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  1. max silver
    Yeah I see 0% chance that the MLBPA would accept this proposal.
  2. max silver
    He's had some really nice seasons as a bench player and underwent similar struggles last season before his Buffalo reset where he returned to MLB and mashed.
  3. max silver
    We shall see once he's activated.
  4. max silver
    I think the lack of time for Okamoto at first base is more of a knockoff effect of the team lacking in middle infield options. This largely forces Clement to second base and that largely staples Okamoto to third base as he and Clement are the only real options on the club to man the position presently.
  5. max silver
    I think Kirk is going to be very carefully eased back into game action coming off of a broken thumb.
  6. max silver
    It feels like it would be awfully rushed to speed Perry through the minors to this degree.
  7. max silver
    Valenzuela has been an impact player on both sides of the ball since dropping the leg kick at the plate. I'm really hoping that Heineman is sent packing once Kirk is ready to return as Kirk and Valenzuela would make for a very potent 1A/1B catching tandem.
  8. max silver
    If he can recover the stuff he displayed in his first start of the season before the elbow tendinitis flared up he's absolutely a reinforcement. The Blue Jays are reinforcing the old adage about how beggars can't be choosers and anyone that can even log some innings out of the rotation is worth a look. The guy is being paid whether he's pitching or not and there's little to no harm in allowing him to build up to find out what's left in the tank.
  9. max silver
    Hopefully the team doesn't continue with the constant shuffling of players on and off of the injured list.
  10. max silver
    Real men would just spit some tobacco juice on their elbow so who cares if you can't feel your fingers. You just put some extra pine tar on the bat so the good fingers get a little more grip to make up for it.
  11. max silver
    This stinks of confirmation bias. If Otto's results simply line up with the expected statistics that places him in the 115-120 wRC+ range. This is a player with an xBA .288 of and an xSLG of .450 which is a very solid combination of average and slug. Yes he's seemingly getting a little lucky with the results but the underlying numbers are still very solid. He'll need to prove that he can continue to produce over a full season but he's already produced for a far longer period than Gimenez managed a season ago as that only lasted a week or two.
  12. max silver
    There's far more to this conversation than just age. Yesavage was already built up to a far higher workload as he threw 93 innings in college in his draft season. Perry has maxed out at 46 innings in 2024 prior to UCL surgery and will likely be shut down far before the major league season ends.
  13. max silver
    That outlines my fear with him as well. I can't help but think of Jacob DeGrom and the constant trips to the injured list for a good chunk of his prime when he was averaging 99 MPH with the 4 seamer.
  14. max silver
    This is kind of unfair. Last season Lopez underperformed his xwOBA by 35 points. Simply normalizing that would have placed him closer to the 115-120 wrC+ range and if he were to produce that kind of offensive output to go with solid short stop play he's like still a 4-5 win short stop even with some regression.
  15. max silver
    It's funny how baseball works sometimes. I recall there were plenty of times last season where it looked like Schneider was creating the worst possible lineup on possible and the team enjoyed an offensive explosion.
  16. max silver
    It could be worse as there's no Heineman and Schneider has been demoted to AAA. Really the only guy I hate seeing in the lineup is Sosa.
  17. max silver
    I'd guess a combination of managing his playing time immediately after coming off of the injured list and being cautious after he was plunked in the helmet with a pitch in last night's game
  18. max silver
    Better go ahead and fire him into the sun.
  19. max silver
    I think with Cook the fact he's incorporating a retooled swing for the first time in game action is a massive factor. He displayed few issues making contact in college as he walked more than he struck out with more of a slap happy approach and it stands to reason that the new swing is likely quite a bit longer in nature comparatively speaking.
  20. max silver
    Age is kind of irrelevant here as Cook didn't start hitting full time until his draft season. He's not a typical hitting prospect who would have 3-4 years of full time hitting in college so he's very inexperienced at the plate relative to his age. I think the club challenged him with a promotion to Dunedin and it's possible he wasn't necessarily ready for this as he wasn't lighting things up in his short stint in rookie ball. I can only guess it was due to there being fewer rookie level teams after contraction by MLB and the club having several recent draftees that they wanted to receive regular center field reps.
  21. max silver
    The article mentioned that he was coming off of shoulder surgery so they didn't want him diving very often and the team wasn't very aggressive on the bases as well.
  22. max silver
    I don't think the iffy early results materially change Cook's bust chances, but I could see how they might be viewed as reducing his chance's of maximizing the ceiling. I believe if Cook can't make the new swing profile work he can always revert to the slap hitting style he employed in college and experience some success. He's likely the fastest player in the minors and I've seen reports that suggest he could capably man center field in the majors right now. It appears as though he basically possessed a Chandler Simpson style offensive toolset at the plate and if worse came to worse there's a good chance he could reach MLB using that kind of approach. There was an interesting article in the Athletic over the winter that outlined the club's approach to Cook's offensive game.
  23. max silver
    The team could certainly use someone to step into the rotation with the Cease IL stint. Hopefully in a few weeks one of Bieber/Bloss or even Scherzer could be good to go but it's shades of last season where the team only had 3 usable starters for an extended period of time.
  24. max silver
    But why? The dude pitched through forearm tightness in the post season to try to help his team win a championship and he's getting closer to making his season return.
  25. max silver
    I'm calling shenanigans. You had a small aside about Cook's draft status but the crux of your post was obviously based on the poor results in an incredibly small sample size. Feel free to explain how any of this paragraph wasn't based on poor results in what essentially amounts to two weeks of plate appearances in a first year pro.
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