silver
    I'm definitely not stating that the overall ump performance was worse on Saturday, simply remarking how the called strike accuracy managed to be worse than the paltry 81% accuracy on Sunday. With a proper umpiring performance who knows how Sunday's game ends up.
  25. max silver
    Holy s*** 81% called strike accuracy, that's absolutely brutal. But somehow Fletcher was even worse on Saturday.
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