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  1. max silver
    Wtf, that's a crazy thing to get caught for on the eve of spring training. This certainly doesn't bode well for the Jays big league catching situation to say the least. I wonder how the club ends up dealing with this? Creepy deviant/pervert type isn't exactly who you want to be employing on a team owned by a major media company.
  2. max silver
    If reports about Merryweather's stuff are to believed, then I think his ceiling is likely a multi-inning fireman type out of the bullpen. Like a Chad Green type perhaps, you can bring him in anytime in the game to shut down an oppositions rally.
  3. max silver
    This doesn't feel nearly as crushing as it would have a few years ago due to the depth of intriguing young starters the Jays have amassed in that time span.
  4. max silver
    I have no problem with a few more teams in each league making the playoffs. If this helps to alleviate a bit of the tanking that's plaguing baseball right now then I'm all for it. It's not like Oriole/Tiger level teams are going to get in, and chances are better than not that the lower end playoff teams are going to be removed sooner or later. The part I don't care is the whole gimmick of picking your opponent. That feels like a WWE style gimmick, who is this part supposed to really appeal to?
  5. max silver
    This is nowhere close to as bad as having an individual skills content to decide a winner. Baseball version of this would be more like having a home run derby after 9 innings to decide the winner in a tie game.
  6. max silver
    Good call, Vancouver team-mate Alek Manoah is another guy primed for a huge season as well. It's crazy how many really high ceiling talents there are in the system right now, even despite the recent graduations to the major league squad.
  7. max silver
    He's going to have some serious competition from guys like Groshans, Woods Richardson, and possibly Moreno and Alejandro if they continue their 2019 levels of success.
  8. max silver
    Tank isn't the first word that comes to mind for me when watching a video of someone whose body jiggles so much
  9. max silver
    If feels more like to me that the Twins and Angels potentially would be the big losers in this if the whole trade falls apart.
  10. max silver
    If Boston balked at Graterol's medicals then I can't see them being over enthused about Murphy's then, dude probably looks like a jigsaw puzzle on an mri with his injury history.
  11. max silver
    Biggest difference I see in the projections is that Biggio is projected to lose most of his value on the bases. Sure he won't necessarily be a perfect 14/14 stealing bases again, but the guy is a phenomenally intelligent base runner.
  12. max silver
    Wow Luhnow actually thought TLDR would be useful as a defense, totally brilliant strategy.
  13. max silver
    Any chance you can post it here? The article is locked behind a paywall for me.
  14. max silver
    I find it puzzling that people are so quick to give credit to some deity when physical conditions improve, but then not assign any blame to this same deity for causing the causing/allowing this physical condition to exist in the first place.
  15. max silver
    I always thought this plan was extremely stupid. Expecting two separate cities to both cough up the necessary cash to build stadiums for only half of a season of Major League Baseball doesn't seem likely.
  16. max silver
    I tend to think he'll be just fine if the surgery is successful and his medicals look good. Josh Donaldson is a perfect recent example of a guy who took a one year pillow deal to rebuild his value, he still ended up with a nice deal well into his 30's despite a rather extensive recent injury history. Sure Paxton might not be looking at a Stephen Strasburg type contract, but he wasn't necessarily in that upper tier of starters to begin with.
  17. max silver
    I would tend to think the main factor that will determine Paxton's financial future is the success or lack thereof of the surgical procedure. If he doesn't successfully bounce back from it the decision to wait a few months before going under the knife won't ultimately matter. I used to think that Paxton would be a great target for the Jays next off-season, now with the back issues I'm not so sure.
  18. max silver
    Why is your supply running low?
  19. max silver
    Without knowing specifics about Marco's injury it seems possible there wasn't really a surgical intervention available for his particular issue, perhaps it was more degenerative in nature. I'm not sure why you are so gung-ho here that Paxton should have just went under the knife immediately. In my limited interaction with surgeons they have always recommended surgery as a final option, not the first. Surgery always carries risks of complications, things like infections and ultimately death are possible. Opting for more conservative and hence lower risk treatment is recommended first is at all possible.
  20. max silver
    I'm not so sure I'd agree with you here. Estrada was able to pitch for several years with recurring back injuries. It's entirely possible the conservative treatments are what enabled him to pitch as long as he did, without them he very well may have been finished years ago. A quick glance at google shows that Estrada was dealing with back problems all the way back to at least spring training in 2016, he didn't end up retiring until many years later.
  21. max silver
    Seems pretty crazy for the Red Sox to cry about this now. The Twins were on record that they planned to use Graterol as a reliever going forward before this trade went down. The guy had shoulder impingement issues and a Tommy John surgery on his record, it's obvious his medicals weren't going to be flawless.
  22. max silver
    If it were me I'd always opt for conservative treatment before going under the knife for a back injury. What if he falls into the 4% that doesn't make it back to competitive play? Then his career is finished, and he likely has a long term back issue to deal with during retirement. Might as well see if more conservative measures do the trick first, who gives a f*** if you miss a few months of play?
  23. max silver
    The Yankees opted for more conservative treatment before putting Paxton under the knife. Back surgery of this sort apparently doesn't have a 100% success rate, so conservative treatment is recommended first. After a flare-up of symptoms that couldn't be remedied with conservative means popped up then it was determined that surgery was the best course. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lucasseehafer/2020/02/05/understanding-new-york-yankees-pitcher-james-paxtons-back-surgery-and-return-to-play/#7ddea6e74166
  24. max silver
    The Red Sox didn't exactly look like a championship caliber team with Betts and Price for 2020, so it ultimately made sense to get better future assets back now than to keep Betts and only get back a compensation pick after the season. It would still have to be infuriating for Boston fans though, which totally brings a smile to my face.
  25. max silver
    This was a decent fall-back option for the Twins to add a starter after striking out in free agency for the bigger fish they were supposedly after. Redsox should be quite a bit worse off in the short term, but it's not hard to see them loading up again next off-season in free agency.
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