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  1. max silver
    Very cool that technology like this is available. Hopefully Vladdy Jr. is working with one of these as well, clean up the ground ball heavy batting profile and you will very quickly create a monster with the bat.
  2. max silver
    That's a great point, supposedly the average NFL game has only 11 minutes of actual action in it. A quick look on google says an MLB game has about 18 minutes of action. Why MLB gets so much grief for slow pace of play buy NFL gets none of this grief just doesn't make sense.
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    I think this was a good example of how publicly available scouting reports sometimes contain faulty grades. I recall Biggio was graded as like a 45 grade runner which you realize is obviously incorrect the first time you see him play. The guy has above average speed and top notch instincts on the bases. I think he might have a chance to be like a peak Kevin Pillar grade runner, who gets the most out of his physical tools because of those top not instincts. Whether he can play center field is a totally different story though. Sure you can likely stash him in a corner from time to time and he won't hurt you too badly defensively, but that's a far cry from expecting him to be the pillar of your outfield when he has mostly played second base as a professional.
  4. max silver
    I found that to be a little bit surprising honestly. If bringing in Gregorious meant moving Bichette for a few years to greatly improve the team, then why not do it? Bo has shown the requisite tools to play an average MLB short stop, but at this point it's less than certain that he will be able to be better than average. Bichette is on record that he is absolutely prepared to play anywhere on the diamond if it improves the team, and so is Biggio as well.
  5. max silver
    I would argue rather fiercely that women's curling is even worse.
  6. max silver
    This could certainly turn out to be a nice under the radar type pickup like Eric Sogard. I sort of struggle to see how Panik would see much playing time though, unless the Jays decided to move Cavan Biggio around the diamond.
  7. max silver
    Who gives a f***? Why is this even relevant? If a billion dollar organization decided that she is the best candidate to head up their high performance department, what do you have to gain by surmising that the only reason she was given the job is because she is female?
  8. max silver
    Tsn.ca has their top 50 prospects list up. No scouting grades included, but each prospect has a nice write-up regardless. https://www.tsn.ca/scott-mitchell-nate-pearson-tops-toronto-blue-jays-top-50-prospects-list-1.1428288
  9. max silver
    Check out the advanced fielding section in Fangraphs, you can find defensive runs saved (DRS) and ultimate zone rating (UZR) in there, broken down by position and year. The sample sizes are awfully small for Holt at short stop, so who knows based on the metrics. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/brock-holt/9345/stats?position=2B/OF#fielding
  10. max silver
    This is far more than just cynicism on your part. If this were a male hire announcement would you be going out of your way to denigrate the announcement because the man played softball instead of baseball? The inherent misogyny of your criticism is so obvious that it's painful.
  11. max silver
    In this video it actually appears as though there is something moving around under the patch on his left shoulder...
  12. max silver
    I'm secretly wishing that Springer would be a prime Jays target next off-season, so I'll just go ahead and hope that it's just Altuve and Bregman that are benefiting most from the cheating.
  13. max silver
    Sooner or later you would think you need to start punishing the people who were directly benefiting from the cheating scandal. Sure the general manager and the field manager are the bosses, but for the players to get off completely without any repercussions is ludicrous. Especially if evidence like this becomes apparent.
  14. max silver
    It seems both his stuff and his command have taken steps backward, you would have to think his time as a starter is running out. The upper minors are going to be full of starters that will likely deserve innings from the starting rotation more than SRF very soon, his time to make a good impression is very close to up.
  15. max silver
    I am intrigued to see how Yamaguchi's stuff translates to MLB. I wonder what his trajectory will be? Will he start in the bullpen like Marco Estrada and become a key linchpin in the rotation? Will he resemble Koji Uehara and become a top-notch reliever? Or does he get hammered and end up getting released, only to return to Japan?
  16. max silver
    Welcome aboard, in the future please do our eyes a favor and at the very least split walls of text like this into paragraphs.
  17. max silver
    I've come to the realization that the best move with respect with Giles is likely to move him at the trade deadline, and then sign him back in the off-season. If he likes the Jays as much as he has stated then there should be no issue with getting him resigned at that point, just like the Yankees did with Aroldis Chapman. Unfortunately you'll likely never see another team stupid enough to move a prospect like Gleyber Torres for half a season of a reliever ever again, but Giles if healthy should be able to net back a nice prospect. You might end having to pay a little more to keep Giles compared to a pre or mid-season extension, but this way you have another hopefully nice prospect+Giles as well, think of it as using cash to buy a prospect.
  18. max silver
    George Springer would be a great secondary target next off-season. I wouldn't be surprised to see Betts and Springer pull down Cole/Strasburg type contracts when things have settled. Springer is 3 years older than Betts, so hopefully an offer for 5 or 6 years would get it done.
  19. max silver
    It's too bad the front office couldn't have extracted some IFA cash out of Baltimore for Urena like they did for Smith Jr.
  20. max silver
    I have a hard time getting too excited about a 22 year old college draftee dominating rookie ball. If he displayed any power at all then maybe he would be more likely to turn into more than a 4th outfielder, but this is a guy that put up below a .100 ISO in A ball.
  21. max silver
    Given that the Astros traded him away (and had to throw in another pitching prospect to seal the deal) for a 30 year old 0.2 win soft tossing right handed reliever, I don't think we can get too terribly excited about what Cal Stevenson is just yet.
  22. max silver
    Between Choi, Martinez and Tsutsugo it looks like the Rays are trying to corner the market on 1B/DH types. Sure Martinez and Tsutsugo can play outfield, but the results likely aren't going to be pretty. The Rays must be very high on Arozarena, he put up very nice numbers last year, but the scouting reports aren't particularly glowing.
  23. max silver
    Whatever man, main point still stands whether your Subway change is 40 cents instead of 5. This is a trade that returned a very near MLB ready left handed starter with nice stuff, who is a potential mid-rotation starter in the very near future, as well as a super young right handed starter who just murdered the competition across various levels. To complain about the trade because it doesn't have a most likely worthless filler prospect is silly.
  24. max silver
    By MLB pipeline, both Kay and Woods Richardson both rate as 50 value prospects at this point in their development. According to the hybrid prospect values in this article the Jays obtained about $52 million in prospect value in the Stroman trade: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2019/02/prospect-valuation-much-top-prospects-worth-professional-baseball-teams/ Why we should give half a f*** about not getting back a $2 million value prospect as well is something that's beyond me. That's like buying a Subway sub for $10 and worrying about not getting your 5 cents of change back afterwards.
  25. max silver
    I almost think Stevenson is more likely to hit his ceiling than Fisher. The problem is that his ceiling is basically light hitting corner outfielder/4th outfielder, not really a very exciting profile.
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