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  1. max silver
    If second half of 2020 Panik is the guy that shows up this year he makes a pretty decent infield utility option as well, we just have to hope Charlie doesn't play him nearly everyday again despite having multiple better options available this season. In his last 24 games Panik put up a reasonable 114 WRC+ and 0.5 FWAR. Of course there's every chance this might be the results he obtains during an unsustainable hot streak though and most of the time he's the same replacement level player seen in 2018/2019.
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    I'd venture that Warmoth needs to first prove that he can put up results in games that actually count for something before we anoint him as the major league utility man. It's nice to see that he might be resurrecting a career that looked to be quickly swirling down the toilet. I'd also like to see if Kevin Smith can start to tame down his strikeout issues a bit, I think there's enough tools otherwise (good raw power, good arm and glove, decent speed) that he too could turn himself into a good utility man.
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    Hooray bad AL East injury news that finally isn't a Jays player. Although it's been a bit of a tough year for AL East contenders with season long bullpen losses. Yankees lost Britton, Jays lost Yates and now Anderson for the Rays. All three teams still have pretty stout looking pens even without these guys though.
  4. max silver
    I lol'd at pitchers having randomly having their balls tested.
  5. max silver
    If you're doctoring the ball with foreign substances I'm not really sure how you can go about removing the evidence afterwards though. Especially given how many balls are utilized in a typical MLB game.
  6. max silver
    They should definitely take their time on this one. I've had oblique issues in the past, and it's super easy to aggravate the area doing menial easy tasks and be right back at square one. Besides, they have 3 starting quality MLB outfielders available until Springer is healed up, and Jonathan Davis has a nice 4th outfielder toolset.
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    Were you actually paying attention to what was said about Vladdy Jr. by management when he was held back? He was said to need to work on baserunning, defense and conditioning. All three were obvious issues when he made his debut, which completely validated what Atkins stated he needed to work on. Even the touted MLB ready bat still led to a player who went through prolonged struggles at times. This wasn't a player who was fully formed and ready for prime time such as Kris Bryant, this was a young immature kid with precocious talent but poor routines that needed further refinement in every aspect of his game.
  8. max silver
    Hopefully Jake Odorizzi signing incoming...
  9. max silver
    I often find myself wondering if Spanky is a Russian bot that runs most of it's posts through an online language translator before posting the subsequent results on here.
  10. max silver
    They'll be able to field half a lineup full of mediocre former Blue Jays players.
  11. max silver
    That's making the grand assumption that Shoemaker would actually be healthy heading into the playoffs.
  12. max silver
    It's a really small sample size as a reliever though and was exclusively back before the blister and shoulder issues hit. It's entirely possible that Sanchez sucks both as a starter and a reliever.
  13. max silver
    I believe he's on record as wanting to sign as a starter. If the guy can figure out the blister issues maybe he can resurrect his career, but I wouldn't take that bet.
  14. max silver
    He has shown flashes of potential with the bat. But if he doesn't get past his fielding issues he's limited to a DH only profile, and his bat up to this point isn't nearly good enough for him to provide any value in that capacity.
  15. max silver
    Derek Fisher absolutely deserves a chance to sort out his fielding issues somewhere, I just don't see a fit for a severely limited player like this on a team that has designs of contending.
  16. max silver
    I was sort of hoping the Jays would be the team that signed him to a two year deal while he rehabbed. Latest I heard about Giles before this signing is that he was going to wait until he was healthy before signing a deal. I guess the Mariners must have made a nice offer that changed his mind.
  17. max silver
    I'm looking forward to seeing how Pardinho bounces back. If his stuff returns to pre injury levels he could see his prospect status return very nicely.
  18. max silver
    If MLB deadens the ball sufficiently Roark has a chance to be a useful rotation piece again.
  19. max silver
    Early Bauer may be a good comparison as a guy who didn't get along with his first organization and was labelled a troublemaker. Since then I don't really recall any clubhouse or team chemistry issues with Bauer though. An interesting side point to the Jays "vetrin presents" phase is how Omar Vizquel was likely brought to the Blue Jays to babysit Yunel Escobar. But later on it was revealed that he has a very dark side himself. It goes to show how little we really know about most of these guys lives behind the scenes. Jose Reyes looked to be the friendliest happy go lucky guy in existence on a baseball field but he too turned out to be a total piece of s*** off of the field. At least with Trevor Bauer he places a bunch of his more undesirable character flaws right out in the open.
  20. max silver
    During the early years with Anthopulous at the helm the Jays were this organization. They brought aboard Rasmus, Lawrie and Yunel Escobar all aboard despite the bad reputations each guy held. Clubhouse chemistry wasn't really worried about at the time, but later on mediocre veterans were brought in a feeble attempt to smooth over the potential clubhouse headaches. I can't say I miss the days of deadweights like Kevin Millar, Mark DeRosa and Omar Vizquel in the slightest. That front office had no qualms about completely wasting roster spots. At least when they acquired Munenori Kawasaki he ended up being worth a few laughs here and there.
  21. max silver
    There's no denying the slump happened, but he also had a slump in 2019 as well which he eventually worked his way through on the way to an elite season. https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/exploring-blue-jays-semien-can-rediscover-elite-offensive-form/
  22. max silver
    To me it looks like Ozuna unlocked beast mode in 2020. I really like the Brave's offseason moves, they've flown a bit under the radar. Morton's stuff looked to be rebounding nicely after his velocity was down quite a bit early on, and Smyly added several ticks to his average velocity compared to his previous best year overall.
  23. max silver
    Projection systems don't seem to be a great indicator for the future success of Teoscar Hernandez, as his run of success has been predicated on squaring up baseballs at a very high level. His success has come regardless of high strikeout rates or low walk rates. Teoscar's outbreak goes further back than a 50 game sample from 2020. He originally broke out in July of 2019. Since then he's produced a WRC+ of 140 with an exit velocity of 93.6 MPH. This has continued over a 5 month period which spans over two separate seasons and 117 games. The high BABIP is no fluke, he's been squaring up the ball with astonishing regularity over this entire timeframe. When a player hits the ball hard half of the time the expected results are going to follow. In 2020 Teoscar's xWOBA of .381 would seem to indicate that the WOBA of .378 is no fluke. Obviously if he stops squaring up baseballs the results are going to drop precipitously, hopefully he can clean up the plate discipline numbers a bit to help with obtaining future success.
  24. max silver
    Marquez is pretty cheap in comparison, I don't think the Rockies would be desperate to move him out like they were with Arenado.
  25. max silver
    I keep forgetting about Stripling for some reason when discussing the Jays rotation. Part of the reason why could be how utterly forgettable his appearances in a Jays uniform were. Will he even be utilized as a full time starter? It looks like he's never pitched much more than 120 innings in a single season in his entire career. The most starts he's made in a single season is only 22 as well.
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