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Yeah I noticed straight away this was for Saturday which wasn't nearly as big an issue as the s*** umpiring from yesterday.

Yay more stupid s*** from JimboFelix666. Ryu had one good season before signing? Just wondering what your criteria is for a good season as Ryu had WARS of 4.9, 4.0, 3.9, and another which would have averaged out to about 4 WAR over a full season of starts. Over his Blue Jays tenure he's obviously been trending in the wrong direction but still has decent overall numbers with a FIP of 3.77 and 4.3 WAR over 44 starts. I know this goes beyond your obviously limited level of understanding but a few bad months does not mean the entire time he's been a Jay has been bad. What makes you so sure Semien doesn't have more good years in him? He had a monster near MVP season in 2019, followed by an injury plagued 2020 and another near MVP level season in 2021. I know you're big on narrative without using logic or any kind of numbers to back up your hot takes but I still figured I would challenge you to actually discuss your opinions like somebody with an ounce of baseball acumen rather than somebody who forms your opinions based on Steve Simmons articles. I fully expect you to simply puff out your chest about how you speak the truth rather than a coherent debate though.

It's all about the potential upside here. Zimmer has tools for days, elite speed, elite defence, plus baserunning and a bat with a lot of thunder in it. The chase rate is very good as well at 75% percentile. His problem has been making contact often enough to fully leverage his 91st percentile max exit velocity and 75th percentile average exit velocity. If he can manage to improve his stikeout issues and simply put the bat on the ball more he'll benefit tremendously as he has the legs to run out a lot of infield hits. Tapia is an interesting case in that he manages to put the bat on the ball most of the time but his contact is so weak that it almost completely saps his power potential. I don't know if there enough at bats available for either of these guys to really work things out at the major league level though.

Seeing the size of the deficit I started in I'm making good progress here. I've chipped away with obscure Weird Al references, BJMB troll curb stompings and even received the rarely seen John Havoc thank you following one of my recent posts so everything is coming up Millhouse.

Awesome followup post, more than happy to pull tag team take-down on Felix Junior 6483 or whatever the hell it is he calls himself.

I agree that Ray will most likely continue be a legitimate front of the rotation starter, I just don't see how you can fake that level of improved control for almost an entire season. He should be helped out by playing a good chunk of games in the more pitcher friendly AL West Ballparks. Gausman has a little longer track record at this level of performance than Ray as he was great in 2020 as well. I don't know if either guy will prove to be a legitimate ace but in any case this Jay's offence is stacked enough that the club will win a ton of games even without one of these types of pitchers.

I have no issues with people saying Berrios is a number 2 starter or even going so far as to state that he's not an ideal number 2 starter, those are perfectly reasonable baseball opinions. This isn't remotely close to what was actually said though. I took issue with the proclamation that he has a pattern of one good game and two bad games for his career, that's just ridiculous hyperbole. A guy like that would quickly find himself out of MLB and sure as hell wouldn't be signing a 7 year $100+ million deal. This is a front office doesn't throw around money without scrutinizing it in every possible way, if they feel good about committing this kind of money then so be it. In case you missed it I tore a strip out of Felix or whatever the hell his name is because he has a history of making posts which seem directly designed to pour salt into the wounds when things go badly but has no interest in posting when times are good, who the f*** wants to have to deal with that kind of garbage? Remember last season when the Jays were running out of the season and he proclaimed the season to be over a week before the end date, or how about when he started ranting about how bad Robbie Ray was because he struggled in a handful of starts against the Yankees? If you want to go out of your way and encourage this kind of posting then have at it I guess, but I'm personally not a huge fan of people that want to try to kick you while your down to validate their own negativity. Misery doesn't love company, it's more like the miserable bastards of the world want to force you to accompany them in their wallowing and self pity.

I'm a little late to the party as I just finished the game on PVR (late starting as my kid fell in the tub tonight). I thought this whole game was amazing, including the entire pre-game show which was absolutely fire. I usually skip past the pomp and ceremony but I'm glad I watched as it was the best I've seen to date, I thought that both anthems were amazing in particular. This is going to be a very fun season as the offence shows early that they can club out the victories on nights when the pitching staff struggles to a large degree.

