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  1. max silver
    Jake Bloss was torched for 9 hits/8 runs (3 earned) in only 4 innings last night. Schneider mentioned that they wanted Bloss to be pitching well before a potential rotation callup so this start didn't exactly help his cause.
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    I didn't specifically reference any past performances directly, but thanks I guess. I would tend to think that the 141 wRC+ that Gimenez produced in 2022 is at least somewhat inspiring, but perhaps your standards are better for some reason. He's never been a Statcast monster even in his best season, but the 2024 result saw him underperform the expected statistics to a decent degree, suggesting that the bat could have been pretty close to league average that season with a little better luck on batted balls.
  3. max silver
    April Fools?
  4. max silver
    At the end of the season that's ultimately true but a bad start in April still leaves 5 months remaining to play catch up in the standings.
  5. max silver
    Thanks for the Statcast copy/paste job, but you seem to have forgotten to mention what point you were actually trying to make.
  6. max silver
    That's after removing a 30-40 home run bat in Santander from their roster as well.
  7. max silver
    Yeah Manoah was the opening day starter a single time in between the Berrios starts.
  8. max silver
    The Gimenez trade felt primarily financially driven in nature. I recall shortly after the trade Cleveland GM Mike Chernoff stated on record that he felt that Gimenez was capable of making the necessary adjustments at the plate to return to being more productive offensively.
  9. max silver
    The first game of the season was just one of those games where the Orioles parked every single mistake pitch in the seats like they knew what was coming. I believe Berrios' command was just off a bit in that start, and the Blue Jays opening day starter seems to get bombed by the opposition in most seasons in recent memory.
  10. max silver
    Too many fans only look at the latest season in isolation with zero regards to prior performances when formulating their opinions on a player. Gimenez is a perfect example of this.
  11. max silver
    I thought Francis was tremendous for the first 5 innings but he ran out of gas in the 6th.
  12. max silver
    Based on how many players had increased swing speeds in the early going I was sort of wondering if there was some sort of calibration issue. I recall that Springer was several MPH higher before the results were updated this morning, somewhere around 73.5 MPH or so. He's increased his fast swing rate by 10% which is encouraging and the overall quality of contact has been solid as well. I also recall Roden was sitting about around 73 MPH before the results were posted. With Roden I'm thinking he hasn't been getting his best swings off recently with quite a few awkward swings/jam shots etc.
  13. max silver
    I've been tracking this as well. I've noticed that the average speeds in particular are swinging pretty dramatically at this point, it just seems like there aren't nearly enough data points to make any broad conclusions at this point.
  14. max silver
    Fingers crossed some of the spring training success carries over to the regular season.
  15. max silver
    I simply don’t think the situation is nearly as dire as you have been portraying for the last 2-3 seasons. The AL in general is wide open this season and I fully believe the Blue Jays have a very realistic shot to compete for the playoffs. I don’t think that trading either of Vlad or Bo this offseason would have brought back assets that outweigh what these players would offer to the Blue Jays in their final years of control due to the injury riddled season that Bo just endured and the fact that Vlad loses a lot of excess value due to the inflated salary he’s on track to earn.
  16. max silver
    Barring multiple breakouts and/or resurgences this team almost certainly won’t be a World Series contender. I’d still rather see competitive teams attempt to have playoff success vs a constant cycle of rebuilding attempting to build a perfect team. Nearly every team in the sport aside from the Dodgers has a ton of holes and it’s not like they have been some sort of playoff dynasty either as regular season success means little once the playoffs start.
  17. max silver
    I'd wager it has something to do with 14-15 years of Vlad.
  18. max silver
    It seems very apparent that the team preferred to sign Vlad long term but was waiting for him to prove that he wasn’t a single year flash in the pan and could recreate the 2021 success. Vlad finally proved he could be an elite offensive performer for a second season and showed that he’s worth offering an extension to, He sure as hell hadn’t shown that to be the case after 2022 and 2023 as he had only produced a single season commensurate with his talent level and was looking for a mega contract that he hadn’t come close to earning.
  19. max silver
    According to you the Dodgers are the only World Series contender so everyone else should just pack it in. An entire league that’s rebuilding sure would be a barrel of monkeys.
  20. max silver
    Juan Soto has literally been twice as valuable as Vlad, and all the Padres could get back for him was a few years of a number 2 starter and some spare parts. What would Vlad even bring back after the mediocre back to back seasons of 2022/2023? The people offering up this type of criticism are ignoring how damn inconsistent the guy has been and acting like 2021 and 2024 are the rule rather than the exception.
  21. max silver
    I think the reported $450 million present day value the team offered to Vlad easily represents superstar value.
  22. max silver
    This dude would seemingly rather commit seppuku instead of simply admitting he was wrong. 😆
  23. max silver
    People thought you were crazy for being so insistent that it was going to require $20 million a season to extend Kirk. Raleigh is a full class above Kirk at this point of their respective careers. Raleigh has 3 consecutive seasons of 4+ wins and just produced a 5 win season. I think it's not impossible for Kirk to eventually reach those types of heights if the bat comes back, but that's far from a given.
  24. max silver
    I fully expect the AL East to be a dogfight this season. The Yankees injury issues have really evened out the field to a great degree.
  25. max silver
    A factor that has me excited about Roden is that he appeared to have flipped a switch later in the season in AAA and fully carried over that level of performance into spring training. He appeared to require a period of adjustment as he really struggled to start the level with a 49 wRC+ over his first 23 games. His last 48 games saw him mash to the tune of a 181 wRC+, and that's impressive no matter the age of the player, particularly a guy who was essentially a second year pro at that point of his career. If he were to start the year in AAA and continue producing like that I expect that Roden would start rocketing up prospect rankings accordingly.
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