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Ignore WAR if you want, but the reduction in WAR in recent seasons is due to a combination of declining value in every phase of the game. Alonso was coming off of the worst defensive and baserunning seasons of his career along with the worst expected statistics of his career. It's a neat story that he's producing the way he is right now but there was nothing to indicate this type of resurgence was coming. He was a picture perfect candidate for a pillow contract to prove that he was capable of a bounceback. It's completely hindsight criticism on your part to suggest it was somehow dumb for MLB front offices to be wary of handing out an expensive long term contract to a player that appeared to be firmly into his decline phase. This really has nothing to do with your claim of WAR not properly encapsulating value of offensive players and more of a case of a player who was showing signs of serious decline in his physical skills. None of this is intended to attempt to take away from what Alonso has done so far. He's managed to improve his overall swing speed while shortening the length of the swing, reduce his whiff rate, drop his strikeout rate, and impact the baseball at Aaron Judge levels so far. It's a very impressive turnaround up to this point.

Gimenez has cooled off on the road trip and has produced a 38 wRC+ in the month of April. I don't think it would be productive to move him into the slot reserved for the team's best hitter until he at least shakes the current slump.

That looks an awful lot like Ricky Romero to me.

Do you ever take a second to think before you post? Alonso was a steadily declining player coming off of a 2 win season so there's no reason to act like "stupid" teams should have been beating down his door to sign him to a $100 million+ contract.

Bo has made a sizeable 4% improvement to his overall contract rate despite not really improving the chase rate to any degree. This has led to a large decrease to his strikeout rate which is pretty encouraging to see. It's too bad he's not being properly rewarded for the top notch underlying metrics, I recall this was an issue for him at points last season as well.

That might be possible if the defensive improvements hold up over a full season. Bo has been comically unlucky with batted ball results as he's sitting at .432 xwOBA at the moment.

I'm guessing this is complaining that the high performance department should employ a team of meteorologists to avoid Vlad receiving consecutive days off.

I can think of at least one poster who thinks this was a smart deal.

Bo was actually +1 runs in the 2024 season for Statcast range so the range isn't necessarily an issue at this point. I fully agree in not being a fan of the super long term contracts that are becoming more commonplace in MLB. It feels like the 11 year deals the Padres handed to Boegarts and Machado opened the floodgates to seeing players under contract until their late 30's/early 40's.

I think Bo has improved tremendously at short stop. Statcast had him as a slightly positive defender for last season and the start of this season combined. That is just fine if he's hitting the way he's capable of. When he's 31 I don't think the athleticism is going to decline so severely that he can't move to second base.

The game cameras showed Schneider harping on the umpire for most of the game, and he had to come out several times during the game to intervene to prevent his hitters from getting tossed.

You are a far more patient man than myself. I would have gone all Jays24 on a roid rage if I were to attempt to watch that one sided umpiring travesty again.

Yeah this one feels like it's going to be dramatically shifted in the Red Sox favor. Key moments included the Red Sox being gifted a walk when Little was pitching, and the missed strike 3 call in the final inning that was immediately followed by the hit by pitch.

You have zero self awareness as that's a statement that you actually made.

Nice of you to step in so you can regale us with your words of wisdom about how the current Blue Jays front office is the worst management team in Toronto sports history.

These are my thoughts as well. Vlad should be available to pinch hit later in the game if the situation warrants it.

That was a joke. I should make sure to place lol after my posts that are sent your way so that you can tell when I'm joking.

My mental is just fine but thank you for the concern. I'd be more concerned about your own mental well being given the propensity to froth yourself into a lather over every single minor issue that occurs over a 6 month season. I'm perfectly willing to admit that the Jays front office makes plenty of mistakes, but I'm also capable of recognizing recognizing that well laid plans are capable of going awry due to circumstances beyond a front office's control.

Gausman's splitter was a bit better last night with 4 whiffs/21% whiff percentage. The dominant fastball was a big surprise last light as he racked up 13 whiffs.

This guy should have a username like Sox24.

You literally go out of your way to find reasons to be outraged. When the front office let a mediocre replacement level long man go this was more proof that ownership should clean house. When the team's hottest hitter didn't make a tough catch at the wall in horrible playing conditions you were outraged, and then you called him a pussy despite appearing to have hurt himself crashing into the wall. When the manager doesn't bring in a reliever on a particular day, instead of asking yourself if that reliever simply isn't available that day you instead immediately become apoplectic that the manager must be a total moron. It's just rinse and repeat repeated temper tantrums all offseason long and every single day of the regular season as well.

I'm watching in Calgary but I've been digging the early starts in Boston for this series.

It legitimately feels like the sole purpose for your existence is to complain.

Even including the opening day stinker from Berrios the team is 5th in the sport in starter ERA. Apparently that's not good enough for certain posters.

Gausman's missing whiffs is easily my biggest pitching related concern with the Blue Jays this season. It's great that his fastball velo is back to normal but if he can't rediscover the form on the splitter he's more of an innings eater type at this point.