I'm seriously jealous dude. I've never been to a Jay game in person but this seemed like a big game atmosphere approaching playoff levels of intensity.

So far they have done a bang up job of identifying which of the prospect chips are the keepers and which ones should ultimately be cashed in for major league help.

There is the old expression that even a stopped clock is right once per day, but that is still being too generous to the likes of you. Let's check out Berrios after a sample size of more than one game and then we can reassess. Maybe he even follows your two bad start one bad start pattern one time this season, this still will do nothing to validate your faulty thought processes after such a small sample size. At some point if you continue to blather on I intend to go through his historical results and see what kind of ratio between bad starts and good starts he has actually maintained, hopefully that will shut you up for good on this topic.

I'll be happy it Charlie doesn't feel the need to bunt.

Especially given the fact that Castro is no longer a member of the organization. But jokes aside Zimmer definitely fits the organizational needs to a much larger degree than Castro would have as a depth reliever. I liked the potential that Castro displayed last season as he had a very nice slider but a legitimate backup center fielder is a perfect fit. Zimmer produced a 99 WRC+ against right handers last season so if he's mostly limited to facing righties that's a very nice piece to add to the roster when you consider the entire package.

The other glaring issue with Zimmer is the 33% career k rate. The guy has serious swing and miss issues as he actually has very good plate discipline. Zimmer's kind of like a bizarro world version of Tapia as there is a lot of juice in the bat and plus defence whereas Tapia is a no pop weak defence guy despite his own physical tools. It's too bad Zimmer doesn't have any options remaining because he would be a prime candidate to go to Buffalo and work with the swing doctors on the Bison's training staff. They've had a lot of success working with guys like Teoscar, Gurriel and Jansen in the past to iron out their deficiencies in a lower pressure environment.

I don't care about your man-crush on Trevor Bauer, feel free to fantasize about him slapping you silly and then sodomizing you all you want. You're free to defend the resident troll all you want as well if that's your cup of tea, knock yourself out.

I like to split the Jays pen into three distinct phases. In April the pen was fantastic, as it ranked 3rd in ERA, 8th in FIP, and 13th by SIERA. There were far too many innings to cover as the rotation struggled a ton to start the season, and once injuries became an issue the pen proceeded to perform very poorly for the months of May and June. ERA dropped to 20th in MLB, FIP down to 21st, SIERA to 21st. The Cimber and Richards acquisition definitely helped to solidify the pen as it gave Montoyo two more relievers that he could actually trust in a tight game. Prior to these trades it was basically just two guys that could be depended on to hold leads in Romano and Mayza. Surprisingly enough though the Jays bullpen numbers for the season as a whole are actually better than what the team produced after the trade deadline. The front office had a swing and a miss in a few of the deadline acquisitions as both Hand and Soria really struggled in Jays uniforms. Just how good or bad the Jays bullpen was after the trade deadline depends largely on which set of numbers you examine. When you look at ERA the Jays pen ranked 17th, so pretty much middle of the pack. FIP looks pretty bad as the team ranked 25th, which looks to be largely due to an excessive amount of home runs allowed, where the team ranked as 4th worst in MLB. The amount of damage the bullpen struggles could cause was largely mitigated due to the starters really rolling in the second half as the bullpen only needed to cover 255 innings, lowest in MLB. I do still like this pen's chance to be at least solid, but much of this will depend on the performance of the starters. This shouldn't be a huge issue given the expected quality of the rotation but as we saw in 2021 a solid bullpen can quickly become well below average with overuse and when the inevitable injuries start to occur.

Whoa man looks like it's time to chill out and go get laid if a post where I'm mostly refuting statements which I view to be largely false gets you so hot and bothered. There's plenty of shade thrown around on here every single day when there are disagreements on opinions, you must be completely ignorant of reality to pretend that this isn't the case. Feel free to spend a second refuting anything that you are responding to, I just see a bunch of hot air with zero substance coming from you here. And if we are going to talk about weird/creepy vibes lets start talking about your Trevor Bauer hero worship. It's time to look in the mirror if you want to start throwing out accusations of weird/creepy behavior. It's easy to come to the conclusion that you fantasize over the man with the way that you defend his every action at every single opportunity which arises.

