Jump to content
Jays Centre
  • Create Account

max silver

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    7,468

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

 Content Type 

Profiles

Toronto Blue Jays Videos

2026 Toronto Blue Jays Top Prospects Ranking

Toronto Blue Jays Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Toronto Blue Jays Draft Pick Tracker

News

2026 Toronto Blue Jays Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by max silver

  1. max silver
    I think not having a second round pick changes the available budget to the degree that it greatly affects the total upside of the combined picks. There's far less overall money available to spread around on higher upside players in later rounds and a relatively underwhelming draft class is the result. I really hope that MLB and the players union find a way to remove the qualified free agent penalty in the upcoming CBA as it does nothing but disincentivize teams spending on free agents due to actively hamstringing their ability to build through the draft. I think MLB has gone a little too far in handing out draft bonuses to the smaller market clubs with the added competitive balance picks that are handed out, and I hate the fact that these picks can be traded when the rest of the regular picks can't be.
  2. max silver
    I wonder if George Springer made similar swing changes as well, albeit without the torpedo bat.
  3. max silver
    We had the same concern about the Orioles and they've completely cheaped out in recent offseasons despite new ownership. Hopefully the same happens with the Rays.
  4. max silver
    Hopefully the stuff comes back and he's not a shadow of his pre surgery self.
  5. max silver
    Shoulder surgery is always a scary proposition though.
  6. max silver
    I think Detmers is a stud in relief and could potentially be converted back to starting as a bit of a longer term project. I suspect that Atkins would need to eat a bunch of salary and/or attach added prospect capital in a deal such as this as Berrios is likely viewed as a negative asset at this point and Detmers has a pile of remaining control.
  7. max silver
    None of this exactly screams that Berrios is the type of pitcher that other teams would be lining up to acquire.
  8. max silver
    It looks to me like the team is running on fumes right now. That's perfectly understandable given the 19 game is 20 day meatgrinder schedule they endured heading into the break.
  9. max silver
    Another guy I'm interested in seeing more of at the major league level is Lazaro Estrada. I was really impressed with how he commanded his arsenal. I thought he had the makings of a guy who could be an effective back of the rotation starter.
  10. max silver
    I'd say a catcher should be right around the bottom of the team's deadline shopping list.
  11. max silver
    Well to be perfectly fair the lol at the end of nearly every post makes it impossible to discern whether you are joking or not. Maybe you should add emojis or amusing gifs when you are attempting to make a joke so the rest of us can tell.
  12. max silver
    The last two times you lost your s*** about the team not starting Barger against a lefty starter the replacements had good games in his place. Eventually I'd hope you'd stop bitching about this but that's kind of your thing bitching about things you don't fully understand, so that's likely wishful thinking on my part. If Springer sits for an extra day at the end of a gruelling 16 game in 16 day stretch as a nearly 36 year old player it's bitch bitch moan, when Barger is pulled right before a game starts due to a minor injury you straight up call him a pussy, if a young player in Barger who really struggles against left handed pitching misses 2 PA at the start of the game it's more whining, when the closer has his first bad game in 6 weeks now he absolutely can't close in the post season etc. etc. etc. It's just non stop complaining at every single opportunity and it's honestly kind of exhausting.
  13. max silver
    And Stephen, Rojas, Stanifer, Watts Brown etc. Further down are promising arms such as King, Barriera, etc.
  14. max silver
    This post aged like unrefrigerated milk. Jimenez hit a home run early in the game vs watching Barger most likely struggle, and when Barger faced a left handed reliever later in the game he was completely overmatched. This is likely hard for you to accept but maybe just maybe the Blue Jays front office is simply smarter than you are.
  15. max silver
    This is entirely due to the 4-12/-45 run differential stretch of games in late April-early May. The Blue Jays have taken the lead in the AL East based on a phenomenal run of baseball since the team wide struggles ended. I've maintained all along that this outlier stretch of baseball was going to skew the run differential for the entirety of the season, and it paints a picture of a team that's being dramatically overproducing their expected win/loss differential based on a relatively short period where they were likely MLB's worst team. From May 8-present the Blue Jays feature an MLB best 39-19 record, with a corresponding +60 run differential in these 58 games. It's reasonable to suggest that maybe the team has been a little fortunate to have enjoyed the type of record they have during this stretch of games, but it's not a giant fluke that the overall season's run differential would seem to suggest.
  16. max silver
    I don't know if I'd say the 1 run game results are necessarily based on luck, but it's not something that you would expect to be sustainable in the long term.
  17. max silver
    I fully believe an offseason shoulder injury was to blame for Manoah's 2023 woes. He featured dramatically reduced stuff and command right from pitch 1 in games that season. Being so out of shape certainly didn't help him when he got further into games but I don't think the pitch clock explains the regression of the quality of his pitches and the sudden inability to command them.
  18. max silver
    I don't think the club necessarily needs to replace Hoffman in the closer role, but acquiring another arm capable of closing out games would be a tremendous asset to the club. Hoffman has been dramatically overworked at times as he's pitched 4 times in 5 days on 3 separate occasions this season. Finding another closing capable arm would help to lessen Hoffman's workload and give the manager a second option to use.
  19. max silver
    There are 3 surefire things in life. Death, taxes, and panicky overreactions from Jays24. This was the first bad outing for Hoffman in nearly 6 weeks, yet here you are proclaiming how Hoffman simply can't be the closer in the playoffs. He's still 22/26 in saves which is a very good conversion rate. I believe a key will be for Schneider to avoid using up all his effective leverage arms leading up to Hoffman if at all possible, as Hoffman is human after all and just like every other closer in the sport doesn't have his best stuff and command every time out. It would be wise to keep backup available to Hoffman on those days where he can't get the job done.
  20. max silver
    With so many players on the injured list presently the team has largely been running B lineups over the last few weeks with plenty of C lineups sprinkled in as well.
  21. max silver
    For the first time in approximately half a decade deGrom appears to be fully healthy, so with a bit of good fortune he's potentially found a way to largely put the injury issues behind him. Having said that with his extensive/varied injury history it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest for him to blow out his shoulder/elbow/lat on a moment's notice and be gone for the rest of the season.
  22. max silver
    I'd love to see the team acquire deGrom, but this is highly contingent on acquisition cost given his propensity to miss large swaths of time due to injury.
  23. max silver
    I'd like the front office to acquire Alcantara, but ideally this would be something that's accomplished in the offseason as he's a bit of a reclamation project at present and there's a good chance he wouldn't help the pitching staff to any degree this season. With a full offseason to work out of the Dunedin training complex working with the pitching coaches he could be ready to return to being a more productive rotation member next season.
  24. max silver
    Atkins needs to get on the phone asap to hunt for bullpen reinforcements. Estrada should be able to come back up soon to add some length to the pen but the team is suddenly very short on quality middle relief options.
  25. max silver
    It felt like the bubble was going to burst eventually with the continuous stream of "B" type lineups we've been seeing recently. The team could really benefit from getting Varsho and Gimenez back, hopefully they can each return shortly after the break although I haven't heard any updates on the potential timeline for Gimenez.
×
×
  • Create New...