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This has to be a joke correct? It seems nearly impossible for a person to respond like this to an ass-whupping in a serious fashion. You repeatedly stated that Tapia is a bad baserunner, the only fabrications occurring here are you denying what you said after being proven to be completely incorrect.

Biggio and Espinal have both been placed on notice. I also expect Groshans to have a big year with the bat so the upper minors of the Jays system may start becoming pretty crowded with high end infield prospects soon.

Francona really revolutionized post season reliever use with how he utilized Miller in the post season.

A career WRC+ of 76 is a good start. The year he produced a WRC+ of 97 it looks to have been largely undeserved as he had a WOBA/xWOBA split of .338/.279. The dude can't hit for s*** so he looks to be a glove first player, yet his career DRS total is exactly 0 across the 3 outfield spots.

Looks like it was time to call it a career as he was down to an 88.3 MPH average on his heater last season. He had a really nice career though out of the pen after floundering as a starter.

As I look more into this kid I find myself a little surprised Colorado would essentially sell him for a few million bucks in savings. If he's grown a few inches or more I think he potentially has an impact center fielder toolkit. https://futurebluejays.com/2022/03/24/spilling-the-beans-on-pinto/

This might be dreaming in technicolor but I can't help but think of a potential Altuve comparision given the size, good bat and primary second base position. Their age 19 numbers are pretty similar right down to walk rates and k rates, but Altuve was in rookie ball at this point where Pinto was in the DSL.

Unless he starts swinging harder this won't be to anybody's benefit. In 2018 he hit the largest percentage of flyballs for his career at 44.4%, and subsequently produced an xWOBA of .230.

Barring Tapia injury this is like 99.99% to happen.

After seeing such a meagre savings from this trade I like it even less given the potential of Charlie playing Tapia 5+ times a week even when everyone is healthy. Just when I thought the roster was nearly Charlie proof "boom" here comes Tapia. This seems to be essentially using cash to make an extraneous player go away while buying a prospect in return. Hopefully Pinto turns out to be a nice prospect, futurebluejays has a quick writeup on him that at least provides hope for some future value out of this.

Except for the Rockies. They specifically stated that their goal was to add more power.

While it's nice to get out of the Grichuk contract I am seriously struggling to see how this makes the team better in any fashion. Grichuk could at least passably man center field and was legitimately good in right field. Tapia looks to be limited to left field and actually has a worse bat than Grichuk. Hopefully another move is incoming to bring in a better backup for center field.

Some key subtractions will really help the club out as well. Removed are the likes of professional hitter Joe Panik, Rowdy Tellez and pitching staff dumpster fires the likes of Zeuch, Hand and Roark. This group combined for -2.1 WAR. The depth will need to step up this season to avoid a repeat "performance".

I don't think sudden death would work at all since the home team could end up losing without getting their final turn at bat.

I think the extra innings rules could be better with a little tweaking. You could play something like an inning under regular rules, then an inning with a runner at first base instead of second, then finally switch to the runner on second from the 11th inning onwards. This still makes the game end in a more reasonable time frame, and possible to end under normal rules before switching to increasingly easy to score secenarios to further expedite the end of the game.

Can you point me to some polls showing that fans hate this so much? I've done a little bit of searching and came away pretty much empty handed.

I think if there's ever an offseason that it would make sense to lose a pick for a one year deal this is it. The club has several comp picks coming already so losing one wouldn't be as big of a loss. Plus the front office already showed they are willing to lose a draft pick for a one year deal as they were one of the clubs involved in the bidding for Syndergaard.

When did you become the ultimate arbiter for what is good for baseball? Marathon games aren't good for players, management or broadcasters, so what are we really losing if they cease to exist? What is so great about marathon extra innings games that they need to be preserved? Do you like watching position players pitch or something? Like it or not the game has been changing and it's becoming far more difficult for teams to cover the extra innings that these games entail. Management wouldn't like these games as it completely blows up a bullpen and it would be harder to work around due to the limit on player options. Players only end up with higher chance of injury due to fatigue and further disrupted sleep schedules. Nobody really stands to gain anything from marathon games so it makes sense to do something to attain a result in a more reasonable timeframe. I'll agree the ghost runner idea is a bit gimmicky but this is nowhere as bad as something like a shootout. The same basic rules of the game still apply, there are still the same number of fielders, the same battle between pitcher and batter occurs, there are 3 outs per side, home team bats last etc.

Get over yourself dude. The over the top dramatics are a bit much.

It seems like he has a very good chance as during fall instructionals he was sitting upper 90's with his fastball. It sounds like he still needs to work on developing a good secondary pitch.

If this guy can finally stay healthy he can be a massive difference maker at the back end of the bullpen.

Jays without a doubt. The two key players to their infield are young with many years of remaining control and still improving as major leaguers, whereas Boston's infield is at the age where it's unlikely they will improve to any degree. Each team has a good bounceback candidate with Chapman and Story. I think the biggest difference is each club's weakness, with the Jays having the potential for a nice platoon situation with Biggio and Espinal, where Boston has a giant pile of s*** for first base.

Conforto has a career WRC+ of 136 vs righties, so he would most likely receive a ton of playing time with some time at DH as well. Seeing as how the Jays currently would be receiving 5 picks within the first 3 rounds of the drafts I don't think giving up one of them would be much of a deal breaker.

Boston wasn't able to get Betts to sign an extension. I don't know whether they simply weren't able to line up on over term and dollars or whether Betts desired to move elsewhere.

Yeah that's a pretty awful ten year deal for a player that was on the type of run Chapman was experiencing at the time.