Thanks for the lecture grandma, but you can take the white knight fluffery elsewhere where it's wanted. The poster in question has a history of troll level nonsense and I've yet to see a single post that adds anything of value to any discussion. This site has no tolerance for dumbass opinions so I'm not sure why you are so quick to jump to the defence of this particular poster unless you've also been a regular receiver of ass whippings because of your own poorly thought out opinions. Berrios is a good number 2 starter and one of baseball's most consistent starters year in and year out. This poor opinion is so off base that it almost immediately labels anything else that is said as not worth even responding to. The guy potentially has another level of performance he can reach but even if he doesn't he's still a very valuable member of the rotation. Blaming Ryu for individually causing the team to miss the playoffs is equally as asinine. The last I checked baseball was a team sport, and one individual's performance doesn't make or break a season. Despite Ryu's second half struggles he still provided 2.5 WAR for the season, and in 2020 on a per inning basis he was nearly as valuable for the Jays as he was for the Dodgers in his walk year. I can go ahead and blame Joe Panik or TJ Zeuch for the team missing the playoffs since each guy was a sub replacement "contributor", but that's not exactly a reasonable take is it? Ryu and Kikuchi certainly each struggled in the second half, but given how short 2020 was and the sudden crack down on any sort of grip enhancing substances I think guys can receive a bit of a pass. it's likely that a combination of fatigue and lack of ability to grip the baseball to the degree to which they were previously used to each became issues. Kikuchi had a very nice 5 month run in 2020 and the first half of 2021 where he performed like a number 3 starter, and if he can put everything together he has potential for that type of performance again given how good his stuff is. If he flounders a little and is a bit inconsistent (like basically every other fifth starter out there) he's only being paid 5th starter money, so this isn't a super risky deal that should immediately be panned as a bad signing before he's even taken the mound for the Jays in a regular season game.

It's not a "realistic assessment", you simply don't know what the f*** you are talking about. Berrios pitches one good game then two bad games? Since he became a regular starter in 2017 he's been the 14th most valuable starter in all of baseball. And you are complaining about guys like Gausman and Kikuchi before they've made a single regular season start in a Jays uniform. If you want to be taken seriously and not viewed as an annoying assclown with garbage opinions you need to smarten up and stop spouting nonsense in every goddamn post you make.

It's interesting that Katoh put up the same AAA WRC+ that Bird did last season and was within 8 points of OPS for the spring as well. Hopefully this success translates at least a little bit to MLB. I haven't seen the guy play much so have no idea what his range is like but his 2021 minor league defensive stats show he's at least sure handed as he committed only a single error across the various positions he manned.

Certainly an exaggeration but he was on track for something like 11 WAR over the course of a full season. Numbers like that don't come around very often. Going back the last three decades the only starters to have single season output in this range are Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens.

Yeah I'm totally missing the point here. It is impossible to overrstate how important an addition like Price was to the roster. Missed in all of this is that it was David Price pitching instead of a depth level starter whoever that would have been at the time. Instead we would have been seeing starters the likes of Drew Hutchison, Matthew Boyd and Daniel Norris. It's pretty hard to see the team only losing a few more games with these types of starters throwing every fifth game instead of an ace like Price. Price provided with a massive amount of innings as well which greatly reduced the overall load on the bullpen. Think if these inferior pitchers were getting their teeth knocked in, there would have been far more innings thrown by the middle relief and long relief options.

I can't believe that you are arguing against the merits of acquiring an ace starter for a team expected to go on a deep playoff run. Sure Price struggled a bit in the playoffs but it was still easily worth what was paid to bring him aboard. It's not like a top prospect such as Noah Syndergaard was moved out, it was more guys that had ceilings of mid rotation arms if everything panned out for them. This is the type of trade a true contending ballclub should make in their sleep.

Price was by far the most productive starter on the roster that season in a grand total of 11 starts or 74 innings he was worth a tidy 2.6 WAR. The next best full sesaon WAR on the roster was Buehrle with 2.0 WAR. Price gave them an undisputable ace in the rotation. Stroman coming back late and Price entering the rotation both game the club a massive boost that turned them from a middling team into a true powerhouse.