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  1. max silver
    Stop trying to make this a racial thing. SWR has horrible stuff, equally poor command, has been one of MLB's least successful pitchers this season and was received for free as a scrap heap pickup. This is a below average arm who offers little upside in any capacity and that's it.
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    Have you learned literally nothing in your time posting on this board? The front office people who decided to DFA SWR vs Hoffman possess dramatically more in depth baseball knowledge than you have any prayer of as you are completely incapable of looking past results and have proven repeatedly you have zero understanding of what goes on underneath the hood towards successful pitching. Pitcher A 6.40 ERA/5.85 xERA/5.83 FIP .314 BABIP 4.84 K/9 4.99 BB/9 0.97 K/BB 87 Stuff+ 93 Location+ 85 Pitching+ Pitcher B 4.84 ERA/3.09 xERA/2.88 FIP .427 BABIP 14.52 K/9 3.57 BB/9 4.07 K/BB 108 Stuff+ 100 Location+ 108 Pitching+ There isn't a single club in MLB that would choose Pitcher A over Pitcher B. Pitcher B has elite underlying numbers and is seeing his results steadily improve towards the mean as his BABIP has been normalizing from a historically unlucky start to the season. Pitcher A has seen his stuff and command regress dramatically this season and these have actually gotten worse since joining the Blue Jays.
  3. max silver
    Probably not but he's a tough positional fit. One of Vlad/Springer/Okamoto likely needs to sit to insert him into the lineup and we shall see if the club is ready to make this type of move.
  4. max silver
    Hopefully the team can find a way for Keys to receive regular playing time.
  5. max silver
    Hoffman His stuff metrics are actually worse than his stint with the Twins and the underlying metrics are downright awful. His success was entirely luck driven and it was just a matter of time before the wheels fell off completely.
  6. max silver
    Sure Atkins has a history of trading high end minor league bats for random relief pitchers.
  7. max silver
    Yeah the overall stuff ratings look pretty positive. The location grades on the breaking pitches in particular were abysmal and he'll need to iron that out if he's going to be more than a Scherzer clone.
  8. max silver
    I'm surprised the TJStats Stuff+ ratings were so high. Bieber's velocity, spin rates and extension were all down on the 4 seamer compared to last season, but iVB was improved which must be the primary contributing factor to the improved stuff rating.
  9. max silver
    Where are you able to find stuff+ ratings this early in the day after a start? Fangraphs Stuff+ doesn't typically update until later in the day.
  10. max silver
    It's hard to fathom how bad he is defensively in right field. He's sitting at -9% success rate added by Statcast right now. He seems to be more comfortable in left field but the team will have some tough decisions to make when the likes of Barger and potentially Santander are ready to return. There will be too many lumbering bat only players on the roster and not enough spots to go around.
  11. max silver
    Yeah I had serious shades of world series game 7, with the wasted opportunities to tack on runs, blown save, relief bomb in extra innings, glorious opportunity to walk off the game etc.
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    He's been extremely hot and cold throughout the season. He started the first few games on fire as he started his roller coaster season of ups and downs. Hopefully he eventually finds a way to reduce the length of the cold streaks as he's a massive difference maker at the plate when he's locked in. March 27-30 220 wRC+ March 31-April 17 5 wRC+ April 18-May 8 199 wRC+ May 9-May 25 2 wRC+ May 26-June 22 161 wRC+
  15. max silver
    Well the good news is that Cease is averaging nearly 6 innings per start this year so there's a very good chance you'll get to see more than 5.
  16. max silver
    I think it's nothing more than the club wanting a non Schneider middle infield option with a bit more defensive utility.
  17. max silver
    Maybe but the team will need to play 17 days in a row because of the extra game.
  18. max silver
    This was still a bit of an unlucky outing for Hoffman as he had to produce 4 outs due to the fielding error.
  19. max silver
    I haven't seen any stuff reports as of yet but I'm happy he even managed to successfully complete two innings so far.
  20. max silver
    If Sanchez caught the fly ball that ticked off of his glove this entire game may have gone very differently.
  21. max silver
    Kirk has been very durable despite his size. Most of his injured list visits are the result of foul balls and a hit by pitch.
  22. max silver
    I have no issue with Hoffman receiving the occasional opportunity to close out games. Yesterday's game could have been one such occasion had he been available with both of Varland and Rogers down for the game. I still don't buy that Hoffman's disaster outings occur because of the inning he's pitching in vs there simply being days where he shows up out of the pen with subpar stuff and even worse command. There's bound to be the occasional game where he melts down in the earlier innings on a day where he isn't feeling it but I'd be perfectly happy to be wrong and see him avoid these rest of season in lower leverage spots.
  23. max silver
    Just because a team is bad it doesn't mean you should automatically sweep them. I'd expect you to know better than that but apparently that's not the case.
  24. max silver
    Come on now if you've been watching baseball for more than a minute you should know there's no such thing as a free sweep.
  25. max silver
    I believe he would be effective in any role presently with how he's commanding his pitches.
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